Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
I can’t sleep.ย Again.ย Insomnia is like a tone-deaf bugler at a Boy Scout campout.ย And he’s playing Revilee six hours early. I roll over.ย Still can’t sleep. Okay, may as well get up and do something.ย Anything. Hey, maybe that wild petunia that was growing in my outdoor flower pot might still have a…
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So I need to explain this photo… But first… Sunday was the final day for the week-long Altamont Fair.ย It’s the time when I can actually spend the day at the Fair, taking pictures and contemplating what I could enter in 2017’s Competition Season.ย Best to not wait to consider my options.ย You snooze, you…
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Tony Bennett is a star with the National Basketball League of Canada, where he helped the Windsor Express earn a 2015 NBL championship.ย Prior to his NBL years, he starred in the Premier Basketball League and in the Continental Basketball Association; and while in college, he helped Bradley University advance to the Round of 16…
Read MoreYou could keep your Charlie’s Angels, you could have your Daisy Duke.ย And yes, the Bionic Woman was brilliant and beautiful, and I still remember watching the sci-fi comedy Quark because of the ultra-hot Tricia and Cyb Barnstable twins. Yeah.ย That was me in the 1970’s. But through all that, there was only one TV…
Read MoreOne of my personal traditions when competing in the New York State Fair’s photography competition, is that after I have found out how my entries have fared, I celebrate by eating some sort of fair food.ย Just to be fair, mind you.ย I’ve already paid the fair to get there, so there.ย You saw what…
Read MoreMan, will this super-hot summer heat wave end? Yes, six months from now I’ll probably post one of these and ask … “Man, will this super-cold winter end?” It’s called balance. Balance also means that you have time to enjoy some great independent blogs by the Times Union’s crew of community bloggers.ย These are the…
Read MoreThe funny thing about playing competitive team trivia is … you never know what will trigger the correct answer in a team’s collective brain cells. I explain this because most of the teams in this weeks’ trivia game nailed questions left and right.ย Everybody knew that the film that introduced the “Pizza Planet” restaurant to…
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I’m thirty feet away from the entrance to the Fine Arts Center at the Altamont Fair.ย Inside that building – the oldest building on the Altamont Fairgrounds – are four of my five artworks. Thirty feet away.ย And it feels like three miles and ten years away. Here i am.ย I’ve been greeted by the…
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The Altamont Fair photography contest is, for me, a mixture of wills and won’ts, of cans and can’ts, of yesses and no’s.ย Yes, I’ve won two blue ribbons in three years at Altamont; but they were in category-specific locales that were not part of the Fine Arts show (The Jumbuck in the sheep photo category,…
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By the time you read today’s blog post, I will be on the road to Syracuse. It’s that road trip in August that I’ve sarcastically referred to as “The Drive of Shame.” Let me explain. When the New York State Fair sends out its postcards of acceptance or rejection for their photography competition, participants must…
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