We 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.ย …
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Nicholas Cage is Left Behind. Or he was left behind. One or the other.
I 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.ย 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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There is a third dimension…
Jesus saves… with lightning and neon…
I must have passed that neon sign a hundred thousand times.ย 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 MoreK-Chuck Radio: Forgotten 80’s-90’s Dance Hits
At some point in time, these songs were played over and over and OVER and OVER on the radio.ย You saw their videos every hour on the hour on MTV.ย (Insert obligatory crack about MTV playing music videos at one time in its career HERE). And what happened to these songs?ย They disappeared.ย Not even…
Read MoreHappy 50th birthday to one of our own
You 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.ย 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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An unassuming shot of Washington Park
I visited Washington Park on a chilly March night in 2008.ย It was one of my first attempts to photograph at night.ย 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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The dancing L-Ken’s sign
It takes something extra-special to make an old, rusted drive-in sign dance once again. Check out today’s blog post and see how I did it.
Read MoreHave fun with “Shadow Selfies”
Every so often, someone will go on some self-important gripe about selfies.ย How other people’s selfies are showing up on that person’s Facebook feed, and it annoys them to no end. Don’t get me wrong.ย I’ve written about selfies that were taken in inappropriate locations, such as on a cadaver table.ย But I’m getting tired…
Read MorePlease remember these names on this Memorial Day 2014
None of the six names I list below ever fought in a war.ย None of the six names I list below ever served their country. All six of the names I list below were sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, whose lives were cut short by no other reason than they were on the mind…
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