Nothing to do with photography, but since we’re at the anniversary of the Berlin wall tumbling down, I think back and remember, as a shortwave-listening DX-obsessed lad, the last broadcast of East Germany’s Radio Berlin International. RBI was a great catch for us SWL fans as their QSL package often included pennants, booklets, bookmarks and other gifts. Their last broadcast was 2nd Oct., 1990, before RBI was absorbed by Radio Deutsche Welle. Interesting to listen to now as the final program was tinged with bitterness at the unification. Hear for yourself in 2 parts…
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Challenge at Monticello Motor Club
Returned from Monticello, NY and the CTS-V (Bob Lutz) Challenge (search the web for more info and race results). Started very rainy & cloudy, but sunshine prevailed and so did the Cadillac CTS-V. Most of what I shot was HD video, so until I sort through my stills, here are a couple images that caught my eye from around the Monticello Motor Clubhouse…
UPDATE: yes, my footage used well on SpeedChannel’s half hour CTS-V Challenge show from December 8.
Service Call
A lone service call in the middle of an empty Motor Mall in Warren, MI. There are several lots around here, linked together by similar No Trespassing/Electronic Surveillance signs.
Street Photography: Documenting the Human Condition
Stumbled across this on LightStalkers; a fantastic documentary on street photography by Chris Weeks. “Street Photography: Documenting the Human Condition.” In three parts, begins here:
Downtown Detroit Deer
Downtown Detroit, 2009: a herd of deer were spotted in chalk on the side of a building badly in need of rescue (both building and deer). Much like the lion van below, these creatures are penned safely behind a fence. Of sorts.
Leaving On A Jet Plane
Santa Monica, CA 2009. Day before my own departure. A study in perspective.
RSS and Such
In case you might be feedin’ offa this here blog, do a little update to your feedbag source. Changed from BLOGGER to WORDPRESS. Trying to make it as painless as possible.
Olde New York Street
What does one find when strolling AnyStreet, USA in backdropstudioland? A bent lamp post with a pop can in the socket. A light rig hiding behind the curtains of a quaint book store. And bicycles in the Chocolat Shoppe. AnyStreet USA. A curious familiarity from a scene you seen. Somewhere late at night. In a theater near you.
Int’l Photography Awards 2009
A couple of my entries have completed the first three rounds of judging in the International Photography Awards 2009 and now have been named OFFICIAL SELECTIONS. They include the single image “Vegas Couch” and the reproduced food image series “Delicious” (three sample images below).
Delicious statement: An image series of commercially created and idealistically presented foods and dishes, passed through the filter of time, age, distance, weather and photographic reproduction into new serving suggestions.