Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
The 4th of July fireworks show at the Empire State Plaza offers me the opportunity to take beautiful fireworks shots. The fireworks show in Waterford allows me some time to experiment. Let me explain. Unlike the Empire State Plaza show, which has tightly-controlled areas for viewers and enthusiasts to see the pyrotechnics, the Waterford show…
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It’s Independence Day 2014, and I’ve got my camera ready for the Empire State Plaza fireworks show. How did things go? Read the blog post and enjoy!
Read MoreToday, at some point in the evening, I will take pictures of exploding sky-illuminating pyrotechnics. Most likely I’ll be at the Empire State Plaza, enjoying all the fireworks and explosions and cheers and excitement. Every year, I look for the best place, the best vantage point, to photograph the fireworks. Along a ledge. Against a…
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It took over a year of planning and good weather, but I was able to acquire these star trails pictures over the weekend. Want to see them? Read today’s blog.
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I should be used to this. I should be used to seeing my artwork hanging at a charity event. Heck, I’ve done Historic Albany’s “BUILT” three times already, and every time I still get a case of the nerves. But now it’s time to see what happens with one of my artworks. Last night I…
Read MoreI’ve tested my ASTRO intervalometer, my device that automatically sets my digital camera to take pictures at regular intervals, and have shown the results in this blog. Can I do a time-lapse photo? Yep. Can I take a picture of a bird feeder in an effort to capture some feathered friends in a photo? Done…
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My girlfriend Nicole has actually turned me on to gardening and horticulture. I’ve purchased some plants from Hewitt’s Garden Center, I’ve mulched here and there, and I even helped Nicole transplant some flowers and bushes from one location to another. Not bad for a guy whose previous gardening experience was that I pulled everything out…
Read MoreSo I’ve been testing out this batch of old, expired GAF Aerial 70mm film for a while. The goal in using this film is to try and get some ethereal, textured imagery that can create an emotional response in what would otherwise be a drab, boring photograph. Now I have plenty of GAF Aerial film,…
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One of my Flickr friends, who uses the Flickr handle nano_burger, likes to experiment with film. And like me, he’s played with GAF Aerial 70mm sprocketed film – the same type of film that was used in the 1960’s and 1970’s for sky-view photography. That film is long gone, but you can still find canisters…
Read MoreI’ve photographed that deteriorating Olympic Bar sign on South Pearl Street with dozens of different films and with dozens of different angles. But, in all honesty, I’ve never photographed the sign the way I did last Thursday night. Background. I realize that the old Olympic Bar neon sign hasn’t worked for years. Heck, there hasn’t…
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