Living on Long Island can sometimes be frustrating. We drive to work every day and deal with vicious traffic on the roadways. Driving anywhere on Long Island at most times is not fun. I actually found myself considering the possibility of a move out of state if an opportunity presented itself. The more I thought about it, the more it seemed possible, but I didn’t want to be driven away from the place I grew up and leave my family and friends.
I felt the need to balance this frustration by considering all the high points about LI. Living in an over-populated place does have its benefits when you are a small business owner. More people equal more potential customers. I tried to transform my frustration into focus and directed it into my business ideas. I am not a marketing guru, I simply wanted to design the best store front I could so I could feel proud to be behind it.
My passion is not just in the picture taking, but also in the design aspect. I loved building my website. In fact I enjoyed it so much that shortly after completing the design, I felt something was missing. I had an idea to expand my photography to more than just photojournalism. I love shooting weddings and events, but these are not pictures to hang in my home, they are for other people to hang in their homes. By capturing some nice images worthy of framing and hanging, it would possibly fill that void. Getting up early for sunrise or driving to a scenic spot for sunset, I began taking some images that were just OK. At first they didn’t show up in camera the way I had envisioned them in my mind. I realized that landscape photography was much more than just framing a scene and snapping the shutter. This was something that required a lot of practice.
My Scenes Over Long Island gallery is a growing collection of images I have captured to photographically express the beauty of Long Island. I hope you visit and enjoy the images I have captured.
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