Of late, I’ve really enjoyed my new Irix 15mm f/2.4 super-ultrawide rectilinear camera lens. I used it last month to capture my Stone, Saltwater, Surf and Seagulls picture, which is already aimed for Competition Season 2017. But one picture does not a lens purchase make. I need to see what else this lens can create.…
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The Ugliest Fish and the Black Bubble
Yesterday I went to the retinal specialist, Dr. Templar (he’s a bit of a saint), for my second of what I hope will not be too many more vitreal eyeball injections. Ugh. So while I’m waiting in the doctor’s lobby, I notice that he has a fishtank with some very large fish in it. Okay,…
Read MoreWell, that was an adventure…
So let me fill everybody in. Last night, I received my Times Union archive of blog posts from the past eight and a half years of blogging for them. I thought everything would be fine, I simply would upload my files and combine old blog posts with new. Unfortunately, the second I did this… My…
Read MoreThis is only temporary … I hope.
This is what I call my “emergency” blogging portal now. Let em explain. I had this blog portal from 2008 to 2009, before I moved to a different locale. When that local stopped working for me, I went to an independent WordPress site. Yesterday, my old blog sent me eight and a half years of…
Read MoreChuck the Writer and the new portal
So it’s time to enter a new chapter of my life. First of all … welcome. Nice to meet you. Pull up a chair. Who am I? My name is Chuck Miller, I’m a writer and photographer and blogger from Albany, New York. My blogs have been a mixture of my life’s overview, my time…
Read MoreRepairing The Switchback
One of the essences of creativity is that you have to reconstruct your ideas when you’re not happy with them. And another part of creativity is knowing when to ask for help when you can’t get something to look the way you want it to. Case in point. My 2016 multi-image shot, The Switchback. This…
Read MoreSeven months later … did the lizard and the stag finally blink?
Last summer, when my car was destroyed in a nasty highway accident, I was forced to deal with competing insurance companies for reimbursement of various out-of-pocket expenses, including a $300 car rental bill to get from North Carolina back to Albany. The vehicle in front of me – a camper whose bicycles became detached from…
Read MoreRonnie Spector: For Every Kiss You Give Me, I’ll Give You Three
This article was originally written by Chuck Miller for Goldmine magazine in 1998. At the center is a voice. A voice that could wring emotion out of any lyric; a voice that could capture an audience and share the emotions of ecstacy and pain and love and longing. A voice that has evolved over the…
Read MoreIt doesn’t stand for Advance 1 Chuck…
Flashback. Last November, while I sat in a hospital bed trying to figure out what happened to my foot (spoiler alert: it’s broken), I received even more distressing news. My diabetes – which I thought I had kept under control – was completely out of whack. And one of the biggest offenders … was my…
Read MoreBest of our TU Independent Blogs, December 22, 2016: Ten for Thursday
Good morning all. Are you ready to enjoy the best blogging experiences the Times Union has to offer? Especially from their independent and community blogging crew, who write about things that are important in this world, whether on a global or a minute scale, and share these thoughts with all of you. First off, I…
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