What makes an exceptional photo?
Great Timing and an Eye for the Extraordinary!
The magic ingredients a photographer needs to go beyond the right equipment and knowing how to use it.
From the explosive energy of dance, to the drama and laughter of theater, to the spine-tingling emotional directness of music, the performing arts are among the most positive and compelling of human endeavors. My goal is to capture the essence of a performance and the moments that define performers and their art.
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Camp a la BOXTALES
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BOXTALES Theatre Company runs a youth summer camp each year for aspiring thespians aged 8 – 13 during a “three-week journey in the BOXTALES method…” Now that is saying something, because their approach is multi-dimensional, encompassing acting, storytelling, Acro-Yoga, mime, music and collaboration, all mixed with a lot of imaginative…
Wouldn’t You Know
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Shooting headshots or portraits can hold some surprises. I recently was hired by theater director, educator, UCSB Department of Theater and Dance 2017-18 Chair and all around super nice person Risa Brainin to shoot a more current headshot. Since I don’t have a studio as such, we agreed to do…
The Final Whirl
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Sunday’s concerts began with Hans Abrahamsen’s icy “Schnee,” a series of short musical poems about winter and a bit of cooling for the warmest day of the Ojai Music Festival. Brittle and spare, befitting the icy subject, with hints of the more comforting aspects of winter like the softness of…
Whirlwind Part Three
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Ligeti, Berio, Ravel, Peck, Kurtag, Dowland, Mansurian, Oliveros, Ignaz, Biber, Crumb, Hersch, Lotti, Ustvolskaya and back to Ligeti. You get the idea – another day and evening of “mixtape” concertizing. The unifying theme of the afternoon concerts was director PatKop’s linking of Kafka’s works and their effects on the future:…
