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In this blog, I’ve chronicled my artistic and emotional journey, as I take the hurts and pains and loneliness of my life and turn it into Dream Windows and award-winning photographs. In today’s blog, I want to change the perspective, so to speak.  Instead of my telling you where I’m going with my artworks… I…

It’s no secret that my life has been going through some inner turmoil.  I need to do something about it. Maybe a few shots with my cameras can help ease things. Last week, I shot a few rolls of film with my vintage cameras.  I was still trying to find something that would work with…

Pick Up Your Trash-6401, a photo by chuckthewriter on Flickr. I tell you, if I hadn’t glanced over to the right while I was driving up Route 9 towards Saratoga Springs… I would have missed this sign completely. You know the drill. Got out of the car. Nikon D700 camera in the bag. Nikkor 28mm…

Well, it was a tough battle throughout… But in the end, D357 won the Blog Bracket when he defeated Pat – well, Louisville defeated Duke – and so D357 can claim bragging rights as the Blog Bracket winner. Congrats! (1) D357 (Louisville) (16) Doodle (NC A&T) D357 D357 D357 D357 (8) Chad 9978 (Colorado St)…

I saw this story and my heart just sank into the ground. I can’t even find the proper words for what this. Just watch the embedded video clip and try not to feel hatred and disgust for the crumb who hurt and nearly killed these three puppies. http://WTEN.images.worldnow.com/interface/js/WNVideo.js?rnd=982009;hostDomain=www.news10.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=7709636;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlayNEWS10 ABC: Albany, New York News, Weather, Sports…

Last weekend, I wrote a blog post about Sgt. Rex, a German Shepherd who served America in two tours of duty in Iraq.  Now at the mandatory retirement age of ten, and no longer able to perform his duties for his country, there was some question as to whether he would be reunited with his…

Sergeant Rex served America with honors in Operation Iraqi Freedom.  In his two tours of duty, he helped find IED’s – the roadside bombs that have injured and killed thousands of soldiers – so that the bombs could be disarmed.  He and his team – which included Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, a decorated Operation Iraqi…

Ah, The Wizard of Oz.  The 1939 motion picture classic that still holds up today, 75 years later. The original 1899 book by L. Frank Baum is one of the best-selling children’s stories of all time, and it spawned dozens of literary sequels, as well as a Broadway play, a 1939 motion picture, several children’s…

My friend Laura passed this request on to me, and I’m passing it along to you. Think about this for a second. As school budgets around the country are trimmed down to the marrow, school programs are being cut or marginalized. And that includes the school library. Budget cuts are shrinking the school library. The…