25 Lessons I've Learned (about photography) is now the #1 bestselling Photo Essay on Amazon.com!

25 Lessons I've Learned (about photography) is now the #1 bestselling Photo Essay on Amazon.com!
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25 Lessons I've Learned is now the #1 bestselling kindle Photo Essay on Amazon.com!

New York City, February 1, 2010:

Thank you to all my flickr friends and supporters, my book, 25 Lessons I've Learned (about photography) is now the #1 bestselling Photo Essay on Amazon.com!

Please continue to show your support by telling all your family and friends, especially those with Kindles, iPhone and iTouches. A Kindle ap is available for these devices and more!

25 LESSONS I'VE LEARNED (about photography) SYNOPSIS

In his best-selling book, Lorenzo describes how the deceptively simple rules of photography can also be applied to the art of living. Inspirational and poetic, this book will not only spark readers’ creative energies, but also reawaken your passion for life.

In 2005, as a husband, father, and corporate employee — Lorenzo's life revolved around home, work, and his daily commute from the suburbs to the city.

Then, one day, he found himself staying at the Little Church in midtown Manhattan in the wake of a marital separation. Living in virtual isolation for three months, he had a rare chance to re-examine his life.

Quite unexpectedly, he found himself wandering around the city to take photographs, a passion he had let slide in the years of pursuing a career and starting a family. During his nightly sojourns through the streets of New York City, he was reminded of some important life lessons—lessons too easily forgotten in the blur of everyday existence.

PRAISE FOR LORENZO AND 25 LESSONS

“In many of my conversations on great photographers, I frequently mention Lorenzo’s work. His sequential photographs…are nothing less that a visual urban poem. It has been my pleasure to watch Lorenzo’s rapid growth as a leading photographer of our time.” Jim Van Meter, Rochester, NY, USA

“Lorenzo is a master. His body of work is some of the very best online and may very well be some of the best being done in the medium today. His street work follows in the tradition of Paul Strand, Cartier-Bresson, Garry Winogrand and Larry Friedlander. Lorenzo’s 25 Lessons are…as seminal as Ansel’s dissertation on the zone system. I found them to be reenergizing, perceptive and extremely useful. I have been touched by his story, his writings and by his work. I can’t imagine anyone not being so.” Barry Shapiro, Los Angeles, CA, USA

“Lorenzo…has a passion for life, photography and writing. He is a linguistic genius, a storyteller through words and pictures. He captures with his camera the world as he sees it, its feelings, love, beauty and all it has to offer...” Brenda George, Adelaide, Australia

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER, AUTHOR & JOURNALIST

Lorenzo is an author on street photography, and an award-winning photographer.

As the Photography Examiner for New York for the www.examiner.com/x-4684-NY-Photography-Examiner, Lorenzo chronicles what’s up, what’s new and what’s notable in the world of photography in New York City.

In 2008, he was chosen to be the HP Be Brilliant Featured Artist ( www.hp.com/go/bebrilliant ) and he became the best-selling author of 25 Lessons I’ve Learned (about photography).

Since taking up digital photography in 2005, his photography has been featured in fotoMAGAZIN, Germany's premier photo magazine, and his photos have been cited, posted and published by over 330 other blogs, websites, and print publications.

Today, Lorenzo has over 30,000 photographs published on flickr.com —one of the world's most popular photography websites—where his photos have been seen over 5.5 million times and where he ranks as one of the site's most popular photographers. He has been called an "Internet photography sensation" by Time Out New York and is considered a "Flickr star" by Rob Walker, Consumed columnist, for New York Times Magazine.

One Case Silent Photography Auction: Supporting the fight against breast cancer one case at a time

One Case Silent Photography Auction: Supporting the fight against breast cancer one case at a time
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Originally published on Examiner.com, January 4, 2010

This coming Thursday, January 7 Resource Magazine is offering art lovers, artists, photographers, and humanitarians alike, all a chance to start off the New Year right by helping someone in need.

