Making lemonade

Sue requested this photo. I’ve been thinking about getting it, and her reminder got me to get out and take the picture.

The statue with lights is on Discovery Road, near the corner of San Juan and F Streets. The adjacent homeowner created this lovely angel light sculpture on top of one of my least favorite public sculptures ever. Good job!

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Two cast members in Dracula

Key City Public Theater’s performance of Dracula opens tonight. These are two of the cast members. The photo was from the last dress rehearsal.

There are a couple more of my Dracula photos on the Port Townsend Leader’s arts page.

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Outtake photo from Dracula publicity shoot

Port Townsend’s Key City Public Theater is staging a production of Dracula, adapted from the novel of the same name. The late Sy Kahn wrote the play. From the press release:

It begins with a screaming nightmare.

And, like any good horror story, the nightmare gets worse before it gets better.

Key City Public Theatre presents the Pacific Northwest premiere of the timeless tale “Dracula” as adapted from the Bram Stoker classic by long-time Port Townsend resident Sy Kahn. The show opens Friday October 7 and runs through Sunday October 30.

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My winning entry in the Jefferson County Fair

This is not the photo I posted recently as an entry in the Jefferson County Fair. That did get a blue ribbon but there were a number of those given. I took this picture last winter. It’s a black and white titled Reading. It won the Paul Conklin Award as the best adult photo.

There’s a slight bit of embarrassment here. Monday, I was talking to another Port Townsend Photo Club member, who won this award a couple of years ago. She said that I should have entered in the expert class instead of regular adult. I told her that since I’d never won an award of any kind I wasn’t an expert. Oops.

Reading

Paul Conklin,  was a prolific photojournalist who became the first official photographer for the Peace Corps in the 1960′s. His New York Times obituary is here.

Lord and Lady Macbeth After the bloody murder

This year, Key City Public Theater is producing one of Shakespeare’s tragedies instead of the usual lighter fare. We get to see the Scottish Play in all it’s bloody glory. The run started Friday, August 5th.

Carolyn Gage performing in The Second Coming of Joan of Arc

As part of its 2011 Performing Arts Series, Key City Public Theater sponsored writer/actor Carolyn Gage to Port Townsend to perform “The Second Coming of Joan of Arc.” The play was enacted Sunday afternoon at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.

Comedian, singer songwriter, Greg Tamblyn gave a concert Sunday night at the Masonic Hall. The act was terrific. Unfortunately, my first attempt to capture video with my iPod Touch was pathetic. I was too far away and held the iPod vertically instead of horizontally. You’d think someone who’se taken as many photos as I have would think of that. Obviously I didn’t.

Fortunately, I’m actually impressed with how well the audio recording turned out. Enjoy the song. It’s cute. Ignore the video. I’ll try this again with a real camera sometime. If you get a chance to see Greg Tamblyn some time, do. He’s good.

Greg Tamblyn