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"While You Were Sleeping…" Newburgh, NY 10•Feb.•11

A suspected gang member (center) is taken into custody from his home at 45 Bayview Terrace in the City of Newburgh, NY, on Thursday, February 10, 2011. Multiple law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, Orange County Sheriff's Office, NY State Police,

6:20AM. An FBI agent walks along Bayview Terrace in the City of Newburgh, NY, on Thursday, February 10, 2011. Multiple law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, Orange County Sheriff’s Office, NY State Police, and Newburgh Police made arrests of suspected Latin King gang members in coordinated pre-dawn raids. CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record Today’s workday is part […]


Gerald Celente. Kingston, NY 9•Feb.•11

Gerald Celente during an interview at the Trends Research Institute in Kingston, NY on Wednesday, February 9, 2011. Celente is the editor and publisher of The Trends Journal.  CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record

Gerald Celente during an interview at the Trends Research Institute in Kingston, NY on Wednesday, February 9, 2011. Celente is the editor and publisher of The Trends Journal. CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record Got the assignment today to photograph author, publisher, political thinker and analyst Gerald Celente in the offices of his Trends Research Institute in Kingston, […]


*More NPPA Winners… (for Nov. 2010)

Newburgh Police Crime Scene Detectives and funeral home personnel remove the first of two bodies from 12 Liberty Street in the Heights neighborhood of the City of Newburgh, NY on Friday, November 5, 2010. Two men were the victims of a double homicide last

Newburgh Police Crime Scene Detectives and funeral home personnel remove the first of two bodies from 12 Liberty Street in the Heights neighborhood of the City of Newburgh, NY on Friday, November 5, 2010. Two men were the victims of a double homicide last night. CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record Another winner in the National Press Photographer’s […]


"Baby, It’s Cold Out There…" New York. Jan. – Feb. 2011.

Eastbound traffic (left lanes) on Route 84 in Newburgh, NY on Wednesday January 12, 2011. The third major snowstorm of the winter has blanketed the East Coast from Georgia to New England.  CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record

The cold weather has been a real bear here in the Northeast the past few weeks. Here’s a brief look at what I’ve been shooting lately. (How many days until pitchers and catchers report in MLB Spring Training…?) ~cg. United States Coast Guard Cutter Sturgeon Bay (WTGB 109) of Bayonne, NJ steams upriver to clear […]


"More Snow…" 7•Jan.•11

The second snowstorm of the winter has blanketed our area in the Northeast. Since I made it out to the airport this morning to look for airport and aircraft related imagery in the snow, it kind of worked out nicely as we wrote about today’s weather conditions, airline delays and scheduling in the paper / […]


Countdown to Philadelphia. West Point, NY. 9•Dec.•10

West Point cadets cheer during the annual bonfire and send-off for Army’s football team at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY on Thursday, December 9, 2010. The cadets traditionally burn an effigy of a Navy boat representing the Naval Academy before the Army – Navy game. Army will face Navy in the […]


"Live With ART It’s Good For You" Kingston, NY. 28•Oct.•10

A couple of fun images from today… ~cg. Workers from the Kingston Indian Restaurant remove a mural on John Street in Kingston, NY on Thursday, October 28, 2010. CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record Art teacher Bill Hutcheon with a paper mache werewolf mask at his home in Stone Ridge, NY on Thursday, October 28, 2010. CHET GORDON/Times […]


Zenfolio Slideshow Test

*looking at a different slideshow app for the blog, but probably won’t go with this as it can’t display image caption info, nor can the user stop the automated show… ~cg.


"Not Everyday…" 14•Aug.•10

You don’t see this everyday. In fact, I wasn’t even sure what I was photographing, but I knew it “made a picture…” ~cg. Doug Smith (seated on weight truck) of Richford, NY struggles to control his horses in the 2800lb. Draft Horse Pull during the 131st. Annual Little World’s Fair in Grahamsville, NY on Saturday, […]


"The Stuff That Keeps Me Awake NIghts…" (part 1) 9•May•10

*screengrab from Borrowlenses.com, a Bay Area rental house I’m considering renting a much needed piece of “long glass” for an upcoming big assignment in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned. ~cg.


