This is the big nugget for my “Charity Season 2018” submission listings. BUILT. Albany Architecture Through Artists’ Eyes. With this collection of artworks, I hope to add my own “architecture through artists’ eyes” to this nice event. It seems that every competition I enter is reducing the number of accepted artworks, so with that I’m…
Read MoreAll articles filed in Photography
A trip to the Big E, 2018 Edition
I can never win with the Big E parking lot. I get there early, I get shuttled off to the farthest reaches of the parking lot. Every other parking lot in every other Fair that I attend either ha a really good parking situation, or they offer shuttles. But for the Big E … it’s a…
Read MoreTrying to avoid the sunflower crutch
It’s the latest photography fad. You find out that there’s a field of sunflowers somewhere, and it’s within your driving distance. Oh, how fantastic a photo that would be. So you jump in your car and you drive to the sunflower field. Oh, these would make great photos, you think to yourself. You get there,…
Read More
Mail Pouch Barn ghost sign meets infrared
Last Sunday, I drove to Dutchess County to photograph one of the few remaining Mail Pouch Barn ghost signs left in New York. The barn is part of a private property estate, so as long as I stay on the side of the road, I can photograph the building without violating the many “NO TRESPASSING”…
Read MoreIf you don’t C♯ you will B♭
Deep in the heart of Albany’s farmland, on a stretch of highway that can take you from Greene County to Schoharie County without even a single sniff of the New York State Thruway, there’s an old dilapidated upright organ. It looks like it’s seen better days. No, it looked like it had seen better lifetimes. …
Read More
Durham Fair: Yes, it was made by a “man” …
The Durham Fair in Connecticut is my last fair of Competition Season 2019. And when I discovered that their photographic entry requirements were reduced from four entries to three per person, I was kinda okay with it … but it made me more interested in entering another category. You know … one of the stitchery…
Read MoreThe farther away you travel…
Yesterday was a beautiful, partly sunny day. And I wanted to go and take some pictures. My plan – I had some infrared film in the Rolleiflex, and I wanted to use it. So I drove to a spot I’ve visited before – a Mail Pouch Barn “ghost sign” in Dutchess County. Honestly, it had…
Read More
Romance on Gondola #23
So last Sunday, while I was waiting to find out how my entries did at the New York State Fair, I decided I would take my Nikon Df and just shoot around the Fairgrounds. That’s the thing, you need to find inspiration wherever you can get it. And for the paltry sum of $8, I…
Read More
Three Goats and a Key Light
While killing time at the New York State Fair earlier this week, I decided to spend some time visiting the animal pens. Look, it’s either walk around the Fairgrounds until my feet fall off … or take some pictures of farm animals. Photos of farm animals wins out. Now I’ve had some good success with…
Read MoreResults from the 2018 New York State Fair
So let’s recap. After getting shut out in 2017 – and in 2016 – and in 2014 – one of my pictures broke through and made it to the walls of the second floor of the Harriet May Mills Art Center at the New York State Fair, effectively stopping the #syracurse streak. For now. Whether…
Read More
Chuck The Writer 
You must be logged in to post a comment.