What's New on this website,... What's New entries for www.NYCdayHiking.com have been moved to here.

January 21, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Kevin Kubota's Lighting Notebook: 101 Lighting Styles and Setups for Digital Photographers by Kevin Kubota

December 31, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Sketching Light: An Illustrated Tour of the Possibilities of Flash by Joe McNally

December 18, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Visual Stories: Behind the Lens with Vincent Laforet by Vincent Laforet

December 17, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide for Digital Photographers by Jeff Smith

December 10, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Doug Box's Guide to Posing for Portrait Photographers by Douglas Allen Box

December 4, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; The Passionate Photographer: Ten Steps Toward Becoming Great by Steve Simon

November 19, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Shooting in the Wild: An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom by Chris Palmer

November 14, 2011 - Added six new book recommendations; A Rope and a Prayer: The Story of a Kidnapping by David Rohde & Kristen Mulvihill, Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre, Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans by Wendell Potter, White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine by Carl Elliott and Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales

October 29, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Photographically Speaking: A Deeper Look at Creating Stronger Images by David duChemin

October 22, 2011 - Added two new book recommendations; The Photographer's Vision: Understanding and Appreciating Great Photography by Michael Freeman and On Being a Photographer: A Practical Guide by David Hurn & Bill Jay

October 9, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World by Sidney Schwarz

October 1, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

September 24, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting and Rethinking Jewish Tradition by Dr. David Hartman

September 24, 2011 - Added a link to my Events website from the home page.

September 17, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

August 22, 2011 - Added two new book recommendations; Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz and Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

August 13, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt

August 7, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment by Benjamin Ross & Steven Amter

July 31, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Inside Sport Psychology by Costas Karageorghis & Peter Terry

July 10, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; The Practice of Contemplative Photography: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes by Andy Karr & Michael Wood

July 7, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; My Favorite Place: Great Athletes in the Great Outdoors by Jason Paur & Corey Rich

June 26, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Why Photographs Work: 52 Great Images Who Made Them, What Makes Them Special and Why by George Barr

June 19, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority by Sue Fishkoff

June 10, 2011 - Added two new book recommendations; Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All by Oran B. Hesterman and Adventure Photography: Capturing the World of Outdoor Sports by Michael Clark

May 1, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World by Oliver A. Houck

April 26, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Sage Tales: Wisdom and Wonder from the Rabbis of the Talmud by Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky

April 23, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; To Do the Right and the Good: A Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics by Elliot N Dorff

April 20, 2011 - Added two new book recommendations; The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides' Thirteen Principles Reappraised by Marc B. Shapiro and Talking about God: Exploring the Meaning of Religious Life with Kierkegaard, Buber, Tillich and Heschel by Daniel Polish

April 16, 2011 - Added two new book recommendations; AMC Guide to Outdoor Leadership: Trip Planning: Group Dynamics, Decision Making, Leading Youth & Risk Management by Alex Kosseff and The Photographer's Mind: Creative Thinking for Better Digital Photos by Michael Freeman

April 1, 2011 - Launched the Fluent Imagery website, still a work in progress.

March 27, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; VisionMongers: Making a Life and a Living in Photography by David duChemin

March 14, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Captured by the Light: The Essential Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wedding Photography by David Ziser

March 4, 2011 - Added a small gallery and slideshow of Bicyclists as well as a couple of new People images.

February 26, 2011 - Added three new book recommendations; Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey by Harold M. Schulweis, Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Amy Dockser Marcus and Here is New York by E.B. White

February 12, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel by Alon Tal

January 22, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; AMC's Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance

November 13, 2010 - Added two new book recommendations; Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer and Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

October 16, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Why Faith Matters by David J. Wolpe

October 2, 2010 - Added three new book recommendations; Doing Jewish Theology: God, Torah & Israel in Modern Judaism by Neil Gillman, Maimonides, Spinoza and Us: Toward an Intellectually Vibrant Judaism by Marc Angel and When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner

September 26, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Jewish Theology in Our Time: A New Generation Explores the Foundations and Future of Jewish Belief by Elliot J. Cosgrove

September 19, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law & Tradition by Jill Jacob

August 28, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance by Michael Goldfarb

August 26, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer

August 22, 2010 - Added a gallery of images from a trip to Iceland in August 2010.

