Sunday, December 23, 1973. The decorations covered every storefront along North Main Avenue, each bauble and bangle covered with a thin film of grimy glaze. The ornaments hanging from the tree in the center of Wilson Park flickered as a million raindrops chilled each branch and ball. Willie hiked his coat up around his neck,…
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An Infrared Return to Aerochrome Falls
Many years ago, I used vintage color infrared slide film (branded “Aerochrome”) for some photos in the Adirondacks. One of the best shots I pulled from that excursion was a shot of a waterfall near the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Hudson, a photo I christened Aerochrome Falls. Man. I pulled that shot NINE YEARS…
Read MoreNine Hundred Eleven Words: a Personal Remembrance of September 11, 2001
NOTE: The following post was originally published on September 11, 2009, and was repeated on September 11, 2011. It is repeated today for obvious reasons. The day started out horribly. Two days beforehand, my wife’s grandfather, Samuel Ginsburg, passed away after a long and valiant battle against Alzheimer’s Disease. That day, we were going to…
Read MoreE-mails from Syracuse, 2024 edition
It seems like an eternity ago. I would bring my printed photos to Syracuse for the New York State Fair’s photography competition, then I would wait for the “post cards of doom,” my derisive sobriquet on how the good or bad news – acceptance or rejection – would arrive. Now, instead of postcards from Syracuse,…
Read MoreMy entries for the 2024 Big E Photography Competition are …
The Eastern States Exhibition (the “Big E”) is essentially New England’s mega-fair. And I’ve had plenty of success with my photography entries in this show. Last year wasn’t as successful; one of my two entries was bounced; while the other earned an honorable mention. Which means … I must try harder. Here’s my problem. The…
Read MoreThe Iowa State Fair Photography Salon results, 2024
And let’s start Competition Season off. The last news I heard, three of my four entries were accepted by the Iowa State Fair’s photography salon. Which makes me very happy. And now I have the results of which ones got selected and which selected entries picked up silks. But it’s not like I can just…
Read MoreAlbany Patroons v. Cedar Rapids Silver Bullets – Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, N.Y. – March 13-14, 1991 – A Midnight Game due to an unscheduled snowstorm
Snowstorms can do plenty of damage to basketball games. For example, in February 1969, Schaefer Brewers promoter Al DeSantis scheduled a benefit game – the Schenectady Schaefer Brewers semipro basketball quintet against the New Haven Elms, in a benefit for Linton High / Brewer coach Walt Przybylo, who had suffered a recent heart attack. Even…
Read MoreThe Donald Trump $2 scam is back. Ugh.
I swear, not only does Donald Trump glorify in swindling and scamming, so do many others who want to use his name for their own little grift. Example. Last year, a company called “Proud Patriots” offered a $2 bill with Donald Trump’s face replacing the official portrait of Thomas Jefferson. And they sold this bill…
Read MoreGeneral Philip Sheridan gave me money last week.
I have to go back to 2011 for this. Maybe 2010, because that’s when I took the photo. I was in downtown Albany, taking photos wherever I could – just testing out my new-to-me Nikon D700 and having some fun. And as I walked around the Capitol building, I decided to capture a photo of…
Read MoreMy entries for the 2024 Iowa State Fair are …
I first sent my photos to the Iowa State Fair’s Photography Competition in 2014. Ten years ago. It took three years for them to accept one of my entries, and another year before I picked up my first blue ribbon from that organization. The Iowa State Fair is the first of my five-event “Competition Season,”…
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