Return to the Durham Fair

I trimmed a few “competition season” competitions from my 2015 exhibitions.  I didn’t enter the Iowa State Fair or the Washington State Fair this year; and after what happened in the Vermont State Fair last year, they’re on my naughty list until further notice. But I did decide to return to one competition this season;…

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My 2015 Big E photo entries are…

This is a nice streak to achieve.  In the past three Big E photography competitions, I’ve garnered a ribbon for every photo I’ve entered.  That’s a nice breakthrough, I think.  Nine for nine in entries, including blue ribbons for Poestenkill Cascade, The Jumbuck and Jesus Saves.  Other pictures, including Midnight at the Palace Theater, Beecher…

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This will teach me to not leave my film in the car for three months…

It was a beautiful sunny, summer June day.  And I was outside, taking pictures of the lakehouse in Washington Park with my Krasnogorsk FT-2 “Raskolnikov” camera. I wanted to test out some Fuji Velvia slide film in the camera, and since I had taped up part of the camera’s interior to reduce its fixed aperture…

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Searching for the bowling signs

I knew they existed.  I just didn’t know where to find them in this day and age.  But find them I did.  And I’m glad for it. Background. I’ve blogged in the past about how everybody in my family excelled in bowling.  Everybody, that is, except me.  But one thing I was fascinated with in…

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The mystery of the antique camera film, 2015 edition

One of my blog readers, Dave Stewart, kindly “gifted” me his father’s Argus C3 camera.  Other than giving it a new leather body, and doing some fine-tuning to the mechanisms, I haven’t had a chance to take it out for a shoot. But when I checked inside the camera… you know it.  Film.  And some…

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Rutland, Vivaldi, and ripped blue jeans

Sweltering Sunday.  It’s the day when I spend time at the Altamont Fair, the final day for the 2015 Fair run.  During this day, I visited the animal barns, I checked out the stunt shows, I even tried to throw little plastic rings onto the necks of beer bottles to win a prize (no such…

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