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The Great New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY (Sept 2016)

07 Wednesday Sep 2016

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I’ve taken some photos at small county fairs in the past, but have often thought I should go to the large (a.k.a. “Great”) New York State fair held in Syracuse each year.

Well, this year I got my chance and drove up on the very last day ($1 admission day; also, Labor Day) to walk through for a couple of hours before coming back home for the local fireworks display I go to each year with my family.

The day was hot and crowded…presumably due to the regular $10 admission being only $1, and also because it was a holiday that many have off of work. Initially I found the heat and crowds off-putting; but I tried to remember that this combination made for better photos and that’s what I was there for…(!)

So here now are some of the photos–in approximately chronological order–I took during my 2+ hour jaunt through the hot & crowded Syracuse fairgrounds…:).

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End of Summer Drive-in, Fulton, NY (Sept 2015)

01 Thursday Oct 2015

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End of Summer Drive-in, Fulton, NY (Sept 2015)

End of Summer Drive-in, Fulton, NY (Sept 2015)



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Downtown, Race Track Opening Weekend, Saratoga Springs, NY (July 2015)

28 Tuesday Jul 2015

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I found myself near Saratoga Springs, New York last weekend and heard it was the opening weekend of race track season. Though I briefly considered buying a ticket and going to the race track itself, I convinced myself it would probably be expensive and that my family would be mad at me for being gone too long.

So, I simply parked and walked downtown for about an hour (Saratoga has free 2-hour parking). The weather was perfect for little photographic stroll..:-).

Here now is a photographic “taste” of downtown Saratoga Springs during their 2015 opening race track weekend…

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GrassRoots Festival 2015: Photos from my ‘Slant’ Perspective

22 Wednesday Jul 2015

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I have been photographing the GrassRoots Festival in Trumansburg, NY over the past couple of years in exchange for free admission to the festival. So, though I am being “compensated”, it feels like I’m shooting for free.

Rightly or wrongly, this “feeling” leads me to take liberties when deciding what to photograph–i.e., I tend to photograph whatever I find personally interesting or compelling, along with the more “standard” photos I believe the festival organizers actually want from me. (Shooting both types of photos almost in parallel has become quite natural for me.)

Here, then, are the photos the organizers are fairly unlikely to use, but which capture aspects and scenes that I find personally entertaining and which keep me going back to photograph the festival each year. They are a reflection of my skewed and maybe slightly jaded perspective (:p), and are in roughly chronological order.

(On a side note: in general, I think my 2014 GrassRoots photos turned out better, and the cause is probably 2-fold: 1) the heat this year negatively affected both the festival participants and me, and 2) I was having some equipment issues that will inform my equipment choices next year! I did, however, get better photos of the GrassRoots Happiness Parade this year with an equipment combo that now seems obvious. Those are coming soon…)

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2014 GrassRoots Festival, Trumansburg, NY (July 2014)

08 Monday Jun 2015

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The GrassRoots Festival in Trumansburg, New York is coming up this July and I realized I hadn’t really gone through the photos I took at last year’s GrassRoots Festival! So here now is a bunch of photos I took at last year’s festival!

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A Hot Day at the Ithaca Festival (2015)

31 Sunday May 2015

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Today was the 3rd day of the 2015 Ithaca Festival (Saturday, May 30, 2015), and it was a hot one! There was a thunderstorm in the middle of the day that either cooled it down slightly or made it even more uncomfortable because of the additional humidity. In any case, it was quite hot in the sun!

I took a short stroll around the festival after the thunderstorm and tried to snap fragments of scenes that captured some of the festival “flavor”…:-).

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The Evergreens, Caroline, NY (April 2014)

19 Saturday Apr 2014

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The Evergreens, Caroline, NY (April 2014)

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MoMA Courtyard, NYC (March 2012)

18 Wednesday Dec 2013

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Collegetown Break (November 2013)

02 Saturday Nov 2013

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Ithaca Incidental (June 2013)

01 Friday Nov 2013

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Often when I’m doing a photo shoot–especially outdoors–I will see something interesting and snap a photo before I even have time to mentally process it. Here’s an example from last June..

Ithaca Incidental (June 2013)

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