Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Competition Season 2017 is coming. For those of you who are not familiar with my references to “Competition Season,” let me please explain. As we approach summertime, I take the photographs and images I’ve collected over the past few months, find the best ones, and submit them for competitions in various state and county fairs.…
Read MoreA while back, I got my mitts on an old 1880’s-era stereocard – the kind you put in a special holder and, when you look through it, you can see what looks like real life stereoscopic images. In you don’t have a stereoviewer, you could simply relax your eyes until the two stereo pairs blend…
Read MoreI suppose this is a question you’ll need to ask yourself … but just know that by the fact that you’re reading this post, it’s a good sign that you kinda care about what’s going on with this blog. As a photographer, I try to capture images that convey a different way of viewing the…
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As I gather my photos for Competition Season 2017, I know that there are several images that I’ve placed in the “short pile” for this year’s shows. And in doing so, I hope that my photography skills have improved with time. It’s a challenge each year to come up with the best images – ideas…
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Remember a couple of weeks ago when I drove up to the Adirondacks and retook a picture of a broken bridge in Warrensburg and called it Troubled Bridge Over Water? Of course you do. At the time, I mentioned that I had captured the photo with both my digital and film cameras … but at…
Read MoreI’ve been waiting all week for news. And I’ve been reluctant to find out. Because Friday night was the opening night of the “select show” of the 39th annual Capital District Photo Regionals show. The previous opening, for the salon show, had over 350 photos on display, which the judges trimmed down to about 75…
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There’s something about a winter scene that really captures my imagination. And of late, I’ve been having fun with this restored Kodak Stereo film camera, including packing it with various films and seeing what I can achieve. Last Saturday, as I drove to Thacher Park to attend the opening day of the annual Nature Show,…
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So during the blizzard earlier this week, I had some downtime – and decided to use that downtime to work on one of my photos for Competition Season 2017. Last year, I was fortunate enough to photograph a shooting star as it streaked across the Big Dipper during the Perseid Meteor Shower. I blogged about…
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Yeah, like I’m going to stay indoors during a blizzard. I want to get some winter photos. It’s the shutterbug in me. So I figured I’d at least get a few winter shots – and depending on the weather, I might zoom up to the Adirondacks or over to the Helderbergs or traipse through the…
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Last year, I took my Nikon Df camera through the Adirondacks and captured some great photos. One of those photos, taken in Warrensburg along Route 9, was of a distressed wooden bridge that spanned a small stream. Now at the time, I thought the picture I took would be awesome for competition season. But after…
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