At 6 PM at the Milk Gallery in Chelsea, NYC, the One Case Silent Photography Auction will be held to benefit a selected freelancer who is in dire need of medical funding, because she is without medical insurance and was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

According to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, based on current rates, more than 12.7% of women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lives.

Chances are that's 1 out of every 8 women you know.

Breast cancer is the leading cancer among American women and is second only to lung cancer in cancer deaths. Statistically speaking, about 192,370 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in American women in 2009 and about 1.3 million new cases of breast cancer were expected to occur among women worldwide in 2007

If caught prior to spreading beyond the breast, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer is now 98%. In 1982, a mere 25 years ago, it was only 74%. Thus, greater awareness leading to more early detection has significantly helped save lives.

There are approximately 2.3 million breast cancer survivors living in the United States today, they make up the largest group of cancer survivors in the country. Thus, there is much to be said for creating awareness.

Moreover, there is much to be said for helping someone get through financial stress and straits of treatment once diagnosed, especially a freelancer without coverage.

According to a 2005 report put out by Freelancers Union, which used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as well as the NYC self-employment statistics, unstable income and lack of health insurance were the two basic issues freelancers face that other regularly employed Americans do not.

This has become a particularly critical issue in an economy where greater unemployment leads to more competition amongst freelancers, because less revenue means less money to cover the cost of health care. According to the 2005 report, 28% of freelancers simply live without any healthcare insurance at all.

So, please come and help this coming Thursday. Over 30 photographers have already pitched in by donating prints for this important cause.

One Case Silent Photography Auction
6:00PM Thursday, January 7th
Milk Gallery, 450 W 15th, between 9th and 10th, NYC

This event is sponsored by Perrier and Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR) Beer.

NEW YEAR'S EVE BLUE FULL MOON FLASH MOB PARTY TONIGHT! 2010 New Year’s Eve Meet & Howl at Midnight, Sheep’s Meadow, Central Park, NYC!

NEW YEAR'S EVE BLUE FULL MOON FLASH MOB PARTY TONIGHT! 2010 New Year’s Eve Meet & Howl at Midnight, Sheep’s Meadow, Central Park, NYC!
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New York City, December 31, 2009:

FLASH MOB PARTY TONIGHT! 2010 New Year’s Eve Meet & Howl at Midnight, Sheep’s Meadow, Central Park, NYC, under a rare Blue Full Moon!

As you may already know, tonight there will be a rare Blue Full Moon, which will be at its apex around midnight. The next Blue Moon on New Year’s Eve will not come around for another 29 years on December 31, 2028. I don't know about you, but I will be 71 by then, and likely not living in New York City anymore.

Thus, on this beautiful and rare occasion, I’m proposing we do something extra ordinary.

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Every year, for some forty odd-something years, this day rolls around and I’m usually at a loss for how I want to celebrate New Year’s Eve.

By now, I know I don’t want to be at a club— it’s ludicrously too expensive, I know I won’t be able to get my money’s worth at the open bar, and I’ve been there, done that, one too many times.

I also know I don’t really want to drudge about in the snow in the streets of New York City, trying to hail a taxi in the freezing cold, ruthlessly competing against an onslaught of inebriated, and often belligerent, revelers.

Finally, what I do know and I am most certain of, is that New Year’s Eve has always been best celebrated amongst good, fun, and often, crazy friends. Because ultimately, it doesn’t matter what or where or why you are doing what you are doing, when you are with them.

Thus, I’m organizing a ku-razy, “somewhat”-spontaneous flashmob get-together in the snow, to howl at the biggest, baddest and bluest moon you’ll likely ever see in your lifetime at midnight, in the middle of Central Park, directly beneath the fullest moon of your lifetime.

We’ll meet at Sheep Meadow, directly across from the lights Tavern on the Green, which, by the way, will be lit for the last time tonight.

So, bring a bottle of bubbly, your snow boots, good cheer and be ready to howl at the moon.

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Tonight, New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2009

Where & When:

11:30 Meet at Sheep’s Meadow in Central Park, across from Tavern on the Green,
at 67th St & Central Park West, NYC.

Forecast: Slight chance of snow, 34