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Portland Two
22 Nov 2021
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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
20 Nov 2021
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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A Georgetown Walk
07 Nov 2021
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Post-Halloween
It’s about time for my seasonal move to Florida and this is the time of the year when the weather is spectacular in Washington D.C. The skies are blue, the angle of the sun near perfect, the air crisp, with no humidity. It was time for a last walk,…
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Path to Happiness. Profile: Scott Harrison
25 Oct 2021
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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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In Rare Air
13 Oct 2021
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Wades Point Inn
In seems like a thousand years ago when I had my first aerial assignment, long before drones came along. I photographed stunt pilot Sean Tucker doing barrel rolls over treetops in Pennsylvania. I had flown in small planes before, but never with the hatch removed. I was…
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Madrid, Art Capital of Spain
10 Oct 2021
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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
23 Sep 2021
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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
13 Sep 2021
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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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Exceptional Sheet Metal
06 Sep 2021
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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
04 Sep 2021
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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…