Show & Tell: Learning, Teaching, Ranting, and the Photography In-Between

A Beginner’s Guide to Introducing Me To New Music, Movies and TV

Being the entertainment aficionado that the world rightly fancies me, I’m often approached with the latest and greatest new music, movies and tv shows. It seems that everyone and their mother (a phrase apparently favored by those who think mothers should always be double-counted) has found the awesomest new way to kill time or make tedium not [...]
Hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene has come and gone, uneventfully for those of us inland in Maryland. I can’t say how the rest of the state fared but I’m guessing okay since the news is back to talking about politics. During the wedding I was shooting I captured a handful of images that I was fond of and [...]
Everything at Aldi, Under $0.99

Everyone loves shopping at Aldi. Well, everyone who wants to carry untold numbers of reusable grocery bags in their car, who always have quarters on them, and aren’t bothered by spectacular disorganization, anyway. Sometimes saving five bucks is worth it. Who am I to judge. Maybe it’s a principle thing. I just feel slighted when [...]
The Farm, in Stereoscopic 3D

Have you ever heard of stereoscopic 3D images? It’s the old school way of making flat photographs look like they’re not. I mean really old school. In stereoscopic photography, two similar photographs are taken from slightly different positions. kind of like how we have two eyeballs and they both see a similar, but slightly different [...]
Free Time in Bethesda Maryland

The plan today included a portrait session in Bethesda Maryland–just outside Georgetown Cupcakes–with Katherine and her three daughters. Another Petruzzo Photography shooter and myself were going to tag-team the shoot and take turns. Oh, did I mention that Katherine and her three girls are awesome? Anyways, it quickly became clear that the girls weren’t going [...]