Austin Rodeo is on just now but, unfortunately, I didn’t manage to shoot it this year. To make up, here’s a shot from Dripping Springs Rodeo...
The Formula 1 circus heads to Malaysia this week so here’s another shot from last year’s Austin race. Fernando Alonso, then with Scuderia Ferrari,...
The senate chamber in the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul is closed off by a very heavy, steel gate. Thankfully, though, the bars are just wide enough...
I’m delving rather far into the archives today with this shot taken early in the morning at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley during a 2010 trip out west.
During our NxNW2014 trip up to Acadia National Park last October, we stopped at Somesville in the middle of the day to see this famous building and bridge....
The first time I visited the Pound House, probably a decade ago now, I remember being very impressed by the fact that the house had a cistern built into...
Jim Ferrell is the resident blacksmith at the Dr. Pound Historic Farmstead in Dripping Springs, Texas. My youngest loves to visit Jim on a Saturday because...
I was rather surprised at how many of the brand names in the Pound House vintage pharmacy I recognised as still being on sale today. I don’t know...
Ah, the good, old pre-FDA days! I can’t imagine that “Genuine Black and White Ointment” was particularly good for you given that it proudly...
I spent some time at the Pound House in Dripping Springs on Saturday. I had some prints to deliver to a couple of the docents and my son wanted to visit...
I avoided social media this morning until I had a chance to watch my recording of the Australian Grand Prix since there’s nothing worse than opening...
Today is a once in a century date so I decided to commemorate it by posting today’s image, a collage of various images I’ve posted in the past...
I can hardly believe it’s been a whole year since Nikki and I took our, somewhat impromptu in my case, trip to Paris. Here’s one of the shots...
The 2015 Formula 1 season kicks off today with the start of free practice for the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne so that gives me an excuse to post...
I thought of this photo recently when I saw essentially the same shot on one of the other Austin photobloggers’ sites. I intended linking to that...
Our home internet connection is down this morning so I’m experimenting with a post from my phone today. Here’s an interesting side-lit door...
Flags in front of the Fairmont Hotel and, in the background, the tower of the Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco. Last time I visited...
I love obscure collective nouns and swans are, apparently, fortunate enough to have 4 words to describe them when in groups, none of which I had known...
Back to Maine today and another image from last October’s NxNW2014 photoblogger trip to Acadia National Park. This is Bass Harbor Head Light, an enormously...
This is a rather different post from usual. I’ve been challenged by Rob Hanson to take part in the Thomas Cook “Explore the Elements”...
