The above image was made back in May, after I’d already covered the first college graduation of the season, as well as another local assignment. I remember PD units speeding by me as I was on my way home to edit and ditch the khakis, pressed button down oxford sans tie, when I happened to spot the spiraling smoke on the horizon, down on the river. I hustled down to the riverfront marina and made a few images with the 300mm and a 2X tele-extender on the Canon 5D-MK II, hand-held mind you, from the city boat launch. (That’d be the equivalent of a 600mm, f/5.6 for those of you keeping score at home.) Nothing wrong with that combination in full sun, just as I routinely now use this combination for outdoor sports when shooting “extra” long… ~ cg.
Chet Gordon resides in the lower Hudson Valley region of New York. A photojournalist for more than 25 years, he recently worked as Westchester Magazine's first photo editor, and previously was a staff photographer at four NYC metro area newspapers. He was also a photo editor at the NY Daily News for 5 years. His work has appeared in The New York Times, International Herald-Tribune, USA Today, MailOnline (UK), Army Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Popular Photography magazines, among others. He is a career member of the National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA), and a former board member of the NY Press Photographer’s Association (NYPPA). He served honorably as a U.S. Marine in the mid-1980's, including 2+ years stationed on Okinawa, Japan, and throughout Southeast Asia. A longtime volunteer and travel enthusiast, he accompanies several humanitarian aid clients on their international disaster relief and medical missions. Since 1997, he's worked in several African countries, the Middle East, Central and South America, Eastern Europe, as well as Afghanistan, Haiti, the Russian Federation, and Thailand. He routinely mentors young photographers looking to break into the industry and vacations in Bermuda and Kenya.
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