01 Wednesday Aug 2018
Posted in personal, photography
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art work, Cardenas, cinema, Kaplan, Knapp, McCargish, OSU, photography, posters, Shirzadian
While going thru a collection of photographic and movie posters I came across a set of posters from the old photo dept at OSU. Wondering where some of the old gang is now.
Lori McCargish, Mike Williams, Lorraine Vibberts Kaplan, Lucretia Knapp and Jose Cardenas with Mohsen Shirzadian plus a signature that I can’t make out. Jose? know who it is?
Enjoy and share…
01 Wednesday Aug 2018
Posted in personal, photography
30 Saturday Jun 2018
It was to be a quick and simple trip, pickup milk. Got to the car and opened the door for Lola and then my door, caught a glimpse of something shiny and pulled back to see what it was.
Spider web from the steering wheel to the seat and up to the visor! If I had sat down I would have had a spider on my nose and screaming like a little girl!!
Found a stick and attempted to gently remove the said spider to somewhere else with something more it’s size to eat. Touched the web to get him out in a flash like Spider Man he disappeared up to the ceiling. So much for the gentle touch… I figured if I got in to drive it would drop down and latch onto my nose and back to screaming like a little girl!
Found him, I know it was a him because he was playing hid and seek. If it was a girl she would have gone for my throat, end of story and the little girl thing again. So hiding in the visor I took the stick to try the removal thing again. Spider took a 200 ft, in spider dimensions, leap to the seat and headed for the crack at the back of the seat. Thoughts of spider crawling into the back of my pants flooded my mind briefly and I cut him off and flicked him out of the car. Last I saw he was running under the car.
I’m wait for him to find his way back into the car, drop down from the visor and give me the finger, then grab my nose, screaming girl again.
Welcome to Saturday, hope your day to quiet and uneventful…
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Tip of the hat to John Grech for the spider image.
17 Tuesday Apr 2018
Today is Mom’s birthday and today First Lady Barbara Bush passed. These women were of an era gone by. Mom bought and sold over 40+ houses/homes over her lifetime. I remember Dad looking at a house and having to make a decision on to buy or not and fretting over Mom’s approval since she had not seen the house. And that was after 40 years of marriage! Mom did it all; cooking as in a master chef, fabric as in pillows and samplers and needlepoint and the stuff coyote with catus that she created, painting, raised 3 sons and lost one, played piano and the most beautiful voice. Mom and Dad met when she sang and he played in a band back in the 40’s.
I had a chance to see and photograph the Bush’s when they were campaigning. What I was always impressed with them was how down to earth they were. At a debate held in Cleveland I remember Dad Bush heading out one of the cars waiting for them and hanging out, kinda lost wondering where everyone was. Just very nice real people.
So in someway on my Mother’s birthday it would be nice to think she is there to welcome and guide Mrs. Bush on her way.
21 Thursday Sep 2017
Posted in learning, personal, photography, Uncategorized
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family, friends, Jewish new year, life, Rosh Hashanah, shofar
Shalom aleichem and L’shanah tovah
Today is the start of the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah, and I had a chance to attend a service tonight with a good friend. A great sermon which I will post here later spoke of new beginnings, taking care of life. I learned a little about the Book of Life and Book of the Dead. And even though I was totally lost I felt so included. Could not for the life of me even with the words in front of me keep up with the songs yet they felt so comfortable on my ears.
At the end of the service there was a Mourner’s Kaddish and I thought of my good friend Perry. While he is no longer with us I keep him alive within me and all the great times we had. If he had been with me or rather I’d would have been with him, he would have explained everything in detail to me. And then tongue in cheek, explain why I would never really get it. Miss you Perry!
Here are a couple of links for those of us that want to know but don’t quite know… Rosh Hashanah and Book of Life
One last thing, part of the service is the blowing of the Shofar and I had the privilege to have photographed Meira Warshauer’s music that she wrote for a Shofar. Fits nicely with today.
19 Sunday Jun 2016
Posted in personal, photography, Photojournalism, Special Olympics
One of the very fun things about photojournalism is learning. Today I ‘learned’ how sushi was made, by way of…
Erin Moore is a member of Westerville Special Olympics and her parents are wonderful life long friends, so much for disclosure, and I have had the pleasure of watching Erin grow from a baby into a young adult and light up everyone’s life that she meets.
Mark with Snowfox Sushi that has space at the Kroger, Hamilton Rd and Morse Rd, sees Erin and her parents Sean and Cindy as they shop on a regular basis and have come to know one another. Mark made an offer to show Erin how to make sushi. The rest is history.
So I spent an hour watching Erin learn to make sushi and seeing Mark having a great time showing her.
Remember: Let me win, but if I can not win let me be be brave in the attempt. Take a moment to visit Westerville Special Olympics and National Special Olympics and be brave in your attempt to volunteer and have a great fish tale to tell.
07 Tuesday Jun 2016
I had breakfast at the McD’s near work periodically and this morning at the table next to me were 3 gentlemen having a bible session. It reminded me of Dad and his group gathering to read, share and catch up on life in general. I was hearing the same bits of conversation from them.
As I got ready to leave one of the men handed me a piece of paper. It was an amazing wonderful sketching he had done while I was sitting there.
So now I have a simple piece of paper that I will frame as a reminder of Dad and the world is filled with the kindness of others.
04 Saturday Jun 2016
Posted in Louisville, personal, Places
In the late 60’s we lived in Louisville, Ky. Dad was working at appliance park for GE and I had returned from NM where I had attended college at NMMI for a couple of years. I was dating Cathy Thomas at the time and we were going to see a movie downtown. As we turned into the parking lot I stopped to let this young black man walk down the sidewalk, we parked and ran into the young man, oddly familiar , again on the way to the theater. Tall handsome and very solid looking. We had passed Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali.
This was to be the first of a couple of additional meetings with Muhammad Ali.
The most time I had around Muhammad Ali was the week before he fought Chuck Wepner on March 24, 1975. I was with a young sports reporter with the News Journal where we both worked. It was an interesting week watching Ali workout, chat with people and to see him away from the crowds. We saw Larry Holmes knock him down during a sparing round and had a feeling Holmes would be champ one day. Interestingly during one of our days up there everyone had left and Holmes was left behind. Not sure how we got him into my Ford Pinto, but we did and back to his hotel.
In later years I saw him and Veronica Porsche at the Kentucky Derby.
So now I will go back thru the years of negs and slides to find all the images to scan and post.
I will say beyond the lights and hype I met a very kind, gentle and intelligent person.
