We Come in Peace

My mother and two brothers coming through one of the tunnels at Fort Kronkite.

Fort Kronkite

Fort Kronkite, California, on July 9, 2007.

Burnout

Black Supra doing a burnout contest for the NOPI Nationals at the New England Dragway on August 4, 2007.

December Snowstorm

This picture was taken last December outside my workplace. Can it get any more beautiful? It's interesting how I've started to integrate urban artifacts into my pictures, instead of trying to avoid them. The picture is too big on the right, but I like it. 

Old Building # 45,296,284

This picture was taken on Arcade Avenue in Seekonk last November. 

Beautiful Providence

This picture was taken from one of the Providence Place parking garages, the one closest to the convention center, on the ramp up from the entrace. It's blurry and crappy, but I love it. 

Coheed & Cambria, Avenged Sevenfold

I went out this evening and saw Coheed & Cambria and Avenged Sevenfold at the Dunkin Donut Center in downtown Providence. C&C were good. Standard alt-rock screamers, and I enjoyed the show.

Avenged Sevenfold definitely stole the show, though. They had a much nicer fog and light setup, used props, used dramatic poise, and put out much more energy. I walked away having spent entirely too much on C&C and A7X apparell.

During a slow A7X song, everybody took out their cellphones, opened them up to show the blue light, and slowly waved back and forth. What a wierd sight!


Light controls, after the show.

Avenged Sevenfold. Shutter speed is about 1/4 second, so it's pretty blurry.

Italian Greyhounds

These are full grown miniature Italian greyhounds. Zoppo is on the left, Callista on the right. They look very frail and delicate, but let them run together, and they play forcefully. Growling, snapping, the works. No blood, though. They are incredibly fast. Callista in particular enjoys picking fights with other dogs just so they will chase her.

This is not a particularly good picture of them, sorry. 

Figure in the Cemetary

Apparently, when the dogs first saw this figure, they freaked out. It's lifelike, but short, standing about 4 feet tall. They seemed to think it was a person standing very, very still.

Congressional Cemetary (?)

I worked Monday morning and afternoon, but as the evening approached, Brad and I went out. He picked up some dog food across the river, and then we came back to this cemetary to walk the dogs. He took the leash off, and let them run.

Washinton D.C.

Remember, the earliest photos appear at the bottom of this gargantuan series of posts. So, please scroll a long way down to my March 9 entry and start reading up.

I should probably find a different blog setup for showing mass photo series, but I'm too lazy to do anything more than keep clicking "Blog This" in Picasa.

Note! I am a troublemaker when it comes to politics, and some of the cultural and political references here show that. So, if you're offended by anything here, I apologize. At least I didn't post the "Republicans for Voldemort" bumper sticker. :)

Have fun, and don't take anything here too seriously, because I don't.

Cherry Trees in Bloom

 

An Oriental Moment

 

The New Face of America

 

"Circumcision Decreases Sensation"

What the hell? 

National Gardens

 

Fly in the Ointment

Grr! Arrgh! Orange cone! It's hard to take a decent photograph of the Capitol. 

Amerika

 

The Capitol

 

Washinton Monument

 

Federal Trade Commission

 

Downtown, just north of the Mall

No, I don't know what this is. 

Callista & Zeppo

My friend Brad, whom I met in Austria last summer, owns a house within a few blocks of Union Station. He is letting me stay here at the house, which is most gracious of him.

He owns two miniature Italian greyhounds, both of them rescues, and they love him very much. This picture is taken midmorning as everyone was just stirring. 

Decent Neighbors

 

Looking down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Capitol. 

The Columbus monument, with Union Station (the main train station) behind it. 

First glimpse of the Capitol building, exiting Union Station. Not an illustrious beginning.

Note to the unsuspecting; I am not a fan of modern American popular politics. 

Baltimore. This is why American trains suck and European trains rule. Not to mention the fact that American trains are more expensive (well, actually they are cheaper per mile, but more expensive per useful destination). 

I'm on vacation to D.C., so the next series of pictures are relevant to that trip. I left early in the morning of Saturday, March 31, and I will be returning via overnight train arriving on April 5.

Once you get down past the Providence slums, the southern Rhode Island seacoast is beautiful. 

Something New

This billboard was put up by a hopeful congresscritter off I-95 by the Thurber's Avenue exit. Nothing like a having a flair for the dramatic to get your name around town.

This is a rather charged picture to post, but I thought it was interesting. We live in a beautiful world, and the human experience is part of that.

A friend of my father's told us about this. I was at work, and I was going to go drive down around lunch time. When I told my coworker about it, she dropped everything and we went and immediately drove down and took pictures. She's funny, and fiery too.

Morning Frost

The weather has been superb. Sunny, warm, soft breezes. Last night, things got very cold. I ran in to work early, and caught a bunch of pictures as the sun came up and burned off the mist.

As you can see, it hadn't quite warmed up this particular field yet.

Unfortunately, I neglected to remember to change the ISO settting back to ISO100, so the full-size image shows all the nasty, grainy ISO400 artifacts. So it goes. 

Who ever knew that power lines could be beautiful?

This picture is taken at the end of the parking lot outside my workplace. 

Rehoboth Morning

Going down Rt. 44 in Rehoboth, there's a large field on the south side by the village center. This field is normally pretty dull, but sometimes, as it was on this warm morning, it's magical.

I don't remember the place being quite this beautiful, but I do remember being amazed, so perhaps it was this beautiful. I had the white balance set to "cloudy," so this picture is a little warmer than reality, but no other edits have been made.

We live in a beautiful world. 

Spring? Not yet!

Alright, this is my first post in this blog. I have a few other blogs in various stages of progress and updates around the web, but this one is attached to me. My name, my work.

The picture is from a farm on my way from home over to the Route 6 shopping strip. The farm is unfortunately up for sale, so this view probably won't last (they'll pave paradise and put up a parking lot). Damn taxes, damn debt inflation. I'd like this piece of land.

You'd think it was spring, being 50 degrees and all, but it's not!

In the pasture behind me, two men were out shooting squirrels (?).