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Chester In All his Shining Glory
Chester And The Phantom of the Opera
Yes, we took Chester to see the Phantom of the Opera.
It's been a very bad end of 2008 and a worse beginning to 2009. And I don't mean the destruction of Astroland. Anyway, we carry on. Through the month of December I was lucky to have Chester as my companion. Chester is a doll, a Green Bay Packer stuffed animal who travels around the world. We take photos of him in his travels.
Due to all the things happening to me, I was not able to finish my Chester photo set to the best of my abilities. So I up loaded all the photos into another account and created a slide show for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy. The beginning photos in the slide show have already been presented here. The photos at the end are new and have not been edited.
So here's Chester.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pablo_jonsey/sets/72157612413976673/show/
Astroland Icon (The Rocket) Highlights & Shadows Challenge
Yesterday they took the Astroland Icon, the rocket, down from it's perch on the Coney Island Boardwalk, throwing the town into shadows. The whole thing has me walking in shadowland. I apoligize.
Charles Denson, director of the Coney Island History Project says his group is currently in "serious negotiations" with a group that will move the rocket to a new Coney location. "It looks like it [might] be staying. It's a survivor, and it'll keep the Astroland name alive. It's a time capsule; everything inside is absolutely preserved." Charles Denson author of Coney Island Lost and Found the definitive reference book of Coney Island.
The Rocket is 46 years old and Astroland is the only home it's ever known! Looks like the Rocket's poised for a journey. I hope there's a place for it in the "new" Coney Island. - Tricia - Save Coney Island Coalition
Neptune City - Nicole Atkins
You can't see me from this view
All the way down
Trailing the procession
I'll hide out a few more days
Then I'll be leaving this place soon
Our hearts are singing out just for you
A cemetery song for summer
And if we knew just what we could do
A cemetery song we'd not sing
I'm sitting over Neptune City
I used to love it
It used to be pretty
I'll come down, walk around a while
Until I'm sure I can never go home again
Maybe if I paid attention
I could learn to love the landscape I was born to
By the river in the rain
Let it make me new again
Our hearts are singing out just for you
A cemetery song for summer
And if we knew just what we could do
A cemetery song we'd not sing
I'm sitting over Neptune City
I used to love it
It used to be pretty
I'll come down, walk around a while
Until I'm sure I can never go home again
Challenge: Bi-Weekly Challenge : Highlights and Shadows
Thank you RobinG for the Christmas Meaning Challenge and thank you for giving me the opportunity to present the next challenge.
Highlights and Shadows.
When creating a photograph we are capturing the light reflected off objects. An object cannot be photographed twice exactly the same way because of the changing light. This is particularly true outdoors where the sun or moon moves across the sky casting different highlights and shadows every second. Light is the most important effect on photography. Light usually distinguishes a good photo from an exceptional photo.
effects of light
For those of you presented with an un-naturally cold outdoors, as an indoor experiment with stationary light, move an object to all sides and distances from a lamp and photograph the effect of the highlights on the subject and the shadows caused by the stationary light source.
Or leave the object stationary and move the light (a flashlight will do).
For outdoor photos the sun at dusk or dawn creates many variations of highlights and shadows on an object.
Chester showing the effects of light
Red Sunrise which shows the lelft side of Elmo's face highlighted. Also shows the lights of 6th Ave.
Memories shows the highlight on my friend holding Chester which is a spotlight on him.
To make a long story short, please present photos of objects which show the highlights and shadows on those objects. May the light be with you.
Mr. Quakers will be the next challenger starting on January 12, 2009.
Chester Visits Rockefeller Center
Just a few snaps from a day visit to Rockefeller Center.
Chester and Grinning Pablo Wearing Cheap Sunglasses wasn't too hard to talk this tourist into holding Chester. Judging by the two pairs of glasses he's wearing, one is a cheap pair of sunglasses, he is obviously dazed and confused by the sensory overload.
Chester and the Scary Pizza Guy
Need more Chester ?? Visit the slide show below or my dashboard. Please view the slide show at full screen and medium speed.
