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<title>Dec 31, 2006 - Illusion</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last post for 2006.]]></description>
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<title>Dec 30, 2006 - Portrait of the artist as a young drawing</title>
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<description><![CDATA["When I was a youth, I did youthful things, but when I got older, I still did youthful things."]]></description>
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<title>Dec 29, 2006 - Portrait of a friend</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a picture of someone I've known for almost fifty years. I think that we are still discovering each other.]]></description>
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<title>Dec 28, 2006 - The museum becomes art - #8 - Musée d'Orsay</title>
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<title>Dec 27, 2006 - Children of Unchon-ni - #2</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you've noticed that a lot of my recent posts have images from a long time ago, the reason is because I just got a new film scanner and I've been re-scanning slides that didn't work well with my older scanner.]]></description>
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<title>Dec 26, 2006 - Children of Unchon-ni</title>
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<title>Dec 25, 2006 - Holiday Hobbitt</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here's the Hobbitt, all decked out for the holiday season.]]></description>
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<title>Dec 24, 2006 - Georges</title>
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<title>Dec 23, 2006 - Into the sunset</title>
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<title>Dec 22, 2006 - Concorde</title>
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<title>Dec 21, 2006 - Along the Via Appia Antica</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I've always believed that if you have time to spend in a place like Europe, you should spend most of it in a single city, rather than hopping around from place to place, seeing little bits.]]></description>
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<title>Dec 20, 2006 - Carina in motion</title>
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<title>Dec 19, 2006 - Old money</title>
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<title>Dec 18, 2006 - Cloud reflections on a Connecticut lake</title>
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<title>Dec 17, 2006 - DMZ - Korea -1964</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ) has been described as "the most dangerous place on earth." Although few have died here, it represents a standoff that begins where the Korean war ended, with two massive armies staring each other down across a strip of land, about one and a half miles wide, that cuts the Korean peninsula in two.]]></description>
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<title>Dec 16, 2006 - Self portrait in the gardens at Versailles</title>
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<title>Dec 15, 2006 - Mount Wilson</title>
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<title>Dec 14, 2006 - Korean orphanage - 1965</title>
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<title>Dec 13, 2006 - Fractured glass</title>
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<title>Dec 12, 2006 - Panorama from way up high</title>
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<title>Dec 11, 2006 - Portrait in small mosaic tiles</title>
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<title>Dec 10, 2006 - Blame</title>
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<title>Dec 09, 2006 - The three faces of the Hobbitt</title>
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<title>Dec 08, 2006 - A portrait of the artist's left hand</title>
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<title>Dec 07, 2006 - Stones</title>
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<title>Dec 06, 2006 - In the royal courtyard</title>
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<title>Dec 05, 2006 - On the pond</title>
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<title>Dec 04, 2006 - The calla lilies are in bloom again</title>
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<description><![CDATA[And this one belongs to the Hobbitt.]]></description>
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<title>Dec 03, 2006 - Event horizon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two laws of interestingness]]></description>
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<title>Dec 02, 2006 - Saints beneath the clouds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Q: Before the Internet, what was the most popular form of self-publishing?]]></description>
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<title>Dec 01, 2006 - Self portrait of the artist in the pool</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Weather forecast for today is for warm weather. Unusual for this time of year.]]></description>
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<title>Nov 30, 2006 - Meditation object - #2</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The web has given artists a whole new way to reach people with their art.]]></description>
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<title>Nov 29, 2006 - Portrait in warm stone</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The right camera is not necessarily the best camera (and vice versa).]]></description>
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<title>Nov 28, 2006 - Sunset in the graveyard of trees</title>
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<title>Nov 27, 2006 - Cordes cat</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Serious crime continues to drop, but...]]></description>
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<title>Nov 26, 2006 - Into the woods - #3</title>
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<title>Nov 25, 2006 - Daguerreotype</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A view of the Eiffel Tower from the Champ de Mars as rendered by an antique photographic process.]]></description>
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<title>Nov 24, 2006 - Los diablos de Barceloneta - #2</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Another picture from the festival of St. Joan in Barcelona, where the teenagers in the oldest part of the city dress up as devils and carry fireworks around the church square.]]></description>
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<title>Nov 23, 2006 - Ghost of the ferry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Time to get into the 'flow.' Athletes call it "the zone." ]]></description>
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<title>Nov 22, 2006 - Dream Street</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Random thoughts:]]></description>
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<title>Nov 21, 2006 - Runner</title>
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<title>Nov 20, 2006 - Four leaf clover</title>
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<title>Nov 19, 2006 - Tokyo cemetery</title>
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<title>Nov 18, 2006 - Trees and clouds overhead</title>
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<title>Nov 17, 2006 - Abandoned barn - #2</title>
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<title>Nov 16, 2006 - Stoned</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wow! A flashback to the '60s.]]></description>
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<title>Nov 15, 2006 - Tokyo goldfish</title>
