It is a sad day here at the Times Union blog page. We are losing one of our own. Rev. Alan Rudnick has relocated to shepherd a new flock in Central New York – and with that, he has reluctantly announced that he is leaving the TU blog page. Trust me, I’ve tried to woo…
Read MoreAll articles filed in Uncategorized
A night of (combined) copper
Last Sunday night, I had a blast photographing the blood moon eclipse. Probably drove all my Facebook friends nuts by talking about it so much. Near the end of the night, with the clouds oozing over the horizon, I had to put a stop to the photography – I couldn’t get a decent shot of…
Read More
Instamatic finality… possibly…
One last try to get 25-year-old Kodak Instamatic film to work in this art project. Fingers crossed. Hope it works.
Read More
The Blood Moon Eclipse… and I successfully photographed it!
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…
Read More
The Big E – Durham Fair Road Trip
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 MoreSomeone’s taking “Beetle Bailey” too literally…
Everybody 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 MoreWasn’t 52 years of bad luck enough?
The 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 MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, September 24, 2015: Ten for Thursday
Wow. 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 MoreK-Chuck Radio: Prepare yourself for J-Pop…
This 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 More“My name is Chuck Miller, and I have GAS.”
I 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
Chuck The Writer 
You must be logged in to post a comment.