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Recognize wisdom when you hear it. During the past couple months, I did video interviews of the inductees into the Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce Foundation Business Hall of Fame.  When you get to talk one-on-one with business leaders who have made a difference in their communities you certainly pick up a lot of wisdom. Nobody tried to give advice or promote themselves. Instead they just spoke from the heart about what they believe and what motivates them. It was […]

­The inaugural event for the Hunterdon County Business Hall of Fame will be held by the Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce Foundation at the Ryland Inn on Th­ursday, September 14, 2017, at 6:00pm. The Foundation’s mission is to advance the interests of the Hunterdon County business community through business resources, economic & workforce development, leadership development, tourism, philanthropy, and the promotion of civic, educational, cultural and economic interests of the region. The Hunterdon County Business Hall of Fame was established […]

Monkey see, monkey do?  Maybe not such bad advice, depending on what the monkeys are doing.  

I came across this guy during a walk this weekend and boy, did he look exhausted.  After 17 years underground you get one big chance to party.  That must be why they are always singing. Summertime is the right time if you are a cicada but there is no encore, no second chance.  You hatch, you prep, you play and then … well, we try not to think about that, but at least you don’t have to worry about your […]

Harry starts every week with total focus.  Of course, he has his krypton glasses to give him an advantage. It’s his super power (and for sale for only $9.95 at the Fireman’s Carnival). I don’t have a set of krypton glasses (yet) but I have a nice hot cup of coffee and am eager to dive into the week.  I believe I can focus as well as Harry. I start with short bursts.  I figure that if I put all […]

When you think about it, there are a lot of steps to just about everything.  The most immediate task may be pretty straight forward, but chances are there are a lot of steps leading up to it. Candid photography seems simple enough.  In many ways it is, just point and shoot. Sometimes that works just fine, but not often.  Candids are uncontrolled,  As a photographer you can’t pose your subject, because then it’s not candid.  But you can control how […]

Sometimes it’s a bare-knuckle climb to the top, one finger grip at a time.

As part of the Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce Foundation Business Hall of Fame project I had the opportunity to video interview Adam Ambielli, one of the owners of Custom Alloy in High Bridge, NJ.  Adam graciously took me on a tour of the plant and allowed me to take photos to go along with the video. This is truly a heavy industry but it isn’t a smoke stack factory.  Custom Alloy shapes and refines metal products for industry, from […]

Often it’s the simplest images that can be the most memorable and most fun.  Frequently though, it takes a higher level of skill, thought and imagination to create that simple image.  Think Apple.  Its advertisements are always clean, simple and effective.  That doesn’t happen by accident. The image shown above by Michael Flood, is one of the 63 images that make up the Summer on the Delaware project on display in my studio this weekend.  Michael is a craftsman, an […]