Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 10:25AM Here is an intimate portrait of a boy making pancakes.
I chose the stlye of intimate portrait for these photos because I felt it revealed more about the person than the frontal portrait would have in this particular case.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 02:06PM Hudson Valley Fresh
Sustainable farming starts with creating a model that sustains the farmer. The Hudson Valley Fresh dairy cooperative are nine family farms that have banded together to produce the highest quality milk possible which they sell at a premium price to secure a living wage for their families.
Their dedication to their herds and the generations of accumulated knowledge has resulted in the creation of just such a model. The choice under the current farming model is between profits and quality. These farmers made the choice to put the milk first and create a new financial model. This model has become so successful that it is now being studied and replicated by other farmers in the country who are forming similar cooperatives.
The model itself is composed of the following. The use of sustainable agriculture techniques to grow corn, grain, alfalfa, hay, and soy on the farm next to the herd they sustain. In addition, they the use the latest feed mixtures to produce high yields. Because of high yields, they can have smaller herds that allow them to monitor the health of the cows which insures good udder health that is essential for producing healthy milk. Somatic cells, a white blood cell, which mobilizes to make sure the milk is free from infections, are very low because of the health level of the animals is high, and their stress levels are low. U.S. standards allow a SCC as high as 750,000. Organic milk SCC averages 450,000 while Hudson Valley Fresh farms average 100,000. This results in milk of such high quality that many of NYC’s finest restaurants seek it out, and many people who thought they were lactose intolerant find they are not after drinking their milk. Finally, the milk is locally produced and processed using low temperature pasteurization one day and delivered to store the next.
Hudson Valley Fresh farmers have made the choice to take control of producing, processing, and distributing their milk to create a high quality product that is healthy, fresh, and which can sustain the farmer with a living wage.
Student Daniel Timoldi
SUNY New Paltz
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 09:38PM As part of an assignment for my Contemporary Issues in Photography class, we had to react something we saw in the news paper. I saw an article on a retrospective look at the Happenings Art movement of the 60's at the Pace Gallery on 23rd in Chelsea in NYC this past Saturday.
I was trying to document the reactions of today's audances to the Happening events. Audances at the time did not realize what was happening before, during and sometimes after the event as noted by Allen Kaprow who was one of the leading artists of that movement. So my responce to the article was to attend the exhibit and photograph the reactions of people attending.
Morover, the image should have an artistic aesthetic rather than a photo journalistic one. Or at lest, an "artsy" photo journalistic sense. Ideally, the photo to have a greater meaning than simply documenting people attending like Winograd's photo that also appeared in the paper that day as well. Photojournalistic images can be contrived and do not need to do anything beyond showing what was happening. Where Winograd's photos have often odd compositions or they in some way direct the viewer to see things they might have missed had they been there.
Of course, the problem is that this demends that something actually happens in front of you when which can't be counted on. So, I shot the photojournalistic shots looking out for something that might be more than descriptive which I believe happened in the photo of two people entering Robert Whitman's "Inside Out" work presented with other more photojournalist works.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 05:03PM I've been busy making photographs, so I haven't been posting. So, I guess it's time to post some photos.
Here is one of several that I'll be posting which is about opposites that attract. Specifically, it's about things that are opposite in some way but at the same time also share a similar quality. Moreover, there is a concept behind the images themselves which may or may not be obvious. Also, they are two images, diptych, which juxtapose one another.
The first image is ice and water which share the quality of water but in different states. The concept is that water changes from one state to another, but it can also change back. So, it's chnage that is continious.
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