Photo 101: A gallery for Sammy

The weekend assignment for Photography 101 was to set up a gallery. Friday night I shot plenty at the Syracuse Area Music Awards at the Palace Theatre. In fact, I had two previous years of iPhone photos from the Sammys stored in my iPad Air, too. Sammys Gallery, here we come. You can click any…

Photo 101: Finding bliss in The Little Bitty

Assignment No. 4 in Photo 101 is Bliss. Open up the door a little wider, Cheri. What brings me happiness in life? Much, hopefully. Great grown daughter Elisabeth. Love to write, for this blog and the freelance opportunities elsewhere. Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. My dear wife Karen on a line of her own. And…

Shade Of The Day

I know you guys know Angie from her Kentucky Angels blog. Well, this smart woman has started a second blog, and it’s a colorful one. Fifty Shades of Angie starts with a photo of her yarn. It’s a big batch. Needs to be seen. This story says we need to have hope. Perfect for this…

I feel inspired at my second blogging anniversary, so I pass it along

WordPress reminded me this morning that I’ve been toiling over a hot blog for two years now. Well, some posts heat up our WordPress world here more than others, obviously. That’s the nature of this give, where I sit here on my recliner in the Little Bitty I share with my dear wife Karen in…

Talking Springsteen, ‘SNL’ and Syracuse with blogger Phil Prehn

I’ll always jump at the chance for a live chat with somebody whose blog I follow. So when Phil Prehn emailed during this bitter Syracuse winter to set up a coffee get-together at Cafe Kubal, up James Street from my dear wife Karen and I’s Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, I…

Accepting an award again because it’s a dart to the art of creativity

Reading my friend Doobster’s blog Mindful Digressions last week — because he’s always got something interesting to say to the world — I noticed one cool looking blog badge. It’s for the Premio Dardos Award, and my fellow University of Maryland Terrapin Doobster was noting its uniqueness. Although he walked the quad of College Park…

The Full Moon effect, you ask? Do you follow?

My friend Justine over at the always-interesting Eclectic Odds N Sods asked early this a.m. from over there in the U.K., “What happens to you at full moon?” That was her entry into some pretty cool photographs of the lunar situation over at her side of the big pond. She’s good with the lens. Check…

Revealing the work of a Dilettante

Am I willing to reveal the inner workings of the mind of a dilettante here on markbialczak.com? When said noodle comes on the shoulders of one Helena Hann-Basquiat, fellow blogger who visits my place with smart comments that always advance the issues of music and movies and life, my answer when she put the call…

Great to see you, Kitt Crescendo, write again

When I read in one of her December posts that Kitt Crescendo was in Syracuse, N.Y. because of her new day job, I started a back-and-forth in her comment section. We already knew each other in the WordPress world, so I felt comfortable enough to give her a bit of grief for not letting me…

Resting my eyes and mind for a few days …

Take a gander, a gaze, a good long stare at that photo of my dear wife Karen and I above. That’s what we looked like before I discovered WordPress. It was a celebration for the wedding of our dear friends Julie and Aaron in October, 2008, nine days before we slipped away to City Hall…