Searching for the bowling signs

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

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The Lane 2 Surprise

It’s Monday morning.ย  I’m off to Syracuse to complete the drive of shame – to pick up my four non-accepted artworks from the New York State Fair.ย  Must get up nice and early, and make this a quick “out-and-back” trip. Unlike last year, when I had to remove all six of my non-accepted photo, this…

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Rutland, Vivaldi, and ripped blue jeans

Sweltering Sunday.ย  It’s the day when I spend time at the Altamont Fair, the final day for the 2015 Fair run.ย  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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Six little white postcards from Syracuse 2015…

I knew they were coming.ย  And they’re in my mailbox right now.ย  Six little white postcards from Syracuse. I went through this dance last year.ย  Each one of those postcards has a single checkmark in one of two boxes.ย  If the checkmark is on the box marked “NOT ACCEPTED,” then my foam-boarded artwork associated with…

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My 2015 Altamont Fair entries are…

No more talk about the Altamont Curse.ย  I’ve earned ribbons in the past two years, and three sets of ribbons in the past four seasons.ย  So I need to shut my trap about any godforsaken Altamont Curse.ย  It doesn’t exist any more.ย  It’s in the past.ย  Let it stay in the past. No more talk…

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Wow, it really is a blue moon out tonight…

Another test of my lunar photography.ย  I have two months to get this dialed in before the September 28th event.ย  And I do not want to be unprepared. Last night was not only a full moon, it was the start of the proverbial “blue moon,” when two full moons occur in any calendar month. Blue…

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The Moonshot Testshot

September 28th is coming up quickly.ย  And I need to test out this year’s photographic experiment.ย  Because if I don’t have everything dialed in perfectly by September 28th… Suffice it to say, defeat is not an option. Last night, at around 10:00 p.m., I set up the Nikon Df camera, along with my steady tripod,…

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