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Happy Photography in 2009!

Happy New Year to you all, and I hope that 2009 is a good year for all of you, filled with love, peace, joy, and many wonderful memories.

Take time out to view the world through your camera lens. Look around you, whether you live in the city, the countryside, an apartment or a house, and you will be sure to find something of interest and/or beauty to photograph and share with others.

Each of us brings our own perspective to photography. Don’t discount your own viewpoint, as it could give others inspiration, and bring more incentive for them to go out and take photographs.

The clock has begun to tick on 2009, and it is beginning to count down the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months. Take time to enjoy the moments. Happy photography in 2009!

Still Photographs

I came across a fantastic still photography website…”American Still“. The photographs, taken by John Lucas, are amazing, and bring to the surface an interesting and educational perspective of the USA and its inhabitants.

From categories such as “the flag”, to “places”, to “protests”, “festivals”, and “people”, the images evoke an immediate emotional response from the viewer.

If you want to learn more, I suggest you visit, here.

While at Work…

One can easily prepare chicken soup while at work.

Get out your crockpot, and if you don’t like scrubbing the crockpot after the soup has cooked, add a crockpot liner (a wonderful invention). Add a whole chicken, or if you prefer white meat only, add enough chicken breasts (with our without skin…according to your own dietary needs) for the people who will be eating the meal. Add enough cubed potatoes, carrots, celery, onion, and other vegetables of your choice (I like to add fresh green beans). Add spices to taste. Add enough liquid to cover your chicken, and then some more, for the amount of soup broth you desire, whether it be water with cubes of broth, canned/boxed chicken or vegetable broth, or another broth form of your choice. As an alternative, I often add small bow tie pasta noodles or small shell pasta noodles to the soup (bow tie noodles shown below), instead of potatoes, .

Set the crockpot timer, and there you go! When you arrive home from work, the aroma of food for the soul will fill your kitchen. Your chicken soup will be ready to eat (other than possibly shredding/cutting the chicken).

Serve with rolls, biscuits or bread. Adding matzoh balls or dumplings to the soup is also a great idea, if you have the time when you get home, if not, not to worry, the soup itself is more than enough, and a healthy meal, in addition.

Jerry Schatzberg and Bob Dylan

Jerry Schatzberg is a photographer and he is also a film director. His cover photograph of Bob Dylan on Dylan’s 1966 Blonde to Blonde album is one of Schatzberg’s well-known photographs.

While browsing online, earlier I discovered this interview between Alex Kasriel and Schatzberg. For an interesting read, and look through the window of time, and Schatzberg’s relationship with Bob Dylan, read this article.

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Winter Day

Winter is upon us, as the air swirls with cold. Still, one can bundle up, layer yourself with clothes, and walk outside to see some of winter’s beauty.

The bare branches on the trees can have their own beauty, against the sky.

Leaves cling to the branches, not quite ready to drop off, as autumn is ending, and winter will soon begin. Look around and about, you will see nature’s beauty everywhere, even in the most simple of forms.