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And finally, my last blog post of the year … a retrospective of my adventures with my camera gear. Shots taken both with film and with digital. Experimental and standard. Award winners and personal favorites. And all the blog posts created when I created these images. Enjoy.

It’s that time of year again. One blog post for my best photos of 2025, one blog post for the best blog moments of 2025. And let’s start with this one from January, where I planned and planned and planned for a photo capture of the sun as it peeks through the 42nd Street New…

This is why I love the Mastodon social media network. I’m bringing you to this website, where someone actually figured out that SOME of the Epstein files – you know, the ones that apparently contain nothing but big black horizontal lines throughout them – can possibly have those lines removed, revealing the text underneath. Follow…

Over the weekend, news broke that New York’s Congressional representative Elise Stefanik is dropping her run for Governor of New York. She’s also not returning to Congress when her term ends, claiming the desire to spend more time with her family. And with that … hopefully … New York’s elected cancer may finally go away.…

The kindest thing I could ever say about Megyn Kelly is that she has this unerring ability to use “weasel words” to back up her spurious and specious and two-sided claims whenever necessary. And yesterday, her discussion about – and, apparently, defense of – sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was full of such weasel-worded bilge. This…

I’ve participated in Historic Albany Foundation’s BUILT charitable auction for the past fifteen years. The sales of several of my photos and artworks have helped preserve distressed buildings and architecture in the Albany area, and for that I am happy. This year, two of my artworks – one photograph, one collage – will join the…

I’m sure you know the classic trope. You’re driving down a Southern country road, when suddenly, out of nowhere, you see flashing lights in your rearview. Local “county mountie” is behind you. You pull over to the side. Policeman lumbers out of the vehicle, asks for your license, your registration and your insurance. You hand…

This will be the first, last, and only time I blog about Charlie Kirk. I blocked him years ago on social media when his abhorrent and vulgar opinions chugged through the algorithms and populated my feed. I didn’t need that kind of bilge in my life. I didn’t need his misogynistic thoughts on women, or…

Donald Trump is a cheapskate. Plain and simple. Well, he’s about fifteen other things – a rapist, a con man, a racist, for starters – but most know him as someone who would find any way to underpay his contractors, while at the same time overcharging anyone who needs HIS buildings or services. Case in…