August 17, 2010 - Added three new book recommendations; The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George, The Forever War by Dexter Filkins and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin

July 17, 2010 - Added two new book recommendations; Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins and Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins  (The later is a supplement to the former)

May 22, 2010 - Added two new book recommendations; The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret and Getting Our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry by Scott A. Shay

May 21, 2010 - Added two new book recommendations; Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse and Be Expert with Map and Compass by Bjorn Kjellstrom and Carina Kjellstrom Elgin

May 1, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Outdoor Navigation With GPS: Hiking, Geocaching, Canoeing, Kayaking, Fishing, Outdoor Photography, Backpacking, Mountain Biking by Stephen W. Hinch

April 24, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art by John Szarkowski

April 17, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities by Elie Kaunfer

April 7, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler

April 3, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson

April 1, 2010 - Added two new book recommendations; The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis and Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices by Mosab Hassan Yousef

March 27, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah by Joel Chasnoff

March 16, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace At Last by Bernard Avishai

March 7, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

February 20, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages by David Kraemer

January 23, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore

December 5, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision by David duChemin

October 31, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos by Michael Freeman

October 23, 2009 - Added three new book recommendations; Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin and Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman

October 4, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom (2nd Edition) by Bruce Fraser & Jeff Schewe

September 29, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS4 by Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe

September 27, 2009 - Added an initial gallery of images from a trip to Costa Rica in February 2008 (tardy, I am!).

September 26, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Book Design by Andrew Haslam

September 1, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain De Botton

August 14, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

August 14, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick - And What We Can Do About It by Robyn O'Brien

August 1, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; The Layout Book by Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris

July 30, 2009 - Added a gallery of images from a recent trip to Romania and a new image from that trip to the About Me page.

July 27, 2009 - Added seven new book recommendations; Among the Righteous by Robert Satloff, A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII by Dan Kurzman, The Brethren by John Grisham, The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart, Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War by Isabella Ginor & Gideon Remez, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan, and Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison

July 11, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst

July 5, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students by Ellen Lupton

June 28, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape by Galen A. Rowell

May 4, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; First Light: A Landscape Photographer's Journey by Joe Cornish

April 20, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Working the Light: A Photography Masterclass by Eddie Ephraums, Joe Cornish, Charlie Waite, David Ward

April 17, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting by Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, & Paul Fuqua and completed a major re-organization as well as other changes (i.e. added a blog!) to www.NYCdayHiking.com.

April 6, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes by Joe McNally

March 23, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Digital Portrait Photography: Art, Business & Style by Steve Sint

January 1, 2009 - Added the final gallery of images of the race itself and some miscellaneous stuff from a weekend of auto racing at Watkins Glen in August 2007 (tardy, I am!).

December 13, 2008 - Added a video of me skydiving in June 1996.

November 30, 2008 - Added a gallery of images of the fan experience from a weekend of auto racing at Watkins Glen in August 2007 (tardy, I am!). Images of the race itself and some other miscellaneous images are yet to come.

November 23, 2008 - Added an initial gallery of pre-race images from a weekend of auto racing at Watkins Glen in August 2007 (tardy, I am!). Images of race fans and the race itself are yet to come.

November 19, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Words That Work, Revised, Updated Edition: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Frank Luntz

October 25, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies by Lee Varis

October 15, 2008 - Added two new book recommendations; Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish Commitment and Community in America by Arnold M. Eisen and the ASMP Professional Business Practices in Photography, 7th Edition

October 1, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Best Business Practices for Photographers by John Harrington

August 27, 2008 - Added a few new book recommendations in the Business, Economics and Finance section for some books that have stood the test of time.

