I turn 45 later this year (gasp!), and the rules of the game clearly state that this entitles me to 1 (one) full-blown midlife crisis (void where prohibited, some restriction apply; see package insert for full details). Faced with the traditional options: an affair (too much hassle) or a motorbike (too dangerous) this renegade-with-a-receding-hairline opted…
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Down the Path to Better Solar His brainchild may look like a postmodern sculpture, but Bill Bender is an engineer at heart, not an artist. When he isn’t busy helping his daughter Kristen climb mountains or biking with his younger kids to school, the unassuming Norwich resident is quietly revolutionizing solar energy. Bill remembers taking a course…
You know you’re shopping at Walmart when the housewives wear camo and check their holiday shopping list carefully before they put an additional six pack of Coors Light in the cart. ‘Tis the season, after all. Damn, but this time of year brings out the unrepentant cynic in me. I don’t do holidays, particularly not…
Last December my family found ourselves on the Seychelles for the first and probably only time ever on our way back from a six month stint in Rwanda. The islands were entirely amazing and completely out of our price range; it was a once-in-a-lifetime splurge and so totally worth it. But somehow, the news that…
The younger son of my best friend from high school just turned 21 today. I have, quite literally, known this kid his entire life — I babysat his older brother the night he was born. He’s just a little under half my age, and while I still remember him as a little kid (probably always…
Every year since 2007 I’ve had the pleasure of shooting the antics at the traditional Norwich Halloween party in front of the Norwich Inn and turned the result into a poster for Norwich Recreation that hosts the event (the exception was 2012, when I was in Rwanda and missed the event). Many of the stars…
The first picture I ever had published was of a wonderfully crazy street performer working in Copenhagen the summer of… oh, many years ago. Technically it was a bit of a dodgy affair: significant lens flare, slightly out of focus, awkward composition, taken on too-fast-for-sunshine black-and-white film (Ilford’s otherwise wonderful XP2, a “fake” 400 ISO…
Spectacular fall weather has provided Northern New England with epic foliage this year. Past its peak, the colors are still impressive, like here in Hanover, New Hampshire, where the Dartmouth Green shines in the clean, crisp fall air.
