James Brubaker

Jim wrote:   You can’t buy happiness but you can buy a boat.  I had a number of “bay boats”, canoes, kayaks, sunfish, windsurfers.  I can’t help but rub it into my family with a photo like this when I am boating  in my open outboard, padding my canoe, or boating through the Gap at night in my Four Winns inboard/outboard.  Actually, I used this photo to entice them to come visit and spend a week with me. I feel this photo belongs in a magazine sailing (selling) the good life idea.

Summer 2019.

Dave wrote:  Hi  Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog.  Tundra Swans. They breed in the high Arctic and migrate thru NY state in the late fall. They stop on the larger lakes in NY on their way to the Chesapeak Bay area where they winter. Dave

12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI

12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI

12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI

12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – Snap some photos that will help you sell the message that you want family to visit you!

I wroter:Here is another Gap photo – and an other life of me photo. In another life and another Island, as an ordained minister, I performed many weddings, most performed in the church with small to moderate sized parties. Some were performed outside overlooking the Atlantic Ocean with a wedding party of a hundred. So, years later, a small informal wedding on Whitney Bay, overlooking the Gap, caught my attention. In order to not disturb them, I peeked around my bushes to take the interesting snapshot, showing the Gap in the background. One more Gap photo was added to my photo library.

A wedding on Whitney Bay overlooking the Gap. July 2021

Me performing a wedding – Block Island. Around 1990.

Dave wrote:  Hi  Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog.  Tundra Swans. They breed in the high Arctic and migrate thru NY state in the late fall. They stop on the larger lakes in NY on their way to the Chesapeak Bay area where they winter. Dave

12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI

12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI

12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI

12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI

AS I SWING THROUGH LIFE – My goal at the weddings I performed was to make that their most special day. – To make someone’s day special is a good idea!

“I am ‘rephotographer‘ because I have at least 100 photos of Great Lake Freighters in the gap. This is a 1,000 footer heading for the Soo Locks and into the Lake that holds the Edmund Fitzgerald. I am aiming for the nine ten and I bet I see her there.” (That last sentence is Island language)

July 2023 Jim Brubaker

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – with the phone camera you may become a rephotographer and that ain’t bad!

Ponies are slow compared to planes. Yesterday I wrote about the youth experiencing the responsibilities of flying RC airplanes. I predicted the experience would help him prepare to manage a fast changing world. This 80 year box camera photo shows me experiencing one of the responsibilities of owning farm animals. Farm responsibilities were a strong part of the experience of youth in those rural homes. I believe it helped us have a positive impact on those we touched throughout the slower changing future of 1944.

12 07 2023

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE -know that the future will happen.

This photo story is about the 30 year future. Wish I could see it. Folks, from the generation of this young man in red, will be managing our world. Amazing, he is already a certified Radio Controlled pilot. Those beside him could be a retired fighter pilot and a commercial airline pilot. Their planes are connected to satellites, giving the pilot information, and in some instances doing safety moves for him. Soon he will communicate his take-off plans and the run-way will be his. The senior pilots respond knowing the young man is in control of the run-way air space at that time. This experience is building technical and social skills as well as confidence to help his generation manage our word, when cities will need to handle 100’s of millions, colonies on planets will need support, planes, trains, and automobiles will all be pilotless, and things we never thought of will need solutions.

JEB – 12 06 2023

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE -Appreciate activities and organizations that help prepare our youth to manage our future world.

Our “The Great Outdoors” community is blessed with an array of weather conditions that produce special clouds for the base of creative photo art .

The sky over TGO 2023

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE -Look up and all is well with the world.

TGO is geographically blessed with an array of weather conditions that produce our cumulus clouds. They reflect, casting light and shadows in our lakes and canals, creating beautiful pieces of art that change moment by moment. The art is just there, not a once in a life time beautiful view, but a ho-hum beautiful view we can see almost anytime, like this one with a gator just adding a point of interest.

TGO 2023

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE -Reflect upon the reflections that help make TGO The Great Outdoors!

I want to see other’s life styles when I set out to do “Street Photography”.  I, also, want to be sure I do not present a judgement of what I see.  My joy is in seeing how others live.

This photo is near the Fashion Institute of Technology, a college connecting technology to the fashion industry, in Manhattan, NYC. The top image is as me and my camera saw it. 

In the second image I added a store front awning I photographed on another street in Manhattan.  The two photographs together made me laugh. That is why I enjoy photographing the streets of NYC.

Notice the guy on our left looking the other way. “I see nothing” he says!

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE -Be yourself butt enjoy seeing how others live. Ha ha excuse my spelling error.

Hope you figured out yesterdays surprise – It is not a blond haired lady, but a man’s ponytail. I did not notice it until I went to post that photo. Today’s photo is from a room that could be advertised as “A room with a view of Central Park”.

New York City – 2023

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – Try to think about what you want each photo say before you snap it – but if you don’t – worry not, because you can figure out what it says when you share it with family and friends.