DC Trip

Hello.... just arrived home and I need to take care of some business before I can edit the photos from my trip to DC for the inauguration. Here is a shot I took of the sunrise at the Newark airport after getting off my red-eye, just a placeholder until I get the good stuff up!

Calendar Cover!

I just received a copy of the beautiful new "Saluting Ebey's Landing National Historic Reserve" calendar in which I have two images, including the cover. A special thank you to Carol Molitor from Big Rock Designs who put it all together! They are available for $10 from the Central Whidbey Camber of Commerce.

2009

Hello all (yes, there are more than 3 subscribers). I am soliciting ideas for the blog, maybe some new stuff for 2009. I was thinking about beginner photo tutorials, more advanced stuff, photo hacks, video, etc. Please let me know in the comments link below if you have any ideas/requests! Please, please, please!

Photo from New Years Day 2007 in India, I altered the chalk number....



Also wanted to share this wonderful poem a friend sent me today-


Ode

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844 - 1881)

O'Shaughnessy was born in London and worked at the Natural History Museum.