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Atlantic Light: The Nova Scotia Sunrise
So I’m up here in beautiful Nova Scotia for the National Basketball League of Canada All-Star Weekend, and during my precious down-time moments from photographing and enjoying all the All-Star...
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Black Starlight: A Sun Trails Photo
In Greek mythology, the god Helios drove the chariot of the sun across the sky. I don’t presume to be Helios. But I DO have a plan to chronicle the path of the sun across the sky. This took a lot of...
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A Smoking Filter Without Menthols
I’ve been working with screw-in filters on some of my photography of late – mostly my Prokudin-Gorskii photos, where I have to screw a red – then a green – and then a blue – filter to create color film...
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Her Stolen Heart
I have a good “photographer / model” relationship with my friend Lauren. She’s willing to pose for any photos I need, and she gets TFP – “time for prints.” And as I started going over my pictures for...
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Casting a line on a hot, hot day
These long hot weekends are really taking a toll on me. Yes, it’s great to have these scorching, cloud-sparsed days, but man can we mix in at least one summer shower? That being said, I decided to...
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NYS Fair Photo Contest 2012: Did anything get through?
It’s Thursday night. I just want to relax, put my feet up, ride out the upcoming thunderstorm, and watch a whole night of How It’s Made episodes. Yeah, it was that kind of day. Cell phone rings. I...
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Christmas snows at Schuyler Flatts
December 25th. Time to wake up. Rise and shine. I glimpse out the window. Snow. First Christmas snow. The snow’s loose and powdery – enough to coat my car, but not enough to build a snowman or a...
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This May, come to “A Dream in the Dash”
I haven’t been able to announce the full details of this just yet – most of what has happened has involved “behind the scenes” negotiations and the like – but today, I definitely want to share some of...
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Blackbird, meet Canada. Canada, meet Blackbird.
I’ve had my 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt SS, nicknamed “The Blackbird,” for at least six months now. And now comes its first true test. Road trip to Canada. Specifically, Saint John, New Brunswick, home of...
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Back to the track with a Nikon EM on my back
I’ve been trying and trying and TRYING to get my slitscan photos working properly. So much so, that I’ve developed a small testing routine. Every Sunday whenever possible, I drive up to Saratoga...
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The Lord of the f/1.2 Ring
In order for me to do my “most excellent star trails picture” this summer, I must use a lens that can open up as wide as possible, to gather all the stars in the sky. I’ve got a “nifty 50″ lens (a...
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Just heard from the New York State Fair…
Three weeks ago, I sent digital copies of my six photographs to Syracuse, for consideration for this year’s New York State Fair Photography competition. Now comes the wait. For the past three weeks,...
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Trees, Clouds and the Massachusetts Turnpike
Trees, Clouds and the Massachusetts Turnpike, a photo by chuckthewriter on Flickr. So here’s the deal. It’s Monday morning and I’m driving towards the Massachusetts Turnpike. My destination is the...
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Ten minutes after the wolf arrived
If you asked me to find this wooded area again, I couldn’t do it. I didn’t write down any coordinates, and my Boy Scout tracking skills are 40 years old and were never polished past Tenderfoot status....
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The Cherry Bean, or: the Crabapple
Autumn cherry bean. Nikon D700 camera, Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 lens. Photo by Chuck Miller. I took this picture last November, in a place called Partridge Run. It’s somewhere in Berne – I can’t remember if...
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Mile Marker 5.2
I’ve been playing with my brand new Nikon Df camera, testing it out in situations, attaching lenses to it, taking test shots wherever I can. And one of the places I wanted to capture with this new...
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Frosty the Snowman’s got a WHAT?!?
Monday morning, about 8:00 a.m. It’s time to get the Nikon Df camera and go take some pictures. So that’s exactly what I did. Rise and shine, up and at ‘em, and off to the Corning Preserve I went....
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The Adirondacks and Proverbs 25:13
I’m not going to lie. The past two weeks have amounted to hell on earth for me. Everything I’ve done of late has turned into a big steaming pile of manure. It’s almost as if I can’t get out of my...
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Midnight at Brown Tract Pond
It’s Friday night / Saturday morning, and I’m somewhere in the Adirondack Mountains. Somewhere in the inky, black darkness. Somewhere where the mosquitoes are so big, I swear one of them had a...
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The Moon, the Blackbird and a Blackout
Oh man, what a day. I just want to go home, relax, turn on my fan, sit in my comfy chair and watch something on television. No cooking today. I’ll stop at Mr. Subb and get a Neba or something. Wait…...
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