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Princeton, NJ
October 31, 2008
My older daughter drew the Obama/Biden logo, my younger daughter a traditional pumpkin face. They scooped out the innards and I cut to their drawings. The third pumpkin is for Bix (our dog.) He expressed no interest in having it carved.
Obama, McCain and undecided? Sometimes it just works out that way...
Shot with a Canon G10 that arrived this afternoon. It's a little point & shoot that may turn out to be the Leica of its day.
Pennington, NJ, October 19, 2008
New home page image; nighttime pickup soccer game.
Paul Krugman, Princeton, NJ
March 29, 2006
Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and a columnist for the New York Times, has won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. I photographed Paul in March of 2006.
Isabel asleep.
October 5, 2008
"Men's Race", Late 1930's, Ridgeway, Iowa, Everett "Scoop" Kuntz
Great article in The New York Times this morning about Everett "Scoop" Kuntz. As a teenager in the late 1930's he acquired a 35mm Argus AF camera and began to document the life around him. Ridgeway is a small farming community, population 300 (then and now.) Scoop could not afford to have any of the images printed so he stored the negatives in a box and forgot about them until 60 years later. Scoop passed away in 2003 but the images brought him some solace as he fought cancer during his last years.
Now the University of Iowa Press has published the photos as the book, "Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942." The New York Times has a photo gallery in addition to the article.
It's obviously interesting as a document of a small town some seventy years ago but it's also interesting in light of the switch to digital. One wonders if then was now and Scoop had made his images digitally would they still be around to find, in a box in the basement, seventy years later? Would they be on a disc or a memory card? Would it be clear what was there? Would there be some way to retrieve and read the images or would storage or file formats have moved on many generations rendering the images irretrievable?
George Washington Bridge and New York City
iPhone Photo, October 2, 2008
Driving back from New York City last week, fading color, cooler temps, crisper light. Fall is in the air.
PFARS Campaign Image #05
The fifth image and final image in my pro bono campaign for the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad runs today.
In 2006, Marie, pictured above, suffering from a hip infection was aided by Frank Setnicky, EMT.
