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Tonight’s Cocktail Hour

August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Okay, let’s get this out of the way up front: I haven’t been posting — or photographing — enough recently.
But, there’s a good reason, one regular readers of this site know — equipment that’s not up to snuff. So some changes have been in order.
As of yesterday, those changes are nearly complete.
It’s meant selling my [...]

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Miles and Trish

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments

…are not only wonderful people, they, together with Martha Kelly — Trish’s amazing Mom — hosted this week’s Cocktail Hour. As expected, it was fantastic.
The happy couple:

Miles and Trish (Enjoying their Cocktail Hour)
Couldn’t stay the duration, alas, and can only look at a few of the photographs from tonight before getting back to work — [...]

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Independence Day, 2008

July 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

As my blog readers know, I’ve been having some equipment problems recently. For Independence Day, however, my camera raised a flag and celebrated the long-overdue Unity — out of 446 photographs Friday (taken in about three hours of straight shooting), I kept 309, starred 185, and multi-starred 90. Remarkable. More: The first four-star images in, [...]

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This Week’s Cocktail Hour

June 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Macon hasn’t had a Cocktail Hour for a few weeks, hardly unusual around the end of the school year. So it was not a surprise to see so many good folks at last night’s event, hosted by Elizabeth and John.
Including a fantastic-looking woman — who just happens to be John’s mother — toting a pretty [...]

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Tonight’s Cocktail Hour

May 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

…at Jay and Fernando’s was, as always, a great time. Many thanks to both gentlemen for hosting!
I’ve posted a brief gallery, but need to note: I was breaking in a new camera tonight, and thus was experimenting more than usual — resulting in a lower-than-usual “keeper” count. Forgive.
Couple of shots I really like, though, which [...]

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Macon in April

April 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Keeping in mind that I completely skipped Cherry Blossom, a collection of photographs taken in April, 2008. Including this one:

All Signs Point to Tucker’s
And this one:

Alley Behind Capricorn
…next door to the just-announced ($29-million!) Capricorn Center.
Also updated a couple of miscellaneous galleries, including the Automotive one:

GTI in Sunset Light (at Tucker’s Bar-B-Q)
I love my car! (Just [...]

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There’s something about … billiards.

January 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Especially when combined with a fisheye:

Still messing around with the various Zenfolio options, but know that the infrastructure is in place, finally, for folks to get prints if they want, need, or desire … balls.
Heheheh.

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