“ Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach” “ Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Nietzsche” “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. ~ Frank[…]
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Category: adventures
BEAUTY & DECAY, Stories From The Road Part II, Get Your Kicks on Route 66
“ It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. ” – Ernest Hemingway “ I am no longer afraid of becoming lost,[…]
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BEAUTY & DECAY Stories from the Road Part I “The Conception”
IN SEARCH OF “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there” George Harrison “Life isn’t about finding yourself, It’s about creating yourself” George Bernard Shaw About eight months ago[…]
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ALLEGANY COUNTY HOME
ANGELICA “The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house” ~ William Graham Sumner[…]
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PERRY’S CASTLE
The New York State Inebriate Asylum, which later became the Binghamton State Hospital, was the first institution designed and constructed to treat alcoholism as a mental disorder. Located in Binghamton, NY, its imposing Gothic[…]
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GLEN SPRINGS
THE GLEN SPRINGS Watkins Glen NY The discovery in 1889 of an old analysis of water from a long abandoned artesian well resparked new interest in a well near Deer Lick Spring, NY. Long known for[…]
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BATTLEFIELDS AND PARTLY SUNNY DAYS
A BLOG ON RECENT SHOOTS GETTYSBURG, SHENANDOAH, NEW YORK Purchase Print My two recent shoots other than some portrait and commercial work have included trips to Gettysburg, the Shenandoah Mountains and a day trip to upstate[…]
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DOIN’ TIME
A TOUR OF EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY Purchase Print This past summer, I had the great fortune and opportunity to embark on a very cool and historical photo-shoot adventure to Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pa with two of the[…]
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ASYLUM ON THE LAKE
FINAL DESTINATION Purchase Print On October 13, 1869, a steamboat transporting Mary Rote, Willard Asylum’s first patient, docked at Ovid Landing on the Northeastern shore of Seneca Lake. Mary, deformed and insane, had been[…]
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TALES FROM THE CRYPT
Purchase Print CRYPTOLOGY 101 I don’t know if it is my unconscious way of dealing with a phobia and overcoming perpetual nightmares I have had for years or if it is just part of the[…]
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THE POWER OF AUTHENTICITY PART I
KEEPING IT REAL AND LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST A Westward Adventure Part I [pictureframe image=”http://machiiiphotography.smugmug.com/WyomingYellowstoneTetons/Wyoming-Yellowstone-Tetons/i-KdJQCDV/0/L/re11-1-of-1-L.jpg” align=”center” lightbox=”true” title=”John Moulton Barn at Mormon Row” link=”” width=”590″ height=””] [button size=”small” type=”gray” link=”http://machiiiphotography.smugmug.com/buy/18886665_x4PRGB/1507239816_KdJQCDV/” target=”none” align=”none”]Purchase Print[/button] In[…]
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Keuka Outlet Trail and Waterfalls Shoot
A few weeks ago, fellow photog A.D. Wheeler and myself set out for an adventure to a location on the Western side of Seneca Lake following a previous morning shoot earlier that day at a secret location[…]
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