Always admit when you’re wrong.

I am not a man who is afraid of being wrong. ย I’ve been wrong many times. ย I’ve made bad choices, I’ve made bad decisions, I’ve dropped the ball more times than a cross-eyed center fielder. But if you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you know that if I’m ever wrong, I’ll repair…

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“That” new Cheerios commercial

I don’t know if you’ve seen this commercial yet.ย  It shows a little girl asking her mother about if Cheerios is healthy.ย  The mother responds that yes, the cereal is healthy.ย  So the little girl pours a box of Cheerios on her father, who is napping on the couch. Cute. Of course, that’s not the…

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Brought to you by the letter “Q” and by the number “10”.

Over the past ten years, I’ve had several cell phones. ย And the majority of them have been BlackBerry cell phones. The one at the left is an image of my first cell phone, a BlackBerry 6750. ย I originally purchased this phone with the hope that it would be the perfect unit for anything I needed…

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K-Chuck Radio: Somewhere Over the Rainbow…

What a fantastic song.ย  And to think, at one point in time, this song was almost deleted from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz because someone thought the movie was too long. So let’s start with the version everybody knows. This version. Here’s an interesting version, this is Judy Garland performing with the Tommy…

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Cohoes Falls on Memorial Day

Memorial Day weekend was a weather-related bust. Rain. Cold. I almost expected cicadas and locusts. But Monday morning was beautiful and sunny. And I needed a few morning pictures to make my day. I’ve shot the Cohoes Falls before, mostly using a Hoya ND400 neutral-density filter so that the water blends. Figured I’d shoot that…

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K-Chuck Radio: Familiar songs, new interpretations

I’ve had this happen on occasion. I’ll be listening to the radio, and I swear I hear what sounds like a familiar song… only to discover that yes, I know the song, I know the lyrics, but that’s NOT the person I remember singing it. And after a few moments… I’m thinking, wow. That’s an…

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3,000ยฐK at the Jericho Drive-In

It’s Memorial Day evening, and I’m here at the Jericho Drive-In with my cameras and my tripod and some digital CompactFlash card chips. No, I’m not trying to get a “film it off the screen” pirate copy of The Fast and the Furious 6. For me, the Jericho Drive-In is a place where I can…

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Ten minutes before they broke up.

Whether it’s experimental photography, or just plain old photography, the equipment you have in your hand can tell as much of a story as the picture itself. Case in point. On Wednesday, May 22, I was in New York City for the day. ย While most of my efforts were focused on an ancillary goal –…

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Machete Kills – now starring Carlos Estevez!

When I saw the originalย Grindhouse double-feature in 2007, I thoroughly enjoyed it. ย The double feature ofย Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez’ film, the one with Rose McGowan wearing a machine gun for a prosthetic leg), andย Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino’s ode to 1970’s car films likeย Vanishing Point) were fun to watch and kinda hilarious as well. ย Also in…

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