Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
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 mentioned my Grandma Betty several times in this blog. My memories of Grandpa Ben – my paternal grandfather – are scant. I was born in 1963, he only knew of my existence for maybe a handful of years before he passed away. And the only memory I have of Grandpa Ben was of visiting…
Read MoreAs many of you know from reading my blog posts over the years, I purchased a 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt SS in November 2012. I purchased the car (which I later nicknamed “The Blackbird”) with a combination of a trade-in on my previous car (the 2005 Saturn Ion “Cardachrome”) and a bank loan. The car loan…
Read MoreJim Keays passed away today. He was the lead singer of The Masters Apprentices, one of the seminal Australian psychedelic rock and pop bands of the 1970’s. Members of the Masters helped sow the seeds for other Australian bands, including Little River Band. The Masters never made it to the United States, but that doesn’t…
Read MoreI was a Boy Scout once… many, many, many years ago. I only did it for a single year, achieved the rank of Tenderfoot, then left. As much as I respect Scouting, it just wasn’t for me. I do recall the many different camping trips my troop embarked upon. They were fun moments of exploration…
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…
Read MoreI’m still trying to tweak this idea of a “stereo view card” recreation. And I’ve got too many freakin’ variables to work with. Do I print the card images as color, or as sepia tones, or as straight black and white? Do I make the pair of images round or square or corner-rounded or domed?…
Read MoreSo of the twelve photos I entered in the 2014 San Francisco International Photography Competition, one of them made the cut. Which one? Was it one of your favorites? Read the blog and find out.
Read MoreI was at a birthday party yesterday (no, not mine, that’s in a few months from now), and the topic of discussion involved board games – the ones I loved playing as a kid (like Mouse Trap) and the ones I never got around to playing (like Candy Land). Ah, great memories of board games…
Read MoreLet me make this as clear as crystal. I. HATE. SCAMMERS. I hate trolls, griefers, swindlers, anybody who tries to steal my money, ruin my equipment, or ruin my reputation. And believe me, there are people out there in 2014 that will do that to you. Don’t ever think differently. Case in point. Last Friday,…
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