This striking image dates from the middle seventies when I was mainly shooting politicians. Jose Serrano was at the time running for the NYS assembly (he is currently In Congress) and was meeting with various community groups in The Bronx. I shot it with a Leica M2 R with the wonderful  50mm Summicron on Kodak Tri-X. This is one of my favorite images from that and needless to say the candidate won.
 

 A photo of my daughter, Jen, who is now a wonderful photographer in her own right, when she was in pre school. I purposely used outdoor film to create this warm image. Where does time go?

 The Verrazzano Narrows bridge connecting Brooklyn with Stated Island in NYC on a very cloudy and rainy day. Tri-X pan and a Nikon F with the 35 mm F 2.8 Nikkor lens. 

                   Old water tower on East 28 Street, Manhattan in 1974. Kodachrome slide scan.
 

 As I have stated previously this time of the year finds me in a sentimental mood wondering where time has gone and how quickly it has passed. This little then girl was taking part of the Gion festival in Kyoto, Japan. I used my Canon FT with the standard 50 mm F 1.4 FL Canon lens and good old Kodak Tri-X. It seems like just yesterday. She is probably a grand mother now.        

 

One of my first "serious' shot. Downtown Manhattan from the Brooklyn promenade. I knew little only that Kodachrome II was the film to use. It was shot on September 1967 with a folding, 35mm. Kokak Retina camera. I remember as if it was yesterday. Time just flies.

Ektachrome shot on China Town in Manhattan.

 Another blast from the past. Another Sunday afternoon in Central Park, NYC, in the seventies. No smart phones, no being on a network. People interacted on a more human level.

 Another blast from the past. Shot in May of 1972 with  a Nikon FTn and the fabulous 105 F2.5 Nikkor lens. Naturally, the film was Tri-X.

 Young Amish boy in Lancaster County, PA. Shot in 1972 on Kodachrome II with a Leica M-4 and the 50mm F2 Summicron lens.

              The way I like to remember Manhattan. Shot from the Brooklyn Bridge.

 Shot under the Manhattan Bridge in Manhattan's Chinatown. A shoemaker and his costumers. I was usig a Nikon S @ rangefinder with a Nikkor 35 mm F 3.5 and naturally, the film was Tri-X.

 A candid portrait of my wonderful aunt Terina in Sicily. I miss her dearly.

 Another shot of cousin Grace from Washington DC A real character. Shot with my first Leica, an M4 with the 50mm Summicron F 2. Naturally, the film was Tri-X.

 This is a medium format shot of a classic "privy" or outdoor toilet. It's located in Northern New Jersey behind a one school house that is now a so-called museum. It was shot with a Minolta Rolleicord on Kodak, Tri-X 120 film. I just love this image.

     A view of Scopello, Sicily. Shot  in August 1972, with a Canon FT and the 50mm F 1.4 FL lens. The film was Kodak Ektachrome X with an ASA of 64. This film had a characteristic blue cast that I did not edit out in Photoshop. I sort of like it.

 Fooling around with a polarizing filter in the gppd old film days. Now any digicam will give you such results very easily. The film was Kodachrome II and the camera wasa Nikon Ftn with the 135 mm F2.* Nikkor. The place, the South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan circa 1973.

     This is quite an alluring and mysterious shot. The lake in Central Park where they rented boats on a cold fall day in 1972. I used my Leica M4 with the 90 mm Elmar F 2.8. Naturally, the film used was Kodak Tri-X.

     Shot way back June 1970, on State Street in Brookyn. The children were looking out of a ground floor window in an old tenement on a hot day. The film was Kodak Tri-X and the camera was a Canon FT with the wonderful Canon 58 mm F 1:4 FL lens.

     Sometimes black and white is called for. This idyllic autumnal image was shot on Kodak Tri-X Pro, 120 format on my Rolleiflex. The venue is Hawley, Pennsylvania.