I, Camera

The Kitties are Sleeping......

2008-11-11T15:46:00.000-08:00

Newport, RI---The Cliffwalk, pt 2

2008-09-24T15:21:00.000-07:00

Newport, RI---The Cliffwalk

2008-09-24T15:18:00.001-07:00

The Cliffwalk in Newport winds along the southeastern coast of the island---running for several miles behind the summer homes of some of America's most wealthy families.

Can't You Tell I'm Being Aloof?

2008-09-15T16:12:00.001-07:00

The Denizens of the PotemCat Village

2008-09-15T16:06:00.000-07:00

These were some of the kittens (Space Alien Cat's litter) that were living in the little Hoover Town I built under my porch for the neglected cats. They are about 4 weeks old here. These three are now all in good homes.

Raccoons Can Haz Cheezeburger Now?

2008-09-15T15:59:00.000-07:00

A trio of masked bandits peeking from a storm drain in Newport, RI.

I was going to offer them some of my granola bar when I saw them lumbering around...then figured they would just turn up their noses at it. They live in Newport after all...an are probably accustomed to picking through scraps of brie, beluga caviar and dregs of fine wines.

Space Alien Cat

2008-09-15T15:54:00.000-07:00

This is the little beast who has kinda-sorta been added to my pack. She was the mother of the litter I found homes for earlier in the summer...she's one of the cats that nominally belonged to my white trash neighbors and their ever expanding, uncontrolled colony. I was going to give her to a shelter...then I was going to find her a home myself like I did for her babies...then she was just there in my house every day...and now...well...you know...

I just couldn't toss her out.

York Beach, Maine

2007-12-28T15:15:00.001-08:00

Brother's Photos

2007-12-05T16:24:00.000-08:00

In My other blog...I wrote about how I'm encouraging my brother to explore his interest in photography. Being autistic...he has a hard time expressing himself so I'm trying to find other ways to allow him to do so. I've been trying to get inside his head by seeing the world the way he sees it via his photographs.

So far...he's mostly just taken photos of his cat. He loves that cat (whose name is Catso Rizzo). Here are some of the pics he's taken thus far.

Me and My Bitch

2007-11-14T14:14:00.000-08:00

Bitch Art

2007-11-13T17:07:00.000-08:00

1) My Bitch hiding in a Blue Dog painting
2) My Bitch impersonating a Warhol painting.

New Orleans Again

2007-11-12T13:11:00.000-08:00

A few more random photos....

1) A statue atop a child's crypt in one of the cemeteries at the end of Canal Street.
2) A French Quarter balcony dressed up for Mardi Gras '04.
3) A street performer on Royal Street...remains frozen in postion for extended periods.

My Bitch

2007-11-12T13:01:00.000-08:00

1) My Bitch looking all noble.
2) My Bitch running in a trench I dug for her in the deep snow.
3) My Bitch realizing she hates the cold.
4) My Bitch waiting for her chauffeur (me).
5) My Bitch looking all crazy.
6) My Bitch looking all happy.

Whale Watch

2007-11-12T12:56:00.000-08:00

Shots from a whale watch tour boat off the coast of MA, August, 2006

Boston Harbor

2007-11-12T12:46:00.000-08:00

Various shots around the harbor from a whale watch cruise ship.

JFK Library

2007-11-12T12:37:00.000-08:00

A series of photos taken in July 1999 at the John F. Kennedy presidential library, Boston, MA. John Kennedy, Jr's airplane had just crashed into the sea, killing him and his wife, and an impromptu memorial sprang up at the library.

Local Areas

2007-11-12T12:28:00.000-08:00

1) The surf and boardwalk at Nantasket Beach, Hingham, MA
2) Lighthouse in the town of Hyannis, Cape Cod, MA
3) Coast seen from the Cliffwalk, Newport, RI
4) Oak Bluff Harbor sunset, Martha's Vineyard, MA

Boston

2007-11-10T10:33:00.001-08:00

I have surprisingly few pictures of my own city.

1) The bridhe over the pond in the Public Garden
2) The front of Faneuil Hall.

Key West

2007-11-10T10:25:00.000-08:00

I spent a week in Key west in early 2000:

1) The sunset as seen from the poolside bar of my hotel.
2) The coolest dog on the beach.
3) A bagpiper at the Mallorey Square sunset nightly party.
4) The beach as seen from a biplane ride I took around the island and over the sea to check out some shipwrecks and sharks...lots and lots of sharks.
5) Southernmost lighthouse in the USA. I climbed it. I sweated. A lot.
6) Sunset at Mallorey Square.
7) Smathers Beach.
8) Ernest Hemingway's house---now a museum overrun with six-toed cats.

Ireland

2007-11-10T10:17:00.000-08:00

I've been to Ireland a few times. My family has a friend who owns a house in an isolated area and I stay there when visiting.

1) A castle on private property. The owner lets people in to photograph it.
2) Sunset view from my front door.
3) A traditional cottage (actually lived in, not a touristy replica) on one of the aran Islands off the west coast. Caught in time...on these islands, Gaelic is still the first language, English second.
4) View of the distand Cliffs of Moher as seen from the side of the house

Chicago

2007-11-10T10:14:00.001-08:00

New York, New York (Big city of dreams)

2007-11-10T09:59:00.000-08:00

I took these in and around Manhattan in the spring of 2001. Some I took just sitting on my friend's 5th floor fire escape at MacDougal and Bleeker streets in Greenwich Village.

1) MacDougal Street looking north towards Washington Square Park. Cold and rainy April Day so B&W phot seemed to fit.
2) Same view a few days later when it was sunny ans 20 degrees warmer. Color was more suited.
3) Intersection of Bleeker and MacDougal in the wee small hours of the morning.
4) The Flatiron Building at 5th Avenue and Broadway.
5) MacDougal Steet looking south
6) MacDougal Street as seen from inside my friend's bedroom.
7) East Village decay
8) Famous rock club (RIP) CBGB
9) WTC as seen from the Brooklyn Bridge
10) Cablework and arches of the Brooklyn Bridge

New Orleans, six

2007-11-10T09:53:00.001-08:00

1) Pirate's Alley...next to St. Louis catherdral in Jackson Square...houses the Faulkner Bookstore
2) One of the famous type of crypts found in the "Cities of the dead"...New Orleans buries its dead above ground.
3) A statue at the French Market
4) A sax player at the edge of the Mississippi River downtown.
5) a swamp shack...not real Cajun stuff, but a recreation at the zoo swamp habitat.

New Orleans, cinq

2007-11-10T09:41:00.000-08:00

My traveling companion...he's a ramblin' man. He gets around and knows how to have a good time.

New Orleans, quatre

2007-11-10T09:36:00.001-08:00

Louisiana Yard Dogs

...taken at the Audubon Zoo. A rare albino gator and a dogpile of killers.

New Orleans, trois

2007-11-10T09:33:00.000-08:00

The Naughty Side of Mardi Gras

you know you wanted to see them...these are the tame ones in my collection. I beleieve these are from Mardi Gras '97 and '98.

2007-11-10T09:31:00.000-08:00

Two more views of Jackson Square in different film tones.

New Orleans

2007-11-10T09:05:00.000-08:00

Four images from various trips to New Orleans (and some from when I lived there).

1) Jackson Square

2) An early morning, rain-soaked alley just off the square

3) A crowd of people on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras 1998. This is my favorite picture...because it captures part of the essense of the city. Notice how no one seems to pay a guy in a deep sea diving suit wearing live fish any mind. You cannot be too eccentric there.

4) Wrought iron balconies in the Quarter