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Last evening, I decided to visit my Street Academy trivia teammates, Jeremy and Alexis, as they participated in one of their Ultimate leagues.  You might now “Ultimate” by an earlier name of “Ultimate Frisbee,” but since Frisbee is a registered trademark of Wham-O, the game is currently known as “Ultimate” and does not use a…

So here’s what happened last night at the Schenectady Art Night, and my opening night of my first gallery show. Fellow TU blogger Teri Conroy suggested that if I wanted to make a good impression, I should wear an Oxford shirt and jeans to the event.  So that afternoon, I pit-stopped at Lodge’s and picked…

… and I’m as nervous as anything. I shouldn’t be nervous.  Heck, with what I’ve gone through in my life, I should be able to handle an art show opening.  It’s a group art show, I’m sharing the event with several very talented artists – for the record, those artists are Cookie, JoElla Casse, Kris…

I love to take photographs of “star trails,” long exposures that show the stars in motion against a stable background.  My first experiment with star trails was a few months ago, when I was doing a photographic essay of the Tomhannock Reservoir. Not bad for a first try.  The light leaks at the bottom of…

Sunday afternoon.  I’ve loaded the car with ten polar panorama photographs, all blown up to 12″ x 12″ foam-boarded images.  I picked up some “foam-board” hooks from Arlene’s Art Supply, and off I go to the 440 Art Gallery in Schenectady. It’s Hanging Day. The artists that are part of the June 2010 art show…

Last month, I donated a couple of my framed photographic artworks to the art auction to benefit Tess’ Lark Tavern.  While I was there, I talked with various artists, buyers and attendees.  It was part networking, part observation, and a lot of fun for a good cause.  One of the people I spoke with was…

Yes I did.  Actually I’ve shot that dog more than once. Here’s one shot from last year, just as the sun set; it was one of my first shots after purchasing my Nikon D700.  I entered this photo in the 2009 Altamont Fair photo contest. And here’s one of my early attempts at “HDR” photography,…

Polar panoramas are way-cool photographic collages.  You stand in a certain point, and then you take a series of photographs – take a picture, turn a few degrees to your right, take another picture, turn a few degrees to your right, until you’ve completed a full circle.  Then you run the photographs through a stitching…

Sunday morning.  I’m up at the crack of dawn, ready to go hunting. And in my case – it’s hunting for Karner Blue butterflies.  That’s right, this is one of the two times that the elusive Nabokov-named native of the Albany Pine Bush can be found (the other time being in mid-July).  Figuring I might…