On an adventure, busy, busy, busy, busy.
Don’t worry, taking LOTS of pictures, you’ll have to look at a lot of them later.
In the meantime, here’s a sample panorama from today to whet your appetite.
That’s a BIG freakin’ park! Nice of them to put it right there in the middle of the city!
Filed under Panorama, Photography, Travel
This freakishly humongous sword is mine!
There are many like it, but this one is mine!
Oh, who are we kidding? No one’s got anything like this, I’m the freakin’ emperor!
Filed under Photography, Travel
The language doesn’t necessarily matter. Two balls, two strikes, two out makes it “Deuces Wild!”
Filed under Photography, Sports, Travel
It’s that time of year again.
Wait, what do you mean, you don’t have one of these in your garage?
What in the hell do you put on your pancakes, anyway? Aunt Jemima?
Maybe we can’t be friends any more.
Filed under Photography, Travel
This was from 2004, a covered bridge in my home town in Vermont. (Funny how it’s my “home town” when I lived there for about four and a half years, while I’ve lived in the Los Angeles area now for over forty.)
We were back for a high school reunion, The Long-Suffering Wife’s first trip back to see the Green Mountain State. You can sort of see here there in the shadows.
A picture’s worth what? What’s the going exchange rate?
From the Philosopher’s Walk in Kyoto, Japan.
Filed under Photography, Travel
One of the truly great things about photography for me is how the vast majority of my pictures can take my memories right back to where I was when the picture was taken. This is especially true for travel photos, even for travel photos that are decades old.
That favorite picture from my European trip with my Pepperdine MBA classmates? Like it was yesterday. Those pictures from the harbor cruise in Cabo San Lucas? I can still feel the sun. The view climbing through the vermillion torii gates at Fushimi Inari? I can still taste the damp, mossy texture of the mist and fog.
In the last few days I’ve been spending a little bit of time every day sorting through the pictures from last year’s trip to Washington DC for the Hubble 25 NASA Social. Lots of pictures of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Capitol, and so on.
In the middle of a full day of these pictures, each evoking vivid memories, I found this single frame:
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot!
I have been known to occasionally bump the camera (or cellphone) and trip off a picture or two of some random piece of sidewalk, sky, building, body part, or total stranger. This isn’t one of those. This appears to have been deliberately taken. Framed. Focused. Well lit.
But WHY?
I have absolutely zero memories of taking this picture. An orange peel in the trash. Maybe a candy wrapper or water bottle or something else buried under it? No “aha!” moment that takes me back to a time when there was a logical reason for creating this image.
It’s just after a whole slew of pictures as I walked the blocks around the White House, and just before pictures of the Washington Monument, for whatever that’s worth. And yes, it does appear to be in sequence after looking at the file data. It’s not somehow mislabeled or showing up out of context, as if there might be another context where I would say, “Oh, yeah! I remember taking pictures of the trash!”
If Muldur and Scully want to look for proof that there is a God and she’s just messing with us, they might start here.
Filed under Photography, Travel
It’s been a while since we’ve done flowers.
There’s snow there now (although not so much as you might think) but in June, 2004 there was green everywhere (and we were in the mountains – you do the math) when I found this flower. It must have been remarkable, it’s the only one I took a picture of on a long day of cruising with the top down in a rented Mustang convertible.
Filed under Flowers, Photography, Travel
I ran across this picture from my trip to DC last May.
Many diverse thoughts coalesced (coagulated?) and I had the most pleasant fantasy flash through my head.
By whatever means, summon Abraham Lincoln back from his grave to today’s world. Abraham Lincoln, tall, strong, rail-splitter, a hero in his prime. The first President from the Republican Party.
Fill him in on the current Presidential election. Let him watch the debates and the speeches. Let him research the positions of the candidates.
Then let him go visit the Republican National Committee.
They’ll be thrilled beyond belief, squeeeeing themselves apoplectic with his presence. At the next Republican presidential debate, parade him up on stage as proof that God has anointed them as the Chosen leaders of our great country.
Of course, you can’t have the reanimated and revitalized Abraham Lincoln on stage in front of CNN or ABC or Fox in a modern suit – it would ruin the impact. He would be dressed as we see him in Matthew Brady’s photographs, as he’s portrayed above.
And just for an added touch, because he asked nicely, let him carry his axe. It’s iconic.
Squeeee!
Lincoln, the current campaign, the candidates, his axe, all on stage together. Just imagine it!
And you thought “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” was a stupid, flop of a movie. Nope.
IT WAS PROPHECY!!
What Would Abraham Lincoln Do?
A guy can dream.
Filed under Farce, Photography, Politics, Travel
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