“The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.”

~Karl Lagerfeld

I first met model ballerina Hayley Hite while teaching a photography workshop at the Temple to Music at Roger Williams Park in Providence, Rhode Island. We were shooting a gaggle of bellydancers and I noticed a mother taking pictures of a little ballerina girl next to the Temple. Experience has taught me to be open to what is seemingly serendipitous so I introduced myself and asked if Hayley would mind posing with the belly dancers for a couple of shots. She was reluctant and shy at first but quickly revealed a natural ability to be in front of the lens.
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Her mother, Jen was exceedingly supportive and they are quite the pair!
Since then, Hayley has modeled for numerous workshops and recently performed at the Rosecliff mansion in Newport with the Island Moving Company’s “The Nutcracker”.
We are thrilled to have Hayley return to the Creating Your Vision workshop on Sunday, February 16, 2020 in Natick, MA.
​Open to all~

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Photo cred: Donna Moore Wright

Outtake from the “Outside the Box” series where co-collaborators David Lee Black and Matthew J. Peake interact with the custom photography set with photographer extraordinaire Gene Chambers taking the pic from below.
“Outside the Box”
This exhibit endeavors to take a process which is traditionally two dimensional and present it as if it were 3D. This is a figurative exhibit, and as such it will allow the viewer to see the subjects as if they were suspended in a block of ice, from all four sides and from the top and bottom as well, merely by walking around the cube.
Who says a block has to be on its side? Two characters interact, expressing opposing emotions or attitudes, not immediately clear to a viewer on a single panel, and only discoverable when the viewer circles the entire cube in a search for clues.

“Tingle”

​What I loved in my old life
I haven’t forgotten. 
It lives in my spine.

~Leonard Cohen

​The Past, the dark unfathom’d retrospect
The teeming gulf, the sleepers and the shadows  
The past, the infinite greatness of the past

For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

​~Walt Whitman

​“Lil Red Barn” recently sold and when the collector inquired about the backstory, I realized that I shot “Lil Red Barn” long ago while hiking on the Long Trail in Vermont with my late great friend, Jamie Smith. Jamie was an avid outdoorsman, musician, biker, craftsman, father and friend to all. I miss him dearly. 
I am sure he would chuckle knowing that this photograph not only sold in limited edition but was also commissioned by Peak Organic Brewing​ of Portland, Maine for its label. 
Life is but a fleeting moment. 

Adding fine art photography, “Two Trees” to the home collection of some of my favorite people is one of life’s greatest joys!
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