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Author: Jonathan Ment
Photographer, videographer, writer, all-around media producer, contributor & observer
Many families found their routines altered this year. All right, almost all families… Maybe a weekend in the country turned into a week. Or, in some cases a month turned into three. That’s how it was for the family of four I photographed recently along a section of the Windham Path on the outskirts of … Continue reading Winding Along the Windham Path
Selling or Renting? Photography makes all the difference
Is This the (Ghostly) New Normal? I was ‘ghosted’ by a photography prospect last week. We were “discussing” family portraits in Windham, NY. After visiting my website, they called. Then we exchanged texts. We settled on a session and rate and looked to the week and weather ahead for some family portraits. Then they fell … Continue reading Is This the (Ghostly) New Normal ?!?
I can still picture Bill, clear as day, ready to add his unique touch to whatever we were about to tackle.
I will not say I knew Bill Madden well, though we worked together for years at the Daily Freeman. He would show up, occasionally grumbling of overwork, and take the pictures for some of the stories I was assigned to cover – or he’d show up smiling, after a nice drive in the country, to shoot the photos for a feature I’d figured out for myself a little off the beaten path.
I think I was on vacation, in the parking lot of a Krispy Kreme in North Carolina when I got the call that he’d died. He was young, mid to late 40s I suppose, 50? really not much older than I am now, I don’t think, though I believe he’d been raising kids when I was just newly married.
Over the years we both worked for the Daily Freeman, I can recall stumbling across Bill, or Billy as…
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