{"id":749,"date":"2017-05-03T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic-photoblog.bobleafe.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2018-08-27T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T20:36:18","slug":"1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"1987 – Favorite photos of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was staying with some friends in Grand Prairie, Texas, while I was shooting the Texxas Jam in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.<\/span><\/h4>\n

This not-particularly-exciting image was seen in their parking lot. The sofa seemed to throw things off a bit, so what the hell……………..my lasting image of Texas:<\/span><\/h4>\n

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\nThe landlord had this tree trimmed of some branches. As the sun set a few hours later, it shone brilliantly on the sap-oozing wound.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

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I happened to look out my window one overcast day and saw this guy pushing all this STUFF uphill. I’ve seen my share of homeless people before, but this one – assuming he WAS homeless – looked more like a moving company.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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From my site:<\/span><\/h4>\n

Holy Trinity Church, Hackensack, NJ<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

Way over the altar is this large image which I had seen every Sunday of my childhood. I thought those orange things were mushrooms – the ones that grow on trees. I still don’t know what they are.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

Anyway, I hadn’t seen the image in a while, so I shot this at my nephew Michael’s christening.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

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I have no idea what was going on at the Arena that day (or why I was even there during daylight hours), but I thought it was an interesting shot to take.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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I had shot some show in Poughkeepsie, NY and then went out drinking with a couple of young ladies. At about 3 or 4am, we wound up in a diner on Route 9 and saw this guy at the next table who was much further gone than all of us combined.<\/span><\/h4>\n

How could I resist taking this shot? Then I had to drive 75 miles to go home.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Long night.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Speaking of Poughkeepsie, that’s where I took this picture of a lovely young woman during a show.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Believe it or not, I also took the next picture at the same show. Anyone care to venture a guess as to what show that could possibly be? (Hint: it’s not “Beauty and the Beasts”\u009d.)<\/span><\/h4>\n

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STILL speaking of Poughkeepsie, this was taken backstage after an Anthrax\/Celtic Frost\/Exodus show at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center………….and this a different show from the one mentioned in the two previous pictures.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Englewood Boat Basin, Englewood Cliffs, NJ<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

Rossana DiBello – a great name (and my sister-in-law’s sister) – was brought into this picture to make the George Washington Bridge and Manhattan look better.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

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I have lots of other shots of Paterson, NJ’s Great Falls in this blog, but this is one of my favorites because of the redundancy of the artist’s image.<\/span><\/h4>\n

If you’re into Alexander Hamilton, he was the one who first saw these falls, realized their power potential and wound up making Paterson an industrial force, back in the day.<\/span><\/h4>\n

I’ve visited these falls since the mid-70s and they (and the area surrounding them) were recently named as a National Park, so if you’re in the NYC area, they’re worth a visit (and are only about 15 miles from Manhattan).<\/span><\/h4>\n

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This was shot somewhere between 1\/4 and 1\/15 of a second for that silky look:<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Here are two shots I took while walking around the Meadowlands Fair on a day that looked like it would become stormy. That’s why I used the higher speed black-and-white film. Using slow Kodachrome would have been a disaster.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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With a name like “5th Avenue”, you’d think this Manhattan subway station would be a little more upscale, but, uh…….no.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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This poor old guy appears to have gotten in trouble with a police horse and his human companion over a license plate problem on his scooter.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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A somewhat friendlier cop does something nice for some tourists.<\/span><\/p>\n

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JUST what you would expect to see at the very high-end intersection of 5th Avenue and 57th Street (practically across the street from Trump Tower).<\/span><\/h4>\n

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