The Big E / Durham Fair results run, 2016 edition

Competition Season 2016 has been, for all intents and purposes, a stone cold flop.ย  Outside of photo-specific category contests (like the triplet goat photo We Are Not Chickens), and competitions where my photography is not the primary focus (The Cathedral of St. Philco, Dream Window 17: Friday Night Fish Fry), only one picture taken during…

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Dropping off for the PhotoCenter’s “Members’ Show…”

The 2016 “Members’ Show” for the PhotoCenter of the Capital District is coming soon, and I submitted four entries for this year’s event. The nice thing about the PhotoCenter’s show is that it brings some of the Capital District’s best photographers together and allows them to display their best works in one centralized location.ย  And…

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My submissions for the 2016 TRASK Art Show and Sale are…

For the third year in a row, I’ve submitted my Saratoga-themed artworks to a special charity auction and art show. ย The Saratoga Springs Preservation Society’s “TRASK Art Show and Sale” takes place on September 29 at the Canfield Casino, with the proceeds from each item sold earmarked for the preservation of Saratoga Springs’ buildings and…

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Raskolnikov and the Colorizebot

As you can imagine, I’ve been having some fun with this layered-film attempt to photograph a switchback road in the Helderbergs.ย  And in doing so, I snagged a great five-layer film shot with my Krasnogorsk FT-2 ultrawide camera (the one I’ve nicknamed “Raskolnikov”). I posted this shot of Intersection 5 on the social media site…

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Buster’s showing off his Shofar

The shofar is one of the oldest musical instruments.ย  It’s the horn that Joshua blew to knock down the walls at Jericho.ย  And the most beautiful shofars in the world came from the heads of rams. During my “Sunday at the Altamont Fair” excursion, in which I spend the entire day at Altamont and experience…

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