Last week I went up to Saratoga Springs with my Nikkormat FTn camera, it had a load of KB50 black-and-white “efke” film inside. I also had several colored filters for my lens – an orange Tiffen 85B filter; a red Bower filter, and a fluorescent Zeikos filter. Yeah, I don’t know why I would need…
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All Aboard This Sunday
This Sunday, I’m going to have some fun. I deserve it. As Alvin the Chipmunk once said on a Chipmunks Christmas record so many decades ago, “It’s a present – from me – to me!” That fun will take place at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center, as part of the annual Great Train Expo. …
Read MorePhotographing in St. Agnes Cemetery
About a month ago, I was reading Metroland and saw a notice for an open photography contest. The contest was hosted by St. Agnes Cemetery in Albany, and the photo subject had to involve something within the cemetery itself. But by the time I saw the contest bulletin, the deadline was only a week away.…
Read MorePhotographing the Poestenkill Gorge Falls
Last year, when I attended the Octoberfest festivities in Troy, I purchased a book as a benefit for the Rensselaer-Taconic Land Conservancy. The book, “Natural Areas of Rensselaer County, New York – Second Edition,” featured several different walkways and hiking paths, as well as vintage photography of many of the original trails and buildings and…
Read MorePhoto Essay: FLUX Art Show at St. Joseph’s Church
It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon, and I took in an art exhibit that day. Historic Albany Foundation, a group dedicated to the preservation of buildings and history of this region, has been trying to restore the 153-year-old St. Joseph’s Church on Ten Broeck Street – a house of worship that, after the Albany Roman…
Read MoreI finally got a rainbow
I’ve had several goals as an amateur photographer. The first goal is to become a better photographer, and I realize that no matter how much I do learn about photography, I will never learn it all. However, one of the subjects I always wanted to capture was a rainbow. Understand that rainbows are elusive creatures…
Read MoreRoad Trip: Photographing the Premier Basketball League Combine
It’s what, 8pm and I’m here at the Thruway rest stop at Sloatsburg – the first rest area after you get off of I-287 from New Jersey. It was a long road trip and I needed to take a break, a chance to upload some photos to my flickr site and decompress for a bit.…
Read MoreHelping out the Papergirl
While perusing one of my favorite “wrap up all the news and culture in the Capital District” websites, All Over Albany, I saw a report about a special art project that is currently taking place in the Capital District. And it involves the region’s designated Papergirl. No, not the person who drives by my house…
Read MorePhoto Essay: Return to Storytown U.S.A.
A long time ago, I acquired a vintage View-Master reel of some attractions at Storytown, U.S.A. I bought the reel with the intentions of producing an article on the history of View-Master product, but that project fell through. Still, as part of the project, I attempted to scan in the original images off the View-Master…
Read MorePhoto Essay: Testing out my Kenko 180
Among my arsenal of camera lenses that I’ve acquired over the years is this Kenko 180° screw-on fisheye lens. From the looks of it, I should be able to shine a red light through it and pretend it’s the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Although I already have a dedicated fisheye lens (my…
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