September 30, 2004
Stroke Strikes Avedon
This is really sad news for the world of photography. A stroke strikes the wonderfully creative mind of famed portrait photographer, Richard Avedon. Two things that I really fear are having a stroke and loosing my eyesight....
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09-30-04
Red ~ Thursday Challenge Image for 09.30.04
Click here to see my submission for this week's Thursday Challenge of Red....
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09-30-04
September 29, 2004
When you are calm... at peace.
Tree and Clouds on Pond, South Mountain, MD September 18th, 2004....
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09-29-04
In the Hot Seat...
...will return in two weeks time. There is just so much going on right now with the upcoming gallery show, work, physical therapy, cortisone shots, blah de blah blah blah that I have not had time to edit any of the interviews for today. My apologies. Please look for the...
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09-29-04
September 28, 2004
Prairie Home Politics
As you know, I can - sometimes - have a tendency to go off like a firecracker on political issues. This is not one of those times, gentle and enlightened reader. Most of the time, however I have tried to maintain a somewhat neutral stance when it comes to presenting...
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09-28-04
What's 4 Hours and 10 Minutes Long?
I don't know Will, what is four hours and ten minutes long? I'll tell you... the Extended Edition of Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, that's what! Just watching RotK is going to constitute one major butt-numb-a-thon! Imagine what watching all three extenditions with an hour break...
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09-28-04
Beginnings ~ PhotoTime Tuesday Image for 09.28.04
Tour Begins This Way If you want to tour any of the National Park Service Civil War Battlefields just look for the little blue signs. They will lead you to the beginning of the tour and all of the way around the route. Even the little guy on the...
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09-28-04
September 27, 2004
A Very Long Butt-numb-a-thon
On Saturday my friend and ‘brother’, Michael started his three weeks off from work. Three weeks off from work sounds like a great time and an awesome vacation, but it’s not when you can’t do anything but lay around because you are recovering from invasive surgery. For the first ten...
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09-27-04
September 24, 2004
Collect Them All
For the upcoming CMPG Gallery Show on Thursday October 21st, I asked my friend and graphic artist extrodinaire, Michael to produce a couple of 4x6 cards for me using some of my photographs. My idea is to have a series of four or six cards. Sort of like collector's cards...
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09-24-04
Furry ~ Photo Friday Challenge for 09.24.04
Oscars the Grouches Sesame Street Clones How appropriate that this week's Photo Friday challenge is Furry. There was a brief discussion of what being a "Furry" is earlier this week on my site. It seems that furry is not only an adjective and the condition of being covered in...
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09-24-04
September 23, 2004
Imaginative ~ Thursday Challenge for 09.23.04
Moon Rise This week's Thursday Challenge is Imaginative. Everytime I see these giant cranes - and with the growth around here I see a lot of em - I have always imagined them like you see above, performing more interesting and imaginative tasks....
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09-23-04
September 22, 2004
Which British Literary Period Are You?
I know that Lynn, Geren's Girlfriend and Somewhat Muchly will enjoy this little Internet Quiz. My results are below. My hair looks nothing like that though!! Which British Literary Period are you?Restoration1660-1785--Pope, Swift, Johnson. Times they are a changing. You're very cynical and you like looking out for the little...
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09-22-04
Chocolate Ride
Sign above the entrance to the Chocolate Ride at Hershey Park, Hershey, PA. Taken on our recent trip to the Park. I love the Chocolate Ride! It's a lot of fun, it's a nice long ride and it's easy on my back. It's also open year round and it's...
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09-22-04
September 21, 2004
Where do You Rank in the Hierarchy?
So... where DOOOO you rank in the Geek Hierarchy? Click here and find out and share your answer with the rest of us....
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09-21-04
Just When You Think the Battle is Going Your Way...
...the enemy hits you with a sudden surprise attack from behind. Why the military analogy? You may recall my earlier entries about my bulging disk were titled "Battle of the Bulge, something something". Anyway, it is obvious that the cortisone shot that I had on Monday August 30th has worn...
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09-21-04
Relaxation ~ PhotoTime Tuesday Image for 09.21.04
Rocking Chairs, The front porch of the Union Mills homestead, Union Mills, Carroll County, MD. Scenes like this make me think of kicking back in the summer with a tall glass of homemade lemonaide and some Pepperidge Farm cookies. I shot this image on Fuji-Color 200 film with my...
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09-21-04
September 20, 2004
Touched by Fire
Touched by Fire, Position of Confederate artillery battery just south of the Bloody Lane, Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD. "We have shared the incommunicable experience of war. We felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youths, our hearts were touched by fire." Oliver...
