RAMBLE: MY BLOG
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Portland Two
2021-11-22 14:31:46 UTC
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Gerding Theater at the Armory
Portland has an interesting mix of architecture from classical western to contemporary, along with one particularly interesting repurposed building, the Gerding Theater. The Portland Armory, c. 1889, was designated an historic building and converted to a performing arts space in 2006. With stone and wood…
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Portland Part One
2021-11-20 16:52:37 UTC
Normally I post recent work on this blog. Every Blue Moon, there was one this morning in case you weren’t looking, I revisit my archives to make room on my hard drive or to review earlier projects. Today I revisited Portland. I hadn’t taken a solo photo trip out to…
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Path to Happiness. Profile: Scott Harrison
2021-10-25 11:01:10 UTC
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Have you met anyone who didn’t like a merry-go-round? I haven’t. A truly unique example is the Carousel of Happiness in Nederland Colorado. Its roots are in a carousel built by Danish woodcarver Charles I.D. Looff, who built the first carousel for Coney Island. Looff went on to construct carousels…
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Madrid, Art Capital of Spain
2021-10-10 11:00:45 UTC
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Fruit Vendor Storefront
Madrid. The capital of Spain, its largest city and the home of the National Museo delPrado, a world-class museum known for its Spanish centric collection and international art. Madrid is a beautiful city with wide boulevards, great restaurants and oh yeah, pickpockets. The sidewalks can be very…
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Tasteful Travel
2021-09-23 12:44:37 UTC
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Life is about moments and building memories. Photographs freeze moments in time and while younger readers don’t want to hear it, as we get older we treasure those memories, especially if we were thinner and had hair. In my photographs I note my life through my assignments and personal travels.…
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Washington, D.C. • Home Again
2021-09-13 22:00:32 UTC
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Reagan Airport (DCA)
Yes, that is the title of my book, it is also my status after two months in Colorado. If you have been reading the blog, from a photographers view, it was not the ideal trip, the haze thing which I have noted ad nauseam. It was an…
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Pop-up Classic Car Show, Boulder
2021-09-06 02:07:56 UTC
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Now this was a nice surprise, a car show on the street in Boulder. This one had a variety of cars, mostly American, the land yacht above is a stunner, a 1964 Lincoln Continental Convertible replete with suicide doors, 18 feet long, yes, that is correct, 18 feet.
There were…
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A Glorious Colorado Morning
2021-09-04 17:44:45 UTC
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There are just a few days left before I return home to Washington,D.C. The weather here in Boulder has been iffy lately, atmospheric haze, clouds coming in and out, sometimes heavy, but this morning … glorious! Sunny, low humidity and clear skies, Today’s venue, Sawhill Ponds, just a few miles…
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My Favorite Colorado Vistas …
2021-08-30 13:19:27 UTC
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I’ve been here in Colorado, my first post Covid trip, since early July. During my professional career I shot everything from stunt pilots in a chase plane to exploding soda bottles to members of the Reagan administration along with architectural and food photography. Landscapes, are something I appreciate. I admired…
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Colorful Breckenridge
2021-08-28 17:26:54 UTC
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It was back in the rental SUV for another road trip, a short one this time, Boulder to Breckenridge and a 2-night stay. Just short of 2 hours on the road, about 80 miles on good roads. I traded in that lumbering 4Runner for the smaller, better handling Ford Edge.…