I’ll be at the White Plains Outdoor Art Festival tomorrow, May 30th and Sunday June 1st. This will be my second year at this show, and I’m looking forward to returning to this dynamic city. It takes place in a Tibbits Park in the busy downtown district of White Plains, which makes it a challenge to setup since there is a limited amount of time that cars are allowed to park on the street. Getting everything out of the trailer and setup in the right order is something I’ve learned through trial and error, but it’s fairly routine now.

Preparation is key and I always have everything ready to go days in advance. Of course, I’m usually up the night before making last minute prints, or matting and framing ones that I want to debut or exhibit in a different size. Keeping supplies in stock, such as paper, inks, mats, frames, notecards, and various other materials is always a challenge, but my assistant (and wife) does a great job of keeping everything organized. She truly is my biggest supporter and best friend.

I’ll have a show report on Monday …

I also spent some time down at Constitution Marsh Sanctuary last week, and was able to complete a new 360 panorama which you can view here. This was one of the most challenging panos I’ve attempted because of the constantly changing cloud formations that day, but the result really captures one of the most dramatic skies I’ve seen on the Hudson. Let em know what you think…

Just want to thank everyone who visited my booth during the long Memorial Day weekend at the New Paltz Art and Crafts Fair and a very special thanks to those who purchased prints and notecards. Thanks also to the show promoters Quail Hollow Events, who do a great job for all of the exhibitors. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting and talking with everyone who recognized many of my favorite landscape locations, as well as chatting with those of you who are interested in taking a workshop to improve your photography and technology skills. I will have a whole range of workshop offerings on the webite very soon, and will email everyone who signed up to notify them of the classes.

I’m especially excited to have sold a custom size 60″ wide panorama of “Storm Clouds Over Mohonk” in the ColorBox mounting and I will be delivering and installing this print personally. I have never printed an image this large, so it should look really amazing and I will have photos and more info when I finally have it printed and installed over the customer’s fireplace.

The next show is this coming weekend at the White Plains Outdoor Art Festival, a great location in downtown White Plains that I always enjoy visiting. More info in a few days…

PS- This is my 100th post - and I thought I would never get past five…thanks for reading!

The spring edition of the New Paltz Art and Crafts Fair begins tomorrow for the long Memorial Day weekend, and I spent the morning today preparing my booth and getting ready for the usual large crowds expected. Located at the Ulster County Fairgrounds, it is one of easiest shows for setting up, with a very relaxed environment and the beautiful scenery of the Shawangunk Mountains in the background. The weather looks to be fantastic, and the show promoters always do a good job promoting the event, so I’m looking forward to an enjoyable weekend. No doubt a three day show is hard work, and I’m generally exhausted at the end of each day, but I wouldn’t trade it for any other job in the world.

The Beekman Street Banners were unveiled this weekend in my home of Beacon, NY, and I’m honored to have been chosen as one of 34 artists to be included in this innovative and unique project. The official description from a new website dedicated to all things cool in Beacon reads:

“17 banners leading up from the Beacon Train Station to Main Street shops, eats and art, celebrating 34 local artists who place Beacon on the larger map of all things cool”.

After finally seeing the banners in person, they are very cool!

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The website has undergone a substantial upgrade, though it looks mostly the same at first, there is lots going on under the hood. It was mostly driven by the need to have a better e-commerce system, making it easier for visitors to get information about the prints and workshops, and place orders with confidence and ease. I contracted Jack Brauer from WideRange Galleries, who in addition to being a great programmer, is also a fantastic photographer specializing in mountain landscapes from Colorado and other areas - well worth a visit. Thanks to Jack, I now have a fully automated gallery system for handling all of the images, and an integrated shopping cart which provides more info for each item, and gives visitors better feedback for questions and information on all of the items in the store.

Hopefully this will allow me to better serve returning and potential customers better and more efficiently, and expand the offerings in the future, which will include more workshops and other resources for photographers. More on this very soon!

A few weeks ago I was featured in a newspaper article by the Mid-Hudson Times about my photography and exhibition at the RiverWinds Gallery in Beacon. I never actually saw the article because the newspaper is not distributed on my side of the Hudson River, but I managed to get the text from the writer Matt Frey who also interviewed me for the article.

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Edges of Light

If you’ve ever stayed up all night to watch the sunrise or snuck out of work to take in one of those picture perfect sunsets, the RiverWind’s new exhibition, Edges of Light, might be just the thing to brighten your day.

Edges of Light features the works of longtime photographer Robert Rodriguez, Jr. Rodriguez attempts to capture on camera those fleeting moments when light, land and color combine for the greatest emotional impact. He feels that color and light have a great amount of symbolism inherent in them, and when combined correctly, they form some of the greatest artistic opportunities known to man. This philosophy, combined with other aspects of nature like weather fronts going coming in or going out and different landscapes, is what Rodriguez has built his photographic career around.

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