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<title>Nov 14, 2006 - In my library</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When we lived in our tiny house in New York City, we had books and bookcases and that sort of thing, but you had to climb over things to get to them and we sort of ran out of room for new books.]]></description>
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<title>Nov 13, 2006 - In the Muir woods</title>
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<title>Nov 12, 2006 - A mask in Barcelona</title>
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<title>Nov 11, 2006 - Sorrow - #2</title>
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<title>Nov 10, 2006 - Magic tractor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today's question:]]></description>
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<title>Nov 09, 2006 - Dancing man</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0312.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, when I was designing Macintosh software, I needed a logo for a product I was working on.]]></description>
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<title>Nov 08, 2006 - Sunset behind our house</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0311.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Well, election 2006 is over.]]></description>
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<title>Nov 07, 2006 - Me and the Hobbitt on the Via Appia Antica</title>
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<title>Nov 06, 2006 - Communication</title>
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<title>Nov 05, 2006 - Blue horse</title>
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<title>Nov 04, 2006 - Olde Jake</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0307.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is the weathervane that sits atop the firehouse that houses the Rouss Fire Company in Winchester, Virginia.]]></description>
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<title>Nov 03, 2006 - Morning fog</title>
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<title>Nov 02, 2006 - Moonrise</title>
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<title>Nov 01, 2006 - Electric trees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[During the cold winter nights, the buildup of static electricity gives these trees an unearthly glow.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 31, 2006 - BOO!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Happy Halloween!]]></description>
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<title>Oct 30, 2006 - A man at the Met</title>
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<title>Oct 29, 2006 - Horse over my head - #6</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This one is by the light of a full moon, rising in the east, with some clouds.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 28, 2006 - Autumn leaves</title>
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<title>Oct 27, 2006 - Tony's angels - #3</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is the angel that is atop the Castel Sant'Angelo.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 26, 2006 - Tony's Angels - #2</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This angel is in one of the courtyards at the Castel Sant'Angelo.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 25, 2006 - Tony's angels - #1</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the Pont Sant'Angelo, which leads to the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 24, 2006 - The museum becomes art - #7</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0296.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The spiral ramp at the Guggenheim Museum in New York is probably the largest art display space in the world. It turns a museum visit into a long, leisurely stroll. I'm sure that there have been those who've wanted to try out their rollerblades or skateboards on this as well.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 23, 2006 - Self portrait behind the Musée Rodin</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here I am, at the back door of the Rodin Museum in Paris.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 22, 2006 - From inside the hydroelectric plant</title>
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<title>Oct 21, 2006 - Abandoned steel mills - #2</title>
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<title>Oct 20, 2006 - Goya Museum - Castres, France</title>
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<title>Oct 19, 2006 - Botero-rama!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Big day today. I have a show of prints opening at the November Gallery at the Weinstein JCC in Richmond, Virginia.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 18, 2006 - Notte Bianca</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This was a special evening of celebration in Rome. Notte Bianca - white night. There would be special events, concerts, and happenings all over Rome. Places that normally shut down early would be open all night]]></description>
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<title>Oct 17, 2006 - A lovely pair of Spanish knockers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On a door in Toledo.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 16, 2006 - Burnt tree, Muir Woods, California</title>
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<title>Oct 15, 2006 - La Géode</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A formation of fashionable Frenchmen parades before La Géode at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in a suburb of Paris.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 14, 2006 - At the Palazzo dei Consoli</title>
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<title>Oct 13, 2006 - Flight pattern</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today is Friday the thirteenth.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 12, 2006 - My Korean friend</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0284.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[I was stationed near the DMZ between 1964 and 1965. It was at Camp Kaiser, which was turned over to the Korean army in the 1970's. The little village nearby is Unchon Ni.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 11, 2006 - In a Roman courtyard</title>
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<title>Oct 10, 2006 - Two bees or not two bees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bees gathering pollen from one of the Hobbitt's sunflowers.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 09, 2006 - Etruscan floor</title>
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<title>Oct 08, 2006 - Mount Fujiyama at sunset</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0280.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[It was 1965 and I was onboard an army C47, heading back to Korea after two weeks leave in Japan. As the plane took off and headed west, I looked out the window and saw this view. I grabbed for my camera and took a few quick pictures.]]></description>
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<title>Oct 07, 2006 - A bug's world</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This bug's eye view of the world takes place on one of the Hobbitt's sunflowers, back when we lived in New York. It  was shot with a digital camera with built-in macro capability, so no close-up lenses were required. ]]></description>
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<title>Oct 06, 2006 - Sunset from the Tour Montparnasse</title>
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<title>Oct 05, 2006 - In the woods</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For me, the final stage of the work is the print. No matter how good your computer screen is, you can't really see an image until it's on paper. ]]></description>
