Even the mug needs coffee…

As you know, I’ve been tinkering around with my “Salty Mug” series of photos, in which I pour salt and boiling water into a clay mug and wait until the salt permeates through the nooks and crannies and cracks in the mug itself.  After a few tries with a few different mugs, I found an…

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Five miles to the cliff…

I don’t know if I read the original AllOverAlbany.com news post when it was first published, the article about the Hang Glider Cliff and its mysterious marker – a tribute to a hang glider enthusiast with the words “DAD – Fly Forever” enscribed in metal – but last Sunday, I had an itch to go…

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The “Lane 2” series

A few weeks ago, I attended the All Over Albany birthday bash at the Takk House in Troy.  The Takk House is a banquet hall / entertainment center / reception facility in the heart of downtown Troy, and is built from what used to be a Knights of Columbus facility. As I was hanging up…

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Simple versus elaborate: The “Picture Frame” sessions

So my original plan was thus. A few years ago, my modeling friend Lauren helped me create an illusion called Her Stolen Heart, in which she would hold a frame and I would photograph in such a way that the frame appeared to show what was behind her. I entered it as one of my…

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The Adirondacks and Proverbs 25:13

I’m not going to lie.  The past two weeks have amounted to hell on earth for me.  Everything I’ve done of late has turned into a big steaming pile of manure.  It’s  almost as if I can’t get out of my own way. It’s Sunday afternoon.  I’m still in a miserable mental funk.  And I…

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Frosty the Snowman’s got a WHAT?!?

Monday morning, about 8:00 a.m.  It’s time to get the Nikon Df camera and go take some pictures. So that’s exactly what I did.  Rise and shine, up and at ’em, and off to the Corning Preserve I went. See, I’ve been working on a little project that involved taking a picture at a specific…

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