Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Eight years ago, my blogger friend Teri Conroy (she’s the owner of the peaceful llama farm Wunsapana Farm in Altamont) gifted me a Rolleiflex Automat MX camera, a medium format twin lens reflex gem. I’ve shot dozens of rolls of print and slide film through it, and recently it’s been my camera weapon of choice…
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Several months ago, I was driving to Albany via Interstate 787, when I passed by the little clearing between Exits 7 and 6. It was a quick glance to my right, as it always is when I pass this spot on the highway. A little stream, with a scary nightmare tree along its shore. On…
Read MoreIt’s the latest photography fad. You find out that there’s a field of sunflowers somewhere, and it’s within your driving distance. Oh, how fantastic a photo that would be. So you jump in your car and you drive to the sunflower field. Oh, these would make great photos, you think to yourself. You get there,…
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Last Sunday, I drove to Dutchess County to photograph one of the few remaining Mail Pouch Barn ghost signs left in New York. The barn is part of a private property estate, so as long as I stay on the side of the road, I can photograph the building without violating the many “NO TRESPASSING”…
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Has it really been ten years? Yeah. Ten long years. Ten years ago, I entered my first four pictures into the Altamont Fair’s photography competition. Two years later, I claimed my first silks, when Midnight at the Palace Theater took second place in the black and white category; two other pictures, The AGFA Bridge Over…
Read MoreThere’s a very curious building on Green Island. It looks like a manufacturing complex, and it has a chain link fence surrounding it. And inbetween the building and the chain link fence? Children’s bicycles. Lots of them. Some are in various stages of repair, others look like they just rolled off the Huffy factory floor.…
Read MoreMany years ago, I tried to submit some of my artworks to a major art event, the annual Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region. My images were not accepted. And in that unacceptance, I received some comments about WHY my photos were rejected… At the time, I had submitted a mixture of different film techniques…
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During my experiments with color infrared film – both medium format slide and print formulae – I wanted to determine the best outputs for both products. What I’ve discovered is – with the color print Infrared film (“CIR 120”) I’ve acquired, I have more flexibility with my shots. In sunlight, I can use the photographer’s…
Read MoreAs you’ve recently discovered, I’m currently on a color infrared film kick. I’ve packed my Rolleiflex Automat MX camera with infrared print film (and slide film) and taken it for various walks around upstate New York. And this time, I’ve decided to go back to previous photographed subjects … and give them another snap, just…
Read MoreI never really knew this cemetery existed. Honest. But apparently this gravesite, tucked into the woods at the intersection of Spier Falls Road and Locust Grove Road in Corinth, still holds a few souls at rest. This website lists all the known cemeteries and graveyards in the Greenfield / Corinth / Porter Corners area in…
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