Ham and Eggs

Submitted by My Viewfinder Blog

Not being a botanist, I’m not sure what the real name is for these flowers, but I’ve always known them as “ham and eggs”. These are from my wife’s garden. I’ve been so busy at work during the week, and with household chores on the weekend, that my wife’s flower garden as been my only photo outlet lately. With a three day weekend coming up, I hope to be able to get out and do some photography beyond my own yard. (Click on photo to enlarge.)
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Yesterday’s Post

I was a little surprised at the lack of comments on yesterday’s post. With the popularity of bare belly pregnancy portraits, I was sure this topic would stimulate some feedback. I’d love to hear other photographer’s take on this, even if you disagree with my point of view. I’m a big boy, I can take it.
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Old School Color

You really need to see these color photos by Russian photographer Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky, made in 1909. I think the colors are amazingly realistic for the time, especially compared to other early color processes like autochrome. Remember, we’re talking about 1909! Check it out by clicking here.

Taken Off

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~ See you on July 6

Photo of the Week - Ambient

Submitted by Craig Photography Blog

Camera: Nikon D200
Exposure: 0.6
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV

Epson 7900 - Epilogue

Submitted by Howard Grill Blog

Several weeks ago, I wrote a series of posts (starting here) about my new Epson 7900…..my review was not particularly glowing because of a number of difficulties I was having with the machine. I suspect that I may well have left people with the opinion that I was not pleased with the printer and that I was sorry that I had purchased it. In fact, I received several e-mails from folks who were considering buying one. I thought I should write one final post to ‘clear the air’ about the machine and my personal experience.

It is true that I was quite dissatisfied with the printer as it originally functioned. I fully documented that in my original series. What I would like to make clear is that once I had the printhead changed (by an extremely knowledgeable and easy to deal with technician) and turned off the automatic nozzle check the machine has functioned perfectly.

Specifically:

I have always had difficulty in the warmer months with ink clogs. While I still do get them on occasion, I can say that I am getting fewer of them than I did with my 7600 and they seem to clear easily with just a single cleaning from the front panel. My problem with persistent clogs with green ink has totally resolved.

Since keeping the platen gap setting at normal, I am no longer getting the “zebra striping” that I described in my first series of posts. Why opening the platen gap wider seems to make things worse is not at all clear to me.

The output is absolutely lovely.

I really enjoy making prints on papers using the photo black ink. I also find soft proofing with these papers much easier than with matte papers.

I should mention that it does seem ‘easier’ to get ‘mild’ head strikes on the 7900 as compared to the 7600. I have to make sure that the paper is as flat as possible. With sheets I will gently bend them as needed before printing to get them to lie flat, and with rolls I will gently curl them in the opposite direction around a tube (a home made D-Roller) prior to printing. This may be because with the 7600 I kept the palten gap set to ‘wide’, which seems to cause problems with my 7900 and the papers I am currently using.

At this point I am very pleased with the printer and very glad to have bought it. In fact, I am thinking about selling the 7600. Do I wish that I hadn’t had all my initial difficulty which necessitated two visits from a tech and replacement of the printhead? Sure. But I don’t think that one can extrapolate from this single printer that there is a generalized problem. When it comes to technology I guess there will always be the occasional device that comes off the assembly line a bit out of whack.

One thing though, in several years, when the technology has jumped forward yet again, it is going to be very difficult to upgrade if Epson makes this beast any bigger or heavier!

Glad To Be Off The Hook

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No photo of mine today. Instead, my take on a photo topic that pops up from time to time. A young woman in my church who is expecting her second child talked to me Sunday about doing some pregnancy portraits of her. She told me about another photographer’s website she had seen that had some poses that she liked, but she wanted me to do the photography. She made it clear that she was not interested in any of the “bare belly” pregnancy photos that seem to be all the rage nowadays. That was a relief to me, because I’m not sure I’d be comfortable doing those kind of portraits.

It’s not that I’m a prude, but I just don’t understand why some women want to bare their bulging bellies to the general public during pregnancy. Do they really think people want to see that? And where does one display these portraits? On an end table in the living room? On a wall in the den? How about the husband’s desk at work? (”Hey guys, check out my wife’s belly!”) Oh yeah, there’s always the internet.