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09-20-04
Antietam Day Two
Ready for the Coming Storm, 128th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry monument along Cornfield Ave. Getting up Saturday morning was a little rough. My muscles were sore from the previous day's hike. No pain in my back though for which I am thankful. I packed a couple of extra pairs of...
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09-20-04
September 19, 2004
Survivor Antietam!
Friday and Saturday at Antietam National Battlefield proved to be an exercise in wet weather survival... well at least for the Friday morning and early afternoon phases. At times it rained so hard that the rain was coming down at a 45 degree angle! There was no way to keep...
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09-19-04
September 17, 2004
A Call for Volunteers!
Ready... Aim... I am off volunteering at Antietam National Battlefield today and Saturday. I am assisting with the special events (rain or shine) for the 142nd Anniversary of the Battle. I will be back on Sunday September 19th. I don't expect to have many - if any - photographs...
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09-17-04
September 16, 2004
Wings of Freedom Have Been Plucked
Part of my busy upcoming weekend - apart from Antietam rain or shine and photo work for the gallery show - was to attend the annual Wings of Freedom Airshow in Martinsburg, WV. I just spoke with a gentleman who was on the board for the Wings of Freedom Airshow...
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09-16-04
PhotoBlogs Dot Org
I am listed over at PhotoBlogs.Org. You can go to my listing by clicking here, and if you are registered at PhotoBlogs you can add my site to your personal favorites. If you're not registered it's easy and free, and you won't get any spam. You don't have to have...
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09-16-04
Emotion (Bliss) ~ Thursday Challenge Image for 09.16.04
Pirate's Bliss, Woman and friends riding the Pirate at Hershey Park, Hershey, PA September 4, 2004. Image presented full frame. There really is nothing I need to say about this photo that her expression doesn't clearly convey about the emotions she is feeling. In this photo they have just...
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09-16-04
September 15, 2004
The long sigh of the Frog
Frog Hopper, Children's ride at Hershey Park, September 4, 2004. This is a favorite ride of my nieces and nephews. Nikon D70. The long sigh of the Frog Upon a Summer's Day Enacts intoxication Upon the Revery— But his receding Swell Substantiates a Peace That makes the Ear inordinate...
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09-15-04
In the Hot Seat... The Parrot's Meow!
Greetings gentle reader and welcome to the latest installment of In the Hot Seat. This week I welcome another Theme Thursday alum and photo-blogger to the seat. She is another creative soul and not only does she make wonderful photographs that she posts daily on her own site - The...
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09-15-04
September 14, 2004
Is John Madden a Modern BOOGEY MAN...
... or men! This may surprise many of you. I enjoy football. Let me be more specific. I enjoy Baltimore Ravens' football. They are afterall my home team and I did grow up as a Colt's kid and they snuck out town in the middle of the night leaving Baltimore...
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09-14-04
Safeway Sushi!
Safeway Sushi I went cheap for lunch today. How cheap? Four dollars and sixty three cents cheap. The good thing about Safeway Sushi is that is is cheap. Unfortunately it also makes me crave really good and more expensive sushi. There will be a trip to The Orient in...
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09-14-04
Crotch Rockets
Crotch Rockets, Main Street, Ellicott City, MD August 2004. Nikon D70. Yesterday, while crawling home in the traffic at five to ten miles per hour on the circle of death (AKA Capitol Beltway), I was passed by a couple of crotch rockets. These were by no means legal passes,...
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09-14-04
September 13, 2004
What's 21.5 feet long and 9 feet tall??
News of this beast comes via Michael. Just when you think it won't get any worse on the roads of America and they won't make anything bigger than the H2 along comes this monster. I certainly do not want to see this beast in my rear view mirror!! And how...
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09-13-04
My Book Is Porn? Sure Did Fool Me
I post this because I am a big fan of The Simpsons and the show's team of creative people. I hate to see them busted on by the self-appointed watchdogs of modern morality. Via my friend, Mike Hughes. ***** My Book Is Porn? Sure Did Fool Me By Mike Reiss...
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09-13-04
What's Better Than Puppies? ZOMBIES!!
Our home was invaded Friday night and the attack left me stumbling around. Jenne and the cats are fine. I was attacked by two zombies of my own creation....
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09-13-04
Lonely ~ Moody Monday Image for 09.13.04
Lonely Boy Click here to see this image in full color. Because Lynn asked for it in all B&W. Yes, I did photograph more than women while making people photographs at Hershey Park a week ago. I saw this boy sitting all by himself. No family or friends seemed...
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09-13-04
September 10, 2004
Who Likes Short Shorts? Advertisers, that's who!
Cheer for short shorts! As guys, let me clarify that, as straight guys we check out women all of the time. We are hard wired to do so. It’s nature, instinct and YES it is how God made us. A couple of years of moral and religious training is...
