Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Okay. Deep breath. There is a pink postcard in my mailbox. Not a canary yellow postcard, as has arrived in the past, but a neon pink one. The postcard came all the way from Des Moines, Iowa, home of the Iowa State Fair, or as I call it, one of the spokes in my 2021…
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Back in 2018, I received special permission from the New York State Office of General Services to photograph the Empire State Plaza fireworks show from a special walled-off location at the side of the Empire State Plaza. In fact, I even blogged about it. I didn’t do the fireworks show in 2019, opting instead to…
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Background. Last year, I was fortunate to photograph a post-graduation fireworks show at the Jericho Drive-In, which made me very happy. That photo of the fireworks, alongside the distinctive Jericho Drive-In sign, received a “Best of” award at the 2020 Big E online photography competition, so I’m happy for that. This year, the Jericho hosted…
Read MoreIn filmmaking, a “Dutch Angle” occurs when the camera is slightly tilted, giving an appearance of a filmed scene being off-kilter. If you’ve ever watched the 1960’s Batman TV series, you’ve seen plenty of Dutch angles – they’re usually involving the hideouts or lairs of the criminal masterminds. I’m currently working on a photo project…
Read MoreI’m still hoping and praying that there will be news regarding the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train, and whether it will return to the rails in 2021. I had so much fun chasing the train for pictures and photos in 2017, 2018 and 2019 … and was bummed beyond belief when COVID-19 forced the train to…
Read MoreThere are several upcoming celestial photography events in my lifetime – including things like Milky Way shots and meteor showers, which happen several times in a year, there is a total lunar eclipse arriving in 2022, an annular solar eclipse in 2023, and a total solar eclipse in 2024. And I need to confirm that…
Read MoreAnd on Friday afternoon … Competition Season 2021 officially began for me. I sent four photos to the Iowa Sate Fair’s Photography Salon. I’ve had some success with Iowa in the past – in 2018, two of my pictures made the walls of the art gallery on the Fairgrounds, with What the Grasshopper Saw taking…
Read MoreThis shouldn’t bother me as much as it does. But it kinda does. And I’d better get a decent photo of this before it gets torn down or modified beyond recognition. I shall explain. What you see here is a photo of the old Delaware and Hudson railroad bridge that spans New Scotland Avenue. I’ve…
Read MoreMany years ago, when I first got involved in photography, I tried establishing my own creative niche, especially in the use of lo-fi film photography. And one of my more successful endeavors involved a concept I called “splitfilm,” where I shot two rolls of film in one camera, or I shot small-format film in medium-format…
Read MoreLong-time readers of my blog know that I will NEVER give up on a project. If I have an idea or a concept, I will try this concept over and over again until I get it right. Case in point. Years ago, I purchased a four-lensed NIMSLO plastic camera. Back when the NIMSLO (and its…
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