Where was I last year at this time?ย My life at that moment was more sour than a lemon grove.ย My car was showing signs of electrical wire damage, my cell phone couldn’t carry a charge if I soldered a stack of Ray-o-Vacs to it, and my relationships – the less said about it, the…
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More adventures with the spambots
Apparently the spambots who populate my blog haven’t gotten the hint that they’re about as welcome as a cheese grater exfoliant. Every so often, I check my spamfilter.ย Sometimes one of my beloved blog readers gets caught there, and I have to click “This is not spam” to approve their comment.ย But 99.34% of the…
Read MoreLet the heart and soul speak… where the written word cannot.
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Read MoreBest of Our TU Community Blogs, October 17, 2013: Ten for Thursday
Always remember that no matter what you do in this world, always do your best and you’ll never regret the day. That being said… let me bring you some of the best blog posts from the TU’s family of community and independent bloggers. They include: Jason Purvis’ “Daddy” blog, “She is / He is.“ David…
Read MoreThe Photo Center of Troy’s Members Show
I don’t consider the Photo Center of Troy’s Members Show part of my “competition season.”ย Rather than being “competition,” this show is more of a celebration.ย The Photo Center of Troy hosts a Members Show so that we can present our best works, our most stirring and inventive and inviting works, images that we are…
Read MoreWant to star in an alien movie? Yes you do!
I have a love-hate relationship with the social media site reddit.ย Okay, now that that disclaimer is out of the way… I saw this notice on the subreddit /r/albany and thought it might be worthwhile to share this with my blog readers, especially any of you who are interested in acting or who want to…
Read MoreTen minutes after the wolf arrived
If you asked me to find this wooded area again, I couldn’t do it.ย I didn’t write down any coordinates, and my Boy Scout tracking skills are 40 years old and were never polished past Tenderfoot status.ย So as far as I was concerned, I was walking around in circles, having wandered away from my…
Read MoreDear is thy homestead, 30 years later…
My Hamilton College alumni magazine arrived in the mail a few days ago.ย While I eventually read the quarterly glossy publication from front to back, I always check the following things first: I check the weddings and births, to see if there are any future Hamiltonians that are 18 years away from matriculation. I check…
Read MoreAn HDR try for Whitehurst Printing & Binding
A few days ago, I tried to photograph the Whitehurst Printing & Binding ghost sign near Troy’s waterfront.ย It was a cloudy day, and I’m still experimenting with this vintage GAF aerographic film.ย The picture came out dark, and I had to use flickr’s highlight adjustment tools to get something more aesthetically pleasing. And this…
Read More“Deadliest Catch” and the government shutdown
I love watching Deadliest Catch.ย It’s probably one of my favorite reality TV shows, in that the viewers are part of this “slice of life” show where careers are made and broken and remade with every haul of Alaskan crab off the sides of gigantic crab boats. Yes, I shed a tear when Phil Harris,…
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