Chuck The Writer

More photos recovered from my archives – this set of photos was taken at the 2001 inductions for the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in Sharon, Pa. For those not familiar, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame is an organization devoted to honoring the famous vocal duos, trios, quartets, quintets and the like – from…

It’s summertime, and I’m thinking back to the TV shows I started to watch with great anticipation, only to give up on them halfway through their broadcast runs. And other shows that I still continue to watch, whether they be intellectually stimulating or just electronic comfort food from the glass teat, as Harlan Ellison would…

Bumpy’s Polar Freeze – Scream Until Mom Stops the CarOriginally uploaded by chuckthewriter Sunday morning I captured this shot of an ice cream parlor off State Street in Schenectady. Gotta love the lettering under the main sign!

General Electric sign on GE Administration Building, Schenectady, New YorkOriginally uploaded by chuckthewriter No, not “that” kind of lit-up. Now that I’ve had my chance to experiment with HDR photography, I thought I’d take a shot at one of the Capital District’s iconic illuminated signs – the sign above the General Electric headquarters in downtown…

RCA Building, Albany, NYOriginally uploaded by chuckthewriter So after I got my latest lens for the collection (a Russian Kiev Mir-20H fisheye), I took it out for a little test this morning. And by test, I mean that I included a brand new attempt at photography. I had read about this “HDR photography,” otherwise known…

Sommers Building sign, AlbanyOriginally uploaded by chuckthewriter Flash back a couple of weeks. When I was working as an extra on that SALT movie, I met another extra – a college student from RPI. We talked for a little while, she said she was getting rid of some of her photography equipment – including a…

Ed DerGurahian is a friend of mine from back in the days when both of us worked for the Albany Patroons (Ed dressed up as Lido, the Patroons’ panda-costumed mascot). Ed and his fiancee, along with some of his friends, also play trivia as the team “A Few Cards Short of a Deck,” mostly playing…

Ducks at Washington Park Boathouse, AlbanyOriginally uploaded by chuckthewriter I wanted to test out some dusk photography last night, so I went to Albany’s Washington Park to photograph the Lakehouse. As I was setting up my tripod and hooking up my camera and lens (I used my Kiev Mir-24H Russian lens on my Nikon D70),…

Before 2008, Hamilton College never won a national championship in any team sport. Never. And it wasn’t for lack of trying, either – because Hamilton was part of an athletic conference called the New England Small College Athletic Conference, they were prohibited from playing in any postseason tournaments that commenced seven days after their last…

Thanks to knowing such minutiae as the third-largest city in Mississippi (Hattiesburg), and the three Van Halen albums comprised of either numbers or phoenetics (1984, OU812, 5150), I was able to finish Round 2 of Graney’s Monday Night Trivia with a sizeable run. Another team, “That’s What She Said,” was nearly perfect, but they missed…