Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
I have some detractors – well, I call them “family” – who will say that I would travel a thousand miles to get a photograph, but I wouldn’t travel across the street to visit them. Well, yeah. The photograph trip is more enjoyable than visiting my family. Such is the case last Sunday. I took…
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I changed up my routine this year. My routine for the first day of the Altamont Fair is to drive over to the Fairgrounds as soon as I possibly could (the second after the clockout whistle blows on my day job), and then eat a meal at Josie’s on the Fairgrounds, and walk into the…
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So here’s the deal. The Altamont Fair opens today. And in 2009, I entered my first photos in the Fair’s Fine Arts competition. It wasn’t until 2011 when I earned my first ribbons for my work. by 2013, my photo of an Icelandic sheep, The Jumbuck, picked up my first Altamont blue ribbon. That was…
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Dang, this has been bugging me all summer. Last July, I received the Iowa State Fair Photography Competition’s yellow postcard o’ doom. The one where they tell you if any of your pictures made the cut – if any won awards – or if none of your entries were accepted. I was very fortunate this…
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I knew they would be in the mailbox. The postcards o’ doom. All with postmarks from Syracuse. Nine entries – six photographs, three artworks. Nine little postcards, each one representing nine acceptances or nine rejections, or any combination of the same. Over the past few years, the postcards o’ doom have been a veritable albatross…
Read MoreSo last year, I entered two pictures at the Big E – along with one of my yarn-embroidered burlap sacks. And as much as I wanted to enter another burlap sack project – I figured this year I would just keep things simple. I’m allowed to keep things simple. It’s my blog and I can…
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It’s Saturday morning and I’m on a scouting spree. Let me explain. In 2006, the Catskill Game Farm closed operations, and all the animals inside went to new homes. A new ownership group is currently offering tours of the old grounds, and is in the midst of renovating the property into a camp site. On…
Read MoreTen years ago, I entered my first pictures in the New York State Fair’s photography competition – and one of my pictures, a basketball shot called Action Under the Basket, took an Honorable Mention ribbon. Since then, I’ve claimed three second place ribbons and a first place silk, as well as several honorable mentions for…
Read MoreNo. Yes. No. Yes. That yes became a no. Such is my concern this year with entering my pictures in the New York State Fair’s 2019 Photography Competition. Background. My last photography ribbon at the New York State Fair occurred in 2015. Since then, only one image has appeared on the walls of the Harriet…
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I know, I know, the 4th of July was last week. I get it. But understand this. On the 3rd of July, I brought some rolls of Fuji Velvia and Kodak Ektachrome slide film up to Saratoga Harness (yeah, yeah, I know it’s Saratoga Casino Hotel, but I know it as Saratoga Harness so that’s…
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