Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
One rule of photography. Always have backup plans. Let me explain. I had an idea to photograph the 2016 Empire State Plaza fireworks show from a faraway distance – perhaps over the bridge in Rensselaer, with high-powered lenses and such. That way, I could get the entire fireworks show, with the backdrop of the ESP’s…
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Last night, I went to the Adirondacks for a little bit of self-reflection and night photography. My goal – capture the Milky Way as it spanned the cloudless, moonless night. It was an honorable goal, shall I say. And I’m still trying to capture it. Let me explain. On Sunday afternoon, I made sure all…
Read MoreIt’s almost a lost art, as many current TV shows either start with a stinger note (Lost, Once Upon a Time) or they’ll just start off cold – opening credits, here they are. But there are plenty of shows – dramas, comedies, anime, action, reality – that act like an alarm system to viewers, notifying…
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In an effort to eat healthy food, I stopped yesterday at one of my local farmer’s markets. Purchased some strawberries and mushrooms and carrots – two bunches of carrots, to be precise. But as I separated the bunches of carrots and looked through my haul of veggies to see which ones were “snack” carrots and…
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It is the summer of 2016, and for the eighth consecutive year, I’ve entered photos in the New York State Fair’s Photography Competition in Syracuse. Whether you’ve read my blog for a day or for years, you know that I treat the NYS Fair’s photo competition as one of my “photo majors.” And essentially, I…
Read MoreI want to share something with you. Many years ago, one of my features in my blog involved rewriting and serializing an old college writing project. I spread the novella over several different blog posts, scheduling chapters to appear three times a week. It was a personal challenge for me – to not only update…
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Earlier this June, I was puttering around Silver Fox Salvage in Albany’s Warehouse District. I’m not much of a furniture person; if it didn’t come from Huck Finn’s Warehouse or Goodwill, then it was too expensive for my taste. But there it was. Tucked in behind dusty furniture and pipes and the like… I saw…
Read MoreLast week, a rainbow-hued pride flag outside the First Lutheran Church in Albany, the temporary home of the Albany Damien Center, was set ablaze. While plans are underway to replace that flag – in an effort to show that the Damien Center and its mission to help those with HIV and AIDS in the Capital…
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In an effort to make my Leica M3 (“Leica Green”) a multi-purpose 35mm shooter, capable of shooting everything from print film to slide film, from expired film to infrared film, from B&W film to distressed film, I need to get it in the field and test it. So last week, I stuffed Leica Green with…
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Blog reader and all-around good guy Robert Eaton knew I was having a bummer of a day with those nasty telemarketers, and he posted a message on my Facebook wall to cheer me up – about a discovery he uncovered, simply by looking up one sunny morning. While walking around Albany’s South End, he happened…
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