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It’s Tuesday night, and I’m driving up Route 20 to get to Altamont.  And a million thoughts zip through my mind, galloping like horses entering the clubhouse turn. How do I explain these feelings to everyone?  This feeling, every year around this time, of going through twelve months’ worth of photographs, of choosing four that…

Okay, today’s the day.  I’m going to finish what I’ve got to do at the day job, and then drive down Route 20 like Burt Reynolds in a black Trans Am, to reach the Altamont Fair. Three years ago, I entered my first pictures at the Altamont Fair photography competition.  How long ago was it? …

It’s Saturday morning, bright and early.  My car is already packed with a couple of bottles of diet cola, the gas tank’s filled to the tippy top, and I’m ready to hit the road. Let’s Go, Cardachrome – next stop, the New York State Fair in Syracuse, where I have to drop off my copy…

Last year, one of my biggest photographic experiments involved shooting a roll of 60+ year old film in my Rolleiflex Automat MX camera.  The pictures turned out better than I had expected; and the resulting blog post got picked up and retweeted and FB “liked” all over the world. Not bad for a shot of…

Last year, I entered this photograph in the Cohoes photo competition, in which a prize was awarded for the best picture of Cohoes Falls. At the time, I only had 72 hours to put something together from start to finish, and I probably over-rushed my plans.  Which is why I achieved this picture – but…

It’s Saturday evening and I received a phone call.  It was the framing department at AC Moore; the custom-cut matte I purchased was ready and I could pick it up at any time. I picked it up later that evening, went home, and matted and foam-boarded my final artwork for competition season.  It’s for an…

Even though I received a few extra days for any last-minute additions or subtractions to my maximum of six entries to this year’s New York State Fair Photography Competition, I had my six images ready to go on Monday.  CD was burned, order form was filled out, $24 money order purchased, everything all packed up…