Columbia University
Most of the following images date back to my last year in High School (1976-1977) or when I was an undergraduate EE/ME student at Columbia University (1977-1979). In short, this was before I realized that I am a computer guy. I used to be very deeply involved in photography, both for student publications (especially Columbia Spectator and Broadway Magazine) and as a freelance commercial photographer.
I don't get to do much photography anymore, but I just purchased a cheap flatbed scanner, so I couldn't resist the urge to scan a few old prints and post them. It's a decent scanner, but it has problems with shadow/highlight detail... oh well. Clicking on the small images below will get you a nice, big, JPEG. Most of the prints are uncropped 35mm images, taken using either a Minolta XK or SRT-101, printed on Ilford paper.
The above image is scanned from the advertising postcard that I shot for the 1/2 scale cars that my father's company (the Henry G. Dietz Co., Inc., of Long Island City New York) used to make. Actually, the company's main line is air and water flow and pressure sensors, so this was quite a random product....
Long ago, I built a Soap Box Derby car that looked at lot like this. It didn't win the race, but it got tons of press coverage, so my dad got the idea of building a more serious version for sale. The car wasn't road legal, but came in both gasoline and electric models and was essentially a very solid, very pretty, tractor. It didn't sell well, but it sure got plenty of publicity, ranging from being given an award for it's efficient electric drive system at Electro '77 to being widely advertised by Hammacher Schlemmer (in fact, I shot the full-page color ad that they took for it in the Saturday Evening Post).
Although not a particularly great photo, this gives you a better idea what it looks like around where I am now (Lafayette, IN). Not exactly New York, eh? ;-)
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Birds On Broadway
Police
Stairs, Columbia University
Riding The B1L
The Flatiron Building
NYC
Below Hellgate
Redwoods
Baby Chair
Dietz Auto
Local Farm