Welcome

I began fooling around with a camera in high school, focused on catching friends in the act of being goofy. My high tech gear was a Kodak Brownie with a thin neck strap, and my processing consisted of regular treks to Del-Val Drugstore to drop off the film and pick up the developed snapshots. I took some photography courses in college and Lynne gave me my first serious camera as an engagement gift - a Minolta SRT 101. I pulled it from its packaging and looked around desperately for something to photograph. Out on the balcony of her Queens, New York apartment my eye caught two birds flying high above. I began snapping away. Loved that shutter sound. A couple of days later I excitedly pulled the pictures from the drugstore envelope. The top photo in the bunch said it all - a 3X5 flat gray featureless rectangle with two tiny barely distinguishable spots. My wife dubbed the photo “two dots in the sky.” Today it sits on a shelf in my office, propped up in a suitably cheap plastic frame.

Well, those two dots have become many more. I simply try to capture what I affectionately call “stuff” - the stuff that captures me. Maybe it will latch on to something in you too.

While you can never tell what will cross in front of your lens, I am intrigued by the camera’s ability to capture the vast nature of the world, and our small place in it - and isolate a single small thing into dramatic significance.

Enjoy the photos.

Stu Bloom