Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
I hate feeling cheated.ย I really do. Here’s the thing.ย I enter photography competitions with the understanding that if I get any of my artworks to the award stage, I’m happy, and if I don’t get them to the award stage, I try harder for next time. Last November, my friend Melissa Simser Iovino (she’s…
Read MoreAs I shot more macro photographs of dandelions and weeds in my front garden – including the picture you see here – I remembered a couple of stories about my interactions with dandelions. First story. As a kid, I used to stay with my beloved Grandma Betty in Massachusetts during the summer, in an effort…
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Last Thursday, I watched a YouTube video on focus stacking – where you take several pictures of an object and then stack them in a photo processing software, which then takes the sharpest edges of each picture and combines them.ย I’ve tried focus stacking before, mostly in my snowflake picture Mittsu No Yuki. This time,…
Read MoreRise and shine everybody, it’s time to enjoy another great weekend.ย But before we do that … let’s get a cup of coffee, maybe a little breakfast of eggs and bacon, and read the blog posts and observations from the good bloggers and photographers and podcasters from my blogroll.ย I hope you enjoy. BLOGS FOR…
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Last week, I showed off some lenticular-like photos – the subject was three home-colored roses that were arranged in a bottle of Saratoga Vichy mineral water.ย Looked sorta like this. It looks nice …kinda funky … but, as you can see, a small breeze kissed some of the blue petals during my shoot, which caused…
Read MoreLet’s first remember the great website All Over Albany, the independent site that featured the best and most interesting and noteworthy happenings in the 518.ย Such a great site.ย I still miss it today. And with that, I have news.ย There’s a new Albany-based cultural website that just went live earlier this week. It’s called…
Read MoreHernan Perez is a utility player for the Milwaukee Brewers, he’s moved from shortstop to right field to wherever the Brewers need him. Last night, in what was a nasty blowout for the Brewers – they were down 16-0 after 8 innings to the Miami Marlins – Perez got the call.ย Take the mound. And…
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And the game begins.ย Iowa.ย The de facto start for my Competition Season 2019. Yesterday, I mailed a package of four prints to Des Moines. Last year, I claimed my first blue ribbon at the Iowa State Fair when my photo The AGFA Bridge Over Ansco Lake claimed silk in the “Anything Goes” category.ย That…
Read MoreWe’ve got nearly two dozen men and women who have declared their intent to run for the Democratic nomination for President in 2020. And depending on your personal situation, depending on what you want for our future, you might feel that Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris or any of…
Read MoreThere was this great Australian soap opera drama called Love Child, a period piece about unwed teen mothers in the late 1960’s.ย I really enjoyed it, and although I hoped that Love Child would somehow make it to an American broadcast (it would have done well on PBS Masterpiece or maybe as a Netflix import),…
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