Chester Visits Rockefeller Center
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Coney Island Baby - Tom Waits
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Every night she comes
To take me out to dreamland
When I'm with her, I'm the richest
Man in the town
She's a rose, she's the pearl
She's the spin on my world
All the stars make their wishes on her eyes
She's my Coney Island Baby
She's my Coney Island Girl
She's a princess, in a red dress
She's the moon in the mist to me
She's my Coney Island Baby
She's my Coney Island Girl
Chester and the Nascar Champions
Nascar holds it's annual Championship dinner in NYC and each year the top ten cars are displayed on the streets. This year Jimmy Johnson's number 48 won the championship and guess where Chester was invited to sit? Yes, Chester and I got to talkin to the crew chief of Number 48 and he invited Chester to sit on the car. Right in the middle of Times Square. The crew chief also introduced us to Number 99's chief and he let Chester sit on his car also. Both crew chief's were camera shy, but hey, they let their cars speak for themselves in the sound of roar.
The mounted policeman is talking about trading NYPD souvenirs with the Nascar crew.
Need more Chester?? Please view at medium speed, full screen.
Chester Visits Times Square
What can I say, Chester is livin large, touring Times Square today, talking his way into a rehearsal with a couple of Broadway actors, charming another group of bad girls.
Chester eating his Brocolli at Pablo's Favorite Perch
Chester Schmoozing with the Broadway Actors
Chester snuck out and made a date with the bad girls. Here they are again two days later in Times Square.
Got the Chester Jonseys?? For those of you who need to know, A day in the life of the man, the legend, 24/7, Chester livin the viva loca. He's riding the Q train, eating his brocolli, hangin with Pablo and Howie. The slide show is best viewed at medium speed and full screen.
Chester Does Manhattan
I work in Manhattan on 35th St and 7th Avenue and the photos that follow are from my lunchtime one hour walks. Howie, my buddy of twenty years is usually walking with us. The photos are snap shots but I have tried to make them as creative as possible.
Manhattan is a lonely place if you allow it to be. I don’t believe in the stereotypes of people being alone in a crowd. Today Chester met some friendly people, had conversations with them, asked their names and generally made them happy to have met him.Life is short, Chester has only 30 days with me, so Chester and I are living on the edge, expanding the boundaries, getting to talk to all the pretty girls on the street.
Chester and Gregory the hop on hop off man
Chester and the soap lady in Bryant Park
A slideshow, let me know if you can see this, if you can't the photos are on my dashboard.
Multipicable Chester Cheesehead Times Four (Sounds kind of chessy)
I noticed the time limit to post stories is now 12 hours, so I'll have to write twice as many stories. Also there is the problem of Manhattan, the big city, the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps. How could Chester deal with all the hustle and bustle when I bring him into Manhattan on Monday? How will he react to Howie's taunts and the humanity of the subway?
My solution - Replicate him.
I also replicated a prayer for him to be repeated when a rude New Yorker pushes him aside in Macys when he is buying Pyro a NY Giants jersey. Also replicated is my body guard chimp Joe, he just got out of prison.
Is Chester a stuffed toy as Pyro has stated? ummmmm, that's not what Chester has been whispering in my ear. The plot thickens.
Chester Dreaming of Summertime at Coney Island
The winter boardwalk is serene, it's special, unique and refreshing. Chester is relaxing on the Coney Island beach and strolling on the boardwalk, dreaming of the summertime. Tomorrow he'll be taking his first subway ride into the other amusement park, Manhattan, so he needs to gather his strength, recharge his batteries. May the force be with him.
Chester has Sand In His Shoes
Chester took a break today on the brisk, wind swept beach at Coney Island. He was king of the beach, all that wind blew away his troubles.
All Coney Islanders have
"Sand in their shoes"
Once It gets In
It never gets out
Chester, Where art thou
Like I was saying, Chester Cheesehead has arrived in NYC just in time for the holiday season. First thing we need to get him a new hat, so we surfed on line for just the right cap. Looks like we found his size.
Old School Right Tin Blues (What the Heck)
Some of these photos are from my lunchtime walk today in Chelsea, Manhattan, NY. Howie and I walked south from 35th Street along 7th Avenue to 18th Street and back uptown on 6th Avenue. A couple are from my recent vacation in Barcelona, Spain.
When I got back to my cubicle, after my lunch time walk, I looked at my first couple of stories posted on Photographica back in Jan, 2006. I remember not being able to sleep after posting the first few stories, worrying that no one would comment or no one would like my photos or writin style. I read a couple of my old stories and realized how much fun it was back then.
So here we go, coming at you from the old school, talkin blues, in the style of 2006.
People talkin behind my back, gossip is I've been just Sliding By.
They scream "You're
Chained."
Shouting I'm just a Caricature of my former self.
I don't bother replyin, Why waste Wisdom.
All I need is Inspiration, don't want flack.
Peace Be With You
