• architecture,  window

    Love That Sound

    August 3, 2010
    Lamp in Window

    The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. – Brooks Atkinson – 1951, Once Around the Sun

    After a day of flying my routine is to walk into my hotel room, throw my bags down, kick off the shoes, peel off the uniform and let out a big sigh. And, if it’s been a long day, I just flop down on the bed. Aaaaahhhh! The quiet. We call this “slam-clicking”. But, there are those times when I just quickly change clothes and head for the lobby to meet up with my crew for dinner or site seeing. Don’t want to miss out on something.

    But every once in a while I walk in my room and see a potential image because we photographers are always looking. I see many scenes like the one above but for some reason this particular day it looked so different to me. Impulsively, while still in uniform and shoes on, I pulled out the camera and pressed the shutter button. Man I love that sound!

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  • Black and White,  Travel,  writing/reading

    This is My World

    June 8, 2010
    My World

    Wow, I’m sneaking up on my 60th birthday this summer. Gasp!  Where has the time gone? Even at this age I ask the questions about where I’m at in life and where I’m going. The life I live is not what I dreamed or envisioned in my youth. I know I cannot live in the past nor in the future but every once in a while I venture to those places. The only life I can live is the present. I must always remind myself to stay here.

    I’m nomadic at this time in my life. After my divorce and selling the house I drove away from that chapter of my life with all my belongings in the back of a small pickup. It was a freeing moment. Of course, I’ve since added a few items to carry around with me so I may need two truck now. I spend half my month living in hotels and flying with passengers in a long metal tube. For the past year I’ve started carrying a laptop, an iphone and my journal along with my camera wherever I venture. I search out images of the world in front of me, the people or places or objects or patterns I see. This is the present, this is my world.

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  • Art/Design

    Tea Cups

    March 23, 2010

    Tea Cups

    Last week, while in Montreal, I tried to visit the  Parc du Mont_Royal but a few snags prevented that. I have another 17 hour layover on this trip but the weather has not cooperated with rain/snow showers and temperatures at 0 degrees Celsius (32 F).  So, this evening, I again roamed around the airport, with camera in hand. We stay at the Montreal Airpot Marriott Hotel, which nice for crew members as we just walk to the hotel rather than a van ride. The hotel lobby, lounge and restaurant are surrounded by windows so the soft diffused light from the overcast skies creates some very nice light. I found these small tea cups along one side of the lounge. My intention is to spend a bit of money this evening as I want to enjoy a nice meal at the restaurant.

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  • architecture

    Starting Out Nice

    February 5, 2010
    A Morning Sunrise

    The morning sunrise through my hotel window. Most of the my flying lately has required early morning show times, some as early as 4:35 AM. Yesterday morning I was in Manchester, NH and could sleep in late because our flight time was noon. As I saw the orange glow of the morning sunrise through my window I jumped out of bed and grabbed the camera. Standing in a cold room with only my shorts on is a sure way to wake up. So after a couple shots and enjoying the sunrise colors I showered and began another day. The day had already started out nice.

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  • architecture

    Fourth Floor

    January 14, 2010

    Fourth Floor

    When I’m flying and the weather is cold and snowing I do not always want to venture outside. I find walking around my hotels to be a form of stress relief and easier to do in short periods. So here is another image taken in stairwell at one of the hotels. The ordinary seen in black and white.

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  • Art/Design,  Photography

    The Valve

    December 26, 2009

    The Valve

    It’s plain and simple, I need exercise! One way for me get some exercise when traveling is walk the stairs at the hotels. I take the elevator with my bags but after that I usually walk up and down the stairs. I’ve noticed that in just about every hotel stairwell you will find valves. So I’m coming out the the closet and letting you know I take a lot of images of them. They are one of those manmade subjects readily available for me as well as a subject most people will overlook. Yep, need more exercise.

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