A few weeks ago my nephew took me to my first game at Boston’s legendary Fenway Park. As David Ortiz took the plate I watched in fascination as the infield shifted so far to the right that the third baseman was almost to second base. My nephew said, “If only he could bunt!”
As if on cue, Big Poppie showed bunt. Sigh, yah if only he could.
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Big Poppie Bunts?
Zombie Nights is my story of the two nights I spent with the living dead. It is about my magazine assignment in 1978 to cover the making of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and includes over 40 behind the scene images. This brilliant cover design was created by Peter Johnson from The United Kingdom. In addition to being a fan, Peter is also a young brilliant artist. The book should be available for sale by mid April.
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I have spent a lot of time in Florida. My parents lived there for a while and we have life long friends in Tampa. We went to Disneyworld as young married adults and returned four times with our daughter. We have visited the Florida Keys, Universal Studios and I remember once a lion climbing on my dad’s car when we went to Lion Country Safari. In all those visits we had never been to The Kennedy Space Center.
This year we finally made it and it was worth the wait. The place is huge and the bus tour takes you right out to the launch pads and next to the Vehicle Assembly Building . The size of everything is gigantic and standing next to the even the smaller rockets is breathtaking. If you haven’t visited it is a wonderful day when visiting Florida.
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The Blue Heron is a beautiful fisher bird that migrates to Florida and other southern states during the winter. There is something about this particular one that made me think that this bird knew exactly how pretty it was. The bird kept turning as we walked along a boardwalk almost as if posing for a photograph.
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This title is really a stretch. Florida doesn’t really have waterfalls. The highest elevation in the state id 345 feet so the terrain doesn’t lend itself to what a Pennsylvanian would call a waterfall. There are cascades and rapids however in some of the rivers and streams. Florida also has wonderful and well run State Parks with great facilities that are well maintained. This picture was taken at Hillsborough River State Park north of Tampa.
I didn’t have a tripod but was able to rest the camera on a railing and take this picture at a shutter speed of 1/8th of a second at f22 with an ISO of 100. Normally I would use a tripod for this kind of shot but have been impressed with Nikon’s VR {vibration reduction} lenses and risked the shot. It turned out so well I am sorry I did not experiment with even slower shutter speeds.
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If you follow this blog you have come to realize that I love Pelicans. I photograph them whenever I can and even offer Pelican apparel on my commercial site. Yet as many as I have photographed, I have still not captured the “money shot”. The shot that I visualize is a Pelican rising out of the water with a fish in his mouth. I guess I have to keep taking pictures of them. This one was captured in flight off Merritt Island in Florida.
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I never knew until recently that cypress trees have knees. I always thought that they were dead cypress trees but apparently they are not. Nobody really knows why they exist but harvesting them is illegal in Florida because it affects the health of the tree.
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Cypress Knees
Each night before sunset there was a pick up volleyball game on the beach at Lagunamar in Cancún Mexico. The players varied in skill but all seemed to be having fun and nobody took it too seriously. Last year I photographed the Regional Finals in Clearwater Beach Florida which was very intense by comparison.
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Pick Up Game
We saw this guy in Canún Mexico. Young children seemed to be scared of him yet completely unafraid of the smelly old pirate just a block away. Then it occurred to me that kids see Pirates all the the time but the Jim Carey movie The Mask was thirty years old!
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I have been asked by a number of people to write a book about my experiences on the set of Dawn of The Dead in 1978. I was a photojournalist in Pittsburgh in 1978 and did some work for Pittsburgh Magazine. One assignment was to cover the new movie that George Romero was making at Monroeville Mall.
The book is now in the first stages of editing and I hope to publish it by April. I am also working with a professional illustrator in the United Kingdom on the cover design. I am considering making a Zombie Nights T-Shirt so stay tuned in for updates on the project.
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