Picture of the Week #209 "Up Up and Away" Vancouver, B.C. Canada 2005 Signed and Stamped

Vancouver was a surprise. I was dazzled by all the clean modern buildings. As I normally take pictures of people, this charming city offered a new perspective on architecture. I wandered around for some time just shooting up. The sky was clear. No clouds. No sign of weather. Just silhouettes of the graphic buildings reaching skywards.

Picture of the Week #208 "Perched" Santa Monica, California 2012 Signed and Stamped

Most of my posts are of older images. Today's was just shot when my wife Ann and I went for a walk along Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica taking in a glorious California day. Ann pointed up to the birds to show me them perched on the light pole. I thought she was warning me to watch out for droppings. I always see the dark while she basks in the light. I swung my camera around as we waited for the light to change so we could cross the street. In a blink I ran off three images. This was the first and our favorite. We then went on our merry way. When I came home I printed this out 44" X 62" and will now hang it in our library.

Picture of the Week #207 "Sly Before Rocky" Brooklyn, New York 1972 Signed and Stamped

When I made my first motion picture I was fortunate enough to have Sylvester Stallone not only act but also co-write with me his first screen appearance. I knew from the second I saw him that he was destined for fame. I had never met anyone as focused and driven as Sly. Not to mention talented. We owe each other so much. A few years ago he had come to a book signing of my personal reminiscence of "The Making of the Lords of Flatbush" where he, on camera, gave me credit for creating his character which later became "Rocky" and "Fonzie" from "Happy Days". The rest became history. A large print of this image is now hanging at the Mouche Gallery in Beverly Hills.

Picture of the Week #206 "The Diver" Vancouver British Colombia 2005 Signed and Stamped

This was right out of the camera. It's an odd image, especially with the piles of what I think is sulphur across the way. I wonder how many other tourists to V.C. encountered this site. I think of this city more for it's high rise architecture than this strange statue sitting on a rock, mask, fins and all.

Picture of the Week #205 "All Dressed Up & No Place To Go" Bel Air, California 2008 Signed and Stamped

These are our cats, Olivia and Babette. I took this photo for our Christmas Card four years ago. Olivia had seizures a couple of days ago and for the first time I thought about our life without them. Even though I am terribly allergic, I still adore them. And as everyone knows my wife is inseparable from them. She dotes on them night and day. Pampered doesn't even come close to how well our feline children are treated. When I took this picture my wife Ann was a nervous wreck. Olivia and Babette were not. It's almost as if they were saying that they were putting up with this just to please Ann. They were right. In the spirit of Halloween dress up I decided to share our little Princesses picture.

Picture of the Week #204 "Old and Older" Los Angeles, California 2008 Signed and Stamped

On our regular excursions to the Getty I happened to notice this guy with a mohawk checking out an old master painting. Or was he looking at the girl? It's hard to tell,  but I thought then and now years later the same concept of his old style haircut and an old painting. I especially like the small painting on the left looking at the girl. This is my favorite thing to do, I call it visual eavesdropping.

Picture of the week #203 "Rained Out" Cabo San Lucas, Mexico 1987 Signed and Stamped

On one of many trips to Cabo the weather turned nasty. No, that isn't my boogie board or fins. I always said that I don't go in water unless there is tile around it. I'm not a fan of the ocean except to look at it and maybe on hot days dunk near the shore. Mind you this is coming from a man who spent his summers on the beach in Saint Tropez. I was digging through my vault of 35mm transparencies when I found a number of pictures from Cabo, this being one of them. The overcast and ominous sky made it an appealing photograph. I sent out an email with this image and immediately sold 4 prints. I knew this would hit a chord.