Background. For many years, while I blogged for the Albany Times Union, I set aside one day a week from my blog to focus on sharing the posts and ideas of my fellow community and independent bloggers at the TU portal. I did this because the Times Union spent an inordinate amount of energy promoting…
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Return to the Normanskill Dairy
I can enter six photographs in the New York State Fair Photography Competition. But what if I entered a seventh piece … outside of the photo competition?
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Teri Conroy is a saint on Earth
Teri Conroy is a very good friend of mine, we met as bloggers on the old Times Union blog portal. She operates Wunsapana Farm, a “peaceable kingdom” farm with over a dozen llamas and other agrarian creatures, and the fiber sheared from those llamas exists as high-quality fabric sold around the world. She’s always let…
Read MoreWeek 8 of the 2017 Graney’s Stout Summer Trivia League
I’m starting to believe that our trivia host, Kevin Baker, has a Wahlberg fascination. At least twice during last night’s trivia game, he referenced the Boston entertainment family … first by asking what 1988 New Kids on the Block album was their smash LP (it was “Hangin’ Tough”), then later on asking to identify the…
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The Definition of Covfefe
Apparently, a lot has happened while I slept last night. And it starts … once again … with a Twitter message from President Donald Trump. Take a gander at this.
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Microscopy wth a Zhong Yi Mitakon macro lens
The photo you see here was taken with the most powerful marco lens I’ve ever owned, a Zhong Yi Mitakon super-macro lens. Its most powerful setting – four and a half times normal size. I am not kidding. Four and a half freakin’ times normal size. Holy John C. Holmes, Batman… Anyways, Zhong Yi Optics,…
Read MoreAnother test of my IRIX lens
Of late, I’ve really enjoyed my new Irix 15mm f/2.4 super-ultrawide rectilinear camera lens. I used it last month to capture my Stone, Saltwater, Surf and Seagulls picture, which is already aimed for Competition Season 2017. But one picture does not a lens purchase make. I need to see what else this lens can create.…
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Don’t upset the Wayne County Apple cart…
I’ve been going through an “upcycle recycle” wooden crate phase of late, and my most recent acquisition is this Wayne County apple crate. That’s a cool logo on the front of the crate – NEW YORK WAYNE COUNTY APPLES on the front, along with a few painted apples to effect.
Read MoreHow NOT to ship an important package
I may have mentioned this story before, so forgive me if this seems familiar. Yesterday, I boxed up my four entries for the Iowa State Fair Photography Competition, and brought them to the post office for shipping. I used a Flat Rate Priority Mail cardboard box (cost $13.60 for postage), plus another $13.60 for the…
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Going all in for Iowa 2017
And Competition Season 2017 begins … today. I’m boxing up my four entries for the Iowa State Fair’s photography competition, and they should be on their way to Des Moines by this afternoon. This will be my third attempt to enter photographs in the Iowa State Fair’s Photography Competition. It’s the largest fair photo show…
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