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Now that I have an iPad, and iBooks has been added to the iPhone, I decided that this, my latest photo essay, should take advantage of the new technology. So I present to you, "Trees", a photo essay that can be downloaded both as a .pdf, or in iBooks .epub format. To add it to your iPhone/iPad, download the .epub version, open iTunes, and add it to the "Books" section of your iTunes library. Enjoy!
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My experience of growing up gay in the Pullman of the early 1970s was its own story. I was in my own world most of the time pretty isolated from peer group gossip. The subject of homosexuality was almost never discussed. It wasn't ridiculed either (at least in my experience). It just wasn't dealt with at all.
I found myself visually attracted to slim men with long hair, but didn't really have a connection between those feelings and what would now be considered gay culture.
In high school, I was seeing a psychologist for a lot of reasons. Sexuality wasn't that high on the agenda.
When my attraction to guys came up the psychologists were quite accepting. They considered it normal feelings and encouraged me to accept what feelings I had. They also thought it would be too early to label myself as gay. Starting back then, I never really fit the scene. It's always been my own definition of things.
At some point I must have discussed swimming at the WSU pools and walking through the showers. Kids would go swimming at the Smith Gym pool, but the more interesting people; the long haired college students, weren't there. They would be at the New Gym shown above. Kids weren't allowed to swim there, but my psychologist gave me an assignment to walk through the locker room and see what it would be like. I did that and then I was to give him a call.
Eventually I became sort of addicted to walking through the locker room. There really wasn't that much of an outlet for me.
There's lots to do in Pullman, of course, like going to the library or classical concerts or walking through campus buildings, but I wasn't aware of any gay scene; so to speak.
After a few weeks, my psychologist started to get worried after he read a letter in the campus newspaper. The letter writer was complaining about thefts from the locker room. The psychologist suggested that I should be real careful, or maybe refrain from walking through there since they might start cracking down on security. Knowing I had nothing to do with the thefts, he didn't want me to be thought of as a suspect or run into problems just walking through.
As time went on, I looked forward to going away to college in Bellingham where I would be among the students swimming in the college pool.
Many years later, I find some locker rooms and places like hot springs to be spots of good conversation. My early experiences were somewhat alienating while my later experiences were more connecting. Intelligent conversation does a lot for me. Nudity or partial nudity also.
I've talked to friends, here in Bellingham, that had lots of gay erotic encounters during their high school years. They met folks in hotel rooms and so forth. I missed all of that.
Maybe that isn't a bad thing as each life has it's own story.
I tended to avoid parties and bars. Avoided being around smoking environments.
My early life was quite sheltered, tho I grew up in a liberal and fairly non prejudicial environment. In college, I was involved in the gay student club, but that was mostly a political activity and the majority of folks that it brought into my life were lesbians.
I did very little partying in my younger years, but my health has remained good. Now I'm dancing more in my later years than in my younger years.
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Shaun - Thanks for sharing your experience at summer camp. We're thrilled that Grappone was able to give you the opportunity to attend camp this year :)
Here's your awesome essay!
Summer Camp
By: Shaun Collupy
This summer was one like no other, and It wouldn’t have been half as great if I didn’t have the support from the Grappones. You made it possible for me to attend my camps this summer.
Welcome to Camp Naticook. Friends and fun. Everyday of Naticook, my friend Will and I woke up at 7, got ready, and we’re at Wasserman Park at 8. We head down to the teen camp bunk and start our day. Put our bags down, get with friends, and that’s where the fun starts. We did things like watch movies, play games between bunks, canoed, snorkled, had “knock-out” tournaments, hockey, and more. We also did swimming lessons for the day, each person was classified in a different swim lesson depending on their swimming abilities. We all had to take our test to get our bracelet. The blue bracelet ment we had to swim in the shallow end, orange ment we could go into the middle area, yellow meant we could go out into the current on the rafts if we had a noodle, kickboard, or lifejacket, and red meant we could go into the current as long as you had supervision and permission. I was yellow, which is one step up from being orange last year.
