Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
The Toll Gate Ice Cream restaurant in Slingerlands has always been, for me, a mental recharging station.ย I’ve enjoyed their burgers and fries on my trips to Thacher Park; I’ve noshed on their grilled cheese sandwiches when I’m trying to think of a new photographic concept. And with that in mind … I tested out…
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This is my one chance to try this. My one and only chance, in this one and only location. And if I screw this up… for sure, I’ll never get another opportunity.ย Never.ย Because the location will disappear as soon as the bulldozers and the demolition crews arrive. I must prepare and I must persevere.…
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I’m currently trying anything and everything to take my mind off my broken foot.ย I have to.ย Because if I can at least focus on other things, then I can get through another day and get one day closer to healing or surgery or repair or whatever. So I’m trying to focus on other projects,…
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One of my goals for 2017’s Competition Season is to create a three-dimensional lenticular print with my camera gear.ย I’ve come up with several ideas and concepts, and depending on how things go, I hope to have something that will dazzle.ย And although I have had some successful lenticular “magic motion” prints have done well…
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So here I am at the top of a parking garage in downtown Albany on a Saturday night. Sounds like the beginning of a pop song, doesn’t it? No it doesn’t.ย ๐ I wanted to try something with my new Soviet mirror lens, the MC MTO-11, which is an 1100mm f/16 cadiatropic piece of glass.ย …
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So here’s the deal.ย I’ve been puttering around with cracked-open 126 Kodak Instamatic film for a few years.ย And so far, the results have been good enough.ย Yes, I’ve entered some shots in competition, but still… My problem is that I have to find a way to make the film’s limitations – the green framing…
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Look, I know I’ve been going on and on about my Florida vacation.ย But I need to focus on it so that I’m not focusing on other things.ย If you know what I mean. And that includes the remainder of the photos from my cameras. I spent Memorial Day at Flagler Beach, along Florida’s Central…
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There’s too much of a dreamer in me.ย Too much of trying to pull my concepts and ideas out of my tangled, damaged brain and put them into some sort of cognizant thought. Thus begat my concept of splitfilm.ย In splitfilm, a photographer takes two (or more) rolls of film and rolls them together so…
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Last Saturday, I took several of my cameras to Niagara Falls for a little “Chuck needs to take photos and get away from all the stresses” day.ย And while I was initially pleased and surprised at the power of the fifrst photos that came from my BlackBerry PRIV camera phone (have I mentioned how much…
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Insomnia’s kicking my tired butt again. Okay, I’m awake.ย Gotta find something to let me drift back to slumberland. Maybe I need a walk. Or maybe I need to take my camera and photograph something. Yeah, at night. And the strange thing is… when you’re half-awake, there’s parts of your brain that are functioning at…
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