Fireworks

There are certain things that are particular to photography. Time is one of them. Not only do we, photographers, consider time as an element of every exposure, the depiction of time in our images is always an important factor in one of three ways.

Creating Some Fireworks

For many people fireworks rule! These folks might describe  fireworks as Colorful, loud, visual, electrifying, exciting, and thrilling.  For others experiencing a fireworks display is scary, earsplitting, startling, noisy and for very, disturbing.

One experience many perceptions.

While most people may never consider a fireworks display as more than a singular occurrence I would suggest that it [...]

Business Survival: Special to APA

By Ira Gostin, MBA

The government defines a recession as “six straight months, or two consecutive quarters, of declining or flat gross domestic product (GDP). For the record, GDP is “the total market value of all final goods and services produced in a country in a given year, equal to total consumer, investment and government spending” [...]

Fire in the Trenches

No shit, there I was and I knew life had gone from exciting to potentially scary. From 1987-90 and again in 1992 I was working for the National Park Service (NPS) as a photographer at Grand Canyon National Park. My secondary duty was as a wildland firefighter (commonly called a forest fire firefighter).

In the early [...]