Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
For the past two years, I’ve made photography excursions to the newly-available Boreas Ponds in the Adirondack Mountains. Essentially you drive up to Essex County, you drive seven miles on an old logging road, then you hike another three hours to a spot where – as you can see in the photo above – you…
Read MoreI have a very simple rule when it comes to photography … if I ask someone to pose for me, and I have plans to enter that photo in competition, I pay that person for their time and ask them to fill out a short model release form. The person can use the photo for…
Read MoreI’ve never done this before. Not in all the Dream Windows I’ve ever built and sold and given away. But I’m tearing the last one apart. And building a new one from its remains. Dream Window 21: Head, Heart, Health and Hands was built for the specific purpose of entering it at the Altamont Fair’s…
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The fun part about the Thacher Park Nature Show is that I get to take my best outdoor photos and turn them into something wonderful. I went through my Adirondacks photos, my Washington State vacation photos, and any other nature-based photos … and submitted my four for this year. The other day, I received word…
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I enjoy participating in the Thacher Park Nature Art Show every year. It’s an excellent event that showcases the Capital District’s amazing painters, sculptors, photographers and craftspeople as they pay tribute to the great outdoors. With that in mind, I’ve gone through my artworks and photos, looking for some awesome entries to include. And I…
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When I work on a photo project, I keep battling it and battling it and battling it until I finally get the results I crave. Such has been the case with my weekend trips to Washington County to photograph the historic Rexleigh Covered Bridge. I couldn’t get the foliage shot I wanted, mostly because there…
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Well, wasn’t THIS an interesting year? With new directions and new achievements and new everything, 2017 was a year for my blog like none before. So let’s recap ten moments – great and challenging – from this year in blogging, shall we? And let’s start with…
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I suppose this year, more than any other in my photographic adventures, really symbolized my ability to survive against all odds. No matter what was thrown up against me, i still found a way to get my cameras into the world and capture the beauty and awesomeness of 2017. And every year at around this…
Read MoreLast autumn, I took pictures of the Rexleigh Covered Bridge in Washington County. I had hoped to capture the Rexleigh with fall foliage bursting around it … but the fall foliage at Rexleigh just wasn’t being as cooperative as I wanted. Urgh. So I decided to go with Plan B. Plan B, in case you’re…
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Recap. Way back in July, I installed several Solarcans – passive cameras made out of pinhole-poked beer cans and photo-sensitive paper – and set them up in various locations around St. Agnes Cemetery in Menands. After a three-month soak, I removed Solarcan #367 from its post, scanned in the contents, and got a halfway-decent picture…
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