NIGHTMARE

I get carried away in Photoshop now and then.  I'm sure my subject wouldn't mind me making a demon out of her...or not.  I posted the original on an earlier date and also here to show the transformation.  I always thought the original looked strange on it's own already but like I said, I get carried away.

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Alfred Hitchcock 

BONEY MOUNTAIN

A really fun day with Dave Steve Lydia and her dog on Boney mountain.

ANOTHER SUNSET

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann 

THE EXTREME

After posting cute pictures of little girls I thought I'd follow up with this...sorry.

Have a nice flight.

RUN AROUND

All morning trying to get a good picture of this little one. I think this one works...just change the color of her tutu and give her a bit of a smile and there ya go...

GOLF SUCKS

At $2.50 to $5 bucks a ball, the water hazard is the most expensive and repulsive challenge in the course.

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Tiger Woods 

11

The World changed.

“Today, we gather to be reassured that God hears the lamenting and bitter weeping of Mother America because so many of her children are no more. Let us now seek that assurance in prayer for the healing of our grief stricken hearts, for the souls and sacred memory of those who have been lost. Let us also pray for divine wisdom as our leaders consider the necessary actions for national security, wisdom of the grace of God that as we act, we not become the evil we deplore.”
- Rev. Nathan Baxter, Dean of Washington National Cathedral from 

ANOTHER BALLET PAINTING

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.
John Guare 

WATER DANCE

Shot this yesterday then Photoshopped the hell out of it.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas 

NEON SURFER

"Surfing is like the Mafia. Once your in-your in. There's no getting out".
KELLY SLATER

JAGGED HEART

Love is...

never easy.
love is always kind,
always forgiving,
never judgemental,
forever embracing.

For we are all children of God,
for His kindness,
His forgiveness, never ends.
Embrace him and each other
and never let go.

Me.

ENDLESS SUMMER

"These are the days of the endless summer,  these are the days.  The time is now there is no past,
there's only future, there's only here, there's only now."
VAN MORRISON

JUMP'IN FER JOI

Today was a really, really...REALLY GOOD DAY!!! Been waiting for this for awhile now. Happy Anniversary to us...(love you Sharon. My Kobe!!!)  Thank you God!

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther 

BAD APPLE

There's one in every bunch.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
Emmanuel Teney 

SMOOTH JAZZ

Not so much...

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
Lou Reed 

TIS THE SEASON

A breezy fall afternoon, 60 inch wide screen, cold beer and game on.  I love football season.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi 

WEDDING'D OUT

FIVE weddings in two weeks. ENOUGH!! At least till next Saturday.

HAVE FAITH

While shooting a wedding this weekend I was struck by this woman in the back of the church. With her Walmart shopping bags next to her she was obviously in deep prayer. My guess is she wasn't asking God for more but rather thanking God for what she had.  From the angle I saw her, a statue of Jesus was directly behind her making for what I thought was a striking image.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Michelangelo 

FUN WITH FIRE ARMS

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge 

LIVING & LOVING ON THE EDGE

Well things seem to be getting busy for me lately...thats a good thing. Three weddings last weekend almost did me in. I never thought I'd look forward to a Monday!

This is a two photo comp. shot on Point Dume.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost 

WINDOW LIGHT

The light the great Master Painters used.  Natural window light is what studio photographers try to emulate when doing a portrait.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Walter Bagehot 

BEER ME

He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato 
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
Babe Ruth 
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa 

ARMILLARY

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
GALILEO

ROLL THE DICE

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams 

15

She's 15 today.   We are truly blessed.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

UP IN SMOKE

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller 

SAILING INTO THE SUNSET

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin 

STILL GOTTA LOVE AMERICA

Despite  all the bad news shoved down our throats by the 24/7 media,   regardless of the political left wing right wing bullshit we put up with on a daily basis and beside wars and unrest or which movie star is screwing the other, weather I agree or don't agree with Arizona's 1070 or why I can't find a job...
I still love this country and believe I am blessed to live here.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea.  He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.  ~Adlai Stevenson

FLOWER BED

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci 

A picture I did at the Cambria Valley Inn a few years ago.  I remember I was sick as a dog when I took this but after a afternoon nap I ventured out and found this garden.  I tried making it into a painting using Photoshop and Corel Painter. I like the result.  I'm thinking a 20x30 someday.


When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats 

FIELD OF DREAMS

Terence Mann: Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come. 

 FIELD OF DREAMS 1989

TEE IT UP

Summer time means it's time to dust off the sticks and head out to the links for reasons unknown.

If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast.  If God wants to play through, let him.  ~Bob Hope



Maybe I should concentrate on my ping pong skills.  Happy July.


Cheers

BO

Cats motto: No matter what you did wrong,  always make it look like the dog did it.

PRAY

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.
The soul that knows it not knows no release from little things.
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.

— Amelia Earhart

EISENSTADT

A photo taken by my friend Cary, the couple wanted to mimmic the famous photo by Alfred Eisenstadt of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square in celebration of the end of WWII. The original was a cover for LIFE Magazine.

The Original by Eisenstadt.

The mimmic image by Cary.

My handy work in Photoshop.

And as always I can never leave well enough alone.  I did a total rip off of the original cover.  Photo, type and all(even the actual date of the original photo) of LIFE Magazine.  Only in the age of digital could this be possible.  Always question everything you see...and hear for that matter!

All original rights belong to Alfred Eisenstadt...God  bless him for leaving all of us with a body of amazing and historical work.

VINEYARD COMPILATION

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson 


Cheers.

PEARS

My latest painting...

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso 


Cheers.

  The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.
Emanuel Swedenborg