Of course, it was the Annie Leibovitz photo of a pregnant and bare-bellied Demi Moore on the August 1991 cover of Vanity Fair that started the craze. Leibovitz is famous for unconventional celebrity portraits that push the envelope of “normal”. The Demi Moore Vanity Fair cover certainly did that, causing a huge controversy at the time, and also leading to sky rocketing newsstand sales of that particular issue. It also redefined “normal” for pregnancy portraits, as variations of the “bare belly” portrait remain very popular almost 20 years later.

I believe there is an innate beauty and dignity to pregnancy and motherhood. There is something wondrous about the whole process of bringing a new human life into the world. I also still believe in modesty. The world doesn’t need to know or see every intimate detail of our lives. When a woman is in her eighth month of pregnancy, the situation is usually obvious no matter what she is wearing. Why can’t we leave it at that?

If a couple wants one of these more intimate and revealing photos for their own private photo collection, that would be fine. Preserving personal memories is one of the things photography does best. A photographic remembrance of this special time in a couple’s life might be well worth having. However, it seems that a large number of women who have these bare belly portraits made do it to share with the eyes of the world. Thousands of them end up in online portfolios for everyone and anyone to see. That’s the part I don’t get.

Am I saying that I would never do a bare belly pregnancy photo if asked? I’m not sure. Under certain conditions I might consider it. Or maybe I’d pass on it and let another photographer have the sitting. I’m just relieved that my friend from church didn’t put me in the position to have to decide.

991 - Mystery Train

Submitted by The Daily Photography of Andreas Manessinger Blog

In the morning I was in a hurry again, and being in a hurry is normally pretty adverse to being creative.

I solved the problem by letting the camera do on its own. This is one of a series of images that I took while being on the train. I pointed the camera out of the window, in different directions, in angles that I thought could probably make for an interesting image, and from that series of essentially random images I got at least this one.

In the meantime, after one and a half days in Vienna, I’m on the train back to Carinthia. Tomorrow night we’ll see an opera in Graz. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the great Austrian master of Baroque music directs, no, not Purcell, not Haendel, not Bach, he directs Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”. More about that tomorrow night or Thursday.

Btw, while I sit here on the train and look through dirty windows, outside is fantastic weather, golden light, a sky mixed with blue and scattered clouds. It’s pure masochism to even look out of the window. Oh well

The Song of the Day is the Elvis song “Mystery Train“, interpreted by the Neville Brothers on their 1990 album “Brother’s Keeper”. Hear it on Deezer.

990 - Oh Yes, Take Another Guess

Submitted by The Daily Photography of Andreas Manessinger Blog

I was pretty much in a hurry in the morning. When I left work late in the afternoon, we had traces of sunshine mixed with some raindrops, and halfway that turned into a constant drizzle. Oh well, it IS worse north of the alps.

The first image is from the morning. I had just left the Underground station. So … you think your camera’s got a big, heavy battery, huh? Loser! That’s a big battery

I suppose electricity in the Underground station had failed and they came with the big truck to our rescue: 400 kVA!! That’s a battery.

The next image is from the afternoon, near my workplace. This is a garbage container of some construction company, and the sign on it reads “Please don’t fill in refrigerators and PC monitors“. I wonder if they take TV sets or sofas

I used the Nikon 24/2.8 for all images. Post-processing is similar to what I did the last days, Topaz Adjust and Snap Art. The exact settings, which Snap Art effect I use, how much I modify it, which Topaz effect I use, whether I add lines made with Snap Art “Stylize” or not, what kind of masks I use, the opacity values, all that varies from image to image, thus it wouldn’t make much sense to create an action. It’s more of a pattern than an algorithm.

The Song of the Day is “Oh Yes, Take Another Guess” by Ella Fitzgerald. I have it on a 10 CD box of her early recordings, that is most probably not available outside of Austria, Germany and probably Switzerland, but you find the song on many compilations, e.g. “Ella And Her Fellas”. Deezer has the album, YouTube has a video.

Sharing is Good

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Moment

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Current Reading: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Current Music: White Album by The Beatles
Mood: Good
Sounds: Wind
Smells: Coffee & oatmeal
Temperature: 69 degrees
Thoughts: Rainbows, cherry, and lollipops…

Signs Old and New

Submitted by My Viewfinder Blog

From my walk around Waynesville on Saturday. (Click on photos to enlarge.)

