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Author Archives: ksedinger
Editing with Lightroom!
While studying photography this past year, I’ve learned that the most prevalent photo-editing software out there seems to be a program called Lightroom. (I don’t want to admit how long it took me to realize that this is a pun on … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday
Sometimes it’s interesting to compare performances by the same conductor, but separated by decades. Here we have Leonard Bernstein conducting his own Overture to Candide, which is likely the most enduring of his own works. The first performance is from one … Continue reading
About Town
Last weekend was a good time to be out and about in Buffalo. We visited the new Buffalo AKG Art Museum, which is the renamed, updated, and expanded Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The Albright-Knox was always a favorite place of ours, … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
‘On one rainy night in Tokyo, three strangers experience solitude from three unique perspectives.’ That’s the description of this short film, Tokyo Solitude, which YouTube’s algorithm offered up for me the other day. I found this utterly captivating; the imagery is … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday (Farewell, Seiji Ozawa)
Maestro Seiji Ozawa died last week, aged 88. Ozawa was best known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, all twenty-nine years of that tenure–the longest of any of that great orchestra’s many amazing conductors. … Continue reading
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Let the river run….
It is rapidly turning out that water is one of my favorite subjects for photography. It does so many fascinating things, and its relationship with light is particularly fascinating…. The top three are of Buffalo Creek as it flows past … Continue reading
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On Character: SCHINDLER’S LIST
I love a great bit of character writing, and this is terrific. By way of set-up: at this point we’re probably, oh, two hours into the movie. Oskar Schindler started the film by using Jewish investors’ money to buy a … Continue reading
Crossing
At Chestnut Ridge last Sunday, I turned around as I headed for the hiking trail and noticed just how much crosswalk signage they have there. Safety first! (I am not mocking or complaining. This is the busiest part of one … Continue reading
Something for Thursday: Happy Birthday, John Williams!
John Williams turns 92 today…and he’s still working. In his honor, let’s listen to some of his work! Williams won a Grammy just the other night for this: “Helena’s Theme” from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. It’s a typically gorgeous … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Ugh! I don’t know why this didn’t publish. I could swear I clicked the right thing on here. Anyway, this should have run the day before yesterday. Admittedly, this is one of my “Fallbacks because I’ve been having a busy … Continue reading