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Hillstead Museum
[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”] Hill-Stead Museum 35 Mountain Road, Farmington, CT 06032 860.677.4787 / Fax: 860.677.0174 Information email: [email protected] Museum Hours: Open Tuesday-Sunday 10 am–4 pm. Closed Mondays and major holidays: New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, Fourth of July. Hour-long guided tours begin every half-hour. Last tour of the day begins one hour…
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Interview – Karen Hutton
[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”] Karen Hutton’s photography has reached over 1,000,000 followers on Google+! That’s no easy task. In the last two or three years she shifted from a pure business model to following her heart as an artist and this has produced striking results. Although she doesn’t limit herself there is a focus on…
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Wall Art – Gengras Harley Davidson, E. Hartford, CT
[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”] Gengras Harley Davidson East Hartford, CT This is some of my favorite wall art in this area. These paintings grace the side of Gengras Harley Davidsons shop. Not only is it well done but it is reminiscent of days gone by.
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Connecticut Trolley Museum – East Windsor, CT
[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”]Connecticut Trolley Museum 58 North Road East Windsor, CT Location & hours of operation. Note: I have reviewed other Trolley Museums. To see those posts go to our search bar and enter the word “Trolley”. During late July Cheryl and I visited the Connecticut Trolley Museum. There are a handful of trolley…
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Shoot RAW!
[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”]If your camera has a RAW setting you may just want to use it. This is particularly important if the photograph is important to you and you want it to look it’s very best. Here is why: 1) RAW format does not lose any information from the image during processing. 2) You…
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Painting with light – (well not really)
[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”] I belong to an online photography site that has weekly “challenges”. This challenge was: “Make RED your focal point in the photograph”. As a result I came up with painting the light bulb. Here is how it was done: 1). Black 1/4″ sheet of plexiglass bottom and backdrop. 2). Modeling clay…
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Graffiti – Heaven Park, Hartford, CT
[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”] Known as “Heaven” by the flocks of skate boarders from around the region that frequent it New Ross, County Wexford Park, is now the subject of controversy. Due to complaints from the Police, and some citizenry there is a proposal at float to limit graffiti to only two walls. Of course…
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Fourth of July 2013
[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”]Cheryl and I went to this years fireworks with our Grand-daughter Lily, our daughter (Lily’s Mom) and her husband. They were held in the countryside of our home town. A local wholesale farm donated the event to the community. Finding a place to park was a little tough. There was one field to…
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Yale Art Gallery
[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”] Hours and Costs: Free and Open to the Public 1111 Chapel Street (at York Street) Tuesday–Friday 10:00 am–5:00 pm Thursday until 8:00 pm (Sept–June) Saturday-Sunday 11:00 am-5:00 pm Closed Mondays and major holidays Museum Information: General and program information 203.432.0600 Group and school tours 203.436.8827 Membership 203.432.9658 Bookstore 203.432.0601 Access:…