This use to be my favorite holiday after Thanksgiving. Celebrate American triumph over the English King. Barbecue, warm weather, fireflies and freedom. I don’t feel that way anymore. Today the City of Miami postponed the mayoral election until next year. A sign of things to come I am afraid. Be strong, fight the power.
I realize that wars are necessary sometimes. However it now seems that we are engaged in forever wars and the military industrial complex prefers to have conditions of permanent warfare, something I do not support. However the people that do battle for our country deserve nothing less that our full support and respect.
Memorial Day is a day when we pay tribute to all that went to battle on our behalf. Thanks for your service and to the families that have lost loved ones, thanks for your sacrifice.
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I took this picture a number of years ago before the explosion of smartphones. Recently I revisited the image and created this selective color version. It was taken at the Sorbonne in Paris.
It made me think if today would this young lady would be reading a hardcover book or would she have her head in her phone like most other people.
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These are this week’s award winners. Horse Looking at Me from Vienna Austria. Pond Reflections from Lettuce Lake in Tampa Florida. The color image is The Platzjabbeck from Cologne Germany. It is a puppet that appears at the top of Town Hall every hour and sticks it’s tongue out at the town below.
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I have always considered myself to be a better monochrome photographer than a color photographer. Most of that is just experience. When I started serious photography in 1973 I couldn’t really afford color film. That makes this award even more special.
in 2022 and 2023 I won Photographer Of The Year for street photography and architectural photography with Noir Magazine . This year I won Photographer of The Year for Color Photography with Universe of Color Magazine for my picture of the oculus in The Pantheon in Rome. These awards are chosen from hundreds of thousands on entries submitted during the year. See the full yearbook here.
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To all who celebrate the holiday I wish you the happiest of time with family and friends. I also hope if you travel you are safe from the pandemic and other travel woes.
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In 1982 my wife and I visited Nova Scotia. Mostly we camped except for three nights in an inexpensive motel outside Halifax Nova Scotia. Through the years we have traveled extensively only occasionally returning to previous locations. However, we vowed one day to return to Nova Scotia and this year we did just that. The population of Nova Scotia was just 971,395 in 2019 not much of an increase in 40 years since in 1982 it was 859,038. One of the reasons we were eager to return was the population density and friendliness of the people. In that regard it remains unchanged.
We spent a few day’s camping along the Bay of Fundy in Sandy Cove. The bay features the highest tides in the world and because of that the best scallops. This trip we stayed at the lovely resort on the bay , Digby Pines near the town of Digby. Digby remains relatively unchanged. People are extremely friendly and will stop just to talk to you, eager to know where you are from and if you have tried the scallops
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In 1982 my wife and I visited Nova Scotia. Mostly we camped except for three nights in an inexpensive motel outside Halifax Nova Scotia. Through the yers we have traveled extensively only occasionally returning to previous locations. However, we vowed one day to return to Nova Scotia and this year we did just that. The population of Nova Scotia was just 971,395 in 2019 not much of an increase in 40 years since in 1982 it was 859,038. One of the reasons we were eager to return was the population density and friendliness of the people. In that regard it remains unchanged.
On our previous trip we stopped in the small fishing village of Peggy’s Cove on our way from Lunenburg to Halifax. We were the only people there when we stopped. Peggy’s Cove is still beautiful but now crowded with a tourist center, restaurants and shops. Unfortunately in 2005 Swissair Flight 111 crashed 8 km (5 mi) off the coast of Peggy’s Cove. This tragedy cause a curiosity boom and a lot of tourists.
It is still a beautiful spot and worth the trip and the area outside the tourist center is still quite rustic and undeveloped.
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Independence Day is one of my favorite holidays. Except for the fireworks. I used to love fireworks as a kid. However now I realize how upsetting they are to veterans and also to pets, I have revised my opinion. However it is a good time for a great barbecue with friends and usually great weather helps us appreciate our freedoms and hopefully we can hold on to these in troubling times.
I realize that wars are necessary sometimes. However it now seems that we are engaged in forever wars and the military industrial complex prefers to have conditions of permanent warfare, something I do not support. However the people that do battle for our country deserve nothing less that our full support and respect.
Memorial Day is a day when we pay tribute to all that went to battle on our behalf. Thanks for your service and to the families that have lost loved ones, thanks for your sacrifice.
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