
Sam D’Amico creates original photography that can be licensed for editorial and commercial use. Prints are available. Whether you’re looking to license an image or buy a print, please visit The Sam D’Amico Photography Archives.
Mar 09, 2010 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: photographic prints, photographs, photography, pictures, prints, prints for sale, Rights Managed Stock Photography, stock photography | Comments Off

It’s Summer. Longer days, hot weather, strains on the electric grid. Here’s a word from Pepco sent out on July 7, 2010. Pepco Asks Customers to Conserve Electricity. Heat Continues to Push Electricity Use Higher. WASHINGTON – Pepco today requested the public to conserve electricity. The call for conservation was prompted by the intense heat [...]
Jul 13, 2010 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: adequate power, conserving electricity, curtains and blinds, electric appliances, electric grid, electric household appliances, electricity customers, energy policy, evening hours, excessive heat, high tension wires, hot weather, intense heat wave, Obama, pepco, reinvestment act, Rights Managed Stock Photography, service territory, thermostats | 1 Comment »

Two people share the shade of a small tree in Washington DC. The commuters were seeking relief from the heat of a sunny, summer day while waiting for a bus on the 2800 block of 16th Street NW. In fact If you live in the Washington DC area, according to the NOAA weather outlook, chances [...]
Jul 06, 2010 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: Color, commuters, cross processed, day, DC, heat, horizontal, man, noaa weather, people, Photograph, Photojournalism, relief, Rights Managed Stock Photography, shade, shadow, sidewalk, slice of life, stake your claim, street, street nw, summer, sunny summer, tree, two, Washington, washington dc area, weather channel, weather outlook, wild art, woman | Leave A Comment »

Happy Fourth Of July And Please, Have Patience With Your Grill !
Jul 04, 2010 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: Rights Managed Stock Photography | Comments Off
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May 20, 2010 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: affordable art, Art, art prints, commercial photography, editorial photography, home decor, photographic print, photography, prints, Rights Managed Stock Photography, stock photography | Leave A Comment »
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May 02, 2010 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: Rights Managed Stock Photography | Leave A Comment »
Sometimes it’s obvious that I don’t know what I’m doing. I’ve got all these great tools in front of me in terms of working more efficiently and I don’t even see’em. Technology can be helpful, but only if you see how to use it. I eventually see it but it usually takes me awhile! I’ve [...]
May 02, 2010 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: photography, photography galleries, prints for sale, Rights Managed Stock Photography, stock photography | Leave A Comment »
Nov 24, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: Art, artistry, band, close up, day, detail, fine art, holding, horizontal, large, marching band, mid-section, music, musical instrument, musician, parade, Photograph, photographs, photography, r.m., rights managed, Rights Managed Stock Photography, rights protected, rm, stock photography, stock photos, tuba, uniform, white, white gloves, yellow | Leave A Comment »
It seems that every time I get settled somewhere on the web, I learn of a new service being offered that comes closer to my “wish list” for my home on the internet. This latest incarnation of “websites hosted and designed for photographers” seems to be the closest to my dream home on the web that I’ve seen yet.
Oct 28, 2009 | Categories:Learn Photography, Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: blog, e-commerce, Graph Paper Press, instruction, photographer, photographer websites, photography, photoshelter, Rights Managed Stock Photography, SEO, Visual Society, Word Press, workshops | Leave A Comment »

I think that if the photographers who favor summer began to notice the visual richness of fall and winter they would be carrying their cameras equally throughout the year.
Sep 22, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: autumn, back light, backlit, Color, color temperature, fall, fence, foliage, glow, leaf, maple leaf, Online Photography Classes, orange, Photograph, photographic prints, photography, prints, Rights Managed Stock Photography, stock photography, stuck, trapped, vertical, wire fence, yellow | Leave A Comment »

The event that closed public access to the right arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty is mostly overlooked in history classes and at the monument also.
Jul 28, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: America, Americana, architectural, architectural detail, architecture, Art, art movement, art movements, building, close up, concept, concepts, conceptual, day, daytime, democracy, detail, freedom, images, land, monument, National monument, outdoors, outside, photo, photographs, photography, photos, pic, pics, pictures, prints, Rights Managed Stock Photography, rm, Statue of Liberty, Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, stock photo, stock photography, stock photos, structures, symbol, symbolic, symbolism, tourism, travel, United States, United States of America, USA, vertical, vertical images | Leave A Comment »