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<title>Oct 04, 2006 - Chestnut lick</title>
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<title>Oct 03, 2006 - Café des Hauteurs</title>
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<title>Oct 02, 2006 - Together</title>
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<title>Oct 01, 2006 - Pathway through Sky Meadows</title>
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<title>Sep 30, 2006 - Magical winter night</title>
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<title>Sep 28, 2006 - On the death of freedom</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today is the day that America officially stepped away from the ideals that once made it a great country.]]></description>
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<title>Sep 27, 2006 - Damselfly</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Although it might at first be taken for a dragonfly, this is a damselfly.]]></description>
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<title>Sep 26, 2006 - Nightfall in Gubbio</title>
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<title>Sep 25, 2006 - The museum becomes art - #6</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here we are in the Metropolitan in new York City.]]></description>
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<title>Sep 24, 2006 - The Hobbitt in the pool, at sunset</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today is the last day of the pool season. Tomorrow, the pool people are coming to close the pool for the winter. In preparation, I gave the filter one last backwash, cleaned and stored the robot that vacuums the pool and, with the Hobbitt's help, moved the reel with the solar cover to its winter location.]]></description>
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<title>Sep 23, 2006 - The dove in winter</title>
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<title>Sep 22, 2006 - Vatican figure</title>
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<title>Sep 21, 2006 - Through a glass, strangely</title>
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<title>Sep 20, 2006 - Near Buitrago del Lozoya</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Buitrago is a small town, North of Madrid, that houses the world's smallest Picasso museum. Here, in a vertical panorama, we see a view of the river Lozoya just outside the town.]]></description>
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<title>Sep 19, 2006 - Bull Run</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The road that passes by our house ends at Bull Run, which is also the county line. According to one of Virginia's road people that I spoke to, this crossing is one of the only two fords in Virginia. During a drought, you can walk across it, but after some rain, it gets pretty deep and has trapped more than a few unwary drivers.]]></description>
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<title>Sep 18, 2006 - A peaceful place</title>
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<title>Sep 17, 2006 - Fantasy at Ida Lee</title>
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<title>Sep 16, 2006 - Horse over my head - #5</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Monet had his water lilies, Steichen had his shadblow tree, and I have the horse on the cupola over my studio.]]></description>
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<title>Sep 15, 2006 - Rainbow at Sky Meadows</title>
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<title>Sep 14, 2006 - Happy Birthday, Hobbitt!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today is the Hobbitt's birthday! Everyone out there should send the Hobbitt a birthday greeting.]]></description>
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<title>Sep 13, 2006 - The baths of Caracalla</title>
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<title>Sep 12, 2006 - Electric swan</title>
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<title>Sep 11, 2006 - Helicopter gunship - New York City after 9-11</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here, a few days after September 11, 2001, a helicopter gunship circles lower Manhattan, caught between two skyscrapers and highlighted against a background of smoke from the still-burning buildings at Ground Zero.]]></description>
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<title>Sep 10, 2006 - Downtown New York City after 9-11</title>
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<title>Sep 09, 2006 - Sunset in the pool</title>
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<title>Sep 08, 2006 - Number 3 racing turtle</title>
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<title>Sep 07, 2006 - Portrait in red aspect</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a red version of the earlier blue portrait.]]></description>
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<title>Sep 06, 2006 -  Campidoglio</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A vertical panorama of the interior of this famous building in Rome.]]></description>
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<title>Sep 05, 2006 - Cirque du Soleil</title>
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<title>Sep 04, 2006 - Birds of the castle</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is at the castle in Manzanares in Spain.]]></description>
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<title>Sep 03, 2006 - Broken shell - #2</title>
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<title>Sep 02, 2006 - The two religions of Spain</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This was in Toledo.]]></description>
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<title>Sep 01, 2006 - Underwater speaker testing</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0244.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you're an audiophile, then you already know about the value of testing loudspeakers underwater. If not, this is something you should consider before your next purchase of hi-fi or home theatre equipment.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 31, 2006 - Self portrait with Hobbitt at Bull Run</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0243.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[So here I am, standing in the middle of Bull Run. There's been a drought, so my feet are dry. Normally, there would be about a foot of water here.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 30, 2006 - Reagan and Gorbachev 1985</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0242.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a picture of a meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev that took place at a secret location in New York City.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 29, 2006 - The Hobbitt and Shawn on Logmill Road</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Shawn came to visit us last year. He's an old friend of the family.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 28, 2006 - Sorrow</title>
