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Making Up For Lost Time

Posted on June 28, 2020 by Mike Slickster

So this is the first tirade for June 2020. With my having taken a short sabbatical from penning any entries here since the end of May, allow me to make a short list of what we missed up to this … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged advice, aggressive mitigation, armed soldiers, Art Museum, ball fields, bells and whistles, Bernie Sanders, black mask, brave new world, Bucks County, camera, Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Center City, charities, chemical gas, contributing, cooper, corny videos, COVID-19, Delaware River, digital, DSLR, duet, economic-stimulus check, Femocrat, George Floyd, give a damn, hand-washing, Hawk Island, humdinger, In Spite Of Ourselves, Joe Biden, John Prine, June 2020, latest thing, lawlessness, lockdown, lost time, malfunction, mask-wearing, mirror, multiple gatherings, N.J., National Guardsmen, new camera, new desktop, New Normal, Nikon, November, PA, PA Primary, peaceful protesters, Pennypack Park on the Delaware River, philadelphia, philly, police brutality, polling place, power window, President Trump, presidential election, protests, pulling down statues, racism, Rage, rant, Republican, rescinded, Rie Waits, rose garden, sabbatical, shutter program, social-distancing, software, stay-at-home orders, support, suppressing, Swamp Rd., Swamp Road, tirade, twitter, Vegas movie-maker, violent, vote scanners, Washington Post, White House, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, yellow phase | 2 Comments

Bad Luck Is Not Better Than No Luck At All!

Posted on April 20, 2019 by Mike Slickster

Don’t know why, but Lake Luxembourg is seemingly a bad-luck spot. It started last summer, when the Cooper threw a CV joint on the way up there from Andalusia. The car fortunately limped back home at least, but had to … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged abstaining, adjustment, adult male, Andalusia, auto focus, bad luck, Bald Eagles, bang, benchmark, big lens, birding, blur, blurry images, boom, bridge, camera, camera shop, computer, cooper, Core Creek Park, crash, cussing, CV joint, death, deer, diatribe, died, download, e-mail address, eaglets, egrets, father, fisherman, fishing pole, flowered shirt, goodbye, Google Earth, Grateful Dead, gust, Happy, Happy Easter, hassle, herons, kingishers, Lake Luxembourg, Langhorne, laptop, lens shoe, Lent, life, litany, Louie, luck, lucked out, lyric, mankind, March, mate, mike slickster, mourning doves, Neshaminy Creek, nest, nesting pair, Nikon, obscenities, osprey, ospreys, PA, passenger door, Passover, pavement, peaceful, Phillies' cap, photographing, photography, red-winged blackbirds, religious holidays, repair, scratches, September, shebang, shit happens, social media, software, song, sorry, summer, thanks, tirade, tripod, turtles, Uncle John's Band, USB dok, wind, Woodbourne Road, youngsters | 1 Comment

A Strange Day Indeed, Most Peculiar, Mama!

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Mike Slickster

Was at Lake Luxembourg on Wednesday, not a lucky place for me lately. It was on my way there at the end of July when the Cooper broke down, which caused me a bunch of grief and still is in … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged ambulance, Bald Eagles, big lens, birds, blue heron, break down, camera-repair shop, check in the mail, chicken, cooper, cormorant, crusade, dealership, diatribe, EMT, fisherman, frustration, hook, human, jeremiad, john lennon, Lake Luxembourg, Mini dealer, Nikon, Nobody Told Me, orb-weaving spider, osprey, overheat, photography, raising hell, rant, raptors, rave, receipt, reimbursement, river cooters, serpentine belt, service representative, shutter gear motor, shutter release button, small claims court, species, spider, spider web, texted, three-week lead time, tirade, towing bill, voice mail, white egret, wildlife, woe, Woodbourne Rd., Woodbourne Road Bridge | Leave a comment

Life’s Lessons Learned

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Mike Slickster

A favorite subject of mine at the university was Psychology 101, making a lasting impression in the back of my mind, brought forward to the frontal lobe whenever I ask myself the question, “Why me?” The Cooper went in for … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged 150-600mm lens, All you need is love, cooper, CV joint, dealership, Delaware River, Don't Mess Around With Jim, down under, heat wave, I'm in Love With My Car, inflatable kayak, internet, Jim Croce, john lennon, Judy, Lake Luxembourg, Life's Lessons Learned, love, Mardi Gras, mechanic, mini cooper, Mini dealer, music, Nikon, preventive maintenance, Psychology 101, queen, self-fulfilling prophesy, service, shoe leather, smart-ass, tenderness, tires, twitter, university, vinyl records, Volkswagon Rabbit, why me?, Working Class Hero | 2 Comments

Doing the Hokeypokey

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Mike Slickster

Don’t know how I always seem to witness these things. It’s as if they wait for me to get there before doing it. Having just pulled up to my bird-watching spot at Pennypack Park on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged avian nomenclature, Bald Eagles, bird, bird of prey, birding, brood, Burlington Island, cloacal kiss, copulating, copulation, death, Delaware River, eaglets, eyeball, first-class postage, Forever Giveaway, gestation, hi-ho Silver Away, hokeypkey, hokeypokey, hormones, incubation period, Lake Luxembourg bald eagles, lottery, morph, nest, nidus, Nikon, organic mortar, organic motor, ospreys, PCH, Pennypack Park on the Delaware, philadelphia, Philadelphia Men's Jail yard, photography, Prize Patrol, Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, raptor, stamps, Valentine's Day, white head, wildlife | 2 Comments

For the Do-it-Yourselfer

Posted on October 29, 2017 by Mike Slickster

When owning a digital camera, chances are you’ve had the unfortunate occasion of noticing ugly spots, dust, hair and other foreign objects implanted on your photographs, after downloading and observing them closely. The blotches are most evident on a blue … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged 500mm lens, advocate, Amazon, Better Than Ezra, bridges, Burlington, Burlington City Policeman, Burlington-Bristol Bridge, cameras, Canadian Geese, Charles de Gaulle Airport, cover song, Delaware Memorial Bridge, Delaware River, digital camera, dirty lenses, do-it-yourselfer, DSLR, eiffel tower, Good, Halloween, image sensor, lawyer, lens pen, moon, Nikon, NJ, PA-NJ Turnpike Bridge, paris, Parisian icon, phantom stains, photography, photography enthusiast, Photoshop, point-and-shoot, russia, shyster, Sony Cybershot, terrorist | 2 Comments

Just Goes to Show You, There’s Always Something!

Posted on October 8, 2016 by Mike Slickster

If something horrible happens as a result of your own negligence, do you relive the moment in your mind, over and over again, wishing you hadn’t been so careless, and wanting to turn back the clock to before the incident … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged 500mm lens, auto focus, Autumn, death, DSLR, fender bender, negligence, Nikon, optical stabilization, photography, Rosanne Rosannadanna, Sarobia, Sigma lens, speeding ticket, sulk | Leave a comment

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