Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
The new coin arrived in in my mailbox. And like the others, it arrived in a velvet clamshell box, along with a Certificate of Authenticity (in English and in French) from the Royal Canadian Mint. It’s the brand new 2026 Royal |Canadian Mint Holiday Coin, a lenticular series that is currently heading into its 20th…
Read MoreRomantic comedies, for me, have a mixed track record. I really have to believe that the characters actually love each other, despite all the roadblocks they endure. That being said … there’s an Australian TV series that dropped on the Paramount+ streaming service last year, and boy was it a hoot. It’s the romantic story…
Read MoreYesterday was a trip to the New York State Fair – this time, to claim my six prints (four of which were accepted, two of which claimed ribbons) and my latched hook rug (which also claimed a first place silk). Once again, a successful run in Syracuse, and this time – for the first time…
Read MoreGood morning, my wonderful blog reading family. We’re inching our way towards autumn, which for me means looking for new areas to shoot fall foliage shots. And yes, I’m thinking about possibly Smuggler’s Notch in Vermont, or a certain church down in Long Island. Those may be my two “target” shots for the season. We…
Read MoreTwenty-five years ago today … in the early morning hours of a previously nondescript Tuesday … we were attacked. A team of terrorists hijacked four commercial planes and flew them into highly-populated areas. Thousands of innocent men and women died that day. Twenty-five years ago. We remember the friends and family members who perished at…
Read MoreThe Pittsburgh Steelers will commence their march to Super Bowl 61 this Sunday at 1:00 p.m., when they clobber the Atlanta Falcons at Acrisure Stadium. This should be good. Especially since Atlanta is starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (oh wait, isn’t that “Tua Turn the ball over”?). Yeah, I’m ready for this. And when I say…
Read MoreRight now, a print of my slitscan photo The Three-Two Pitch is hanging at the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, as part of an upcoming show called THE SWEEP OF TIME. Specifically – this photo. I’m truly thankful that this image made the cut and will appear in this gallery show. Now when galleries promote upcoming…
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Okay. Here’s a quick recap. I photographed a squirrel who had just stolen a bird feeder suet cake and was eating like it was a buffet option at Golden Corral. This was the picture I used for the latch hook rug. And the last time I blogged about this project, my latch hook rug was…
Read MoreTo the uninitiated, harness racing is a very simple sport. Horses follow a rolling starting gate, they go at a specific pace or trot around the track, and one mile later someone wins. So if I’m writing about a specific harness race from a specific track, and it doesn’t involve Saratoga Harness or any horse…
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The Photo Regionals is the be-all and end-all of the local photography community. Photographers within a 100-mile radius of Albany can submit their best works for the show, but only a few winners get their completed artworks on the gallery wall. Not every Capital District Photo Regionals show is the same; sometimes the Photo Regionals…
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