Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Here’s the deal. In addition to the two photos I am allowed to enter in the Big E’s photography competition this year (assuming, of course, that the Big E WILL operate this year), the Big E has also held an online monthly contest, with each category being based around a theme. The theme for June…
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Over the years, I’ve wanted to get an awesome, iconic photo of the waycool Jericho Drive-In marquee. But understand this. Photographing a movie theater marquee isn’t just “show up, shoot, leave.” Most often, the following happens: Either the marquee shows whatever movies were playing that night, immediately dating your photo; The theater has no movies…
Read MoreI’m seeing some blooms. And I’m seeing some petals. There may be life in this barren wasteland after all. In an effort to keep myself functional during this COVID-19 pandemic, while still remaining in isolation to avoid catching the coronavirus myself, I’ve set up a small studio with the goal of photographing items in macro…
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I’ve remained sheltered in place during this COVID-19 invasion. Been sheltering for the past two and a half weeks. And it’s not fun. You know those episodes of Lockup where they put the inmate in administrative segregation, where they’re only allowed one hour of outdoors recreation or human contact in a day? Yeah, now I…
Read MoreSo I do this every year around this time … I go through all my photos from the past year, some that have won awards, some that didn’t but I still think they’re awesome, and I recap them in this year-end blog special. Hopefully I’ve captured your favorites from the past year as well. That…
Read MoreLast week, I took a new-to-me Nikon EM film camera to the Eastern States Exposition (the Big E) for some camera-test shots. I wanted to see what this little guy would do – whether everything in the camera worked appropriately, and if I could feel confident in using this camera for upcoming projects. The Nikon…
Read MoreSo last Thursday night, instead of photographing the fireworks downtown, I chose to go uptown – uptown in the Adirondacks – and photograph a clear starry night. I captured a Milky Way cluster, and I also caught a sweet reflection of the Big Dipper in the Corinth Reservoir water. I had one other experiment, and…
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To be honest, I thought about going to the Empire State Plaza and photographing the fantastic fireworks show. I really did. And then I remembered it would be a freakin’ furnace there. 100 degrees in the shade. And the Empire State Plaza HAS NO SHADE. I then thought about an auxiliary shooting spot, and after…
Read MoreYesterday, I had to run several errands – some doctor’s appointments (Chuck is okay), dropping off my Bob & Ron’s Fish Fry artwork to Arlene’s Artist Materials to get it framed up (it’ll be two weeks, plenty of time for Competition Season 2019), and a few other things. And in the afternoon, I had a…
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It’s Christmas Eve, and I take this time – in-between last minute shopping and the like – to look back on how my photos did this year. There were some successes and there were some should-have-been successes – as well as some pictures for Competition Season 2019. But these photos are tones I feel really…
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