Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
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?ย 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.ย 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.ย 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.ย 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.ย I blogged about…
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Yeah, like I’m going to stay indoors during a blizzard.ย I want to get some winter photos.ย 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.ย 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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Last week, I dropped off my three entries into the 39th annual Capital District Photo Regionals art show at the Albany Center Gallery.ย All three will remain on display, along with over 300 other photographs, at the Albany Center Gallery until March 10.ย 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.ย 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.ย One of them was my infrared piano-in-the-field shot If You Cโฏ You Wonโt Bโญ, 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.ย You have to compete with other top photographers in the area.ย 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…
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