I met Dave Kyu from the Asian Arts Initiative at the Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month Festival in Philadelphia in May of 2017. He was promoting a number of artistic installations that the Asian Arts Initiative is placing in and around the Chinatown section of Philly. Dave spoke with passion about how the Initiative is slowly …
Philippine Family Values: Mae Claire
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Mae Claire is an a brilliant model and actor who lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A naturalized U.S. Citizen who was born in the Philippines and has lived in the USA since she was six years old. Mae identifies as Filipino American and feels comfortable straddling two cultures. When I asked Mae about what her Philippine …
America IS Great!
But there is always room for improvement. As I reflect on this Fourth of July I’m reminded that what truly makes this country great is the diversity of input to all of elements of your society. There is no place else on earth I’d rather have our little, blended family; A Jewish city boy and …
Meg Eubank: It’s Not Resistance, it’s Compassion.
It’s hard to find someone whose family has been in the USA longer than Meg Eubank’s, given that her father’s family immigrated here in the 1600’s. But even then, some folks just didn’t want them here. Indeed, the time between the original Jamestown settlement, where one of Meg’s ancestors settled in the 1600’s, and the …
Photos DO Lie
This isn’t what it looks like. Not hardly. I was shot this on a crisp winter day just around noon, but of course, I couldn’t leave it well enough alone, so I de-saturated it, messed with the highlights and contrast, added some blue, and turned it into a jazzy, midnight street scene. Never trust a …
Chinese Lantern Festival – Low Light Photo Heaven
The 2017 Chinese Lantern Festival ran through May and June at Franklin Square in Philadelphia, PA. Adjacent to Philadelphia’s historic Chinatown section, this event was open and welcoming to all with static arts, and performances by acrobats, dancers and dragons. We were lucky enough to bring and visitor from Texas and show off the diversity …
Finding the Good in the Bad
I think you need to break a lens every now and then in order to keep things fresh. Do try this at home: This lens used in this photo is an old Nikon 50mm 1.4 manual focus lens that had been treated harshly over the years. I removed the F-mount and most the aperture ring …
Goose.
Sometimes an image works well on its own as a sight gag. Other times you need a one word cue. Duck, Duck …. Goose.
Exotic Travel Photography at Home (?)
This image, and the associated gallery, detail how one can photograph an ethnic event in a large US city and leave little or now evidence that the photos were taken in the USA. The gallery in the link below was actually shot in Philadelphia, PA. The key is to photograph as close in to your …