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VALLEY OF FIRE
East of Las Vegas. West of Lake Mead. North of the Hoover Dam. A Day in Valley of Fire State Park. We start our tour of the Valley of Fire in and amongst the Beehives, wonderfully fabulous … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged ABBA, Beehives, Big Horn Sheep, chuckwalla, erosion, Fire Canyon, Geography, Kisses of Fire, lizard, Mouse's Tank, Nevada, petrified log, petroglyphs, photography, Red Rock, Star Trek:TNG, State Park, Valley of Fire, White Domes
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Oh How I Love Our Japanese Red Maple In The Sunshine
Includes the “Red” music quiz All answers, as ever here at Notes from a Composer, are tucked inside the tags below. Red Music Query #1: We all remember Prince’s “Purple Rain”. Which pop/rock legend sings “Red … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On
Tagged Andra Day, Blondie, Contact in Red Square, Emeric Pressburger, Fellowship of the Ring, Hans Christian Anderson, Hobbits, If You Don't Know Me By Now, Japanese maple, John Corigliano, Kate Bush, leaves, Michael Powell, nature, Peter Gabriel, photography, RED, Red Flag, Red Rain, Simply Red, The Lord of the Rings, The Red Shoes, The Red Violin
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50TH PRIDE NYC
11 Hours of Pride NYC – Watching and Marching – a Photo Diary 11:30am – Ed and I perched ourselves at 17th Street and 5th avenue to await the start of the 50th NYC Pride march … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News
Tagged 50th, anniversary, Bears, Big Apple Corps, Bill de Blasio, bisexual, cartwheels, Chirlane McCray, drag queens, Dykes with Bikes, Empire State Building, Flatiron, Gay Liberation Front, Gay Rights, LGBTQ, March, New York City, Pence, photography, Pose, Pride, puppets, Quaker, Rainbow, Sage, Stilt walkers, Stonewall, Trevor Project, Trump, World Trade Center
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TIGER LILIES MUSIC QUIZ
Lily Song Query 1: Who is the classic Hollywood star here singing about Lily Marlene? (As ever with these quizzes, the answers can be found tucked in the tags below) Tiger Song Query 1: Name the boxing movie that … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On
Tagged Alexandre Desplat, Ang Lee, Carnival, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Deathly Hallows Part 2, Eye of the Tiger, flowers, Harry Potter, Kate Bush, Life of Pi, Lily, Lily Allen, Lily James, Lily Marlene, Mamma Mia - Here We Go Again", Marlene Dietrich, Mychael Danna, Nathalie Merchant, photography, Rocky 3, Tan Dun, The Red Shoes, tiger, tiger lily
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Up Close and Personal with the Maine Monument
The other day I was walking 35 blocks from the Upper West Side to Midtown, when I lingered at the Maine Monument at Columbus Circle to take some up close and personal pics of its statues. The … Continue reading
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
4/15/19 – 4:40pm EDT I am watching with horror and sadness the incredible destruction by fire of Paris’ iconic Notre Dame cathedral. In grief and helplessness I decided to go through the pictures I took when Ed and I visited … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged art, Cathedral, Notre Dame, Paris, photography, religious, sculpture, stain glass
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HEAD SHOTS BLOOPER GALLERY
I needed new head shots. I also knew I’d be shaving my beard for the Tell-Tale Heart shoot. So I scheduled a head shot photo shoot right before the Tell-Tale film shoot in order to schedule my shave in … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Live! On Stage
Tagged 8X10, actor, Beard, blooper, clean shave, head shot, photography
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SUN GLARE, 46th Street, Early February
Specifically February 4, 8am, on 46th street between 7th and 6th avenues. Do you too see animal faces in the steam? A boar, a schnauzer, a fox? … or maybe Fuchur AKA Falkor the … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope
Tagged 46th street, animals, dolphins, Falkor, Fuchur, glare, Neverending Story, New York City, photography, photos, steam, sun, Times Square
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TELL-TALE CAMERA TEST
Yesterday I met my Director of Photography Jason Chua at the film equipment rental place to do some camera tests in preparation for our upcoming “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” film shoot. For me that mostly meant standing … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope
Tagged a musicabre, camera, Cinema, Director of Photography, filter, Jason Chua, lens, pale blue eye, photography, RED, short film, test, The Tell-Tale Heart
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OOO! LOOK AT THE LIGHT!
Pics with a Touch of Light plus a complimentary light-hearted music quiz Light Music Query #1: Which musical features this dance into the light? (as ever, the answers are tucked into the tabs below) Above, my gym’s basement … Continue reading
6TH AVENUE, MIDTOWN, DECEMBER
I think my phone’s camera has astigmatism. The way artificial light gets smeared, blurring the images, especially at night. Reminds me of why I need glasses at the movies and theater under stage lighting. And last night … Continue reading
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Tagged 6th avenue, astigmatism, blurring, december, Holiday, light, midtown, photography, photos, smearing
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MARK TWAIN NEVER GOT TO THE LOUVRE (but I did)
A trip to the magnificent Louvre museum with Mark Twain. Well actually Mark Twain himself never got there, but he wrote about not getting there in “The Innocents Abroad”, and that satirical anecdote about what happens to unwary, blustery … Continue reading
