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Eclectic & Esoteric Enmity. (Or, I’m REALLY Cranky!)

July 31st, 2009 by Howard | No Comments | Filed in Photography, Rants

There are five levels of Crankiness.

Stage One

Stage Two

Stage Three

Stage Four

Vodka.

I call this my 3-3-3 drink. It is a simple recipe. Three ice cudes. Check! Three olives. Check! Three fingers of Stolichnaya. Check!!!

Crankiness is defined as mental irratation. You know how your foot feels when you have a sharp, large rock in your shoe? Well, imagine your mental state is your foot. And then add five more rocks. That is the level of crankiness I have achieve. I’m am not certain, but I think I can win a gold medal in Crankiness in Japan. I can spit crankiness 40 inches. If you could pull my crankiness from my soul, flatten it out with a rolling pin and line it up in a straight line, it would stretch to the moon and back, by way of Mercury.

Photography actually relieves the pain faster than Vodka. And it is almost as much fun.

My wife took this one for me tonight. I saw this thing sticking above the driver’s seat of the car ahead of us, and I thought, what the hell is driving that car? A blonde Weasel??? After reviewing the photograph, I’m fairly convinced it is not a weasel. But I’m at a lost for words as to a better explanation, other than this is Planet Miami, and anything goes.

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This is a more attractive image if you ask me. Cute face, pink phone, nice fingernails reflected in the rear view mirror with the photo taken at an odd angle. What do you think?

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You know, in South Florida there are many small ways we can see that Fall is coming. Subtle things, like the Good Year Blimp making a landing at Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines, a mere couple of miles from Joe Robbie Stadium. (Yes, it will always be Joe Robbie stadium!) This signals the start of football season!

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The last one my wife also took, and it is of three frogs in a pond. Or toads. Or just plain slimy critters.

I’m not a toad fan myself, but what the heck, she likes them.

Peace out people.

I’m sure trying!

SCG

Saturday Pics

July 25th, 2009 by Howard | No Comments | Filed in Photography

Mid-day Saturday and the clouds have arrived early.

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I’ve been trying to improve my photography, expand depth of field, and maybe produce better quality images.

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I see some improvement, but still have a long ways to go.

Ahhhhhh…Saturday. I like Saturdays……

SCG

South Florida Odds and Ends

July 25th, 2009 by Howard | No Comments | Filed in Main

An article here in the Sun-Sentinel talks about a sculpture in a Delray Beach shopping center that naturally is making local residents dizzy with shock and outrage. According to the article, “The anatomically correct figure is part of a sculpture by artist Itzik Asher titled Journey to the New, which represents the journey of Russian and Ethiopian Jews from their homes to Israel.”

The same thing happened in 2005 when artist Norma Gitzen’s mermaid “Siren” shocked residents of Lake worth. Mr. Gitzen received complaints that the mermaid’s breasts were too large. Out of proportion they said. Hell, have they been to South Beach lately? Every third woman has breasts larger that the “Siren”!

Anyway, my first reaction is to ban all artists from displaying art in public places. Why? Because the residents of South Florida are idiots and clueless about art, it’s nature or value to society. They also are easily shocked by the human body, unless it is displayed in real life form in one of the many strip joints in South Florida.

So, give it up Artists….South Floridians are oblivious to art. Give it up. You would receive more appropriate response showing your art to a herd of roving ass weasels.

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The second story is about supposedly, lightning striking a car on I-595 yesterday. (Sun-Sentinel again.) Blew out the rear window, tires and pretty much KO’ed the entire car. Luckily, no one was injured. However, this concerns me a great deal, as I was always under the impression that being in a car, with four rubber tires connecting you to the ground, was one of the safest places to be in lightning.

In fact, there are a few websites that prove that being inside a car is the safest place to be in a lightning storm.

http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/cage.html

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/outdoors.htm

So, I hope we can get more information about this incident.

It is Saturday folks. Proof that God exists and lvoes us. Unless you work on Saturdays . . .

Enjoy the day, and stay off of I-595 during lightning, which in Summer means every day.

Peace.

SCG

Miami Photographs

July 24th, 2009 by Howard | 3 Comments | Filed in Photography

Took a V-Day from work today, and decided to go hunting for good light. I had heard a rumor that light has been seen coming out of the east in Miami Beach. Some even say it comes up right out of the ocean! My late start though, didn’t get me that far east when there it was – an explosion of light! I opened the special device I carried with me and let some of the light flow into it.

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Found some more light bouncing off of the Miami skyline.

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Not far from Miami Beach’s South Pointe Park light was bouncing off of this beautiful building, so I opened up my box and captured some rays. I love the architecture on South Beach!