Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Last week, I dropped off my three entries into the 39th annual Capital District Photo Regionals art show at the Albany Center Gallery. All three will remain on display, along with over 300 other photographs, at the Albany Center Gallery until March 10. That’s the time period for the Photo Regionals’ “Salon Week.” And after…
Read MoreI’ve been testing out my new-to-me Kodak Stereo camera for a few days now, and over the weekend I had an itch to photograph the snowy, chilly Washington Park area. That’s right. Most people go to church on Sunday morning … for me, “church” is a camera and a location. Besides, I’ve been testing out…
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Before I underwent surgery, I dropped off two of my artworks for the Photo Center of the Capital Region’s “Best of 2016” show. One of them was my infrared piano-in-the-field shot If You C♯ You Won’t B♭, and their other was my late December neon photo excursion Step and Pivot. My usual tactic with the…
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To enter the Capital District Photo Regionals, your work must be of the highest quality possible. You have to compete with other top photographers in the area. Your work must have merit and skill and emotion and technique. In the past three years, two of my photos – Vivaldi’s Pond and The Jumbuck – made…
Read MoreI’m not a normally sedentary person. People who know me understand that I’m often working on several different projects at any one time. But for the past few weeks, I’ve been immobilized. And after last Thursday, when my orthopedic surgeon removed my plaster cast and let me return to the walking boot, he told me…
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Amidst all the news I’ve been going through lately … the other day I received an e-mail from the head of the Thacher Park Nature Center. And it’s a great way to start out my 2017 photography exhibition season. Of the four entries I submitted to the Thacher Park Nature Show exhibit, three of them…
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So the other day, I blogged about taking an old Kodak Stereo camera, shooting some pictures of the Toll Gate Ice Cream parlor in Slingerlands, and turning the resulting photos into a three-dimensional cinemagraph. You know… and got this picture for my efforts. And after reading some of the blog comments about the project, I…
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The Toll Gate Ice Cream restaurant in Slingerlands has always been, for me, a mental recharging station. I’ve enjoyed their burgers and fries on my trips to Thacher Park; I’ve noshed on their grilled cheese sandwiches when I’m trying to think of a new photographic concept. And with that in mind … I tested out…
Read MoreFive years ago, I lamented the demise of Kodak Ektachrome film, a beautiful slide film with amazing tonal quality and grain. I thought I would have to live on Fuji Velvia (the last mass-produced slide film) and old frozen Ektachrome stock. That was until recent news. According to PetaPixel, the company that holds the Kodak…
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This is my one chance to try this. My one and only chance, in this one and only location. And if I screw this up… for sure, I’ll never get another opportunity. Never. Because the location will disappear as soon as the bulldozers and the demolition crews arrive. I must prepare and I must persevere.…
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