I shot this photo at a Cambodian Festival in Philadelphia in the spring of 2017. The booth sold Cambodian and Thai food, but not as I know Thai food from the restaurants that I have been to. There were salads and colorful drinks that I had never seen before. When I struck up a conversation …
Gay Marriage
“Kim Kardashian made 17 million dollers off her wedding.Divorced 72 days later & they’re worried about gays ruining the sanctity of marriage?” – @WorldGayPride About the photo: This was shot in Philadelphia at the annual Cherry Blossom Festival using a small Nikon D5500 and an inexpensive but very capable 18-55mm kit lens. I like this …
Got to Shoot With a Master
Meet Jose ‘Tutes’ Tutiven, an Ecuadorian-American who is getting a ton of great commercial photo work and a lot of acclaim for his abilities. On a whim, I trekked up to Brooklyn to attend the Photoville Photo Festival in Dumbo, right under the Brooklyn Bridge. This is he sixth year running and it was held …
My Eclipse Photo – Albany, OR – 21 Aug., 2017
Give the astrophotographers their due. They deserve creds for all the great shots we’ve seen of the 2017 total eclipse. They’re pros and advanced amateurs who work hard and produce great results. During the eclipse, I was doing more important work – for me, anyway. I was being a dad, a husband, a son in …
Food: The Most Common Ground.
I had a friend who was afraid to eat at Asian restaurants. “They don’t use chicken, they use cat,” he would say, pretending authority. He had no idea that his closely held belief was actually a bad, old, racist joke – the guy was utterly serious. The worst thing is that he should have known …
Art Give Voice and Tears Down Divisions
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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 …
