Actually, this should be titled why you should always carry your camera with you. I’ve been super sick for the last five days, probably the most sick I’ve ever been in my entire life. It started Friday on the way home from work, and culminated yesterday when my condition finally started heading upward instead of further into the gutter. I spent most of that time laid out on the couch,

Nathaniel Popkin over at Hidden City Philadelphia asked me to shoot the Eastwick section of Southwest Philadelphia a few weeks ago to accompany a piece he’d written on the 50th anniversary of Eastwick’s groundbreaking. Having lived my entire life in and around the city, I had spent approximately zero time in Eastwick, save for trips to the airport and the Heinz Wildlife Refuge. I have to say, without a doubt,

Most weekdays, I try to take a walk, camera in hand, rather than sit at my desk and eat (and work, too). Street photography is somewhat of a challenge for me, since, when I first got into photography, I tended to shy away from shooting people. I’ve made it my mission in 2012 to get out of my comfort zone and shoot a lot more street, using only a 35mm

After a perfect spring in which Max was born and an even better summer, I was beginning to look forward to the coming winter. Last year, I spent little time outdoors during the cold months and only made one single trip to the mountains to do a little snowboarding. The winter this year has been seriously lacking. As I write this in early February, the temperature today is expected to

After many years of putting it off or just plain forgetting, I was reminded of how badly I wanted to shoot Chinatown’s Lunar New Year parade when a friend asked me a few weeks ago if I was planning on going. Despite the scheduling conflicts that come with having a 10-month-old at home, I am very glad I finally made it down. I am not very glad that I did

Until closing in 2005, Globe Dye Works’ hulking complex in Frankford was a major player in the dyeing and bleaching industry. Maintained by five generations of the Greenwood family, Globe Dye produced skeins of yarn and spools of thread for use across the world in everything from clothing to upholstery. Its closing left more than 145,000 square feet of industrial-zoned space across 12 buildings just waiting for an ambitious suitor.

I think the best photographs have a good story behind them. The above image is probably my favorite from 2011, the year I returned to serious shooting after a way-too-long layoff. I had just dropped my son, Max, off at his daycare spot and was headed down a side street in Havertown where I park to catch the train. It had just stopped raining and the sky looked incredible …

There’s never anything fun about having your car inspected in Pennsylvania. For me, it generally revolves around sitting in a terribly uncomfortable chair sipping tar-like coffee. This year, things were a little better. I was treated to an unexpected day off due to a very sick wife – and it was her car that needed inspecting – an early appointment at a friend of the family’s West Chester auto shop,

Despite being somewhat of an outdoorsman, I’ve never been too good (or interested in taking the time to get better) at shooting nature. I am also terrible when it comes to identifying anything but the most basic flora and fauna. My family is lucky enough to live a stone’s throw from on of Philadelphia’s hidden gems, the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, which sits right on the border of Philadelphia