I don’t consider the Photo Center of Troy’s Members Show part of my “competition season.” Rather than being “competition,” this show is more of a celebration. The Photo Center of Troy hosts a Members Show so that we can present our best works, our most stirring and inventive and inviting works, images that we are…
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Want to star in an alien movie? Yes you do!
I have a love-hate relationship with the social media site reddit. Okay, now that that disclaimer is out of the way… I saw this notice on the subreddit /r/albany and thought it might be worthwhile to share this with my blog readers, especially any of you who are interested in acting or who want to…
Read MoreTen minutes after the wolf arrived
If you asked me to find this wooded area again, I couldn’t do it. I didn’t write down any coordinates, and my Boy Scout tracking skills are 40 years old and were never polished past Tenderfoot status. So as far as I was concerned, I was walking around in circles, having wandered away from my…
Read MoreDear is thy homestead, 30 years later…
My Hamilton College alumni magazine arrived in the mail a few days ago. While I eventually read the quarterly glossy publication from front to back, I always check the following things first: I check the weddings and births, to see if there are any future Hamiltonians that are 18 years away from matriculation. I check…
Read MoreAn HDR try for Whitehurst Printing & Binding
A few days ago, I tried to photograph the Whitehurst Printing & Binding ghost sign near Troy’s waterfront. It was a cloudy day, and I’m still experimenting with this vintage GAF aerographic film. The picture came out dark, and I had to use flickr’s highlight adjustment tools to get something more aesthetically pleasing. And this…
Read More“Deadliest Catch” and the government shutdown
I love watching Deadliest Catch. It’s probably one of my favorite reality TV shows, in that the viewers are part of this “slice of life” show where careers are made and broken and remade with every haul of Alaskan crab off the sides of gigantic crab boats. Yes, I shed a tear when Phil Harris,…
Read More“That’s not Grape-Nuts, it’s cat vomit!!”
Ah, those wacky morning news reports. Scot Haney has been one of Connecticut’s most popular television media personalities. He’s worked as a meteorologist and reporter for television station WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut for the past fifteen years, and has won several awards and accolades during his time with the station. Haney also owns three cats…
Read MoreBK Racing allows Travis Kvapil to drive Saturday? Why??
This should have been a checkered-flag decision. Instead, it crashed into the wall. As I noted in my last blog post, NASCAR driver Travis Kvapil was arrested on charges of spousal abuse. He spent the night in jail and posted bond the next day. This afternoon, BK Racing – the group that owns the #93…
Read MoreTravis Kvapil is an idiot
I can understand if you’ve never heard of Travis Kvapil. That’s fine. He’s a low-level driver in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series, he drives the Burger King #93 Toyota for a low-level race team, and about the only time you ever hear his name on the race track is when he crashes into the wall, blows…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, October 10, 2013: Ten for Thursday
So what have been some of the most noteworthy and interesting blogs to read from our community bloggers this week? Wouldn’t you like to know? Of course you would. That’s why you click on this blog post every Thursday. So without further delay, here are ten blog posts with something for you to enjoy. They…
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