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<title>Aug 27, 2006 - Approaching storm - #2</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Boy, we could really use some rain around here. Pretty much no rain for the last nine weeks or so, right in the middle of the summer. Most of the rain, heading towards us from the west or the south, seems to bypass this area.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 26, 2006 - Portrait in stone</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just another stone face, this one at the National Gallery in Washington.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 25, 2006 - Pinhead decoupage framed</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0237.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The final piece of the puzzle, in creating prints, is how to display them. The most obvious way is to frame them, behind glass. This offers certain benefits. The print is protected from the elements and from curious hands. It fits in with the currently accepted way of displaying art. And, for some, it gives the print a more expensive look.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 24, 2006 - View from Toledo</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a vertical panorama, seen from the town of Toledo, in Spain.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 23, 2006 - Head of the d'Orsay</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is actually a replica, quite large, of one of the decorations that graced the Gare d'Orsay before it became the Musée d'Orsay, my favorite Parisian museum.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 22, 2006 - Blue hilltop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is from the artist's "Blue Period," during which he made a lot of images that were blue, or sort of blue.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 21, 2006 - Evening flowers</title>
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<title>Aug 20, 2006 - Gubbio cat</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0232.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The little villages in France and Italy and Spain that I have visited all have street cats roaming their turf and performing a useful service for the inhabitants. They help to keep the villages free of mice and other vermin. In exchange, they are treated the same as the other residents.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 19, 2006 - Portrait in blue and cyan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a copy of a Cyanograph(tm) print that was made with a new photographic process.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 18, 2006 - "He's multifaceted and insecure"</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0230.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[One of the things you can do with a new camera, to learn its controls and settings, is to take pictures of your TV. This lets you check things like the framing and. more important, the delay between when you press the shutter and when the camera actually takes the picture. With film cameras, the delay was tiny, but with digital cameras, the delay is much longer and takes some practice to get used to.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 17, 2006 - Infrared fisheye landscape</title>
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<title>Aug 16, 2006 - A bird on the wire - #2</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0228.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[On Sept 6, 2025, a large spaceship appeared over New York City. It sat motionless for three days. Then a port opened, and a large, cylindrical object protruded. A ray flashed from the end of the cylinder and half of the city was destroyed in an instant. Then the ship departed after sending a radio message that at first appeared to be encrypted. After two weeks, NSA decoded the message that seemed to explain the destruction of NYC. It said:]]></description>
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<title>Aug 15, 2006 - In the blue pool</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reflections on the pool in front of the Temple of Dendur at the Met in New York City.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 14, 2006 - My front door</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Our house isn't that old, especially by New York standards (Our NYC house was built in 1925). ]]></description>
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<title>Aug 13, 2006 - Roman steps</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I just got a new printer. It's a real beast, weighing about 100 pounds. ]]></description>
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<title>Aug 12, 2006 - Fear</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When did we become a nation living in fear?]]></description>
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<title>Aug 11, 2006 - Piggyback</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just two young pigs at the petting zoo of a local farm.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 10, 2006 - Boot failure</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There's a lot of construction going on around here, so you will find things like this worn out boot along the roadway.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 09, 2006 - Metropolitan sunset</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0221.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[There's a roof garden on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in new York City. It's a beautiful spot, overlooking the lush green of Central Park. You can admire the sculptures there, have a nice glass of wine and, if you time it right, drink a toast to the sunset.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 08, 2006 - Excedrin headache #42</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Time for another picture of Pablo.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 07, 2006 - Split Hobbitt</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0219.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[You've probably heard of hair with split ends. And you've probably heard of split personalities. And you've probably heard of split peas  and split atoms.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 06, 2006 - Approaching storm</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dear New York Times,]]></description>
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<title>Aug 05, 2006 - Royal portrait</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0217.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you look closely, you will see that this portrait is composed of little squares, in different shades, overlapping, to produce the final result.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 04, 2006 - In the Castel Sant'Angelo</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0216.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Deep within the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, there is a staircase that leads to a door, with a giant arch of sky above.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 03, 2006 - Puzzlefish</title>
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<description><![CDATA[These rare and exotic fish can be found in the Monterey Bay Aquarium.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 02, 2006 - Double butterfly</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0214.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This photo of two monarch butterflies was taken in the summer of 2001. That winter, there was a massive die-out of these beauties, due to frost, where they were wintering in Mexico.]]></description>
