Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
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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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…
Read MoreLast Saturday, I was at the Saratoga Race Course.ย No, I didn’t win any money.ย Trust me, the only thing I won that day was a nasty farmer’s tan. That being said, I was busy testing out some new film techniques along the pathway that connects the track to the paddock.ย I brought a few…
Read MoreIt’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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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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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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It’s the first day of the Altamont Fair, and my four artworks are on display. Did any of them receive ribbons? Let’s find out together, shall we?
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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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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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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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