Please let me tell you a story today. A story about a man named Orest. I first met Orest ten years ago. At the time, I was freelancing for a minor league sports website which paid its writers on promises and not much else. At the time, Orest was the general manager of the Rochester…
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A world without rainbows
One of the advantages of taking several cameras to a specific location is that you can use all your equipment to capture a moment – and then, after you’ve returned safely home, you can go through your photos and see how each camera interpreted the scene. Such is what happened last month with my Niagara…
Read MoreWaiting for Godot at the Grog Shoppe
“You need to come out and join me and my friends at the Grog Shoppe this Saturday,” she said to me. “We sing karaoke there. It starts at 9, unless that’s past your bedtime,” she winked. I thought to myself… I could do this. This sounds like fun. And it would be nice to meet…
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The pep talk
There are days when I spend my time thinking about where I’ve come from and how far I’ve traveled. All the abuses I took. All the damages I survived. All the drops of Krazy Glue I used to repair my broken heart. And yet … somehow … I’m still here. It’s almost as if my…
Read MoreThe Bob & Ron’s sign is still there … what’s left of it…
I know we’ve been talking about the Bob & Ron’s Fish Fry restaurant closing down and all that, and I don’t want to beat a dead horse-radish sauce over it… But there’s still something that bothers me. Not about the restaurant, or the recipes, or the reason for the eatery’s demise. No. I’m talking about…
Read MoreThe incident at the Halfmoon Diner
It’s Thursday night and I’m taking some “me” time for a dinner at the Halfmoon Diner. Sometimes I need to do things like this, just to recalibrate myself. I’m looking over the menu… hmm… lots of good things here… You know what… it’s just a normal evening, a normal time… I’ll just get something to…
Read MoreFive photos in an old hard drive
Last night I was going through the recovered files from a crashed hard drive. I was able to save all the old iTunes tracks and some archived photos. Everything else, so far, has been nothing but digital junk and deletions and temporary Internet files from ages ago. And then, nested in one of the folders…
Read MoreHe would…
He would be 49 today. He would have a wife, a couple of kids, maybe a dog. He would have his own house and run his own business. He would have served his country overseas, doing whatever it took for good. He would be a baseball fan. He would support local causes. Probably participate in…
Read MoreWhere rejection is growth
So let’s cut to the chase. Rip the bandage off and hope that I don’t scream too loudly. None of my three submitted artworks made the cut for the Wild Center’s “The Forest and the Tree” exhibit at their Tupper Lake museum. I’m okay with that. Surprisingly okay. Now for those of you who have…
Read MoreGoin’ fishin’…
By the time you read this, I’ll be out the door, cameras in hand, heading for a very special location. And I’ll take pictures at that location. Day and night. Weekday and weekend. Film and digital. Standard and experimental. I’m not going to post the pictures online … at least not yet. Not until the…
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