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<title>Aug 01, 2006 - In the stroll garden - #2</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is another view of the Japanese stroll garden in Locust Valley, New York.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 31, 2006 - Hobbitt's flower as a silkscreen print</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is one of the Hobbitt's beautiful flowers, rendered here in the manner of a silkscreen print.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 30, 2006 - Welcome to Rome</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0211.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Suppose you worked for the tourist board in ancient Rome. And your job is to put together a campaign to bring visitors to your city.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 29, 2006 - Buddha test - #2</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is another variation on my original photo of the Daibutsu Buddha in Kamakura, Japan.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 28, 2006 - From our French apartment</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0209.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[So here we were, ready for our vacation in Paris, with a great apartment on the rue Guenegaud. It's a beautiful place, warm, comfy, with a living room on the first level and a stairway up to sleeping loft above. It's in a classy neighborhood, right by the Pont Neuf and the  Île de la Cité. We celebrate the first night there by gorging on wine and cheese and beautiful French bread from the rue de Buci.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 27, 2006 - Via Belsiana</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's night in Rome. The Via Belsiana is a street below the Spanish steps, near the Via Condotti, a street with stylish and famous shops.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 26, 2006 - My dream is trapped</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is another view of the "mixed blood" orphanage near Seoul in 1965 (See Apr-28-06). These young children, because of their parentage, probably weren't adopted and spent their youth in an orphanage run by the church.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 25, 2006 - Portrait in blue aspect</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here we have a portrait done as a tessellation in blue. I like the way that the lines between the little squares are visible in some parts of the picture but not in others.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 24, 2006 - Our senator</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0205.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is the senator from our state. While he struts like a rooster, he's also a bit of a chicken. ]]></description>
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<title>Jul 23, 2006 - In El Escorial</title>
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<title>Jul 22, 2006 - Friend of the farmer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This was at a bakery in Roslyn, New York called Friend of the Farmer.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 21, 2006 - View with small white shed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a picture taken right across the road from our house.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 20, 2006 - Bamboo sunset</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The sun setting through a stand of Phyllostachys Bissetii dwarf bamboo.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 19, 2006 - The fish is the sum of some of its parts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today marks the 200th entry in my journal, so I thought a picture of a fish would be appropriate. Go figure.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 18, 2006 - Fallen flower</title>
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<title>Jul 17, 2006 - Butterfly parade</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The road that passes our house ends at Bull Run, a stream that also marks the county line. There is no bridge across it, although it looks like there might be if you check out the local maps. According to the authorities, this is one of only two fords in Virginia -- river crossings with no bridge. The water level varies with the season. During a drought, you can just about walk across it, while during rainy periods, cars get trapped in the heavy flow.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 16, 2006 - Snow scene</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0197.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[It's finally getting hot in this neck of the woods. The forecast calls for temperatures to top 100 degrees this week. Probably have steambath-like humidity to go with it as well.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 15, 2006 - Manzanares story</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0196.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a detail from a tapestry in the royal castle in Manzanares, north of Madrid. It was really dark, so I shot the original picture in infrared and then used a special process to restore the colors (infrared pictures from this camera are sort of a foggy, overall green). The colors may be off from the original, but his gives them a Picasso-like palette.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 14, 2006 - Pain</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This ancient stone sculpture resides in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 13, 2006 - Peace</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tonight, everyone should pray for peace.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 12, 2006 - Hobbitt and the jellyfish</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0193.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here we are at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The Hobbitt is watching a tank of large, dangerous-looking jellyfish. This is a really nifty place. Not only do they have a lot of fish and other aquatic creatures, but they also have a great web site.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 11, 2006 - Cat posing as panther</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It looks like a cat,]]></description>
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<title>Jul 10, 2006 - Portrait of the artist's left hand</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This picture has an archeological look. Almost like some sort of cave painting.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 09, 2006 - Into the woods - #2</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0190.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Another picture of the Hobbitt walking into the woods. In this case, I was playing with the masks generated by various versions of the image. This mask was so interesting that I kept it and used it instead of the original image.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 08, 2006 - Kodo!</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0189.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A kodo drummer at a festival, giving it his all.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 07, 2006 - A view from Segovia</title>
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<title>Jul 06, 2006 - Homage to Leonardo</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0187.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This image is based on Da Vinci's famous sketch entitled "Vitruvian Man."]]></description>
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<title>Jul 05, 2006 - The Hobbitt at Red Rock Canyon</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0186.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here we see the Hobbit, like the lone gunslinger, standing before the desert vista of Red Rock Canyon, somewhere in Nevada. ]]></description>
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<title>Jul 04, 2006 - Independence Day</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0185.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Well, it's Independence Day, and it looks like the country has come full circle. We started with a president named George, who said he didn't want to be king, and ended up with a president named George who wants to be king.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 03, 2006 - Night on the Seine</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0184.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ah, a beautiful night in Paris, truly the City of Light. We had walked from the Etoile after climbing to the top of the Arc de Triomphe, and were headed in the general direction of the Eiffel Tower. You pass along the some of the fanciest streets along the way, with the names of famous couturiers and others on the buildings. It had rained a little, but now it was clear.]]></description>
