Images from the Flour City & beyond
This ended up on the cutting room floor, but I like the feel of it. And I really like photos of musicians in black & white, lets you focus on their face, their body language and their instrument. ©CATHOLIC COURIER
Orlando Nuñez on guitar. ©CATHOLIC COURIER
It’s been a record season so far for lack of snowfall in and around Rochester. But that doesn’t stop snow sports enthusiasts from tuning up their equipment and getting ready for wintry weather. I photographed avid snowmobiler Kelley Fitzgerald for an Excellus BCBS publication.
Kelley, snowmobile and matching coat. ©MIKE CRUPI
I covered a Veterans Day ceremony at St. John Neumann School yesterday. The lights went out for a slideshow, which I thought was a terrible development for me but then one of the teachers played ‘Taps’ on the trumpet and I got this silhouette. I read that ‘Taps’ is traditionally played at night to indicate ‘lights out’ so this is apropos…..that’s right I said apropros.
Teacher Mary Beth Sullivan plays 'Taps' during a Veterans Day ceremony, Rochester, N.Y. ©CATHOLIC COURIER
Kids and adults alike wait anxiously for the National 9/11 Flag to be carried onto Rochester’s Frontier Field Aug. 20. The tattered flag was recovered at Ground Zero and stitched back to health by people all over the United States. ©CATHOLIC COURIER
Waiting to see the National 9/11 Flag at Frontier Field. ©CATHOLIC COURIER
Youth working with the PRYD (Puerto Rican Youth Development) summer program helped turn a vacant Clifford Avenue lot into a community garden this week. Here, several teens help dig a hole for a totem pole. ©CATHOLIC COURIER
Teens work together to dig a hole. ©CATHOLIC COURIER
I visited Camp Koinonia this week, an outpost nestled in the Italy Valley between Canandaigua and Seneca Lakes. Even though the temperature was hovering around 90 degrees the campers were very active and engaged.
Making a handprint rainbow. ©CATHOLIC COURIER