"En Route to Haiti…" 24•Jan.•10

Operation Smile warehouse workers unload cargo from a tractor-trailer onto a waiting SWIFT AIR Boeing 737-400 charter aircraft at Norfolk International Airport in Norfolk, VA on Sunday, January 24, 2010. An orthopedic surgical team and support personnel from Penn State are en route to Haiti after the 7.0 earthquake earlier this month. © Chet Gordon […]


“Did You Make a Photograph Today…?” Newburgh, NY. 22•Oct.•09 3:12PM Two young women push a child in a stroller on Chambers Street near lower Broadway in the City of Newburgh, NY on Thursday afternoon, October 22, 2009. Times Herald-Record/CHET GORDON *”Did you make a photograph today…?” Did you see the light? Not worry about which […]


*"For the one that got away…" 1•Oct.•09

Sometimes the best picture of your day doesn’t make the paper. This was the case yesterday. -cg. Support Magistrate Christine Krahulik views T-shirts hung as part of the Clothesline Project outside the Orange County Government Center in Goshen, NY on Thursday, October 1, 2009. The Clothesline Project, begun in Cape Cod, MA in 1990 in […]


"POTUS on Station." Newburgh, NY 23•Sept.•09

Air Force One is seen parked between two C-5A Galaxy cargo aircraft at the Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, NY on Wednesday, September 23, 2009. President Barack Obama was in Troy, NY on Monday and addressed the United Nations General Assembly today in New York. Times Herald-Record/CHET GORDON Always good to see this […]


*"West Point is so much more than football…" September 2009.

OK, so I’ve covered two home games at West Point so far this Fall. I’d been thinking about those “in-between” or “daily” assignments I’ve shot the last few weeks at the United States Military Academy (USMA or WP) that are also so very special to witness and offer my efforts in documenting, and photographing correctly. […]


"8 Years…"

Smoke continues to rise from the rubble and crumbling facade of the World Trade Center’s South Tower on Monday, September 24, 2001. A terrorist attack two weeks earlier on Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001 destroyed to the twin skyscrapers in lower Manhattan when two jetliners struck the towers. The facade was brought down by construction […]


"Gems…" 5•Sept.•09

Mechanic Quincy Sam pauses in an engine storage room at C & H Auto Salvage in Campbell Hall, NY on Friday, September 4, 2009. Sam spoke of the Cash for Clunkers program and the vehicles that eventually turn up at C & H Salvage. Times Herald-Record/CHET GORDON It’s been a good week for making images. […]


"Show Me the Hands…"

I know it’s been said that the eyes are the window to the soul. But in my own sort of ways of thinking and working as a photographer, I’ve found myself observing and even seeking out how a subjects’ hands look. It has become an almost unconscious thing when I know I’ve gotten close or […]


"Down – Time…" Monday July 6, 2009.

What better way to clear my head a little after the working the tiring holiday summer weekend, than to head out to the airport and photograph aircraft…? Here’s the scene: A beautiful July afternoon, my two Nikon D-1X bodies & long glass, and after a quick trip to the grocery store, I settled in to […]


Pete Hamill @ The Mike Levine Journalism Workshop. 01•May•2009

Pete Hamill. Mike Levine Journalism Workshop. The Eddie Adams Photojournalism Workshop Barn in Jeffersonville, NY on Friday night, May 1, 2009. For readers and those of you in the business – you’ll know who Pete Hamill is. And for those of you here in the Hudson Valley / NYC region within the confines of the […]


*"The Greatest Story Never Told (Sold)…"

Personal Work. NGO volunteerism. Self-assigned projects. Whatever you want to call these initiatives that we photojournalists undertake throughout our careers, I wanted to again look at one of my ongoing projects that I’d previously posted to the website last year, and figured it was now time to post it here as well. In combination with […]


"The West Point Bionic Foot…" 4•22•09

Something special from today at West Point:Army Sgt. First Class Patrick A. King (left) of Highland Falls, NY rests as Joseph Miller (right) Chief of Prosthetics at Walter Reed Army Medical Center adjusts King’s prosthetic foot as Colonel Joseph Hitt and cadet Ian Jones (background) examine the “West Point Bionic Foot” at the United States […]


*Thoughts on being a "Troublemaker…" 18 April 09

Lake Baikal. Irkutsk, Russian Federation. June 2005. (Photograph by Ivan Shapovalov / JSCo. Russian Railways) As you probably know from the growth of this blog, I spend a lot of time on the computer, and of course on the web. A lot of time. For work, pleasure, and even just everyday radio. I haven’t shared […]


*"Details…"

This from yesterday at a state gymnastics meet. I always preach making “detail” images while on assignment, either for work, a client or myself. Thought this one kind of worked nicely… Jacqueline Combs waits to perform her routine on the uneven bars during the 2009 USAG Level 9 State Championship Meet for 15 – 16 […]