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<title>Jul 02, 2006 - Butterfly in the Bronx</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0183.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A butterfly in the Bronx. In the Bronx Zoo, actually. They have a large tent-like structure that looks like a caterpillar. Inside, the butterflies roam free among the flowers. If you're careful, you can get one to settle on your hand. ]]></description>
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<title>Jul 01, 2006 - Leaving the Louvre -- The museum becomes art - #5</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0182.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Well, it's now six months since I started this journal. Seems like yesterday, but as I look through the pictures I've posted here, I'm very pleased with the results. The reason that I started this journal is because, as I get older, the time seems to move faster and faster. January seems like, perhaps, a week ago.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 30, 2006 - Monterey fog</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0181.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[It's early morning along the coast in northern California. Still a little dark, and very, very foggy. ]]></description>
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<title>Jun 29, 2006 - On the wall at Avila</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0180.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Avila is an old, walled city, northwest of Madrid. The wall surrounds the center of the city and, like many similar castles and fortresses in Spain, is newly refurbished. On the day we visited, the walled part had recently been reopened to tourists. Basically, you walk on the outer part of the wall that overlooks the surrounding countryside.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 28, 2006 - The mill at Lautrec</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0179.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lautrec is a small village in southern France, but it is not the home of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The village is near the city of Toulouse, but that's not where Henri is from either. He's from Albi, but that's another story.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 27, 2006 - Horse over my head - #4</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0178.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is the result of playing with a diffusion filter. It gives a very soft look to the picture. The picture of the weathervane over my studio was put into multiple layers in a photo editing program,. Then the individual layers were played with. As a last step, they were combined again into a single layer.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 26, 2006 - Blue portrait of Donna</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0177.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Another portrait of a girl that I knew a long time ago.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 25, 2006 - At the spaceport</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0176.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[When my son, Scott, returned from his studies at the University at Alpha Centauri, the Hobbitt and I went to meet him at the Clinton National Spaceport near Washington, DC. ]]></description>
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<title>Jun 24, 2006 - Snail story</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0175.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[When we lived in our little house in New York City, we were plagued by snails. They were all over the place, especially after it rained. At one point, it looked like they were eating the mortar between the bricks in the stairs at the entrance to the front of the house.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 23, 2006 - Los diablos de Barceloneta</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0174.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[It was June 23rd and we were in Barcelona. Time for the festival of Sant Joan (Saint John). The Hobbitt and I had stopped near the marina and picked up several bottles of cava, the local version of champagne, and some cocas, traditional flat cakes, baked only on this day. These are the traditional food and drink for the evening's celebration.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 22, 2006 - Self portrait in the space between the stones</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0173.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[And not just any old stones, mind you. These stones are on a pathway leading up to one of the entrances to the Rodin Museum in Paris. This is one of my early experiments in the use of "negative space." ]]></description>
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<title>Jun 21, 2006 - Central Park evening</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0172.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Just a night shot of one of the beautiful little corners you find in New York's Central Park. There was a time when the park was considered dangerous after sunset, but over the last twenty years or so, the park has been restored and is well lit and well policed in the evenings. Certainly as safe as any similar park in Europe.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 20, 2006 - At Puerto de la Morcuera</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0171.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Puerto de la Morcuera is a place along the road between Miraflores de la Sierra and Rascafria, about 50 miles north of Madrid in Spain. We decided to take a trip up the M-611, a snarky, winding road that leads north of Miraflores to see Rascafria, where all the local potato chips seemed to come from. It was also a good excuse for a road trip on our last day in Spain.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 19, 2006 - Guggenheim in the sky</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0170.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[For a while, in the late 1990's, the Guggenheim Museum was on a growth kick, expanding faster than your average supernova, threatening, like Major League Baseball, to have a branch in every big city. They even had a model of a planned museum in lower Manhattan. Like their building in Bilbao, Spain, the new one was to be designed by Frank Gehry, who seems to prototype new buildings by stripping the label off an empty tin can, then beating it with a hammer until it looks like a museum.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 18, 2006 - Night trees</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0169.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This one is from a while back, and started off as a film image. In those days, I used a scanner to bring the image into the computer. This gave me an extra step that was more work, but it also gave me another place to play with the image, something I miss since switching to digital. The benefit of digital photography is that it's easier to get images from the camera to the computer. As a result, I now end up with more images to work with.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 17, 2006 - Under la Grande Arche</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0168.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hard to imagine that this is Paris, but it's a new area called La Défense that sits at the city limits. Full of futuristic buildings, as you can see here. The star is the Grande Arche, a giant building in the shape of an upside-down letter "U." The most interesting feature was the elevator, running along steel cables, that goes from street level directly to the top floor, surrounded only by air. Not for the faint of heart.