Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
The Durham Fair is my fifth and final entry in Competition Season 2019.ย And I’ve made a bit of an adjustment as to what I enter in this competition. Please let me explain. At one point in time, the Durham Fair and the New York State Fair’s photo contests shared the same submission dimensions –…
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My recent visit to The Old Game Farm – the former Catskill Game Farm grounds, now being converted into a camp site and urban exploration park – was both enjoyable and informative. And, of course, as I’m walking around the Game Farm campus, I’m keeping a close photographic eye on a possible upcoming photo project.ย …
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Syracuse on a Sunday.ย I can do this. Today is the day when I find out how my artworks – four photos and three crafted projects – did at the 2019 New York State Fair.ย Truly I am a creature of habit.ย And truly I have superstitions and routines when I visit any site at…
Read MoreI participated in this event last year, and I was glad to do so. The Albany Institute of History and Art is asking for all artists to submit up to two entries for consideration for the 2019 “Work of Art” gallery show.ย The show, which is also a fundraising event in honor of artist Willie…
Read MoreSo I did my Sunday trip to the Altamont Fair – ostensibly to see if my picture had claimed the People’s Choice award (it didn’t, a photo of a snowy squirrel did)… And I also made a pilgrimage to the Arts and Crafts building, which I did not do on Tuesday, to see if there…
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After my recent success in mixing vintage Verichrome Pan film with Kodak Instamatic film (88 Minutes in Chinatown), I wanted to try this splitfilm trick again.ย And I wanted to create something that was a “day versus night” exposure, using the lights of an amusement park or the midway of a county fair to build…
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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.ย 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.ย 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.ย 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.ย 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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