Before I start this week’s recap of blog goodness, I would like you to take a moment and say a prayer for a local Albany sports legend. Luther ‘Ticky” Burden, who arguably was the greatest high school basketball legend the Capital District ever produced, is now fighting for his life. Burden, who was voted into…
Read MoreLeica Green meets Autumn Brown
I know the snow is coming. I know the temperatures are dropping. But before the colorful leaves fall from the tree branches… I had to get a few more shots before autumn faded away. With that, I recruited my gifted Leica M3 camera (“Leica Green”) and snapped a few remaining autumnal shots with Kodak Gold…
Read More
The Cathedral of St. Philco
My latest crafted project brings together spirituality, patience and an old cathedral radio frame. Hope you enjoy seeing it from conception to creation.
Read MoreOne day I will cut the cord…
This is a message to Time Warner Cable, my second-favorite cable service provider (all the others are tied for first): Your days are numbered, bunky… Your days of promotional rates that vanish in a heartbeat are numbered… Your days of bugging me to bundle my cable and internet service with a phone service I’ll never…
Read MoreThe return of “Amazing Stories”?
It’s 1985, and three anthology programs are now part of the prime time lineup. There’s a revival of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, where new episodes are filmed with wraparound introductions by Alfred Hitchcock himself (taken from old episodes and colorized). There’s a revival of the Twilight Zone, featuring awesome new stories from modern science fiction scribes.…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Your Easy Listening Station
Back in the day, “easy listening” music didn’t have screaming guitars, screaming vocalists, or anything else that screamed. It was mellow music (probably what you might call “Yacht Rock” today). And the lyrics were cool – mostly about love and relationships, sometimes inspirational, sometimes wistful. So if K-Chuck Radio became an easy listening station today……
Read More“Toss the leaves higher, Lauren!”
When I come up with a photographic concept, most times I can make it work simply because I’m the only person involved in the project. If I want to photograph a building, I will stand in front of it; I won’t ask the building to move to the other side of the street where the…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, October 22, 2015: Ten for Thursday
So I guess “Back to the Future: Part II” wasn’t a documentary after all, at least in terms of the Cubs winning the World Series. But there’s one thing you can count on – just as much as you can count on death, taxes, and Keith Richards surviving a nuclear apocalypse. And that is my…
Read More
When the “first” really was the best
I thought I had a decent photo of the Saratoga and North Creek Railroad. But could I do better – either with a new photo, or an enhancement of the old one?
Read MoreIs a “Star Wars” movie marathon in my future?
It was 1977, and I stood in line at the Cine 1-2-3-4-5-6 in Northway Mall for the new motion picture Star Wars. I had already read the first three Marvel Comics movie adaptations, and was so psyched to see this film on the big screen. So much so, in fact, that I saved up enough…
Read More
Chuck The Writer 
You must be logged in to post a comment.