Vincent Versace Photography

05/03/2026

10/25/2024

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
Andrew Wyeth

I am on my second week of teachIng at Maine Media Workshops, last week was my fall color workshop called “Colors of Fall” (VERY pithy naming if I do say so myself) . This week as my master printing class. SO hooting was not the focus. HOWEVER- I am am by proclivity a San Franciscan. So it is my belief that we invented fog. SO when I get fog I shoot it. So at zero dark thirty I dragged my class out to shoot in the fog.

I shot this with my new Nikon Z6III and the 85mm f 1.2 S Nikkor lens. Image raw processed in Studio NX and post processed in Photoshop 2025.


f1.2 Nikkor

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10/04/2024

Only when the clock stops does time come to life
— William Faulkner
I am back in my studio for those precious few moments where I endeavor to put organization the chaos of capturing the moments of spontaneity that is my life’s work. That’s a fancy way to say house cleaning the deferred maintenance of VV HQ. Cam across this image whilst sorting the the server update and printing the work prints for a show in Cuba. I have a new printer and well it Is the right machine for the job.

I shor this image from a place that is damn nigh impossible to get to. The opening that allows this view only has a shoulder on the side of the road wide enough for a motorcycle tire. This is on click and see ya before I become a statistic and a organ donor.

I shot this with a D800 modified to shout IR.

Nikon100
#24-120mm

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10/02/2024

Don’t initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.
—Viola Spolin

I am so looking forward to going back to Cuba Jan. 28th - Feb 2nd 2025 Photography and Music Workshop.

Sign-Up: https://www.versacephotography.com/workshops/cuba-seeing-the-sounds-of-music/

I had what could have been a catastrophe turn into a blessing. During a firmware update my 96 TB sever crashed because the power died. The partitioning of all 8 drives was scrambled. After two 3 hour sessions with QNAP tech support My drives where brought back to life. They only charged me a “thank you”. One of the things I had been doing was populating the server with my back-up drives. I found this image whilst seeing what was in the “2_DO” folder I have scattered on just about all of the separate drives.

I shot this in Cuba walking down he street. The little boy talking to his father took me. So I dd what I learned to do years ago, do not initiate. Follow the initiator. They will follow you and you will follow them following you following them.

Simply put Follow the follower.

Being on that journey time moves at a different speed.

I am so looking forward to going back to Cuba Jan 28th - Feb 2nd 2025 Photography and Music Workshop.

Sign-Up: https://www.versacephotography.com/workshops/cuba-seeing-the-sounds-of-music/

Nikon100


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09/30/2024

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
—Vicki Baum

More from “Making up for lost time. A lot of what I have shot since March I cannot show for a bit.” collection

The best moments to photographs are the unseen moments that choose to hide inside the camera. If on can become still enough, the camera becomes the stillest branch in which the hummingbird of human spirit can land on to rest.

Cannot say the enough- A still photograph is called a still photograph because the picture does not move. Not because the subject of the picture is not in motion.

I shot this with the Nikon Z7 and the 85mm f1.2 Nikkor S. Raw file processed in NX Studio NiK collection Silver Efex Pro v7 in Photoshop beta.


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09/27/2024

Photography helps people to see.� — Berenice Abbott

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150 milliseconds. IS what neuroscience has measured as the “moment” of the “now”. We as seining beings travel from the past to the future which becomes the present, the present is measured as a time frame between 2 and 7 seconds. A still photograph freezes tha 150 millisecond moment so that the echo is always in the present and always in the now whenever it is viewed.

Cannot say the enough- A still photograph is called a still photograph because the picture does not move. Not because the subject of the picture is not in motion.

I shot this with the Nikon Z7 and the24-120mm Nikkor S. Raw file processed in NX Studio NiK collection Silver Efex Pro v7 in Photoshop beta.


#24-120mm

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09/27/2024

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.
— Jeff Wall

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I love it when the universe conspires to let me see how beautiful simple is. Light is the jewel of every photograph. I love it when light conspires. This image was captured on a mostly cloudy day. We were inside an abandoned theater that had some serious holes in the roof. Lila was walking towards me as I was simply looking through the lens to get some idea as to framing. THe clouds broke, a gndbeam of light hit the roof of the theater and the light channeled through one of the holes in the roof just as Lila walked into it. I clicked the shutter because she took me.

Cannot say the enough- A still photograph is called a still photograph because the picture does not move. Not because the subject of the picture is not in motion.

I shot this with the Nikon Z8 and the 135mm PLena f1.8 Nikkor S. Raw file processed in NX Studio NiK collection Silver Efex Pro v7 in Photoshop beta.




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09/26/2024

History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday.
— Howard Zinn
I had the great honor of studying with Professor Howard Zinn. Once a week for a year we would have lunch after class. I was his only “art” major. In a class of 500 students at his lecture twice a week. Truly one of the great thinkers of the 20th century and the experience waste that has colored the way I see the world through my lens to this day.

I have this personal project that I have been doing for decades, which is to find the echo of the New York City that was the city of my father’s youth. Even though he has passed away 20 years ago I still keep doing the project and I still endeavor to create images for him.

Thia\s image is different from my usual journey into the pst while being present in the moment in that there is a “new” structure, not odf the past memories of a story.

I shot this image off the balcony of. Friend’s apartment whilst using it to shot a video for Benq that is lost somewhere in the corporate decision process.

I am in the process of trying to organize my server in to a more manageable set up. During the course of trying to find files I came across this image in a an orphan folder.

I shot this with aZ8, 24-120 f4 S Nikkor. Studio NX, Photoshop CC, Silverefex Pro 7


#24-120 f4 S Nikkor

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09/26/2024

Light, gesture and color are the key components of any Photograph. Light and color are the most obvious but it is gesture that is the most telling. It is gesture that is the most important important.
—Jay Maisel

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When I have a camera in my hand I fall in love a thousand times a day. Usually between 125-500 of a second. I am not into long relationships or long exposures. I love when I can be take by the image.

Cannot say the enough- A still photograph is called a still photograph because the picture does not move. Not because the subject of the picture is not in motion.

I shot this with the Nikon Z8 and the 50mm f1.2 Nikkor S. Raw file processed in NX Studio NiK collection Silver Efex Pro v7 in Photoshop beta.


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09/25/2024

Master Printing Workshop at Maine Media
Oct 21, 2024 - Oct 25, 2024

https://www.mainemedia.edu/workshops/item/master-printing/

The eye always eclipses technique, but an eye without technique yields little of the artist’s voice. All decisions about a final print are best made at the point of capture, and all decisions are informed by your understanding of the print and how to prepare a file worthy of printing.

Guided by Vincent Versace and Jimmy Andruszkewicz, the goal of this workshop is to teach you how to produce fine-art prints that are true to your vision and display the full range of tones, colors, and details in your images. The focus on fine-art printing is critical for photographers who are serious about their craft and want to create prints that will stand the test of time.