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 16, 2006 - Portrait made from colored tiles</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0167.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[When I first started doing this number, many years ago, the results showed up as hard copy -- pictures and words in newspapers or magazines. If there was a mistake, perhaps a spelling error, or an incorrect fact, or the wrong picture, the result was produced in multiple copies, in a very permanent form. It might as well have been etched on my tombstone.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 15, 2006 - Happy birthday to me</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0166.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[It's the artist's birthday! Won't say how old I am, except that it's a prime number. So you could say that I'm in my prime.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 14, 2006 - California storm</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0165.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[It's February of 1960, and I'm traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco. My first time going up the coast road. There had been a winter storm that messed things up along the coast. A tanker full of wine was in trouble off of San Francisco.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 13, 2006 - Sky show - #1</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0164.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the sky, the sun, and the clouds all combine to produce a show like this. The trick is to record it so that you capture all the details of the show.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 12, 2006 - Fireworks!</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0163.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Time to add some fireworks to this dull journal.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 11, 2006 - Self portrait with yellow lines</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0162.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[I've always pictured myself as a middle-of-the-road kind of guy, but the Hobbitt says that in this case I may be taking things a bit too literally.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 10, 2006 - Buddha test</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0161.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a variation of my picture of the Daibutsu Buddha of Kamakura from an earlier journal entry (1-8-06).]]></description>
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<title>Jun 09, 2006 - The spirit of low calories</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0160.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here's the deal. Print this picture out, attach it to the door of your refrigerator, and the food inside will magically have fewer calories. Here are some other little-known facts about food and calories.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 08, 2006 - Our trip to New York</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0159.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Last year, we returned to New York to attend the wedding of the son of some old friends. It was my first time back in New York since we had moved to Virginia two years earlier. We stayed in a hotel near the Brooklyn Bridge, which was near the site of the wedding. When I looked out the window of the hotel, this is what I saw -- a small fragment of the afternoon sky.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 07, 2006 - Pinhead deconstructed</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0158.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a variation on the original portrait of Pinhead (4-12-06). This version was created with the Derrida plug-in from Wilkington-Smythe.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 06, 2006 - Paw prints</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0157.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[On a muddy day, along the riverbank of Bull Run, I found this intriguing paw print. I'm not sure what sort of animal left it.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 05, 2006 - Vatican story</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0156.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a detail from a tapestry in the Vatican. It's an interesting scene that makes you wonder what's happening. You'll have to use your imagination, as I don't have the answer. But I'll bet it has a religious theme.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 04, 2006 - Portrait in stars</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0155.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here, as promised yesterday (6-3-06), is a variation on the same portrait. Instead of shades of brown, this one is composed of stars.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 03, 2006 - Portrait in shades of brown</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0154.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[To view this picture properly, scroll back until the image fills the screen, then step back fifteen feet or so, until you can see the details emerge.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 02, 2006 - The moon at sunset</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0153.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[I took this picture one evening, standing behind my house. This is a vertical panorama, showing a very wide angle of the sky at sunset. The moon appears above the clouds in the western sky.]]></description>
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<title>Jun 01, 2006 - Blue bistro</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0152.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a scene in a fashionable bistro, somewhere in lower Manhattan.]]></description>
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<title>May 31, 2006 - Strange French road marker</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0151.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[We were driving around in the south of France, somewhere between Vabre and Graulhet, when we saw this marker by the roadside. "What's that mean," asked the Hobbitt. "Ah," I said, "it means get out of your car and look at the scenery."]]></description>
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<title>May 30, 2006 - And now for something completely different.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I found this little scene in an antique shop in San Francisco.]]></description>
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<title>May 29, 2006 - At the Alhambra</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0149.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[When my son was in college, he spent a semester at the University of Madrid, to work on getting his degree in Spanish literature. So the Hobbitt and I took a plane to Spain to visit with him.]]></description>
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<title>May 28, 2006 - Horse over my head - #3</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0148.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Once again, it's the horse on the cupola over my studio. This time. it's at moonrise.]]></description>
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<title>May 27, 2006 - Personal spacecraft</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0147.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Not from NASA, but we saw these in San Francisco. Can you imagine going up and down those almost-vertical hills in one of these contraptions? It's no wonder they're wearing crash helmets.]]></description>