Click on the photograph of Backyard Fireworks, Sewell NJ, July 2007.to see more information and a larger version. Background Information: While attending a party in the NJ suburb of Sewell, NJ fireworks were bring ignited in the backyard at around 5:00pm. The view of the fireworks during daytime, in an empty suburban backyard, struck me as [...]
Jul 17, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: backyard, celebrate, celebration, day, daylight, daytime, entertainment, environment, environmentalism, fence, fireworks, horizontal, images, land, lawn, nature, outdoors, outside, photo, photographs, photography, pic, pictures, Rights Managed Stock Photography, rm, scenery, stock photography, stock photos, suburban, suburban landscape, suburbia, suburbs, summer, trees Summer | Leave A Comment »

Click on the photograph of the Statue-Of-Liberty-Close-Up-Side-View to see more information and a larger version. I know I’m a bit late on this story, but at least I made it before the actual opening. Better late than never. From a press release issued by the National Park Service on May 8, 2009 and a pdf [...]
Jul 02, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: 4th. of July, architectural, architectural detail, architecture, Art, art movement, art movements, building, close up, concept, concepts, conceptual, democracy, detail, edifice, edifices, Fourth of July, freedom, Independence Day, July 4, land, monument, National monument, photography, photos, pics, prints, Rights Managed Stock Photography, scenery, Statue of Liberty, Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, stock photo, structures, symbol, symbolic, symbolism, tourism, travel, vertical | 1 Comment »

Fortunately for me, since I’m as much a wildlife photographer as I am a neurosurgeon, we can get some interesting wildlife photographs at some not so wild places.
Jun 30, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: animal, Animal Planet Australia: Wild Extremes! exhibit, animals, Australian, Australian Freshwater Crocodile, Baltimore, creature, creatures, crocodile, Crocodilia, crocodilian, Crocodylidae, Crocodylus johnstoni, Fish crocodile, Freshie, freshwater, horizontal, image, images, Inner Harbor, Johnston's crocodile, Johnston's river crocodile, Maryland, National Aquarium, photo, Photograph, photographs, photography, photos, pic, pics, pictures, prints, reflection, reptile, Reptilia, Rights Managed Stock Photography, rm, stock photo, stock photography, stock photos, undomesticated animals, water, wildlife, zoology images | 1 Comment »

Using my perception of “gloomy” to drive my composition, I chose a white balance of fluorescent to give the image a feeling of “the blues”.
Jun 18, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: America, apartment building, apartment house, apartments, architectural, architecture, block of flats, Blue, blurred, blurred motion, blurry, building, cityscape, cold, coldness, Columbia Heights, concept, concepts, conceptual, coolness, District of Columbia, dominant color, dominant colour, ecology, ecosystem, edifice, edifices, emotion, emotional, emotions, environment, environmentalism, gloomy, home, horizontal, images, moody, North America, photo, photographs, photography, pic, pictures, rain, rainfall, rainshower, rainstorm, rainy, real estate, residence, residential building, Rights Managed Stock Photography, rm, seasons, shower, soft focus, stock photography, stock photos, structures, U.S., United States, United States of America, US, USA, Washington D.C., Washington DC, weather, Winter, wintertime | Leave A Comment »

WILKUM ! The 2009 Kutztown Folk Festival (1) marks the event’s 60th year anniversary (2). The primarily agricultural festival celebrates Pennsylvania Dutch Culture and runs this year from June 27 – July 5, 9am – 6pm. If you would like to, learn more about this festival and see more pictures, please click on the photograph above. [...]
Jun 15, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: agricultural festivals, blur, cultural, culture, dominant color, dominant colour, early American, fairs, festivals, folk-life, folklore, Hex Sign, horizontal, human, human being, human beings, humans, images, Kutztown, Lancaster County, motion, one, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania German, people, person, photo, photographs, pic, pictures, red, Rights Managed Stock Photography, rm, stock photography, stock photos, summer, tourism, tourist attractions, travel | Leave A Comment »
…It’s unrealistic to expect that everyone will connect emotionally with the photograph the same way I did, but when I learn that someone does, it reaffirms that I’m using the elements of photographic composition effectively to visually communicate my emotional reaction to whatever I’m photographing…
Feb 18, 2009 | Categories:Rights Managed Stock Photography | Tags: animals, Elk, frighten, frightening, heads, hotel, nightmare, nightmarish, Rights Managed Stock Photography, scare, scary, stuffed, taxidermy | Leave A Comment »