Photography

Clydesdale hoofs of ice in a cave atop the third falls at Enders Falls

The Ice of Enders Falls

Enders Falls in the town of Granby, CT, is a unique location in the winter with ice creating a magical fairy land from water, wind and freezing temperatures.

Best of 2024

2024 brought different kinds of images to my best for the year. I took advantage of time and spent more hours on the water, exploring the Farmington River in my kayak. Europe featured heavily with returns to Barcelona and Paris, and new excursions to Pairi Daiza in Belgium and black sand in Iceland. Sports are still a passion and skiing has stayed a constant.

Green Heron image wins Big E Photo Contest

Mark D Phillips photograph of a Green Heron titled “On The Hunt” captured the 2024 Best in Department prize in the Eastern States Exposition’s (The Big E) Creative Arts Photography Contest. The fair celebrates the people, the food, the livestock, wildlife, shopping, agriculture and music of the six New England states, hosting about 1.5 million revelers annually and this year drew a record of more than 830 Photography Contest entries. 

Photoville evolves to its best version yet

Photoville 2024 returned to its true home under the Brooklyn Bridge with its best rendition yet, presenting a showcase of photographers around the world. I had a tingle of anticipation as I spotted one of the greatest photographs of recent memory, Ami Vitale’s heartrending image of the last moments of the last White Rhino, Sudan. Looking at the image, with the incongruity of the roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge above it, was striking.

Mark D Phillips and Chuck Liddy

Remembering Chuck Liddy

Remembering Chuck Liddy, by Mark D Phillips. Chuck Liddy is the reason I am the photographer I grew into. Our competition at the Morganton News Herald shaped my entire photographic career.

Gowanus Canal on October 25, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most memorable buildings along the Gowanus Canal has vanished. The Alex Figliola building was torn down destroying a graffiti canvas that covered the canal-side wall of their warehouse. ©Mark D Phillips

Gowanus is Dead, Long live Gowanus

Gowanus is dead, Long live Gowanus. I have expected to say this for at least a decade, and now, post COVID, it is finally here. The Gowanus I photographed for thirty years is officially dead, The new Gowanus Canal is becoming the residential playground it was meant to be in 2023.