Fantasy at Ida Lee

Just outside of Leesburg, Virginia there is a park called Ida Lee. It is a lovely place. We took a long walk all around the park and came to a little pond filled with the reflections of the surrounding tress. With this image Tony shows you the magic in the trees.

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Night comes to Uijonngbu

It is the winter of 1964. Uijongbu is a small, rural town, about 10 miles north of Seoul and 30 miles south of the DMZ. In front of me is a landscape of houses and farms. Behind me is the 121 Evac Hospital.

The snowy scene is illuminated by the full moon. It's cold, and it's pretty dark, too. But I decide to take a couple of shots anyway. The rangefinder camera I used had a fairly fast wide-angle lens, but the film probably had a speed of less than 50. No tripod, so this is hand held, at perhaps a quarter of a second or so.

The resulting slide, as you might imagine, was way underexposed. Holding the slide up to the light you could see some detail, and you could show it on a slide projector in a really dark room, but that was about it. For some reason, I held on to this slide for all of these years, hoping that some day there would be a way to see it properly.

And then I bought a film scanner for my computer. This was one of the first slides I scanned. At first, the results were disappointing -- muddy, dark, and grainy. But after some coaxing, using the tools on the computer, this is what emerged.

Print Size: 27 x 17 inches

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Sky Show - #1

Sometimes, the sky, the sun, and the clouds all combine to produce a show like this. The trick is to record it so that you capture all the details of the show.

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Les Pompiers

This started out as a tiny photograph from a collection of stock photos. I reduced it to Postscript, then filled in the colors. On the left side, I stripped out the colors and replaced them with black and white gradients.

If you watch closely, you will see the faces in the smoke and fire.

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Evening in Flushing Meadow Park

When we lived in Queens we used to walk in Flushing Meadow Park. It was the closest thing we had to the country. The 1937 World's Fair was held here. When we were younger, we'd get up at sunrise and run around the lake before driving down to Wall Street. In those days I worked for Merrill Lynch and Tony designed computer systems for Fortune 100 financial services companies located there as well.

When our son was grown I used to take my mother to this park and take her to the zoo. It is a place that holds many, many fond memories.

Print Size: 24 x 17 inches

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