I’ve driven over Interstate 787 countless times. But this time, it was different. Because this time, I wanted to get the one shot that I would never get at any other time of the year. Normally if one were to photograph the magnificent structure known as St. Joseph’s Church, the former house of worship on…
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Jamario Moon Remembered “The Dunk”
I keep an eye on my flickr photos – as a flickr member, I can check to see if any of the photos have been searched, where the searches came from, etc. So when one of my old Albany Patroons photos was searched several times by a site called “realcavsfans.com,” I got curious. Background. From…
Read MoreThe Albany County Rail Trail: A New Use of Albany’s Railroad Past
They’re very familiar sights, especially if you live in the Delmar / Elsmere / Slingerlands area. Several railroad bridges from the old Delaware and Hudson Railroad, spanning a network of nine miles of rail track from Albany to Voorheesville. That stretch of rail line can no longer hold rail traffic; the bridges are just a…
Read MorePhoto Essay: Renovation of the Washington Avenue Armory
Flash back to 2005. At the time, the Albany Patroons were going to return to the Continental Basketball Association, and I had lots of hope for their success. So much so, that I actually plunked down a good sized chunk of change for two courtside season tickets. But upon walking into the Armory for the…
Read MoreShooting with a vintage 300mm telephoto lens
About six months ago, I acquired a vintage Nikon 50-300mm f/4.5 telephoto lens as part of my photographic arsenal. The original owner of the lens was an RPI student named Rachel, whom I met while both of us were “car extras” on the Salt movie. I purchased the lens from her after the movie company…
Read MorePhoto Essay: Great Train Expo 2009
Sunday morning, and I’m trying to negotiate my camera through a packed house at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center, as railroad hobbyists and model train enthusiasts got together for the 2009 Great Train Expo. There were several working train layouts in the plaza, as I watched N-Gauge and HO-Gauge and O-Gauge trains fly across…
Read MorePhoto Essay: Return to Storytown U.S.A.
A long time ago, I acquired a vintage View-Master reel of some attractions at Storytown, U.S.A. I bought the reel with the intentions of producing an article on the history of View-Master product, but that project fell through. Still, as part of the project, I attempted to scan in the original images off the View-Master…
Read MoreMichael Jordan had thousands of shots… I only had time for one
Thursday evening, September 10, 2009. I’m walking around the Basketball Hall of Fame, as a hired photographer for the memorabilia auction house Grey Flannel Auctions, taking photographs of the returning basketball hall of famers and their families. I was there with several other photographers, all of whom were waiting for THE MOMENT. THE MOMENT was…
Read MorePhoto Essay: Testing out my Kenko 180
Among my arsenal of camera lenses that I’ve acquired over the years is this Kenko 180° screw-on fisheye lens. From the looks of it, I should be able to shine a red light through it and pretend it’s the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Although I already have a dedicated fisheye lens (my…
Read MoreSignboards, Thunderstorms, and the results of my photograph at the NYS Fair
7 in the morning. My wife Vicki and I finally get of Albany and head to the New York State Fair in Syracuse. Rule #1 about traveling to the NYS Fair – bring comfortable shoes. You will be walking. A LOT. Rule #2 – Bring some sort of rain gear, like an umbrella. The skies…
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