Tag Archives: Minolta DiMAGE Z1

The Happy Pipe

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This pipe stuck out of the ground in an empty field for years until early 2009, when they ripped it out during construction work.

These pictures of it span a decade.

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Sky Painting

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Sometimes nature does her own abstracts.

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Fiery Sunset, McKinney Texas

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Lovely Señorita

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If I could have bought this painting, I would have.

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Mountaintop Cross

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Taken from an Amtrack train somewhere near El Paso.

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Amber Sunset

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It just occurred to me:  I must really like silhouettes

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Still Life with Smile

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It may be metal, but its happy metal.

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Sunset in a Window

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Reflection off my old office window.

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Pillar of Mist

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Light Abstract, Deep Ellum

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This was taken in Deep Ellum, Dallas … though you can’t really tell.

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Workers Unite

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Dallas Skyline

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Cemetery Sunset

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Pecan Grove Cemetery, McKinney Texas 

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Windmill Sunset

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A windmill will always make a picture better.  ;-)

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Mr. Armadillo of McKinney, Texas

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These are truly strange creatures.

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Still Life with Bricks and Texture

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I don’t know why I like this picture as much as I do.  It’s just so… tactile, I guess.

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Sonora Desert: Where is Chuckwalla?

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Somewhere among all these rocks and boulders is at least one big old chuckwalla lizard.

I saw it when I took the picture.  But hell if I can find it now, in the picture.

Forget “Where is Waldo?” … this is the game “Where is Chuckwalla?”

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Pond Monster

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This was some sort of turtle in a tiny neighborhood pond in McKinney, Texas.  The thing was huge.

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Snow Day in McKinney

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Yeah, this is considered snow in McKinney, Texas.  Now that I live in the Chicago area…

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Eleven

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Happy Illumination Day!

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Wall Cloud Over Dallas

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And what a storm it was!

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Roadrunner

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This roadrunner used to hang out by my old office in McKinney, Texas.

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Reunion Tower

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You may recognize this picture.  It’s the most widely published image I’ve taken.

(It’s available as clip art from an online photo stock service.)

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Sky Kiss

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This is nature’s very own abstract art.  To me, the two prominent clouds in the foreground form a pair of lips.

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Jessica with Rock Star

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My daughter Jessica with the lead singer from Bowling For Soup.

Today is her birthday, by the way.  Happy birthday, sweetheart!

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McKinney Gothic

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My daughter Jessie and I both have a somewhat morbid sense of humor.

This was taken in the Pecan Grove Cemetery in McKinney, Texas.

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Hummingbird in Nest

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To try and grasp the scale of this, realize that the next itself is about as wide as a bottle cap.

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Brick Mouth

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Brick mouth eating spaghetti.

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Please Don’t Touch

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This is from a showing of the Vagina Monologues in Dallas a few years back.

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Peanut Butter and M&M’s Open Faced Sandwich

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Silly, but yummy.

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