Eric Couplet was your average teenager, with average dreams and an average life. But one day, something above-average happened. The government still has the information classified as an “eyes only” security clearance, but the most anyone can tell is that criminals broke into a military laboratory and stole a rare and valuable chemical.ย The unclassified…
Read MorePhoto Essay: Shooting Modern Stereopticon 3-D Images
You’ve seen them at antique stores – two pictures mounted on a cardboard backer.ย The photos look similar, but upon putting the slides in a viewing device, you can see what appears to be a three-dimensional image in the photograph.ย It’s the same principle used with View-Master reels. Now if you’re trying to create your…
Read MoreTwelve Missing Seasons
It’s 2005, and the Albany Patroons are coming back to the Continental Basketball Association for the first time in twelve years. And I’m psyched.ย Psyched to the point where I wanted to get my hands on old Patroons memorabilia, and next thing I know I”m on eBay snapping up every piece of Pats gear I…
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I took this shot during a Rochester-Halifax PBL basketball game in March of 2010.ย Photo by me.ย Caption by you.
Read MoreTen rock acts that aren’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame … but should be …
Around this time of year, I look at the upcoming list of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.ย Of the hundreds of musicians and songwriters inducted into the Hall, I am blessed that during my time with Goldmine, I was able to interview six of them (the songwriting team of Kenny Gamble…
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Photo taken with Kodachrome 64 film, Nikkormat FTn camera, photo taken August 29, 2010.
Read MoreNew York State Museum’s “Wish You Were Here” exhibit now contains two Chuck Miller photos!
Friday morning, September 3.ย I’m checking my personal e-mail account for updates on various things.ย Hmm… someone I wrote an article about for Goldmine years ago is traveling in Europe and lost all his money, and needs to borrow some from me to get back home.ย Nice try. Oh, I got a response from Film…
Read MoreThe Night I Made an Illegal Radio Broadcast
After 26 years, I think the statute of limitations has finally run out.ย So now it can be told. I made a pirate radio broadcast when I was in college. It’s December of 1984.ย It was my senior year at Hamilton College, and I did not want to go home for the holidays.ย I had…
Read MoreAnd at the last minute… I’m thinking Vermont State Fair photo contest…
I have to be out of my ever-loving photo-snapping mind. Here’s the deal.ย My original plan this year was to only enter the photographic fairs that were nearby; that meant the St. Agnes Cemetery photo contest, the Altamont Fair and the New York State Fair, with the possibility of the Massachusetts “Big E” fair.ย But…
Read MoreThe Record Collection That Got Too Big
It’s tough being a record album collector. Eventually the 20 LP’s you have become 200 LP’s, and you can’t part with any of them. Eventually those 200 LP’s blossom – or multiply – into thousands of pressings. Your wooden shelves strain from the weight of all that vinyl. You start purchasing Discwashers and polypropylene sleeves…
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