Gene - Gay America, TX

Michael - Gay America, OR

Montgomery Center, Lowell and Jay Drive

Took a great little drive before meeting up with everyone to hike. What colors. WOW!
Love the blood hounds.

Jay Peak Hike

Beautiful hike up at Jay Peak with some Nick and some friends a couple of weekends back. Snowed up there last night.

Parked Propeller

Taken the same day as the ad shots, all on a bike ride. The west side on Manhattan is pretty sweet for biking now...
Btw, the propeller is on permanent display in a parking lot.

Ads, Ads, Everywhere...

Man, am I loving this first shot, which I took in Chelsea on the newly opened Highline. Looks so timeless. And French for some reason... The second one is on the back side of Lucky Strike Bowling Alleys on the West Side near 42nd. Love the dirty sidewalk. And the last one is also in Chelsea and like the bowling alley shot, is some building right along the highway. The series continues to grow...

Black Cats

My friend Pauline has a love affair with black cats. She has had two for as long as I can remember, a male and female I believe that keep her amused. When my dog Kachina was getting older, Nick and I decided to get her a companion and ending up adopting a little black long haired kitten that we named Orlando. All was well, company had. About a year later at the beach house, a stray short haired black short haired cat adopted us out at the beach house and was waiting patiently every weekend for our arrival...and food. After a month of that, we decided to take her to the vet and lo and behold...pregnant. Welcome Ella to the family. So we put in a pet-door to the crawlspace so she would have a place to raise them, until we found homes for the kittens. Which we did. We were actually going to keep the alpha male of the litter, a very cool looking pure silver/gray with orange eyes and a stealth body. But he laid down and died at sixth months old for no apparent reason...which was very sad. Anyway, then we had two female black cats. Back and forth between NY, LI and VT. A couple of years go by, then another cat starts to stalk outside and laid on the charm thick. And was injured. Antibiotics for ten days. Nick names him Nico...crap, now three black cats! Never woulda thought. They go everywhere with us and travel pretty well. Here are two of them a couple of weeks ago when they wandered on set, Orlando on the left and Nico on the right. Meow.

Matanuska River Valley, Alaska

I keep on finding more and more pics that I love from the trip. Hard to believe I am back away from this beauty. This is the Matanuska River valley a about an hour and a half out of Anchorage.

Alex - Gay America, AK

Farewell to Summer

The sunrises out at the house in Mastic Beach have been so beautiful lately. Here are some shots from the last official day of summer down by the beach. A great blue heron and a white tail deer were also enjoying the view.

Fall Season TV Adscapes

Some shots I took today on a bike ride through Times Square. Great ad campaigns for Trauma (by Michael Muller), Bored (w/Ted Danson), Dexter (by Jim Fiscus) and Cole Haan (w/Maria Sharipova).

Emanuele & Francisca

Emanuele & Francisca, friends, actors and one beautiful couple out at the house in Mastic on Sunday.

More Kootenai

Another image from the amazing Kootenai River in North Western Montana. Wow. This may be my favorite scenic shot from the trip. So cool to see the trash and tires in such amazingly clear and green water. This is stitched together from four wide angle frames.

Knik Glacier Tour

Here are more shots from my glacier tour that I mentioned in an earlier post. What a great time. Tom was such a wonderful host and has a great outfit, if any of u ever find yourself up in Anchorage looking for an adventure, it's not that far out of the city. His site is knikglacier.com. He hooked me up with a cabin at his friend's lodge up the road, knikriverlodge.com where we also had the most amazing meal. Thanks again to Tom for all he did.

Remembering September 11th

Hard to believe it was eight years ago. And there is still such a hole in the ground. My partner Nick always walked through the mall underneath the Towers at that time of the morning as he headed to work to American Express, which is the bldg on the right. He decided to go in late that morning, something I might add he never does, and was in the shower when the first one hit. I had just walked in from taking Kachina, the news was on and said "honey, you're not going to work today"... My heart goes out to those people that lost loved ones that day, especially my friend Kerry, who lost her sister. Tragic.

More Amazing Alaskan Landscapes

Some more panoramas from Alaska. I loved all the fireweed that seems to grow everywhere. I was told that when it stops flowering it means six weeks to winter. Such beauty. Want to go back to see the big mountain ranges, which were covered in clouds the whole time for me...
Nice inspiration to return...

Hotel Griffou's Larry Poston

Here's a shot of restaurateur Larry Poston that I did for BlackBook last month. Hotel Griffou is pretty sweet and has gotten great reviews, so check it out if u get the chance. It is located where Marylou's used to be on West 9th St in Greenwich Village. To read the interview, check out BlackBook's site here.

Seward, Alaska

The trip down to the coast led me to Seward, one of Alaska's main ports and fishing villages. I photographed a guy named Alex who works there seasonally in the summers. The town was really cool, although expensive, like most of Alaska. Here are a few shots from there, including the marina, the shops from a dock, the alehouse (a boy's gotta drink...), and the sun setting over some local homes. Really picturesque.

Knik Glacier Tour

Here's a panoramic of the Knik Glacier outside of Palmer, AK which I visited on the trip. The owner of the tour guide company, Tom, contacted me about participating in the project, whom I gladly included. Will post more pics of the excursion soon. The weather could have been a little better, but such is life.

Kenai Peninsula Alpine Lakes

The drive from Anchorage to Seward was THE drive of the project. Amazing road through unbelievable scenery. These three shots were taken one after the other near Moose Pass about a half an hour from Seward. So pretty.

Sam, Gay American - ID

Kootenai River

Driving on Highway 2 west from Libby, a rather bleak heavily timbered area in north western Montana, I entered an amazing canyon that the Kootenai River flows through. I stopped in two places that felt right, lumbered over the train tracks and found trails that went down to the river to these amazing views. I was in awe sitting there. So beautiful. The water was especially clear and you could see deep into it. The colors and place were very special. Can't wait to get up to Alaska. Just hope that the sun shines on me.