August 25, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters by Joe McNally

August 18, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; So Why Have You Never Been Married?: 10 Insights Into Why He Hasn't Wed by Carl Weisman

August 14, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook by Nancy Wolff

August 9, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; The Way Into Judaism and the Environment by Jeremy Benstein

August 5, 2008 - Added a Field Note to the Random Field Notes page about some useful phrases that I might have coined.

July 5, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Occam's Razor: An Outside-In View of Contemporary Photography by Bill Jay.

June 28, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Thom Hogan's Complete Guide to the Nikon D300 by Thom Hogan.

June 18, 2008 - Added an initial gallery of images from a trip to The Palouse in June 2007 (tardy, I am!).

April 21, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice by Rabbi Or N. Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, & Margie Klein (editors).

April 1, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Blood of the Liberals by George Packer.

 February 27, 2008 - Added many comments to my book recommendations page as well as new entries for various books including some recently completed ones such as The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan and Masters Of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces by Linda Robinson. All book related comments that were on this page have been moved to the book recommendations page.

January 15, 2008 - Added a slideshow Camp can be a lonely place without people featuring a deserted Camp Ramah in the Berkshires and some very nice Chopin music.

January 14, 2008 - Added a page of Party / Dance mix's. The day may be over when we burn CD's but you still need to figure out which songs to play.

January 13, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Photographer's Legal Guide by Carolyn E. Wright.

January 6, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; How Pictures Work by Molly Bang.

January 3, 2008 - Added a link on the home page to a charity event, the Hazon Israel Hike, that I am participating in. Click on the link to read more and sponsor me if you like (contributions go to charity, not to me).

December 24, 2007 - Added an initial gallery of images from a trip to the Moab, Utah area in October 2007.

December 23, 2007 - Added an initial gallery of images from a trip to the Escalante, Utah area in September 2007.

December 22, 2007 - Added a new book recommendation; The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers by Martin Evening.

September 29, 2007 - Added a new book recommendation; Love Your Neighbor And Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics by Elliot N. Dorff.

September 23, 2007 - Added an image of a hiking group to the Hikers page.

September 20, 2007 - Added two new (audio) book recommendations; The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama and Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell.

August 14, 2007 - Added a new (audio) book recommendation; Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins.

August 3, 2007 - Added a Field Note to the Random Field Notes page about one difference between Washington and Idaho that I noted while traveling around the Palouse in June 2007. I expect to eventually post some images from that trip,...

June 19, 2007 - Added new book recommendations; Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Places In Between by Rory Stewart and Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! A Hot Lap Around America with Nascar by Jeff MacGregor.

April 11, 2007 - Added a new book recommendation; Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics by Elliot N. Dorff.

March 18, 2007 - Added a series of images of a Shoei motorcycle helmet.

March 9, 2007 - Added a series of images of a wine goblet.

January 1, 2007 - Added two new book recommendation; The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski and A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa by Howard W. French.

December 17, 2006 - Added the book Scribblers on the Roof by Melvin Jules Bukiet & David G. Roskies to my book recommendations page.

November 6, 2006 - Launched www.NYCdayhiking.com, a new (and somewhat derivative) website dedicated to day hiking in the NYC area.

October 17, 2006 - Added a quote from Ecclesiastes to the top of the home page.  I discuss it on this page.

October 11, 2006 - Added images of a second Jennifer from a recent shoot to the People page (so now there are two different Jennifer's on that page!).

September 29, 2006 - Added images from my recent trip to Alaska. Also updated the home page photo with an image of Denali (Mt. McKinley) from that trip.

September 7, 2006 - Added two new book recommendation; Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival: A Memoir by Jay Neugeboren and Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll.

May 2006 - Added a page of images from the Save Darfur rally in Washington D.C. that was held on Sunday, April 30.