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In a nutshell.

I've always had a good eye for visual things. Even my favorite music was always music that evoked visual imagery. My life has zig-zagged from visual and musical paths that always seem to intersect.

I began playing classical guitar at a very young age and eventually went on to get my BM and MM degrees in music performance and had a career teaching, performing, and recording numerous CDs. After hitting a wall and burning out as a freelance musician I was able to transition into work as a graphic designer on the other end of the music business. That is, on the promotional side of advertising and marketing musicians instead of on the performance end. With this work came my interest and opportunity to take and use my own photos. I was able to see lots of great photography (and bad) and learn from it all and develop my own style. That's my bio in a nutshell and the photos on this blog are a taste of what I see and like to shoot.

Thanks for visiting my website.

robert

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Portraits in the Boston Common

I’m behind in updating this photoblog but at least it’s because I’m too busy taking photos. This post is one I’ve been meaning to post from this past fall. The light and fall colors were perfect in the Boston Common back in November and a collegue of mine at the Celebrity Series, who is also a talented actress and director, wanted headshots so we spent a lunch hour taking these. I wouldn’t normally post “headshots” but after we got some we liked I slipped into my comfort zone of shooting portraits and using the surroundings as part of the compositions.

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

2012: First Winter Snow

The morning after our first winter snow storm in Boston, and just days before the New Year arrived, I got the opportunity to walk up the street to the Arnold Arboretum and follow the adventures of a neighbor’s dog named Riley. As a photographer who gravitates to portraiture over nature photography, I might not have bothered to take the camera out and photograph the beautiful aftermath of this storm but with a muse like Riley offering the emotional spark to take some cool photographs, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to vicariously experience the crisp cold air and the fresh snow through his exuberant eyes.

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Jessica - March 25, 2013 - 12:58 pm

Beautiful as always!

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Cats: Gizmo & Greta

Gizmo is a white Maine Coon cat and Greta is a brown Tabby. I got to photograph these two beautiful cats with their owners a few weeks ago after waiting for weeks to schedule a weekend that wasn’t raining and which allowed us good window light. Cats are generally much more difficult to capture in photos than dogs partly because the light is usually inside light and often too dark. Dogs get to go outside and the light options are so much better. So when I have a session with cats I make sure that the cats are going to be able to handle my presence and my photographing which can only feel like harrasment to a cat. These two cats were welcoming to me and indifferent to my camera and mostly stayed in the warm window-lit room where I wanted to shoot. The more pressing reason for this photo session was to photograph 11 year-old Gizmo who had a heart ailment that was only going to worsen and my clients wanted photos of him before he got too sick. Sadly he died the week after our session but thankfully we got some really beautiful photos of him with his family.