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Photo of the Day - August 2021
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I love being on the water in general, but watching this roll in would be pure bliss.
Glad you like it! It's hard to take a bad picture in Moab.
It was shot with a iPhone 12 Pro Max. I think it was on the 2.5x lens.
summer tourists, Mariehamn, Åland, Finnland
Posted this in the wrong thread.
Port de la Selva (Baix Empordá), a few years back, before the pandemic. Taken with a Canon P&S.
PS. come to think of it, port de la Selva might be in the Alt Empordá, and not in the Baix one.
A dragonfly on our new bird feeder pole:
Shot on a Nikon D3500. Resized and exported in Luminar 4.
Shot on a Nikon D3500. Resized and exported in Luminar 4.
Taken in Ft.Myers Beach earlier in the summer. Headed to the keys in two weeks for more sun and palms.
Lake Ekoln, Sweden
iPhone 12 Pro, ISO 1600, 4,2mm f1,6
iPhone 12 Pro, ISO 1600, 4,2mm f1,6
I wonder how many layers of paint there are on this old pump.
Ironic, because I wish I could come to the US.
Getting married in a month and we're supposed to be coming on honeymoon just after, but still no sign of transatlantic travel in that direction being opened up
Again from my 2006 slideshow, at the Fernie, BC courthouse. This was always intended to be a pair and I have left it that way.
The war to end all wars will never happen, until no one is left to start the next one.
This sparks a huge discussion in the SETI space: ARE there more advanced civilizations 'out there'? If not, it seems an incredible waste of space, but the question is real. Do advanced civilizations encounter a massive cataclysmic planetary, or solar system catastrophe, or do they annihilate themselves in one massive orgasm of idiocy. But, to be honest, the race on this planet currently seems to be will we poison the planet enough so that it is totally incapable of supporting life, or will we sublimate ourselves through our advanced ways to kill each other.
It's an interesting question. There *could* be trillions of other civilizations out there, civilizations that have been able to counter the seemingly ubiquitous need wage war on others. The idea that we are ALL on the same planet, and we ALL come from the same source seems so hard to grasp. I HOPE humanity can come to grips with its base emotions, but It only seems to be slipping quicker from our grasp.
I would hope humanity could evolve beyond having to have more statues like this.
Thanks for posting...
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I was on the first official Disney Cruise ship, most people didn't know about it, and they were constantly painting it.
Well, it was sold to a scrapper, and while under tow in the Atlantic, it sank. A comment by someone who used to work on it was that it probably sank because more than half of its weight was due to the multiple layers of paint! I did see areas where the paint was cracking, and showing a wide variety of different 'ship colors'. Blues, reds, whites, even a green layer...
When I worked at a Coast Guard base, the motto was 'if it moves salute it, if it doesn't paint it'.
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We attended a Bluebird Concert at the Sundance Resort on July 9 (yes, an oldish picture), a day before my birthday. We have attended every year since 2014, except last year when it was canceled. Unlike the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, TN, which typically features performers trying to get noticed, the concerts at Sundance feature mostly songwriters. A few have been known performers like Kim Carnes (I personally cannot stand "Bette Davis Eyes") and Vince Gill.
The fellow on the left is Roger Cook, an 80-year-old mostly songwriter who came to Nashville in 1975 from England. Before writing country songs, he had a successful career with collaborator Roger Greeaway. Together they wrote hits like "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"(The Hollies), "You've Got Your Troubles" (The Fortunes), "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" (The New Seekers and popular Coca-Cola commercials), "My Baby Loves Lovin'" (White Plains) and many more. Most of his country hits were before my time as a country music listener.
The guy in the middle is Jeffrey Steele, who has co-written (almost all country songs have at least one writer) more than 60 hit songs including "Gone" (Montgomery Gentry), "My Wish" (Rascal Flats), and "Chrome" (Trace Adkins). After hearing his life performance of "Gone," it became our new favorite song. He's a rockstar on stage!
The guy on the right is Doug Johnson, who had 7 #1 hits and 10 Top 10's. He (and singer Lee Brice) broke a country music record with "Love Like Crazy" which spent 56 weeks on the charts.
What keeps us coming back to Sundance are the stories that accompany the songs. For instance, Steele worked for his dad in his Hollywood machine shop while trying to break in as a performer. His dad fired him one day, saying, "Go out and sing country music before you lose a finger."
Anyway, sorry for the long post. It was a good time.
From the archives. Fullerton Beach.
