In an economic environment with no shortage of crooks, beware of the bull
and don’t feed the bears. This young bear came to dine on our peaches.


It came.


It picked.


It posed.

And then returned by the cover of night to tear down our tree and feast on
its succulent, tree-ripened fruit. For all of you who work hard, nurture
create and grow, beware of bears!

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination
That, if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
—A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act V, scene 1)

Photos by AD Lubow photographer, Anne van der Does, have been invaluable for the many charities we serve. Look at these for example.

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Autistic children have trouble communicating or making eye contact. And yet Anne managed to engage this child in a way that he seems to communicate everything.

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You’ve all seen the many deer-in-the headlights group celebrity shots. But look at this photo in which Anne manages to reveal the distinct personalities of each and every person in the picture*.

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Now Anne has ventured to a new medium, transferring her story-telling ability to open air paintings and portraits. See this one, entitled “The Waiter”

Related links:
To see a brief, musical retrospective of Anne’s photos, go to:
www.adlubow.com/photography

*To see "Regis Reflects," our Inner-City Scholarship Fund video about Regis Philbin’s visit to his grammar school in the Bronx, go to:
www.adlubow.com/video