The portrait. No words. An image, a name, and a set of numbers. When Steve Jobs passed this week, Apple announced it to the world …
The 10th anniversary of 9/11
This year deserved something different. Tenth anniversaries are the ends of beginnings in our relationships with the events they mark in our lives. Previous years …
This spot sucked anyway
This spot sucked anyway. Those were the words we used to console ourselves as @beefyfunk (Tumblr) and I left the mediocre shooting location for greener …
Foggy night bridge
Photo ©2011 Ali Perretz (f/5.6 | 10 sec | ISO 400) Hi-rez link It seems like great photography is everywhere. Well-executed, tasteful, and aesthetically pleasing, …
Who watches the Watchmen?
Last summer, I was in New York City, camera strapped to my body. From half a block away I saw 7 policemen, quite relaxed and …
How the other half flashes
The second most common question I get asked when I shoot weddings is “why are you pointing your flash the wrong way?” Over my career …
The lightroom
Photographers of yore used to disappear into darkrooms for hours or even days fueled by their passions and without the aid of Red Bull or …
Apple gets bigger wood
No, this is not a continuation of my lumberyard shoot. What you see above was found by some eagle-eyed researchers peeking into the innards of …
2010 9/11 Tribute in light
The Tribute in Light on September 11 is one subject that does inspire this in me, so much so that I can’t resist returning to it over and over again.
End of the year thoughts
I promise to keep refining and publishing my thoughts on the craft and bring you more of my own work.
Deconstructing TIME’s Person of the Year Portrait
"...I had to wonder why they left his visage so bare, so exposed, so…unsettling."

A real “photographer’s camera”
Recently, I had an opportunity to fondle Fuji’s latest entry into the photography market, the X-Pro1, thanks to my good friend Skyler. He wrote …