Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
You’ve seen time-lapse photography on nearly every reality TV series. It’s that scene in which you see the clouds screaming quickly by in the sky, you see the sun rising and dipping in the horizon as if it was late for a very important date. Today, you can create a time-lapse picture with your camera…
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Well, apparently Iowa has a State Fair. And within that State Fair is a very highly competitive photo competition. My blog reader Bob Burger recommended that I consider entering this competition. And I did. But with a caveat. At one point in my life – five years ago, to be precise – I was content…
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I took this shot last year at the Vermont State Fair. I was thinking of captioning the picture “Kids dig snacks,” but I’m sure you can come up with a better title if I ever decide to enter it into competition. So have at it. Photo by Chuck Miller. Caption by you.
Read MoreWe need to look at our life from a different perspective. We need to see something that we’ve never seen before. We need to cut away our safety nets, breathe in the cool air and know that whatever we do at that moment, we won’t hold back. I’ve learned this over the past few years. …
Read MoreI tried reading the book series at one point in time, but I received the same sick-in-the-pit-of-my-stomach feeling as when I tried to read the Mission: Earth novels. Somewhere there was a story… it was just too heavy-handed for me to enjoy. Of course that means I’m in the minority, as millions of people enjoyed…
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I must have passed that neon sign a hundred thousand times. Heck, I even used it as part of my photo Night Train to Heaven a couple of years ago. Okay, that was great, but that was a long time ago. I’ve been shooting a lot of neon photography of late, and I’ve tried to…
Read MoreAt some point in time, these songs were played over and over and OVER and OVER on the radio. You saw their videos every hour on the hour on MTV. (Insert obligatory crack about MTV playing music videos at one time in its career HERE). And what happened to these songs? They disappeared. Not even…
Read MoreYou know… here at the Times Union’s blog portal, we don’t get to spend as much time celebrating each other’s accomplishments as we should. We’re supposed to be a blog community, and most of the time we’re all doing our own things and dancing to the beat of our own different drummers. But today, I…
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I visited Washington Park on a chilly March night in 2008. It was one of my first attempts to photograph at night. At the time, my gear was top-of-the-line, at least by 2008 standards – my camera was a Nikon D70, my lens was an 85mm f/1.8 lens that I normally used for sports photography…
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