The Indiana State Police are pretty funny…

Saw this on Facebook and could not resist sharing it with all of you. Apparently some policemen at the Indiana State Fair decided to have a little fun.  So they busted out a lip-sync version of the classic John Travolta-Olivia Newton-John duet from the film Grease – no, not THAT duet, the other duet –…

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“Hi, I’m Congressman Paul Tonko…”

So I need to explain this photo… But first… Sunday was the final day for the week-long Altamont Fair.  It’s the time when I can actually spend the day at the Fair, taking pictures and contemplating what I could enter in 2017’s Competition Season.  Best to not wait to consider my options.  You snooze, you…

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Mazel Tov for deep-fried kosher food!

One of my personal traditions when competing in the New York State Fair’s photography competition, is that after I have found out how my entries have fared, I celebrate by eating some sort of fair food.  Just to be fair, mind you.  I’ve already paid the fair to get there, so there.  You saw what…

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The miracle of the purple petunias

My eyes do not deceive me.  And neither does the camera on my BlackBerry phone. But there it is.  A blooming plant with green leaves and purple petals.  I showed a picture of the wild plant to my Facebook friends, who identified the plant as a petunia. But I hadn’t planted petunias. What I planted…

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The Vision Board Airlift

A good friend of mine from my college days is currently working with at-risk youth in the education field.  She posted a Facebook message asking for any and all age-appropriate magazines, the contents of which will be used to help create vision boards and dream boards for her students. If you’ve created vision boards, you…

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It’s not “homocide” or “genicide” …

I’ve written blog posts about misspelled advertising signs for ages now.  Heck, I could do an entire week of those blog posts simply by visiting my local Stewarts.  And if I get hungry, I can go to the local sushi place and order the sex lady. That being said… Last week, I visited the the…

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The K-Chuck Cabinet restoration, Part 2

Yes, I’m still working on restoring the K-Chuck Cabinet, a former radio cabinet from the 1930’s that I’m repurposing into a hideaway film and lens storage cabinet. And when we last left this project, I had removed the old varnish from the cabinet with a combination of Citristrip spray, some plastic scrapers, paper towels, and…

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The Cabinet (or: the #kchuckcabinet), Part 1

Earlier this June, I was puttering around Silver Fox Salvage in Albany’s Warehouse District.  I’m not much of a furniture person; if it didn’t come from Huck Finn’s Warehouse or Goodwill, then it was too expensive for my taste. But there it was.  Tucked in behind dusty furniture and pipes and the like… I saw…

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