 

989 - One More Time

Submitted by The Daily Photography of Andreas Manessinger Blog

I could have gone out today, really, but instead I preferred sleeping on the balcony. Nice Sunday activity, I tell you

Well, you and I have not missed anything. Weather was a mixture of dense, dark clouds, dense dark clouds with rain and not so dark but still dense clouds without rain. Only in the evening I have considered going swimming one more time. I did not, because time is short and I am off to Vienna in the evening. Instead I’m writing this entry.

This is another image from yesterday. Seeing what the weather was, I have already processed it in the morning. It’s a composite of two vertical exposures that both were a bit off of my intended composition. The place is again old grounds, and the processing uses the same tools as yesterday, Topaz Adjust and Snap Art, along with various masks and opacity settings.

The Song of the Day is “One More Time, Chick Corea” by the 1970s German A-Capella band Singers Unlimited. I have a 7 CD boxed set called “Magic Voices”, and you can also get the song on a cheaper 2 CD collection called “Complete A Capella Sessions”, mind though, that these sessions are far from complete

Go to Deezer to hear them. You won’t regret it.

988 - Standing On Old Grounds

Submitted by The Daily Photography of Andreas Manessinger Blog

Today the mixed weather continued, but I really can’t complain. Although we had our more than fair share of rain, there are no floodwaters in Carinthia, while the rest of Austria suffers badly. Some towns and villages north of the Alps and in the east of Austria are completely under water.

Again I used a short period of sunshine to drive down to the lake for some swimming. On my way there, I took a little detour into the area where I’ve lived for the last 20 years. When you know that it will rain again in short time and you need an image, it’s always a good idea to be on well known territory.

Post-processing was again done with the help of Topaz Adjust and Snap Art. This time I have used Adjust selectively by applying a mask. It really worked wonders on the brightest clouds.

The Song of the Day is “Standing On Old Grounds” from Clarence Bucaro’s latest album “‘Til Spring”. I only have the sound sample on Amazon’s site, but here’s quite a long video with Clarence being interviewed and performing three songs from the album.

987 - It’s A Green Dream II

Submitted by The Daily Photography of Andreas Manessinger Blog

Weather is changing rapidly at the moment. I used a short period of sunshine, to go swimming and make some images. This is another experiment with the new plugins: Topaz Adjust and Snap Art. It is clear now that I will buy both. I still have to look into the other Topaz plugins, Clean and Simplify may be useful in some situations.

I always use these effects in separate layers, combine different effects from the same or different filters, and use varying opacities, sometimes dependent on tonal value (Blend-If sliders) and masks. You see, I’m pretty much afraid of using canned effects and producing generic looks

The Song of the Day is again “It’s A Green Dream” from Paolo Conte’s 2000 album “Razmataz”. This time I have a video for you. Love this song!

986 - A Little Piece Of Advice

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This is a little piece of much too late advice for all those who began SoFoBoMo 09 and finally decided to give up on it.

Let me first make one thing very clear: whatever your reasons are, they are respectable, and as in starting such a project, the decision to bury it, is all yours. Still, reading some blogs and thinking about it, I got the impression that I should share some experiences, that probably would make it easier for some people some other year.

A book is a big effort. When you look at photobooks that you can buy, you immediately see that most of the images have been taken over an extended period of time, and certainly not within a single month. Furthermore I think it is reasonable to assume, that the actual bookmaking is normally not done by the artists themselves. This all puts a SoFoBoMo participant at a not insignificant disadvantage, and in a way we all have to compensate for it.

The rules are set, we all have a life and supposedly all have to work for a living, thus the frame is a little more narrow than it seems upon first sight. Let’s take last year: I learned of SoFoBoMo 08 very early, I guess I read the official announcement post on Paul Butzi’s blog, but then a period of procrastination and doubt began.

Can I do it? Do I have something to say? Am I able to string 35 images together and make a book with a meaningful sequence?

I have pretty many bicycle images in my collection, and the first idea was to make a book about bicycles. A quick look into my image database made clear though, that I had never ever made more than maybe half a dozen good bicycle images in any month. Sure, you can look for them, but you are still dependent on them being there in the first place.

