Picture of the Day: Ike’s Study

  Photography and Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2020 Ike’s Study . I visited Ike Hay at his home on many occasions.  He was a great teacher of art and design at Millersville University where we first met when I was an undergraduate student from 1974 to 1977. I took several classes with him as … Read more

Bob Shell: Taking Offense

  Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 Taking Offense . I’m somewhat jaded about most current events. I just turned 73, and won’t live long enough to see the longterm outcome of such things as global warming, which may cause the collapse of our social order from the outside, and things like the #MeToo movement … Read more

Picture of the Day: Caesars Palace, Las Vegas 1980

  Photography and Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2020 When I first started my professional career in 1980 as a staff photographer for the behemoth pharmaceutical company, Smithkline & French I was assigned to photograph executives for the company at a sales meeting held in Las Vegas, Nevada.  I booked a hotel room at the … Read more

Close Ups: 1990’s

    Photography and Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2020 Close Up’s: 1990’s . During the early 1990’s, I purchased what would eventually become an indispensable piece of equipment for my portrait photography, the ring flash.  This unique flash lamp that creates shadowless light on a subjects face at close range intrigued me from the … Read more