My normal commute from the Town/Village to Albany is usually around 10 minutes, 15 if there’s rush hour traffic. On Tuesday night, it was a white-knuckle ride all the way home. You wanna see? I got the video footage right here. Now to my credit, my Saturn Ion Cardachrome performed like a champ. The new…
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“Barn Versus Weeds” and “Night Train to Heaven” and Relay for Life and #AfricatoCanada
Just an update on things. My framed 8×10 picture of “Barn Versus Weeds,” the 2010 Kodachrome shot of a Greenfield Center,N.Y. barn with a bad vegetation problem, has been delivered to the people involved with this Wednesday’s “Relay for Life” trivia competition. And from what I understand, there’s a lot of people who want to…
Read MoreRemembering Fritz Walker
It’s November 21, 1989, and the Albany Patroons are hosting the Omaha Racers in the season opener at the Washington Avenue Armory. The Pats had a new coach, former General Manager Gerald Oliver, and most of their nucleus from the 1988-89 season (Mario Elie, Vince Askew, Clinton Smith). This would be last season for the…
Read More“Freeze… snap… twist… snap… screw… and GO!”
I’ve had success with my Prokudin-Gorskii photography technique, in which I photograph an item four times – while using colored filters for three of the pictures. In the past, the “items” were things like trees and buildings and stationary statuary. Now to step up my game. Now to use my technique on a person. This…
Read MoreCould ABC’s Pan Am return?
Here’s the deal. Shows premiere, they air for a few years or a few weeks, then they leave. It happens. Sometimes your favorite shows don’t survive as long as one would hope. Sometimes the dreck and dross of the latest police procedural or convoluted sitcom stays on for DECADES. GRR. And then there’s the ABC…
Read More“Awake”, UBIK, Number Six and Owl Creek Bridge
Last night, I watched the final episode of the NBC drama series Awake. Although the show’s ratings dropped from its decent premiere twelve weeks ago, I gave the show a chance, based on its provocative premise. Follow along with me here. The show’s premise is that Los Angeles police detective Michael Britten and his family…
Read More99 and 44/100ths Pure Brick
I don’t know how many times I drove past this building in Cohoes. But one day I looked up and saw a ghost sign. Yep, another ghost sign for the collection. Recognize the product that’s painted into the brickface? Yep… it’s a bar of Ivory Soap. The soap that floats. 99 and 44/100ths percent pure…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Hello darkness my old friend…
Yesterday, for some unknown reason, I had Paul Simon’s lyrics to “The Sounds of Silence” running through my head. Don’t know why. I’ve always appreciated that song, both the acoustic version – and the “electrified” version that we hear on Top 40 radio. And I kept thinking about how eloquent and versatile the Paul Simon…
Read More“Barn Versus Weeds” and Relay for Life Trivia
Hey guess what… See this picture? This is my picture “Barn Versus Weeds,” a 2010 Kodachrome shot of a Greenfield Center,N.Y. barn with a bad vegetation problem. This picture won an award at one of the photo competitions last year. And now, a framed copy of this picture can be yours. All you have to…
Read MoreThe Star Trails of Paradox Lake
The goal: capturing brilliant star trails, the curved streaks across the evening sky, using only my film cameras. I’ve captured them in the past with my digital camera; now I want to try it by using my mechanical cameras achieve the same brilliance. There’s a distinct advantage in using a mechanical camera, rather than a…
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