I pondered some other possibilities, and I was already determined to give up, when the first success stories came in. This SoFoBoMo thing began to hurt my ego. And then I found what I could do: Make a lot of images in one single day, and simply use the temporal sequence to tell a story. I had some other ideas, but finally I took my tripod, a bag of lenses, drove to a canyon in the mountains nearby with a creek and some waterfalls, made more than a hundred exposures, and that was it. No trouble with the sequence, no trouble with any big story, moral impact or what. It was simply a book about a walk through a canyon. People still liked it, because it is quite a nice canyon.

There are countless other possibilities along the same lines. Walk through a city and show it off, preferably not only the usual “sights”, maybe more the “in-betweens”. Make some images every 100 meters. Look back. You’ll automatically connect the images by showing the progress of your walk.

Make the same for a walk through a small town. Begin outside, go through the center, close outside. Let a day pass and show it in your images. All that is what I call “natural sequences”. Don’t be shy to use them. They are interesting for the viewer, and they solve one of your biggest problems, the problem of what to photograph and how to present it.

Natural sequences of photographs taken in one day, that’s one thing that I can vouch for. The other is, to simply do what you always do, take images of what you always take images of, that’s what you have the most experience with, that’s what you are best at, and when you do it all the time, that’s obviously something that you never tire of. The only thing you need is a very broad topic.

That’s what my effort this year was. “Urban Dreams II” is a book of images that I very likely would have been attracted to take anyway. Not necessarily in this month, not necessarily as a collection, but it is simply my way of making pictures. OK, I began to experiment, and now a not so small part of them are horizontal compositions where the image is cut in two distinct parts. This is something that I have not done very often, but I could do it without ever being in danger to not get enough images. Through the whole process I was on my home turf.

I have seen other strategies that work well. Some people have made their books of images that they made on a short or long trip. This can be a variation on “natural sequences”, though it need not be. In any case they used images that most likely would have been taken anyway.

Whatever you do, I think it is very important to minimize your risk. Making a photobook in 31 day is crazy enough, especially when making also means getting familiar with publishing programs, PDF files and how to get them small, learning publishing lingo and all that. All these strategies minimize risk and should enable you to get fun out of the process.

Again, I know this advice, if it’s any good, comes much too late and I’m sorry for that. It’s only that I had to learn these things by myself.

I’d be very interested in two things: If you did not complete, what were your particular reasons for it? And do you think that following one or the other of these strategies would have made life easier for you?

The Song of the Day is “A Little Piece Of Advice” from the 2000 Beautiful South album “Painting It Red”. Sorry, no video, but Deezer has the album.

Pittsburgh Wedding Photography

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Craig Photography
Wedding Blog

Music

Submitted by Craig Photography Blog

Wednesday evening I watched The Music Instinct: Science and Song. Next week I will watch The Musical Mind hosted by Oliver Sacks. The effect that music has on man is a wondrous marvel. I have read numerous books on the subject asking myself, why seek an answer when the answer is not needed? Music is good. Music heals. Music is purposeful. Why seek a deeper understanding? I do, no idea why but I search for a deeper understanding of music.

The world is divided in different ways – we are either born to the west or to the east. Our politics either lean left or to the right, we either follow the teachings of evolution or the faith of creation and in the end we all sing, dance and celebrate life with music.

Man was the last thing to appear on this Earth. First there was land, then plants then animals. Then man was created to complete the natural world. Music was last. Gary Snyder writes – “we are here to entertain the rest of nature”. I think he is right. In times of war send the musicians in first. I like that.

With music I can condition myself on multiple levels. This morning I was up at 6am, showered, yoga and then practicing Bach. I listen to music while doing yoga to focus my breath and lower my hear rate. I pick up my guitar and practice Bach because I am compelled to. I get in my car and listen to the music of Edgar Meyer while driving to relax my mind.

My daughter dances, she listens intensely to music at the age of 3 ½. It is part of who she is. My wife sings lullabies to calm her, songs to get her to pick up her toys, songs of play and songs of time to eat. My daughter will ask me to play my guitar fast then slow then “let me try” as she bangs and strums.

Music is good.

