December 1, 2025

Been a bit crazy around here with another urinary tract infection (#11) a week before chemotherapy (#17) on November 20th. I was sick from both and it was not fun.

First time I've gone this long without publishing a blog due to health. I didn't even sit at the computer for a while unless necessary.

Healed up just in time for Thanksgiving with some family which was great. We all went out for Thanksgiving dinner. There were no dishes to do and the food was delicious!

Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving too.

Prior to all that, I was back into writing my autobiography which is up to 1975 and the band Queen that I photographed on March 7th 1975.

It's going to take a few years to do this autobiography on rock'n'roll in my life and a photo history but it's a project I've wanted to do for years.

The Queen show at the beautiful Uptown Theater here in Milwaukee was excellent of course. This was really at the height of their career I think.

Freddie Mercury was such a great vocalist, writer and performer who loved every minute performing.

The band with Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon were the perfect match for Freddie. Brian May and Roger Taylor with Adam Lambert still continue touring a bit making Freddie proud.

That concert for me was fun but I had one incident at that show.

Photographing from the orchestra pit filled with a lot of equipment cases I could not resist going on top of one of those cases to take some pictures. So I did and I got some shots.

Then at one point they fogged the stage and I was kneeling at that time. I shuffled to the left a few inches and dropped down with two cameras! Nobody saw me go down about 5 feet because of the fog.  But I was 21 years old and got right back up and started shooting again.

I recall being a little sore the next day but well worth it.  My Nikon and Hasselblad cameras also made it unscathed.  I remember that fall like it was yesterday!

Enjoy some photos of that show and have a great Holiday season.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

November 10, 2025

Recently Marco Andretti announced his retirement from auto racing to focus on just his family.

He had a few shinning moments in his Indy Car career that were mostly at the Indy 500 where he got close a few times to winning but never got it done.

He won 2 Indy Car races in his career from 2006 to 2025 and competed in just about every form of racing. That includes Star Mazda, Indy Car Pro Series, Nascar, Formula E, International V8 Supercars, ARCA, Craftsman Truck Series, A1 Grand Prix, Infiniti Pro Series, Star Mazda, the American LeMans Series and won the Camping World SRX Championship in 2022.

His grandfather, Mario Andretti, and his father, Michael Andretti, were always coaching him and Mario could always be found in his pit area trying to help. 

Marco didn't have the race craft of his father or grandfather, but he tried.

Enjoy retirement Marco with the family.

Here are a few photos of him from through the years.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann