It was through a random conversation that this Boston wedding photographer had during a smidgen of downtime at the Mass Audubon Habitat in Belmont when I learned of Norm’s knowledge and apparent love for orchidaceae or the orchid. I told him how I buy them, usually from Trader Joe’s, and can never get them to re-flower–let alone [...]

Last weekend I got engaged again for the first time. It was months in the planning: A trip to Chicago to see Oprah’s last studio show (thank you to our fab client Julie for the tix), a romantic getaway sans kids for the first time in 8 years (dog years at times), and a modest [...]

My favorite comment this year and certainly way up there on the all time list. Thank you, Kathy. While I do find it amazing to be party to moments like these, the magic is in the moment. I gotta think there must be some magic between these two to begin with.  I look for this [...]

Where to find inspiration–that freshy–fresh, wow!–That little bit of zip to start the next cycle. I’m at the first of several workshops sponging up everything I can. I’m a snob. A show-me-the-money, what–can–you–teach-me, snob about attending workshops. My inner journalist is banging a lead pipe against the inside of my skull as I listen to [...]

The year that was ended the same way for us at DMPJ as the previous year with a gorgeous, snow covered New Year’s Eve wedding celebration for two beautiful people.  Mozoltov to Sarah and Noah–what a great way to begin a life together. It is one thing I really push for in the colder months [...]

Don’t forget to celebrate World Metrology Day this May 20th. I know I will. Then last week I’m boarding a plane for a conference and workshop in Vegas and I get a call from someone asking me about a pic I shot over Hull of the wind turbine there.  He wants to use an image [...]

…is better than a tail with two heads–any day. This is the true story of a wedding-photojournalism photo-illustration. Last week I received and email from my beautiful and  lovely client Kati, who asked me in no uncertain words to either crop out her mother from a photo or possibly perform a very delicate entire-head transplant.  [...]

A lot has been written and discussed lately about HDR photography, especially in wedding photography.  As a photojournalist I have been scolded (that’s putting it mildly) by colleagues in the wedding biz for employing these techniques in connection to something as statedly pure as photojournalism–but c’mon folks, seriously, these are hardly matters of life and [...]

I was hired out by my wife who is on the educational committee at my daughter, Dharma’s, Montessori school to take some photos of the kids in action throughout their day. I spent 4 hours with them as they did everything from tracing maps of the US to multiplication and geometry lessons. Next time I [...]

Hello World and welcome to our first official post.  With this space I hope to create an open source and forum on all things visual.  While a good chunk will be devoted to my 3 main businesses–wedding photography, visual reportage workshops and teaching–I do want to have a place for my observations on Life in [...]