“Real Photography”

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I had an interesting encounter with another photographer yesterday. I was wandering around the Frog Level district of Waynesville with my little Canon A2000, when I walked into a second hand/antique store. I was greeted by a man wearing dark sunglasses. He spied the camera in my hand and asked, “Taking some pictures today?”

I said, “Yeah, just looking for a few interesting shots while I walk around.”

He responded with, “Yeah, I’m a photographer too. It’s what I do.” That immediately made me wonder why he was working in a second hand store if he was a professional photographer, which was what he seemed to be implying. He confirmed my suspicions by asking if I wanted to see his camera. From behind the counter he pulled out this humongous Canon EOS 1d with some equally huge white lens on it. It made my back ache just looking at it. Even with the dark sunglasses I could see the smugness on his face as he held up his howitzer while looking at the tiny point and shoot in my hand. Assured that he had established photographic superiority, he put the huge camera back behind the counter.

There were several photos on the wall that I was sure were his. They were all OK, but just OK. I asked if they were his, and he proudly proclaimed, “Yeah, that’s some of my work.” He paused, and I could tell he was waiting for what he thought would be the inevitable praise and compliments. I didn’t give it. Sensing I needed some help to comprehend how wonderful his photos were, he began to try to enlighten me on “real photography”.

“With these new digital cameras”, he began, “everyone thinks they’re a photographer. Folks walk around with their little point and shoots, set on program mode, and think they’re taking great pictures. But that’s not real photography. That’s just snapshots. You have to really know about cameras do real photography.” The implication seemed to be that if your camera weighed less than a Chevy Suburban, you didn’t really know about cameras.

I almost took the bait of his “real photography” definition, which would have led to a pointless debate. Fortunately, another customer came in looking for old guitars, which gave me my opportunity to make my exit.

As I’ve stated many times before on this blog, I’m squarely in the “it’s the photographer, not the equipment” camp. I’ve seen too many wonderful photos made with the simplest, amateur equipment, and too much crap made with pro gear to be convinced otherwise. But the debate will go on.

I made the above photo on yesterday’s walk around Frog Level with my little A2000. Will it one day hang in a prestigious art gallery? I doubt it. Is it “real photography”? I think so. I kinda like it even if it isn’t.

Unphotographable

Submitted by Howard Grill Blog

We have all had occasions when we see what would make a great image but, unfortunately, don’t have a camera. An image lost forever……but is it??

Michael David Murphy doesn’t think so. In fact, he has his own website devoted to images that he experienced but did not have the opportunity to photograph. In his own words, his website called “Unphotographable” is a ‘catalog of exceptional mistakes. Photos never taken that weren’t meant to be forgotten. Opportunities missed. Simple failures. Occasions when I wished I’d taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter.’

With his incredible descriptions the image can be clearly seen in our mind if not on paper. Perhaps the image is not lost.

985 - The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye

Submitted by The Daily Photography of Andreas Manessinger Blog

I’m in Carinthia, it mostly stopped raining sometime in the afternoon, but I still had not the least inclination to leave home.

Instead I have worked on this forest image of Sunday. I have used it to try out another one of those plugins Ted recently mentioned. This time it was the demo version of Topaz Adjust. Basically what this tool adjusts is local contrast, and in that way it is similar to good old HIRALOAM (high radius, low amount unsharp masking), PhotoLift and some other tools. You have a small number of presets to choose from, and from there you can modify all the parameters. One of them is the number of zones in which the program divides the image. The more zones, the more equalization.

Topaz Adjust may be another tool that I’ll add to my chest. It’s useful, because the effect is easy to achieve, and it is hard to get without this specific tool. It also looks different from what PhotoLift produces. I further suppose it may come very handy in B&W images, where tonal redistribution is always an important task.

We didn’t get a full-fledged sundown, mostly because there was no sun to speak of, but there was still some color in the sky, and in the hope to catch something usable, I went down in front of the house and took some images.

All in vain, but when I got in, and because I had the ultra-wide mounted, I began experimenting with the circular window in the corridor of the ground floor. That’s what became the Image of the Day.

… time passes …

And suddenly it’s morning

I could not finish yesterday’s entry in the middle of the night. Well, I probably could have, but there was a brooding feeling that something was missing. And that’s fine, because I just learned that Janine’s blog had its 365^th post! Congratulations to her first year!! Head over to her site for a very original take on portrait photography, and when you’re there, give her the cheers

The Song of the Day is “The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye” from Morrissey’s 1991 second solo album “Kill Uncle”. There seems to be no video, but Deezer has the album.

