Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
It’s 3:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning. I thought I could sleep last night. I could not. The excitement for today was too much for slumber. I have a photo trip planned. Please let me tell this story. There’s a church in Long Island that is just incredibly photogenic. When the fall foliage kicks in,…
Read MoreMy routine for the New York State Fair is simple. Drive up on the first Saturday or Sunday that the Fair opens, find a good parking spot, enter the Fairgrounds as early as possible, get a selfie at the I ❤ N Y sign, walk around, take some pictures here and there, check out the…
Read MoreFive years ago, Fuji discontinued sale of their Velvia 100 film in the United States due to a compound in the film being designated as toxic. Personally, this sucked eggs. I liked the daylight color balance of Velvia 100, and if I couldn’t use Kodachrome any more (discontinued in 2010), this would be my next…
Read MoreI strive for compatibility between all my camera equipment. Of my primary four shooters – my two Nikon Df cameras, my Nikon F2S 35mm film shooter, and my Pentacon Six TL medium format film camera, I can swap out various components to increase my shooting flexibility. I need my super-big telephoto lens? No problem. One…
Read MoreA couple of years ago, I created this illusion photo, Ran Out of Firewood, which won an award or two at Competition Season time (and was later accepted in the Capital District Photo Regionals). This year, I decided to re-create the illusion, and also share with you a way you can make this image work…
Read MoreRemember that covered bridge latch hook project i worked on for the better part of a year? You know … this one?? Technically, all the stitching and hooking and yarning that took all year is complete. But I still had to take care of one small feature. I had to reinforce the sides. And that…
Read MoreThirteen months of hard work. 44 inches in height. 80 inches in length. 53 different distinct colors used. God knows how many episodes of AEW Dynamite and AEW Collision pro wrestling I watched in the background while doing this. This is a slideshow featuring, step by step, my progress on this rug as chronicled in…
Read MoreSo two weeks ago, my original plan for getting this large latched hook rug complete ran into a tangle. I had originally purchased all the necessary colors, and enough bags of those colors, to supposedly complete this rug without complications. However … the best laid schemes of mice and men, you know … And sure…
Read MoreI don’t know about you … but I feel like I’m moving faster and faster on this project. I sit down after dinner, grab the canvas, and start hooking. I take a Saturday morning, go run my morning errands, come back home, and start hooking. I mean, this was where I was last week at…
Read MoreThis is crazy. I started this rug project – a recreation of a photo I took of the Middle Covered Bridge in Woodstock, Vermont – last year around this time. I dibbed and dabbed at it, and halfway through the project I put it aside, causing me to miss the deadline for completing it and…
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