Last time I used the Agfa Clack 6×9 camera, I got some decent shots with B&W Delta Ilford film, but burned two rolls of other stock. Apparently the only decent shots I can get with this camera is if they’re long-distance shots and I use a tripod. Okay… so let’s hook a tripod mount to…
Read MoreBest of the TU Community Bloggers, July 11, 2013: Ten for Thursday
Have you been able to get through this heat wave? And the thunderstorms? And the blinding blizzards? Okay, I’m just joking about the blinding blizzards. But once again, it’s time for my weekly review of ten great blog posts by my fellow Times Union community bloggers. Anyways… this week’s list includes: Don Rittner, “Welcome to the…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Slow Summer Heat
I think the weather is really starting to affect me. Long, sweltering days, sticky nights. I’ve done a lot of outdoor events over the Fourth of July weekend, and I need to enjoy some peaceful, relaxing music to get through it all. So let me bring to you some sweltering, sultry, slightly sinful sounds of…
Read MoreMy 2013 New York State Fair photo entries are…
I wasn’t going to put this blog post up until after the deadline for submissions. Now that the deadline has come and passed, and everybody’s on the same level playing field … I can finally activate this post. Two years ago, the New York State Fair offered photographers a choice on how to submit entries…
Read MoreTrue Dates from Hell
“Recreated docu-tainment” shows are the programs where some actors re-enact some “true crime” news story, and the actors ramp up the sex and violence to the point where I think I’m watching an old episode of Silk Stalkings. A good example would be that Christopher Porco “ripped from the headlines” TV movie Lifetime aired some time…
Read More“What are you afraid of, Chuck?”
I have many fears in my life. Oh sure, it may seem to all my blog readers that I’ve conquered all the demons that have plagued me for the past five decades. The tormentors, the griefers, the bullies and the hurters. But that doesn’t mean that I’ve conquered all my fears. Some of those fears,…
Read MoreIt’s a “Bottle Service” sighting!!!!
Background. Two years ago, I worked as an extra on a new web series called Bottle Service, a drama about the goings-on at the exclusive Club “It.” Originally, I had a cameo appearance as a paparazzo photographer, and then I filled in as a muscle-headed enforcer in an entourage? It was a great few days…
Read MoreEmpire State Plaza fireworks, 2013 Edition
How many times have I gone to the Empire State Plaza on Independence Day and taken fireworks photos? I’ve done it for several years. It predates my Times Union blog. Heck, I think it even predates my old blogspot.com blog. The plan is often this. I get to the Empire State Plaza as early as…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, July 4, 2013, Ten for Thursday
Ladies and gentlemen, hobos and tramps, cross-eyed mosquitoes and bow-legged ants… I stand here before you, not behind you, I came here to address you, not undress you, on a subject I know nothing about. Sorry, I just had a flashback to some old comedy record whose name completely escapes me. But while everybody else…
Read MoreWhat the Clack
Retirement. It’s not something I take lightly. But I can’t keep every camera I’ve ever acquired. So some of my gear goes into “retirement” – in other words, they become display pieces and enjoy a quite peaceful existence on a shelf. One of those cameras that received the proverbial “gold watch” was my old Agfa…
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