Why exactly this song? Oh, for two reasons: the window in my image reminds me of a whale’s eye (or something like that, never had one face to face), and on Mark Hobson’s blog (this post and some around that) I read another series of rants about Selection vs Interpretation in photography. Selection meaning his kind of photography, trying to be true to what he actually sees, interpretation as a target of his scorn seemingly meaning oversaturated landscape clichés.

Oh well. Sometimes it makes me a little tired, because those arguments go literally nowhere. There is no “truth of the camera eye”. Selection is the first and probably most important way to direct the viewer. All the tricks of image processing can’t cover up what selection failed. But that’s something that Mark agrees with anyway. I guess Ted Byrne would agree as well, and what he does is certainly very far away from Mark’s vision of what photography is and should be. In fact we all seem to agree. Can’t we just conclude that there are good, original images that speak to the viewer, and a lot of not so good, not so original images that don’t? Would save us one or the other heated argument, but then, who’s interested in saving arguments?

Text Rock Texture

Submitted by Photoplus Tutorials Blog

 

This is a Text tutorial which can be done in any version of Photoshop which will create text as if carved out from rock. It is quite easy. This the Text you can create.

You can even color ir.

The tutorial is here.

Other photoshop tutorials are here.

 

 

Pittsburgh Wedding Photography

Submitted by Craig Photography Blog

We were excited to see that TJ & Jamie turned in some of their photos to The Knot! They were chosen to have a gallery on the My Real Wedding page. Go (here) and read about their wedding and see a few photos we took.

Posers

Submitted by My Viewfinder Blog

I found this “statue” in downtown Asheville. He remains completely motionless until you drop some money into his bucket. Then he plays a short song on his guitar for you. He was making almost as much money from tourists wanting to take a picture with him as he was from playing his guitar. Quirky Asheville on a Saturday afternoon - bring your camera! (Click on photo to enlarge.)

Rant

Submitted by Craig Photography Blog

Things that have been on my nerves lately- Socialism…I am so tired of hearing everybody talk about the fear of being ruled by a socialist government. The bulk of our tax dollars are spent on defense…defense of keeping society safe. I like being safe. I like that I never had to fight in war. I like that I do not feel the threat of being attacked by a foreign land. Although I do not trust Australians, to quiet of a nation, watch your back.

I do not care about Socialism…because we already are, and have been, a socialist-run nation for the past fifty years…at least. We are a socialist nation who spends our collective tax dollars on going to war or preventing war or perpetuating the idea of somebody going to war. War makes people rich…ask Dick Cheney.

Dick Cheney…a man who has made his fortune in the private sector running companies who’s profits are derived from the United States being in war. No war, no profits. Now can you understand why Dick is on TV selling national security to us? He is trying to stay in business. For the past eight years he has been a media-ghost of the vice presidency. No need to talk when profits are bombing (no I did not mean booming).

People hate the term socialist and they hate the idea of government-run business. I get that I am a business man. I do not want the government telling me what and who to photograph. I hate the capitalistic business of war. I hate war. I hate that my tax dollars help to make Dick Cheney richer.

Here is the part where this rant develops into a dream…stop going to war. If we stop going to war every other decade and keep the tax structure the way it currently is we could have healthcare and education for all. That’s right. Our government tax structure could remain in tact. If taxes do not go up I bet you people will not care how our government is labeled.

I like capitalism especially when people with capital care about society.

p.s. – The opening sentence in the constitution is “We the people”, it is not I the person. I hope that those of you who wish to criticize this rant do so. Please refrain from quoting Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Glen Beck; they are entertainers not journalists, nor academics. They claim to be good Americans yet they do not claim to be good human beings.

p.s.s – If you really hate socialism what you can do as an individual is refuse social security and Medicare when you retire. I bet the drug addicted, heart patient Limbaugh will accept that gift from government.

Fuzzy Logic

Submitted by Ankush Vimawala Photography Blog

Angkor temples, Cambodia.

Photo of the Week

Submitted by Craig Photography Blog

Camera: Nikon D200
Exposure: 0.4
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 1600