At the Met - New York City

I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC with my friend, Carol Fondé (www.carolfondephotography.com) last week. It was a great afternoon of exploring the galleries. We visited the Temple of Dendur and I grabbed this image. My friend Julio Sosa did a bit of work on the file in Photoshop... I think he did a great job to bring out the real feeling of this photo. Thanks, Julio! Carol and I spend the rest of the visit tracking down John Singer Sargent paintings and ended up seeing some fantastic stuff. More images in my Facebook Photos album.

Phlox in June

 A sure sign that June has arrived is the sighting of Phlox all over western Connecticut.  These tiny white and purple flowers grow wild along the roadsides everywhere.  The blooms last only about two weeks. 

Summer 2009 Update

OK, here goes. I am planning to become more active with the blog. Focus on photography, my personal work that is. I am now editing images that I made on recent trip to Alaska. I've got data all over the place and trying to get organized. New Macbook is sweet, but I dont have Photoshop loaded yet. I'm going to load the new Picasa3 for Mac. The ol' Dell is still going strong, but I am backing up everything, and moving a whole lot of files off of the relatively small C:/ drive to several of the larger USB drives. Backing up everything in multiple places.

• Another big goal for the near term is the update my website. Again, focus on photography, my stock images in particular.
  
• I've been accepted as a provider to iStockPhoto.com and will be uploading hi res images there.
  
• Panorama images are exclusive to DanitaDelimont.com, though.
  

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheers!

Tom

The Bromo Seltzer Clock Buiding in Baltimore MD.

MEAT

Plane Ink collage

Here is the final one that I made with Picasa3. This one is from a photo shoot of the indie band, Plane Ink. I added a background image and some captions. The output image file is several megs, so it should be big enough to make a poster.

A collage of a Night In New York City

The reason I am making these collages is to test a possible workflow for how images can be made into a collage and then printed at retail. Its quite simple with this application. Make the collage in Picassa, then just save the finished file to a jump drive or CD, (or upload to an online service) and make an enlargement of the collage.

Collage of Utah photos

Here is another collage. This one is from an album of photos that Brad Levine and I took in Utah and Arizona. We visited several national parks including Monument Valley. We shared a camera (FinePix Pro S5).

Making Collages using Picasa3

I created a few collages using Picasa 3. Here is the first of several.

Most Americans are unaware of what is happening in Darfur

The Promise
A film and website focused on creating awareness of the situation in Darfur.
Check out this link. http://www.dhsthepromise.com
Go right to the video at http://www.dhsthepromise.com/videos/dhsthepromise_sept06.wmv
Spend 8 minutes viewing this film, which was produced by some high school students.
Do what you can to convince politicians and government agencies to help correct this situation.
Donate you time, money or resources to this cause, if you can.

Matt's confirmation

Matt with Grandma Barbara, and Fr. Mike, Bishop Macaluso, and Fr. Tom
St. Francis Xavier Church
New Milford, CT
June 3, 2006

Images of the construction of the Children's Hospital

Maria Fareri Children's Hospital in Valhalla, NY

Hard hat tour of the hosptial facility during constuction on 2003.
The tower structure before the topping off.
From the rooftop courtyard.
This is the main lobby area.

















Link back to my website page of the hospital projects
http://www.tom-curley.com/MFCH.html

Link to the hospital's website
http://mariafarerichildrenshospital.wcmc.com/

Link to my Walk the Walk 2006 event page
http://MFCHWalk.kintera.org/tcurley

Thanks for your support of the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital!

Concerts in my Lifetime
Just for fun, I've made a list of all of the concerts that I've been to in my lifetime. I shared it with my sister Mary, who thought she could beat my out with a bigger list of her own, and she got almost as many identified, but not quite. She may yet remember some more and beat me.
It was fun thinking back and making up my list. There are some real doozies on this list. I think I am up to forty-two concerts. How may concerts have you been to in your life?

