Well, not me.ย But another photographer messed up big time. According to this article in Photo District News, photographer Marc Feldman provided Getty Images with a fantastic shot of golfer Marc Bettencourt from a recent tournament, as the golfer held up his golf ball for all to see.ย It was a great shot, and Getty…
Read More“Is the photographer singing the national anthem?”
The Vermont Frost Heaves joined the Premier Basketball League for the 2008-09 season, and did quite well for themselves, making the playoffs and selling out the Barre Municipal Auditorium and the Burlington Memorial Auditorium most nights.ย Their fans would drive to every Frost Heaves road game, from Halifax to Lawton (the only one they didn’t…
Read MoreMore on the “Little Red Schoolhouse” / “Answers Please” project
Got a decent response to my Friday blog post about the history of WRGB’s “Little Red Schoolhouse” / “Answers Please” high school quiz show. Over the past few days, I’ve put in plenty of dates and information from various sources – indicating, wherever possible, dates and times the show aired, opponents, who won, who retired…
Read MoreThe Results of Summer Bowl 1
There’s a lot of motivation going through me right now.ย It’s been a few days since the Albany City School District shut down my high school.ย And now I’m going into a restaurant to play in a championship trivia tournament – Summer Bowl 1 – into a restaurant that once told me I couldn’t play…
Read MoreTen Children’s TV Shows You Might Still Remember
All right kids, pay attention. What I have here on the blog today is a series of children’s programs that were actually live-action programs designed to entertain and educate. Some of these aired on PBS (back when PBS had about three hours of children’s programming every afternoon) and others are local TV shows, and hopefully…
Read MorePhotos from the 2010 IBL Championship Game
I haven’t watched a basketball game at the Washington Avenue Armory in over a year, and I haven’t photographed one at that building in two years.ย And to be totally honest, I wasn’t planning on photographing a game there in the foreseeable future. Then I got an e-mail from Kip Leonetti, the Vice President of…
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Remembering WRGB’s “Little Red Schoolhouse” and “Answers Please”
From 1963 to 1989, the Capital District’s top students looked forward to their day in the sun – a chance to compete on WRGB’s 1960’s televised quiz show “Little Red Schoolhouse,” which was later rebranded “Answers Please” in the 1970’s and 1980’s.ย In its nearly 30 years of existence, the show’s format remained relatively the…
Read MoreStreet Academy / Harriet Gibbons High School 1969-2010
July 14, 2010. I’m at the Pine Hills Elementary School, where the Albany City School Board will hold this month’s meeting. On the agenda is the possibility of closing Harriet Gibbons High School and merging the 73 9th graders that are scheduled to enroll into HGHS into Albany High School. If this vote takes place,…
Read MoreThe Summer Bowl 1 trivia teams are…
God I feel like Don Weeks in a blizzard, and a million kids tuning in to hear if they have school or not. Be that as it may, the following teams have been invited – and have accepted their invitations – to Summer Bowl 1, the big-time one-day summer trivia tournament at Recovery Room (Troy)…
Read MoreThe mystery of the antique camera film – reboot
Last Sunday, I went to the 440 Art Center in Schenectady, as it was time to take down the polar panorama shots I exhibited at last month’s Schenectady Art Night.ย I arrived a little early, and while I waited for someone to unlock the building and allow me access to the facility, I took a…
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