Craig Shearman

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Christmas in New York -- Before the Pandemic. Photo by Craig Shearman

There are combinations of light, color and reflections you find only in in New York, not even London or Paris. I know -- I've looked.

This was made less than a week after my mother passed away just before Christmas 2019 and I was looking for something joyful as we visited our grown children in Manhattan to get on with life. Little did we know what the year ahead had in store.

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Family Portrait -- The New Normal. Photo by Craig Shearman

Family portraits run together after a while and we have to look for subtle clues to determine the year or how old we were. Hopefully this look will be unique to 2020.

This selfie was made in New York while visiting our son and his girlfriend for the first time in months because of the pandemic.

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Staff Meeting -- The New Normal. Photo by Craig Shearman

Just a snapshot of life at the office these days -- when the office can be the dining room table, the center island in the kitchen or the ironing board in the laundry room.

This is a "gathering" of independent PR consultants who have become my new work family after deciding the middle of a pandemic and the worst recession since the Great Depression was the perfect time for me to give up a full-time job and go out on my own.

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A Day in the Park -- The New Normal. Photo by Craig Shearman

I'm hoping my grandchildren will come across this photo when I'm gone and ask "What was that about?" I'm hoping my grandchildren don't find this photo when I'm gone and say "Oh, they had those signs way back then."

A "what's wrong with this picture" this moment during an otherwise wonderful walk through Central Park on a warm summer day.

As a photographer, J. Craig Shearman says he's somewhere between a has-been and a wannabe. He started off as a newspaper photographer but became a reporter and then a PR person, but never stopped making pictures. He occasionally shoots events for the press club and may someday go back to his roots -- if the pandemic ever allows it.

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