Category: A Fan’s View

I’ve been a working photographer since 2012. This photo is from January 2015. It was early morning and there was still a little frost on the ground

Even though the 70’s group T-Rex has been eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it wasn’t until this year that they received their first nomination.

They were there at the beginning of Glam Rock. Their 1971 album “Electric Warrior” received critical acclaim as a Glam Rock album.

“Get It On” is biggest hit overall. It reached number 10 on the US charts and spent four weeks at the top in the UK. T-Rex were bigger in the UK than in America.

In the US, it was retitled “Bang a Gong (Get It On)” to avoid confusion with a song of the same name by the group Chase

The Woodstock Music an Art Fair, also known as An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music, held in Bethel, New York on August 15,16 and 17, 1969 has been called both the end of the 60’s and the beginning of the 70’s. I suppose that both of these can be true, but I feel as an event it was more of the beginning of the 70’s with the Moon Landing a few weeks earlier being the end of the 60’s.

Wow, Where did the month of July go?

I have been mostly non-stop for these past weeks and have neglected posting here. Shame on me.

There has been a few projects I’ve been involved with during the month. I have put together two of my proposed 2020 calendars of my photos. The first, the 6th Annual Delmarva Scenes calendar, is now available for purchase. It’s a 16 month calendar beginning September 2019 and goes throughout 2020. Some of the photos have been used in previous calendars and others are new. I suppose one could see it as a ‘Best of’ calendar. I think they are some of my best photos. The other is one of Delmarva Sunsets, which will be available in August. I’m waiting for the preview copy to arrive.

I have been working with my local community theatres. Yes that’s plural. Two to be exact. One, Garfield Center for the Arts, as Stage Manager for their upcoming production that opens on August 23rd, Circle Mirror Transformation. And at Church Hill Theatre photographing their summer camp. The production was this past weekend. And anyone who have seen a youth production you can imagine how cute the shows were.

In the middle of this was our Annual 4-H county fair. I am the Photography Chair, and spent a good part of a week, also the hottest week of this summer, at the fair. My photos of the fair can be seen on my ShoreToBeFun Photographs FB Page.

And that was all on top of delivering Art and Entertainment News at the ChesaDel Crier. Today, I’m playing catch-up, which includes posting here.

On the evening of May 14, 2019 there was a wonderful Rainbow seen in Kent and Queen County, Maryland. It was also a rainbow that I usually wouldn’t see.

For the past several weeks I have been working on Church Hill Theatre’s upcoming production of Jesus Christ Superstar as an assistant Stage Manager. I am also photographing the show. Each show has Head Shots taken of the cast and production team. Tuesday was the night for me to shoot the Head Shots.

I don’t always take a lot of equipment to do the Head Shots, but with a cast of thousands (ok only 31) I took in a little more than usual. I had a break and had tore down the equipment and decided to take them out to my car.

As I exited the theatre the Rainbow was out. My experience is that rainbows often fade quickly. This one didn’t since I was able to run back into the theatre, grab my camera and get back to take this shoot. Yes, it wasn’t as pronounce as it was when I first saw it, but still clearly visible.

They say that every picture tells a story. And some of the best photographs are the ones that make the viewer come up with the story. That is what was my mission when I shot this photograph.

In case you are wondering, it was not a shot that I staged just something that happen during a photoshoot.

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Note: I have been photographing events and other happenings near me, mostly in Kent County, MD, since 2012. On Thursday’s I will be posting one of my photographs, some fairly recent and others not so much recent. My photography page is at SGAtkinson.com

Hotel California is considered the best song by the Eagles by many even though it only reached the top of the American Top 100 Chart for one week, May 7, 1977.

The song was written by Don Felder, Don Henley, and Glenn Frey with Don Henley doing the vocal and ends with a guitar interplay between Felder and Joe Walsh.

It was the second single from the Album of the same name, even though it was the first song written for the album and became the album’s theme. That album is their second greatest selling album, Eagles Greatest Hits (1971-1977) and was nominated for the Best Album Grammy, losing to Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.

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March 16, 2018 was the worst day in the history of Men’s Basketball at the University of Virginia. The Cavaliers had been seeded first in the South regional bracket and first overall in the NCAA Tournament. They faced the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the 16th seed, and became the first Number 1 seed to lose in the first round of the tournament. And unlike other upsets of a higher seeded team, the UMBC Receivers, didn’t win with a last chance desperation shot. The game final was 74–54, a 20 point upset.

The 2019 NCAA Tournament began with the Virgina Cavaliers as a Number 1 seed. This team had a mission. To win the tournament. On April 8, 2019 they did exactly that with a 85-77 win against Texas Tech. It did take overtime with Virgina scoring 17 to Texas Tech’s 9 in the 5 minute overtime period.