It’s Competition Season time, and in the past my entries for the Eastern States Exposition (the “Big E”) are usually submitted in late August. Apparently that has changed; there’s a new deadline of July 1 for this year’s show. So I gathered my images from the past year and made my submission list. Thankfully, the…
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Processing those Big Boy photos
Because my copy of PhotoShop exists on my desktop back home – and I was over 300 miles away from home AND wouldn’t be back until Sunday night – I had to wait and WAIT and WAIT to see if the shots I took were truly Competition Season-worthy. I mean, I had a train chase,…
Read MoreThe Union Pacific 4014 “Big Boy” Train Chase
Thursday. 3:00 a.m. in the morning. No one should be up this early unless they have a newspaper route. But today is the day. Today is the chance to photograph the Union Pacific 4014 “Big Boy” train as it chugs through Western New York. And I live in Eastern New York … so if I…
Read MoreNikon Athena + MD2 + MB1 + MS1(2) = WOW
My Nikon F2S camera, nicknamed “Nikon Athena,” is a damn fine 35mm shooter. But i want more for it. I want to turn this camera into a 35mm shooting BEAST. I want to enable burst shooting mode in this bad boy. In other words, I want to press the button and have this camera take…
Read MoreFinalizing my Big Boy travel plans
Next Thursday will be a very chaotic day for me. But I’m hoping that chaos brings success. Next Thursday is the day that the Union Pacific 4014 engine, colloquially known as “Big Boy,” will travel through Western New York. I’ve mapped out six different possible shooting locations, with a goal of getting images from at…
Read MoreThe Gallery Shot: LOOK WHAT’S ON THE DIGITAL GALLERY WALL!!!
So, bright and early this morning … after working on my Saturday blogroll recap, I visited the digital Art Square Gallery New York and checked out the debuting “Black and White” exhibition. Oh my God these photos are incredible. There’s no way my photos should even be considered for this show. But somehow, one of…
Read MoreOne virtual step closer than before.
Earlier this month, I submitted three of my photos to Square Art New York’s online call for their “Black and White” photo competition. This is one of those “next steps” that will hopefully bring me to that incredible moment of possibly seeing one of my artworks hanging in a New York City art gallery. Well,…
Read MoreThe Cosmic Conjunction
I do enjoy photographing celestial and cosmic scenes. Milky Way shots, eclipses, meteor showers, all those fun things. But in many cases, those take months or years of personal planning and time. Long-time readers will recall the Herculean efforts I undertook for the 2024 solar eclipse. Or the 2022 lunar eclipse. Or even aligning a…
Read MoreThe Bur Oak Tree at Hudson Shores Park
Yesterday had beautiful sunshine, which gave me an opportunity to test out the Kolari Vision modification to my Zodiak 30mm 180-degree bubble lens. Instead of filters attached to the outside of the camera lens, this lens actually needs the filters installed INSIDE the lens before the lens can attach to the camera. I wanted some…
Read MoreMy Entries for the 2026 Iowa State Fair Photo Salon are …
Competition Season is upon me. It has arrived. And I’m nervous as hell with my entries. Last year wasn’t the best Competition Season … I stiffed at Iowa, I stiffed at Altamont, I stiffed in Syracuse, and it took the Big E to actually help me win something. I do not like Competition Season moments…
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