Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Back when I blogged for the Albany Times Union years and years ago, one of my fellow bloggers, Teri Conroy, gifted a camera from her attic to me. The camera was a Rolleiflex Automat MX twin-lens-reflex camera, and damn it was a workhorse. I acquired some swank photos from it over the years, and with…
Read MoreLet me check my MAGA Caucus Bingo card. Matt Gaetz … still trolling for underage girls with his Venmo account. Kevin McCarthy – proof that you can anagram the letters S P E N I and it would confirm that he neither has a “spine” nor a … yeah. Lauren Boebert – nope, I don’t…
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Background. Once upon a time, many many years ago, when I first put film in a camera and tried to take a picture with it … I thought my shots were good. Worthy. Definitely deserved some art-wall exposure. Then my daydreams crashed into reality. And not only were my artworks rejected in competition and in…
Read MoreGood morning, everybody. We have now officially entered the autumn season, so keep an eye out for those fall foliage changes, they’re coming soon and they’re spectacular. But before you go on your leaf peeping trip … let’s check out the blog comments, photos and ideas from the people on my personal blogroll. And I…
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The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreIn 2021, during my second run as an on-air talent at my old college radio station WHCL, I slapped together a musical collage of 1970’s hits, all soldered to the Incredible Bongo Band’s track “Bongolia!” It was named in honor and in memory of a wonderful professor I knew in college, Samuel Pellman. I don’t…
Read MoreToday, Nikon released the news. They are introducing a true retro full-frame mirrorless camera. And as they did when they produced the Nikon Df camera (of which I own two), their new shooter is called the Zf. Here’s a link to Nikon’s advertising page and all the camera’s specs. So let me see what this…
Read MoreI’ve written about William Straight’s shoe store in Albany before. He operated a bootery and shoe store from approximately 1862 to 1866 at the corner of Broadway and Hudson Avenue in downtown Albany (a parking lot exists there now). While his shoes and boots were probably just as good as any other boots and shoes…
Read MoreLast Saturday, I went to Washington Park with the express plan of testing out some new film in one of my old cameras. No, those pictures haven’t been developed yet. But as I finished my film photo shoot and was putting away my camera gear, I noticed some people at the Washington Park lake. They…
Read MoreThe original plan was to leave Albany in the morning, drive to Connecticut, and drop off my artworks at the Durham Fair. Then drive home. And then go back to Durham this coming Sunday and see how everything did. Then I saw the weather report. Tropical Storm Lee heading straight for New England, with coastal…
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