Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
This is my last chance. My only chance. I need to get this blood moon eclipse. I have to get this copper-red moon. And a hundred things are working against me. Rain. Clouds. Poor location. Equipment failure. Wrong lens. Wrong camera. Wrong photographer. But I can’t give up. If I don’t get this blood moon…
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Seven pictures. Two locations. One day. For the first time in my photographic competition career, I’m going to try to visit two fairs in one day. This is how my schedule stacks up; my original plan was to go on Sunday night, but Sunday night is reserved for the lunar eclipse, and I can’t reschedule…
Read MoreEverybody loves Beetle Bailey, the military comedy comic strip about life at Camp Swampy. You know – Beetle Bailey, Sgt. Snorkel, General Halftrack, Ms. Buxley (on Wednesdays), all the fun stuff. In addition to 65 years of newspaper comics, Beetle Bailey was also made into a series of animated cartoons in the early 1960’s. Okay. …
Read MoreThe things I go through to create an art project… In most cases, I can find everything I need for my art projects in any one of several different Capital District locales. If I need a Queen Anne window for a Dream Window project, I can swing over to Silver Fox Salvage or Historic Albany…
Read MoreWow. It seems like another great day today. So get your coffee, get you breakfast, get an orange out of the fridge… And sit down to enjoy ten great blog posts by the Times Union’s crew of awesome community bloggers. And let’s start with… Sara Rose Wheeler’s “Roaring Twenties” blog, “Me, myself and my heart…
Read MoreThis insomnia has been kicking my tail for a while. And it affected me over the weekend, while I was in Buffalo on business. So I flipped around the hotel television dial one night and found the NHK world channel. NHK is the home of Japanese television, and in the middle of the night they…
Read MoreI was in Buffalo over the weekend; the National Basketball League of Canada hosted a free agent player combine in West Seneca, and I drove out to assist them. I also spent some time talking with new league commissioner David Magley (former Albany Patroon David Magley) about various things and going forward with the NBL’s…
Read More“Where am I?” the shaggy black dog replied. “You are in a very special place,” the man said, rubbing his hands on the dog’s pained legs. “You are in a place known as Collarworld. I am the patron saint of all animals, young one. Saint Francis of Assisi, and I welcome you here.” “I feel…
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I barely remember my Grandpa Ben. My few fleeting childhood memories of my paternal grandfather involve my riding in a little baby stroller as he pushed me around the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston. Unfortunately, he passed away while I was still a toddler, so my memories of him are few and far between. Last…
Read MoreThere’s a spot on Broadway, maybe about half a mile from the Arnoff Building, that has a very special treat after a rainstorm. See, about two months ago, I was testing some high-contrast B&W film in my newly-acquired Leica, and I achieved this picture. Now this is truly nice… but it’s developed into an inspiration…
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