Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
What if you could take the cheapest, dingiest, slapped-together-with-spit-and-bailing-wire cameras… and somehow get a spectacular picture out of it? Well, that’s the new challenge for me. One last photo challenge for the year. The Soho Photo Gallery in New York City has a “Call for Entries” in its annual “Krappy Kamera” photo competition, in which…
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In today’s blog post, I talk about one of the most important verses in the Bible, one that’s often overlooked. Psalms 3:16.
Read MoreOver the weekend, fellow TU community blogger Stephanie Snyder wished me a good weekend and hoped I would take some awesome fall foliage pictures. “Happy fall foliage photo taking season!” she said. Yeah, I can do that… let’s see what the North Country looks like right now. The leaves are changing… sorta… slowly… I figure…
Read MoreThe normal set-up for a rock band goes something like this. Lead vocalist, lead guitarist, bass, keyboards, drums. Now just imagine if someone added a few extra instruments to the mix. Something that normally isn’t part of a rock and roll song… but somehow that song still becomes a hit, and that distinctive instrument becomes…
Read MoreI know it’s on my birth certificate. I know it’s on my driver’s license. Still, only a few people in my life – a VERY SELECT FEW PEOPLE – ever get to call me those names today. And with good reason. We do not get to pick our birth names. By the time we’re out…
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So here’s the deal. Last week, a friend / blog reader contacted me. Her cousin has redesigned some lofts in Schenectady’s Stockade area, and in addition to showing off the new living spaces, they need some artwork for the upcoming Stockade Walkabout open house. They needed something that would show off the new lofts and…
Read MoreHere we go with another Thursday run of ten Times Union community bloggers whose works you should read. Again, if you missed why I brought this feature back last week, my goal is to bring enough awareness to these community bloggers and their excellent work that next year, when the Times Union does its annual…
Read MoreI’m frustrated. This should work, in theory anyway… But over the past couple of years, it’s become more of a barrier than a blessing. Yep. I’m trying to make this Instamatic film do something special. And it’s not cooperating. Yeah, I know that nobody’s making Instamatic film any more, I know that much of the…
Read MoreI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I am a Pittsburgh Steelers fan through and through. Which automatically means that I detest the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Ravens, any team in the AFC East, the Dallas Cowboys, the Green Bay Packers, and any team that DARES to sign Tim Tebow to their roster.…
Read MoreI don’t know anything about the parentage or breeding or background for this little goat. He was in a pen at the Vermont State Fair, along with a few other baby goats. He probably had no idea that he was being photographed. I don’t think that goats have a concept of what a camera is.…
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