How to get psyched up for a train chase

I don’t know if I mentioned it at some point in time … but in the next few days, I’m embarking on a train chase. That’s right, I’m gearing up to spend two days photographing the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train as it travels through New York.  I’ve mapped out photo locations and destinations, I’ve packed…

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Hey Eric Swalwell … it’s a gas, man …

I get it.ย  Live television.ย  Anything can happen.ย  An actor can flub his lines.ย  A blouse can pop a button.ย  A stage hand could walk into frame. And in the case of Rep. Eric Swalwell … well … Watch … and hear … for yourself. In other News a United States Representative farted in mid-sentence,…

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One more burlap stitching project …

I promised myself I wouldn’t do any more of these. I really promised.ย  Cross my heart and hope to die. And then … while sniffing around eBay … This showed up. Jt’s a burlap sack, featuring a Native American maiden.ย  It didn’t look like the typical potato sack Indian image, which was either a gruff-looking…

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Who wants to buy some boobies for $200?

This is hilarious.ย  I understand you can purchase lots of things in the Facebook marketplace, but … seriously, folks … My friend and blog reader Roz posted this on her Facebook page.ย  Apparently this came up in her Facebook Marketplace searches, lo and behold, right in the Clifton Park Garage Sale site. That’s right, folks.ย …

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My three entries for BUILT 2019 are …

Oh look, BUILT has arrived.ย  BUILT: Albany Architecture Through Artists’ Eyes, is Historic Albany Foundation’s annual charity gala / silent auction, where all of the submitted artworks have to contain some tie-in with Albany’s history and architecture.ย  So if you like artwork that represents the Empire State Plaza, or the State Capitol, or the RCA…

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This “Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco” rug could be yours! It’s now on etsy!!

Last year, I crafted a latch hook rug and chronicled its construction on my blog.ย  I later entered the rug at the New York State Fair’s Arts and Crafts competition, and it took a ribbon. And now … it could be yours. Yep.ย  I’m selling it. I’ve just made my Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco area…

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Not the kind of Cougar that would capture a young man’s fancy…

There is a subgenre of car modification and collecting known as the kit car, where you can take a fiberglass chassis and attach it to the interior of a totally different vehicle.ย  Let’s say, for example, you and your friends built this car from scraps and chunks out of the junkyard, and it runs decently…

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The Daily Gazette loves my Hoffman’s Playland sign

A few weeks ago, I finished my re-creation of the iconic Hoffman’s Playland sign.ย  I hope to enter this picture as one of my submissions for BUILT, Historic Albany Foundation’s charitable auction and fundraiser.ย  And for a lark, I posted the picture on the social media site reddit. Hey, remember when I said that I…

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