As much as I enjoy donating my photos and artworks for various charity auctions and fundraisers, I always appreciate being part of Historic Albany Foundation’s BUILT: Albany’s Architecture Through Artists’ Eyes fundraiser / art show. This year, the event will take place on Saturday, November 1 at the DeWitt Clinton Hotel in downtown Albany, as…
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Ceci n’est pas un hôtel.
It’s too early in the morning to start thinking about the works of René Magritte. It’s Sunday, the sun has not yet creeped over the horizon, and I’m driving to an early-morning photo shoot. It’s too early in the morning to think about surrealism or witticisms. And certainly no way to think about it in…
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Whose cameras are you calling “krappy”?
What if you could take the cheapest, dingiest, slapped-together-with-spit-and-bailing-wire cameras… and somehow get a spectacular picture out of it? Well, that’s the new challenge for me. One last photo challenge for the year. The Soho Photo Gallery in New York City has a “Call for Entries” in its annual “Krappy Kamera” photo competition, in which…
Read MoreAn Adirondack goal for the weekend…
Over the weekend, fellow TU community blogger Stephanie Snyder wished me a good weekend and hoped I would take some awesome fall foliage pictures. “Happy fall foliage photo taking season!” she said. Yeah, I can do that… let’s see what the North Country looks like right now. The leaves are changing… sorta… slowly… I figure…
Read MoreCracking the barrier
I’m frustrated. This should work, in theory anyway… But over the past couple of years, it’s become more of a barrier than a blessing. Yep. I’m trying to make this Instamatic film do something special. And it’s not cooperating. Yeah, I know that nobody’s making Instamatic film any more, I know that much of the…
Read MoreRutland the Goat
I don’t know anything about the parentage or breeding or background for this little goat. He was in a pen at the Vermont State Fair, along with a few other baby goats. He probably had no idea that he was being photographed. I don’t think that goats have a concept of what a camera is.…
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Results of the 2014 Big E Photo Competition
Rough day yesterday. Just absolutely rough. Suffice it to say that I screwed some stuff up that shouldn’t have been screwed up in the first place. Yes, Chuck messes up in life. So I’m in a bit of a self-loathing, Chuck-hating mood right now… And I need something, anything, to change my outlook. Well, I…
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Orange County Speedway 2014 “Eve of Destruction” pics
Last year, daredevil stuntman Rocky Hardcore, whose death-defying car crashes have made him a star at Lebanon Valley Speedway’s “Eve of Destruction” stunt shows, contacted me about photographing his show at the upcoming Orange County Fair Speedway’s “Eve of Destruction” event. I said I would do it. I mean, I’ve photographed him for three consecutive…
Read MoreI took a photo of “Little C”
You always keep your eyes open for a photo opportunity. Because, in all honesty, you might not get a second chance. Background. Over the weekend, I busted out one of my old lenses, my Helios 81-H 50mm f/2 “commie” lens that integrates with my Nikon gear, and took the lens for a little photo walk…
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Results from the Vermont State Fair, 2014
This year’s Vermont State Fair photos featured winners, and a pair of sold pictures… so why am I choosing to not enter the Fair’s photo competition in 2015?
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