One of the first things we did as we emerged from the pandemic was to renew our membership to The National Aviary. We are blessed in Pittsburgh to be the home of the only independent indoor nonprofit aviary in the United States. It is also the country’s largest aviary. Eventually some images will be uploaded to my commercial gallery
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Wishing all a joyous solstice event of your choosing and a happy and healthy New Year
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Last week we returned to the National Aviary for the first time since the COVID Epidemic. We happily renewed our membership and were a little giddy to be back with our avian friends. We were wondering if some of the flamingos were the baby chicks we saw years ago. here are a few images from our recent visit.
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We missed the annual Orchid Show at the Phipps this year. However the Orchid Room is always fascinating any time of year. Here are some images from our visit during the Spring Flower Show.
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Pittsburgh has had its share of famous people in music and the arts. However in recent years few have been more popular than Billy Porter. William Ellis Porter II is an American actor, singer, writer, and director. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, and he achieved fame performing on Broadway before starting a solo career as a singer and actor. This year he has come home to produce a play, perform on stage and curate the spring flower show at the Phipps Conservatory.
The show was to close last week but because of its popularity will be held over until the end of July, All the seasonal flower shows at the Phipps are amazing but this one is extra special. If you can get there you will not be disappointed.
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Legend has it that Tom Petty wrote the third verse of Mary Jane’s Last Dance while looking down on Market Square from his hotel room.
“There’s pigeons down on Market Square
She’s standin’ in her underwear
Lookin’ down from a hotel room
The nightfall will be comin’ soon”
Who knows if it is true but Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers did play in Pittsburgh frequently and there are usually pigeons in market square. In any case, it is a fun place to spend some time in.
Wishing everyone safe travels to joyous family reunions free of arguments and full of great food and of course, multiple PIES!
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Starting on 11/26 Worlds Apart Kindle Edition will go on sale for just $1.99 The 70% price reduction will continue through 12/3. Worlds Apart is the sequel to DreamMap. You don’t need to read DreamMap first but it helps to understand the characters better. You can get a Kindle copy of DreamMap for only 99 Cents by clicking here.
Set in Pittsburgh in the real world and many alternate realities, World’s Apart begins as Jake and Rose travel to Dublin and Jake agrees to help Stan find his missing niece. Rose travels home to discover that her father needs her help. Apparently Eligio is missing and Nathan fears he has been injured or worse. The search for those missing takes Jake and Rose to many different worlds where they remain separated. As one mystery is solved, another appears. As one evil is destroyed, another emerges. With the help of new and old friends, the two resolve the mysteries only to be led into deeper danger. Encountering magic and shape shifters, they must separately confront an ancient evil while remaining worlds apart.
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For our first outing in almost two years to someplace other than a restaurant we decided to see the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit on the North Side. It was an exhilarating and amazing experience. It literally made me gasp and my wife said it gave her the chills. The music was perfect for each series of images and sound was beautifully rendered. Make sure you are sitting down and experience a psychedelic experience without ingesting drugs.
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A few years ago I began to offer “behind the scene” images from my two day assignment on the site of Dawn of The Dead (1978.) I published 47 of the images in my 2015 book; Zombie Nights on Amazon. I have begun to realize that true fans of this cult film don’t care if the images are sharp, free of artifacts and perfectly exposed. Recently in scanning my archives for another project I found images that I never shared on this blog or in the book. They just didn’t meet my standard of work that was worth selling. So here is the first of the new ones of the crew and George Romero.
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