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09-10-04
Antietam Hike in One Week From Today
On Friday September 17th – one week away – I will be participating in the annual Antietam National Battlefield hike. This hike takes place on the anniversary of the battle and is a guided hike led by NPS Rangers and this year yours truly in my role as NPS volunteer....
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09-10-04
Blossoms ~ Photo Friday Image for 09.10.04
Fallen Blossoms,Clipper Mill ruins, Baltimore, MD 2002. "The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers." ~Basho "Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844 The above is my submission...
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09-10-04
September 09, 2004
The Inspiration I Need ~ Photography
H is for Hershey, the Storm Runner roller coaster in abstract. I did something last night that I haven’t done in a very long time. How long? Years in fact. I read a magazine from cover to cover. I just didn’t read this magazine, I savored it and I...
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09-09-04
Walk Like a Zombie
Via my good friend, Larry Disney Thank you Larry, and THANK YOU DAVID AND ANNA!! Dave and Anna, the owners of Honolulus Tiki Bar (now gone) have finally posted the recipe to the Zombie on their site, Tiki Time! God bless them, bless them indeed!! On the way home Friday...
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09-09-04
September 08, 2004
He HAD to Have New Dice OR... Escape From Nerd Zone
This entry rated HG-13 by the Academy of Gaming Arts and Sciences for its high geek factor. It is about horror role playing games & the horrors of the game store, and will not be of interest to everyone. Tuesday nights I have been staying at Jeff and Becky’s place...
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09-08-04
One Nation, Under the Love God
The above and below comes to me from Mr. Scott Huffines, a friend of a good freind of mine, a reader of my blog, and a politically like-minded individual. It's an open invite to a big bash at Bengies Drive In Theatre on the East side of Baltimore, Maryland...
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09-08-04
September 07, 2004
Confusion ~ PhotoTime Tuesday Image for 09.07.04
Sponge Bob's Big Date Check out the huge smile on Bob! That's one happy sponge. Wow, they sure are a cute couple, although a little confused about which species they should each be dating. Although, given the guy I saw this woman with earlier, I think that Sponge Bob...
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09-07-04
September 06, 2004
Hershey Park Happily Invaded
They live and they are among us and only I can see them through my camera! Invisible alien creatures latching onto children! Won't somebody please think of the children?! This girl at Hershey Park was only vaguely aware of the alien presence on her back. My attempts to tell her...
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09-06-04
September 05, 2004
Hershey Park Happy!
Straight Down, The Storm Runner roller coaster, Hershey Park, Hershey, PA. Nikon D70, Sigma Hyper-Zoom at 400mm. Image presented at full frame. No cropping or other Photoshop work performed. You wait in line a long time, but once on the ride things go fast... really fast. You go from...
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09-05-04
September 03, 2004
Simplicity ~ Photo Friday Image for 09.03.04
Simply Shadows, Porch on Main St. Ellicott City, MD, August 2004 Just shadows cast on a worn wooden porch by wrought iron handrails in the late afternoon sun. This is my submission for this week's Photo Friday challenge of Simplicity....
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09-03-04
ET Phone... Earth?? and other news from the world of Science!
Chances are that the aliens have dialed a wrong number. Via Michael Maybe the aliens live on one of these! And while we are speaking of planets... The enigma of Uranus solved at last. Millions worldwide chuckle. Brand new! Excellent views of heavenly bodies as seen in Australia. And for...
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09-03-04
September 02, 2004
Antietam Anniversary Hike Approaching
In two weeks, on Friday September 17th I will be attending the annual Antietam National Battlefield hike. This hike takes place on the anniversary of the battle and is a guided hike led by NPS Rangers and volunteers... like me! I have participated in this hike the past two years...
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09-02-04
Simple ~ Thursday Challenge Image for 09.02.04
A Simple Leaf My submission for this week's Thursday Challenge of Simple is a simple, single leaf. Friday last Jenne and I visited the birthplace of George Washington at Pope's Creek Plantation in the Northern Neck of Virginia. As we roamed the grounds of his colonial boyhood home we...
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09-02-04
September 01, 2004
Drive By Shootings OR...
...taking photographs from the passenger seat of a car moving at sixty plus miles per hour. Stripped Car,I-295 and Kennilworth Ave NE, Washington, DC Coming home from our trip to Kilmarnock, VA Jenne offered to take over driving for the last half of the journey. I said fine, please do....
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09-01-04
Brian the Red, In the Hot Seat
Time again for the bi-weekly feature, In the Hot Seat where I shine the spotlight on my friends and readers. This week I welcome fellow blogger, Brian the Red to sit In the Hot Seat. I first found Brian's site back in June of 2003 through Theme Thursday. From that...
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Posted by Will Burnham on
09-01-04