All aboard the Boys and Girls Club van for Camp Edge! Despite getting car sick a few times, it was all worth where the car took me. We went to places like Pawtuckaway State Park, where we tanned on the beach and explored the island, Hiking, though my doctor didn’t allow me to go that day because of my allergies and asthma, the Audubon center, where we helped the garden that was donated to the food pantry for the needy and houseless people, after a hard day of work at the Audubon center, we headed over to Kimballs ice cream, for some mini golf and nice ice cream treat, the Franconia notch, and the exciting close of the week with Whales Tale Waterpark. Whales tale definitely had to be my favorite day of my entire camp weeks, theres nothing like a thrilling waterslide, and going on with my friends made it all the better. I can’t wait for summer 2011!
Thanks again,
Grappone!
Go Grappone, Go Grappone, GO!
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Winners of the Beaver County Humane Society Essay Contest gathered at the shelter Dec. 6 for an awards ceremony. The contest is sponsored by PA Cyber.
The top three winners from each category received awards in a ceremony. PA Cyber 6th-grader Ayden Gerlach won 2nd place for middle school in the contest, "Why Animal Shelters Are Important to Communities." He donated his $100 prize money back to the shelter. The contest received 117 total entries from 24 high schools and 83 middle schools.
High school essay winners are Jacob Ujhazy, 1st Place, Olivia Webster, 2nd Place, and Emma Catanzarite, 3rd Place, all seniors at Hopewell High School. Middle school winners are 1st Place Kylie Napolitan, grade 8, Beaver Falls Middle School; 2nd Place Ayden Gerlach, Grade 6; and 3rd Place Emily Smith, grade 7, Ambridge Area Middle School.
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Quiapo has always been a fascinating world on its own--giving a slice of Philippine life, culture and psyche.
I have quite a number of photos on Quiapo gathered from my photowalks with the Indios. Finally I have decided to put them together. Watch out for my photo essay in my photostream and the story, HERE.
This was my photo essay project for Photography II at a local community college. The assigned subject was Veggies in Close by Window Light.
I shot all pictures with Exposure Bracketing with continuous shooting mode turned on (it would shoot 3 pictures then stop), so that I could pick the best exposure for the particular subject.
I liked the detail in the roots on this one.
Recently, I visited Bahr Creek Llama farm to learn about the process of making yarn, from beast to skein. Bahr Creek Llama Farm is located in Belgium, Wisconsin and has 36 llamas for fiber harvesting and breeding. They are even tempered animals that range in color from black to brown to white.
This was my photo essay project for Photography II at a local community college. The assigned subject was Veggies in Close by Window Light.
I shot all pictures with Exposure Bracketing with continuous shooting mode turned on (it would shoot 3 pictures then stop), so that I could pick the best exposure for the particular subject.
I shot this in both f/4 and f/8. I thought the f/4 would be the best one, but I thought having the garlic peel in focus looked better for this particular shot. Focus was on the garlic top on the right.
I still have the calculator I got for $79 the spring of my freshman year in college, 1974.
Prices for electronics and many consumer items have come down over the years due to various efficiencies in the economy. Globalization, automation and so forth. Meanwhile, prices for things like housing, medical care of college tuition has gone up. No wonder more people are going homeless in USA. As wages are often based on the selling of goods and services where there's downward pressure on prices, the cost of housing and high end professional services follows different economics. Many workers are caught in the rift.
It was quite impressive. Soon there were some more expensive calculators that had more functions; like memory and logarithmic functions.
It was a fun thing to have even though I remember my dad questioning whether it was worth the money. Most professors still tried to ban them from the classroom encouraging their students to do math in one's head. There was the worry that people's brains might atrophy.
A bit of my electronic history.
Cassette tape memory for Ohio Scientific computer, then Texas Instrument calculator.
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