Wicked R Ranch Speed Racing Photos

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The Wicked R Ranch did a Speed Show thing today. Mary's friend Cindy told me about it, so, I took some pics of Cindy's niece (and the other riders) . Horses and people, you can't beat em for exciting, dynamic pics. These are some of the best of ~ 5 gigs worth of pics. Yes, that's a lot of pics!

Holiday Doors

The decorations are coming down all over the place. One of my friends wanted me to take some pics of their house with Christmas Lights. I thought the doorway would make the best photograph. When I got home from their place, I did my own!

Impressions From Our Nation's Capitol, Part Vier, or, One of my best images, Ever (updated)

I decided to give this one it's own post... The memorial always gets to me. This photograph reminds me of some prints I've seen. (Note: I just uploaded a little bit better version of the same picture. The black looks black instead of grey...)

Impressions From Our Nation's Capitol, Part Drei

War Memorials:

Vietnam:
This memorial never fails to hit me hard. Most of the guys on that wall were probably within 10- 15 years of my age...



Nurses are never shown enough respect in the media... Just ask Mary. This statue certainly does. Look at the compassion in her face, and the strength she must have had to help this horribly injured soldier.


These guys look like they could come to life and walk away.

Korean War Memorial:
This memorial was not one of my favorites the first time I went. It's growing on me though.

Impressions from our Nations Capitol, Part Zwei

Flags... I've been waiting for the chance to get a 'sun shining through a rippling flag' shot for a while. I hit the jackpot today in Washington DC. The flags are all near the Washington Monument. I suppose they might be better if the flags were blowing to the right... another time...

Impressions from our Nations Capitol, Part Eins

I did a quick jaunt to Washington D.C. today and a whirlwind tour with my sister and some friends of her's from Germany. Here are some of the shots I got....

From the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial:







Sunset On the Mall:




A mystery to me:

I'm pretty sure this is a Cherry Blossom. What it's doing blooming this time of year is a mystery to me...

New Pics of Silver Lake, Dover, Delaware, at Night

Here are some new pics of the lights and reflections on Silver Lake I took tonight. There was a lot less wind so these are sharper. I haven't decided if I like the really sharp bulbs or the slightly blurry and larger more impressionist painting looking ones.

More Darby

 

2 More

Here is a favorite one of Darby, and the re-do of the house in Camden. I like the sky better for the new Camden Pic.

Darby II

Darby likes to play!

Darby

Here is my Sister in Law's dog, Darby. She's a pretty Black Lab that loves to play. These came out OK

A few more from the fog

Here are a few more I did the other day, they are actually my favorites. I couldn't get picassa to upload them for some reason.

NO O NO INs around here!

It was a little foggy tonight as I got off work, when I got back later, the fog had kind of dissipated, and left me the first two shots. After that I went out on the highway and noticed the restaurant sign. Spelling is not important when serving food!





 

Camden Delaware Christmas Lights

I was making a Wallys run the other night and saw these 2 homes in Camden that I wanted to try to get some pics of. The one on Main Street is much older than the other one. I might have to go back and see if I can't get sharper pics... I like the one with the lights going by, it can either be a metaphor for the speed with which the year is passing, or it can just be a cool pic. I like the one with the street light too. It reminds me of a painting, I think by Hopper, of a diner at night. Now I'll have to google that painting!





 

Photshopping the horses

I've been thinking the horses would look better if they were 'free', that is no fences around them. I think I did a decent job photoshopping the fences out.