Business Portraits, Part 3

How a Business Portrait Should Be Cropped My last pet peeve has to do with cropping…again, from my studies of art, images with compositionally heavy, broad, dark toned, foregrounds are more pleasing to the eye. For a portrait, the viewer’s eye needs to go toward the face, the eyes of the subject. Compositionally, anything along …

New Work on ASMP Find A Photographer

Updated my ASMP Find A Photographer profile with a few new images today. Check it out: https://www.asmp.org/portfolio/larry-gatz/ After hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamians last week, I thought posting my friend “Fred” would be appropriate. Yes, Fred is Jamaican and not Bahamian, but he’s as close as I have to an island friend. We haven’t heard …

Barkhaus on the Move

Our friends at Miami Barkhaus, Andreas and Natalie, have decided to take a big walk all the way to Hawaii. That leaves many pooches in Miami wondering where they will now go for daycare. My boy, Weston, pictured in the middle, will miss his friends. We all wish Barkhaus Hawaii much success…and now we have …

Where were you on August 21st, 2017?

  What a hoot! I had the opportunity to be in the center of the country at the epicenter of the total solar eclipse as the moon shadow crossed the country. This was a unique experience to share with my siblings, their spouses, nephews and friends. Thanks to my sisters Terry and Marian for having …

A Birth Announcement in 1926

In 1926, my grandmother sent out a birth announcement heralding my father’s birth. It was very classic, white stationary, little blue bow, script.Recently my sister was going through old papers at my mother’s and she came upon this birth announcement…none of us had seen it or even knew the birth announcement existed. Surprise! But that’s …