Updated 8/4/10. More pics uploaded to most of the sets.
Updated 7/25/10. New set created called “Kitty” featuring my infamous Kitty, mentioned in all my writings. :)
Updated 7/22/10. Pulled out the printer/scanner, got it all set up and got to work scanning more photos. woohoo! New photos added to all my sets.
NOTE: If somebody’s interested in contacting me, you don’t want to do it through Flickr. I have an email address listed on the main page of this website if people need to get a hold of me.
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It can’t be all weirdness, all the time though you know. ;) So in between dodging the strange and unusual I like to take pictures of this world we live in.
Links to individual photo sets:
I never really noticed until putting together these Flickr sets that I have a penchant towards birds. Birds, birds, birds of all types. We’ve got seagulls, chickens, ducks, pigeons, albatrosses, an owl, a peacock, and birds I didn’t even know the names of (which you’ll see in the Florida set). :D And I noticed that I have pics of “high up places.” Top of Sandia Mountain, top of the Sears Tower, top of the World Trade Center, top of the St. Louis Arch. And then pics of hot air balloons. The common denominator being………up. Flying. Off the ground and up in the air. Interesting.
I’ve tried to select the most interesting and photogenic pics to start with and created sets for people to view. I wish I had more exciting ones to feature, like jumping out of airplanes or diving into the ocean or scaling the tops of mountains or something, but, my life is not that exciting unfortunately so these will have to do. ;) (My best weather pics can be found in my weather anomalies section.) I have literally, thousands of photos that I’ve taken over the years but a lot of them either didn’t come out the way I wanted them to (thanks to old fashioned film cameras, versus digital, where anything can go wrong from the quality of the camera, to the way the shot is set up, to the developing process at the photo lab…) or there’s nothing overtly special about them. They mean something to me in that they document some time period of my life but yet they’re not “artistic” per se, and/or, they’re well known places that thousands of people have photographed before but my pics don’t add anything new to the mix, so in that sense people are better off seeking out professional pics on the ‘net for a better version of the shot. :D So a lot of the pics I selected for Flickr were chosen because they did actually come out well, miracle of miracles, or they’re unique in some way. A case of, “Nobody else has ever photographed this exact thing in this exact way! woohoo!” And actually I just bought a nice digital camera (Panasonic FH20 Lumix) this month (August 2010) that includes audio for the video function, so I hope to start getting some even better pics and vids. Though of course……….now I no longer live in an exciting area. Figures. ;) Too bad these advanced – and affordable – digital cams with the super audio/video functions didn’t exist back when I actually lived in interesting parts of the country and was taking road trips….!
Enjoy…