The photographer Weegee is said to have coined the phrase:”f/8 and be there.” This photo of a dog lazing in a pool is what he meant. You had to be there (and with a camera). Can life [...]
In 1994 I was one of Boston’s first Photoshop teachers. We had pre-layered Photoshop 2.5 at the time. I was commissioned to make a fully-digital magazine cover for The Boston Computer [...]
When I was starting out as a Boston photographer, one of my early assignments was to photograph Richard Neustadt. The magazine specifically told me that they wanted a colorful image, not shot in [...]
A while ago Scientific American Magazine commissioned me to photograph the theoretical particle physicist and cosmologist, Dr. Alan Guth. He’s the “father” of the inflationary [...]
We recently had a great assignment photographing in several new, state of the art, fully “robot-isized” operating rooms in a (soon to be named) major metropolitan hospital. [...]
So I’m doing the tourist thing at MOMA and wandered onto a father and son. The father is teaching the son to learn by sketching, but instead of sketching onto a pad of paper, it’s an [...]
In 1990, former MIT professor Dr. Michael Hammer published an article in the Harvard Business Review that became the basis for a revolution in business strategy in the ’90s. It later became [...]
This is part two of an earlier blog post about Claude Shannon. In 1948 Claude Elwood Shannon created “Information Theory” which eventually gave us the fax machine, CD, digital wireless telephone [...]