Esther and Jim made a commitment to each other at Half Moon Restaurant in Dobbs Ferry, NY. Situated on the hudson river with gorgeous views of the palisades cliffs of New Jersey.The day started out a little iffy then eventually the clouds and morning fog gave away to beautiful day full love, emotions and sunshine.
Jim and Rene do a little tailgating before Esther and the guest arrive.
It’s time for the Annual Feast of San Gennaro, New York City’s longest-running, biggest and most revered religious outdoor festival in the United States, it runs till Sunday, September 26, 2010, on the streets of historic Little Italy, the lower Manhattan. It is a festive period of faith and redemption, a time for remembrance and reconciliation, and a time for celebration. The delicious food, the free musical entertainment that reflects Italian-American culture and heritage are all there. The Feast brings the world to Little Italy and Little Italy to the world. Not that I’m Italian or anything like that. It was an exciting adventure. They estimated about 100,000 to 150,ooo were in attendance
A friend of gave me an ebook by David duChemin to read. It got me to thinking it’s time to try something new. So here are the rules that I came up with for this self assignment and they are like this: one camera body, one lens 50mm, set to one ƒ stop ( I chose ƒ 2.0 because I could), ISO set to 640. So to get proper exposure had to use the shutter speeds. So off to the festival and below is what I came back with. Most of the images are straight out of camera with a few basic corrections for color and exposure applied to them in Aperture. Enjoy!
Cigar rollin'
Good eats
Sweet Treats
Sweet Drink's
Even Fried Oreo's
Some like their Sausage a little extra hot
San Gennaro the Patron Saint of Naples
Hi Kevin,
That looks great! Good photography Back to basic. Just react to the situation and read the light. I like.
I have to tell that when I teach photography at beginners level I always tell my students about the first occassion I assisted you. It was a shoot at the Astoria hotel by Central Park. You were to shoot some sheik who owned the hotel at the time. We set up light in the lobby. Two flashes in the background and one main light for him. While you ran back and forth to control the light you told me to change the lens on the Hasselblad to the 50 mm lens. I did so and let the camera sit on a tripod.
The Sheik arrives and you shake his hand and grab the camera and the tripod. And the 50 mm lens falls off the camera on to the marble floor. I felt devastated so stupid. You checked the lens and put it back on to the camera. One advantage of using a famous expensive brand is the quality. Miraculously the lens was without a scratch! The shoot went well and we worked quite a few times together and I did really enjoy.
The point of the story is that you always have to check when you change lenses that it sits firmly on to the camera. That you passed the “click” when screwing on the lens.
Take care! Greetings from Sweden
/Björn
September 20, 2010 12:40 pm
A taste of the San Gennaro Festival…
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September 19, 2010 2:08 pm
Bill Murray:
Wonderful! I can almost smell the food!
You may enjoy duChemin’s 3-day course on CreativeLive.com
September 19, 2010 12:19 pm
Jessica’s Aunt Amilia recently commissioned me for a portrait session with her niece Jess as a surprise to their parents. Jess needed a senior portrait for yearbook at Marymount School in New York city. Come to find out she is the class president and with a full schedule as senior she very busy. Her sister Jennifer came along for moral support as well. In the end we did a few pictures with them together. We were not able to go out and roam the streets beautiful Hoboken as we had planed because of the rain. 
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During my travels I found this gentleman playing the bag pipes. He was on the corner of 23rd and 5th avenue in New York in front of the Toy Building and across the street from Madison Square Park home of the Shake Shack.
-Leica M8 -Summicron 35mm
-Lecia M8 -Summicron 90mm
-Leica M8 -Summicron 35mm
-Leica M8 -Summicron 35mm
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michelle Slovak:
Kevin- what a great preview!! You have captured the essence of that magical day-
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! JOY, HARMONY, FRIENDSHIP, FAMILY and the union of two very special people……..
Can’t wait to see more! BRAVO!
Michelle
October 4, 2010 9:38 am