Sunday morning, 6am.ย I’m waking up from a comfortable sleep at the Clarendon Hotel in the center of Quebec City.ย I look at my wristwatch.ย It’s time to get out of bed – and drive another 7 hours. See, when I schedule PBL games to photograph, I can’t just do one game and spend the…
Read MoreFirst PBL Game of the Season – Buffalo v. Quebec
Saturday morning.ย Loaded up the Pontiac 6000 with my camera equipment, my laptop computer, and myself.ย Destination – Quebec City, home of the Quebec Kebs of the Premier Basketball League, who with the demise of the Continental Basketball Association are now one of the only independent minor league hoops circuits.ย It’s the PBL and the…
Read MoreMy Realistic New Year’s Resolutions
Around this time of year, everybody makes grandiose New Year’s Resolutions that they hope to keep throughout the year, but most likely will completely forget about by January 8. I’ve been guilty of this as well.ย Don’t get me wrong.ย Last year I had a resolution to win the Elbo Room Trivia Tournament, Trivia Bowl…
Read MoreMy Best Photos of 2009
I’ve had some great experiences with my camera this year, both in working with the Premier Basketball League, and in personal shots. In July, I ditched my 5-year-old Nikon D70 for a more powerful Nikon D700, and have added more camera lenses and glass for my photographic arsenal. So just for a lark, I looked…
Read MoreTrivia Bowl 6 is coming…
February 6, 2010. The day before the Super Bowl. The day before the big game, there will be the “big game” for the best trivia teams in the Capital District. Yes indeedy doo, it’s the sixth edition of the legendary Trivia Bowl, and this year it will be at the new Wolf 1-11 restaurant and…
Read MoreDonating to the Albany Museum of History and Art
I couldn’t believe that I had accumulated all this stuff over the years. Every time I went to a local sports contest, I would buy a game program.ย That’s a lot of programs, especially when I went to almost every Patroons game, River Rats contest, Albany-Colonie Yankees and Diamond Dogs matchup, etc., etc.ย I saved…
Read MoreMilton Horne and the Basketball Streakers
Milton Horne was a part of youth sports in the Capital Region for many decades.ย A four-year basketball starter at Philip Schuyler and a graduate in 1969, he later attended New Mexico and played in the NCAA Division I Final Four.ย He returned to Albany, and worked as a little league coach for the next…
Read MoreMy 10 Favorite “Relax” TV Shows
There are TV shows where I will sit comfortably in my chair and watch all the excitement and action and suspense.ย There are TV shows where I will throw stuffed animals at the TV screen because of the horrible acting or stupid plotlines or the like. And then there are a special brand of TV…
Read MoreHow Albany Almost Got Minor League Baseball in the 1970’s
Everybody knows the Albany Senators baseball team folded in 1959 and the Albany-Colonie A’s (later the A-C Yankees) came to the area in 1983.ย This meant Albany went 24 years without minor league baseball – except for 1971, when some newspaper reporters, a beer distributor, a savvy minor league general manager, and a future Hall…
Read MoreSt. Joseph’s Church from I-787: or, how I spent my Christmas morning
I’ve driven over Interstate 787 countless times.ย But this time, it was different. Because this time, I wanted to get the one shot that I would never get at any other time of the year. Normally if one were to photograph the magnificent structure known as St. Joseph’s Church, the former house of worship on…
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