Who
When
Where
With Who

Frankie Vallee and the Four Seasons
1970s
Wallace Civic Center, Fitchburg, MA

Grand Funk Railroad
1970s
Boston Garden
Jimmy Comerford

Aerosmith
1970's
Springfield Civic Center
Jim Comerford

James Taylor
1970s
Tanglewood
Valerie Comerford

The Outlaws
1970s
RIT Residence Hall Tent

Beach Boys
1976
Cape Cod, MA
High School group

Supertramp, Stix
6/12/77
Orpheum Theater, Boston

Foreigner
1970s
Rochester War Memorial

Supertramp
70's
Rochester War Memorial

Peter Gabriel
70's
Geneseo College, NY
Sigma Pi

Charlie Daniels Band
1978?
RIT Ice Arena

Doobie Brothers
1970s
Wisconsin Dells

U2
80's
Brendan Bern Arena - Meadowlands, NJ
Keith vom Eigen

Gene Loves Jezebel, New Order, Santana
1980's
West Side Highway Concert Series, NYC

Peter Gabriel
80's
Merriwether Post Pavillion, Maryland
Dewey

Joe Jackson
1980's
Palace Theater, New Jersey

Depeche Mode
1980s
Beacon Theatre, NYC
Mary Curley

Eddie Money
1980s
Paladium

Golden Palimonos
80's
What is now Webster Hall, NYC
Jane

Jackson Brown
1989?
Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA
Burt, Cori and Jane

Thompson Twins, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark
1990's
Madison Square Garden, NYC

Susan Tedeschi
90's
Boston, MA
Rich Kearney

Tanya Tucker
90's
Golden Nugget, Las Vegas
PMA Show

Tanya Tucker
90's
Golden Nugget, Las Vegas - two nights in a row!
PMA Show

Depeche Mode
1990s
Giants Stadium, New Jersey
Jane

Tom Jones
90's
Bally's, Las Vegas
PMA Show

Paul Simon
1990's
Madison Square Garden, NYC
Keith & Holly

Eric Clapton
1990's
Madison Square Garden, NYC

Yes
10/30/97
Beacon Theatre, NYC
Holly Gross

Yes
2000?
Oakdale Theatre, CT
Holly Gross

The Cure
2000?
Tweeter Center
Paul Curley and friends

Doobie Brothers
2000?
Sea World, Florida

Bjork
October-01
Radio City Music Hall, NYC
Jane and Brad Levine

Yes
2003?
PNC Arts Center, New Jersey
Holly Gross

The The
2003
Irving Plaza
Brad

Evanescence
2004
House of Blues, Las Vegas
Brad

Grand Funk Railroad
Summer 2004
Indian Ranch, Webster, MA
Paul and Cyndi

Reel Big Fish
2005
Webster Hall, Hartford, CT
Jane and Matt

Dropkick Murphys
2005
Irving Plaza
Matt and Paul

Rolling Stones
July-05
Renschler Field, Hartford, CT
Jane, Matt and James

Against Me
2005
Poughkeepsie, NY
Matt

The Pietasters w/ Walking White Bread
2005
Webster Hall, Hartford, CT
Jane and Matt

Another website up and running

I've finished setting up the initial version of the webiste for my brother Paul's bar, The Grey Hound Pub in Worcester, MA. This morning I showed him the admin tool so that he can edit his own content from the point on. I think the site looks good...
www.thegreyhoundworcester.com
The bar... and the website...have another name, An Cu Liath and www.anculiath.com. That's celtic for The Grey Hound.
Cheers!

Junie Regraduates - 2006

Guide Dog Foundation, Smithtown, NY
March 26, 2006

As Junie's original puppy walker, Jane was invited back to the Foundation to participate in a Celebration Sunday in which Junie was one of six dogs to complete training and be placed with a new owner. Junie's previous owner decided to give her up due to his wife's upcoming childbirth.

Isabella Rosselini was in attendance, and is seated in the center of the above photo, along the wall, in black vest.
James with Junie's new graduate, Janie.

















Jane with Junie and Janie.

Learn more about guide dogs at www.guidedog.org