Monthly Archives: December 2013

Forever 21

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Mark Stern

Today is my parents’ anniversary.  It’s cold outside, but bright and dry, easier weather than they had on their wedding day. This past May, after 10 months of real estate craziness (which would have been funny if it were someone … Continue reading →

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Citysidewalks, Winterwonderland, etc.

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Mark Stern

Happy holidays. Shooting fog–photography is seeing, fog restricts sight–is only ostensibly an oxymoron.

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Peter O’Toole 1932-2013

Posted on December 15, 2013 by Mark Stern

There have been more than a few shoots that have put me in a room with someone that had I not become a photographer I would have never met–and even in that room could hardly imagine I was meeting, part … Continue reading →

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That Steve McQueen

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Mark Stern

At a shoot in early September, Charlie and I were kidding (sort of) that we know who’s a “film dork” like us by whom he/she thinks is being referenced when someone says Steve McQueen.  No, not the (dead) white cool … Continue reading →

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Into the Light (or Good-Bye to All That)

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Mark Stern

Sally Boon Matthews, photographer/artist and photography professor (tall and stylish like Susan, the mutual friend who introduced us), was finally allowed to borrow the college’s van and after more than a year of failed plans, my darkroom was emptied, now … Continue reading →

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