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Hey, after over 375 Times-Union posts, I can do one of these “Caption This” photos if I choose.  Especially since I took the photo.  Have at it.

Well, not me.  But another photographer messed up big time. According to this article in Photo District News, photographer Marc Feldman provided Getty Images with a fantastic shot of golfer Marc Bettencourt from a recent tournament, as the golfer held up his golf ball for all to see.  It was a great shot, and Getty…

I haven’t watched a basketball game at the Washington Avenue Armory in over a year, and I haven’t photographed one at that building in two years.  And to be totally honest, I wasn’t planning on photographing a game there in the foreseeable future. Then I got an e-mail from Kip Leonetti, the Vice President of…

Last Sunday, I went to the 440 Art Center in Schenectady, as it was time to take down the polar panorama shots I exhibited at last month’s Schenectady Art Night.  I arrived a little early, and while I waited for someone to unlock the building and allow me access to the facility, I took a…

At some point, every photographer should experiment with using black and white film.  No, I’m not talking about photographing in digital color and then using a computer program to convert the picture into greyscale.  I’m talking about using actual black-and-white film, filters, exposure settings, and whatnot. And with that in mind, I began something called…

Over the weekend, I decided to try some black-and-white 35mm film in the Nikkormat FTn camera.  The plan was to start shooting with some new black-and-white film, experiment with some different colored lens filters (a Bower red R2, my Tiffen 85b orange), and see what comes up. I went downtown and shot at a few…

I’m almost afraid to say the words in public. Remember, for years and years I’ve been (and still am)  a loyal Nikon man.  From my Coolpix 800 to my D70 to my current D700, as well as my Nikkormat FTn for my 35mm shots (my Kiev-19 is now resting comfortably on my shelf, enjoying a…

Here’s the deal.  Whenever possible, if I post a photograph on this blog, it must either have come from my camera or my archive, or if it didn’t, I must attribute the photo’s location to the best of my ability (i.e., linking to that website and identifying that the picture came from that website).  If…