New Brochure Cover for Carroll County, MD

If you want to know what's going on in Carroll County, Maryland in 2008, you need one of these, which happen to have my photo of Cygnus Wines on the cover. The pictures was taken at the Carroll County Farm Museum. The brochure was produced by the Carroll County Tourism Office.

New Brochure Covers

Here are three of four recent brochure covers I shot for the Frederick Community College Foundation Inc. What great subjects!

Powerless

At my house we are still recovering from a 41.5 hour power outage which began at 4 AM Sunday morning. Talk about a very un-fun time...

God bless Benjamin Franklin, Alessandro Volta, and Michael Faraday, among others.

Also props to Wonder Book and Video for the unsecured wireless network in the store. I was able to conduct business almost as usual Monday from my laptop and their parking lot.

Happy Holidays, and Please Be Nice to Creatives

Here's something that anybody trying to make a living in the creative arts will appreciate, despite a few bad words.

Two recent cover photos

Two of my photographs appear on the covers of the Destination Frederick County Holiday and Official Visitor's Guide Editions. These are both publications of the Tourism Council of Frederick County Inc. and were designed by Jean Peterson Design.

About Photography No. 1

Today I read the two best quotes about photography I've read in a long time, and they were here:

Talent is when you don’t suck on a regular basis.
- Anonymous

Every photographer is the best photographer somebody knows.
- Bruce DeBour

My Latest Book Cover

My photograph of the main entrance to McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland wraps around the cover of Fearless and Bold; A History of McDaniel College, by James E. Lightner, professor emeritus of mathematics there.

My Latest Magazine Cover

This is one of the photographs I made for the Frederick News-Post's quarterly magazine called Elegant Living. I never figured I'd get a cover out of the assignment, but I always look for a strong vertical with copy space at the top when I shoot this kind of a job. It helped that my subjects were so great to work with and didn't have any problem with my intrusion on shoot day. Gotta love those holiday sweaters!

Baker Park

From My Files

A couple of pseudo HDR shots from a lake near my brother's house taken in December 2005.

Gambrill Park Road

5 Minutes at Monocacy Battlefield Park

South Carroll Street

Boogie-Woogie

This was the first year I was able to make it to the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival, which was simply a great day. I didn't shoot to many photos since I was too busy getting what may have been the worst sunburn of my whole life. I did however like this shot of Deanna Bogart. Despite the heat she was terrific.

From My Files

Charleston, South Carolina, 2001

I love clean, simple photographs, and chanced upon this scene while on vacation about five years ago.

No Snow, Just Infrared

I need to get out and shoot more digital infrared pictures. This was one of my early efforts, taken with a Nikon D1x and a B+W 093 filter. It's the bridge over Catoctin Creek on Sumantown Road. There's a lot of noise shadow areas in the image.