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<title>May 26, 2006 - Abandoned steel mills</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0146.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[America was once a great industrial nation, with steel mills, factories, and with railroads that reached to every corner of every state. But now that day is past. The steel mills and the factories have moved to other countries where the labor is cheaper. The railroads have been all but replaced by trucks that carry the goods, and by airplanes that move people faster and further.]]></description>
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<title>May 25, 2006 - Tessellated portrait</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0145.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[An interesting view of a reticulated lady.]]></description>
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<title>May 24, 2006 - It's always some dam thing</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0144.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[I took this picture yesterday, while standing on Hoover dam. The dam itself isn't very interesting and, in reality, looks smaller in person than it does in pictures. There are lots of fancy towers with lots of wires , but that's really dullsville too.]]></description>
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<title>May 23, 2006 - Abstract - #2</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0143.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Just another abstract made while testing some new brushes in a natural media paint program.]]></description>
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<title>May 22, 2006 - Butterfly in red</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0142.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm traveling today, so this is will have to do, as far as words are concerned.]]></description>
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<title>May 21, 2006 - White farm building with tractor</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0141.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A simple subject, and one that I have photographed a number of times.]]></description>
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<title>May 20, 2006 - Conference</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0140.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Hobbitt and I meet for a quick discussion about what to have for dinner.]]></description>
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<title>May 19, 2006 - The museum becomes art - #4</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0139.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This was shot in the Metropolitan Museum a few years ago, just after they had renovated this long hallway between the cafeteria and the main entrance. The hallway is filled with Greek and Roman statuary, and the galleries off the hallway hold artworks from that period.]]></description>
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<title>May 18, 2006 - Observatory time</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0138.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, on a blistering summer day in Los Angeles, I found myself in Griffith Park. I was trying to find some way to depict the kind of day it was.]]></description>
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<title>May 17, 2006 - Self portrait in the sand</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0137.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here we are, on the beach at Cape May, New Jersey. It's not exactly a beach day. Actually, it's mid-winter, but if you want to go to the beach on a day when there's no crowd, this is it. You can see from my shadow that I was warmly dressed.]]></description>
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<title>May 16, 2006 - Hobbitt's jalapeno</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0136.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[When we lived in Queens (NYC), the Hobbitt had a little garden in the little backyard behind our little house. She grew rosemary, sunflowers, peppers, and other assorted veggies.]]></description>
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<title>May 15, 2006 - Roma Termini</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0135.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Termini is the main train station of Rome. It's worth visiting, even if you aren't catching a train. There's an art gallery, rebuilt since our visit, and some very interesting shops. One is Aquastore, a boutique selling only bottled water, an unbelievable collection and a wide range of prices.]]></description>
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<title>May 14, 2006 - Mother's Day</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0134.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is dedicated to my mother and to my son.]]></description>
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<title>May 13, 2006 - The Hobbitt and me</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0133.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[On the road again. Literally. ]]></description>
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<title>May 12, 2006 - Blue mosaic portrait</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0132.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Putting your pictures on the web presents some interesting challenges. For one thing, the screen is very small, compared with the print size I currently use, which is 13 by 19 inches. For another, computer monitor screens vary wildly in both size and resolution. An additional factor is the wide range of settings for brightness, contrast, and color rendition that you will find on the average monitor. All of these must be taken into account.]]></description>
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<title>May 11, 2006 - Portrait of Donna</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0131.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This image was made from a picture of a girl that I knew many years ago.]]></description>
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<title>May 10, 2006 - Deconstructed Hobbitt</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0130.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Look at this. It's the Hobbitt gone all to bits. It's almost as if you could see her basic thought patterns. Sort of what you might see if the Hobbitt were to be portrayed by one of the artists involved in Cubism.]]></description>
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<title>May 09, 2006 - A new look for George</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0129.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Okay, let's talk about money. ]]></description>
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<title>May 08, 2006 - Sunset from the ferry</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0128.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, a fellow photographer and I took a trip on the Staten Island Ferry. It was late afternoon, near sunset. This is one of the pictures I took on that voyage.]]></description>
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<title>May 07, 2006 - Alpaca</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0127.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The area where we live is sparsely populated, about one hundred times lower population density than where we lived in New York. Some folks around here claim that in this area there are more horses than people. Judging from the number of horse farms in the area, that could easily be true.]]></description>
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<title>May 06, 2006 - Etruscan face</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0126.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[During our visit to Rome, we stayed in a hotel with individual apartments in a residential neighborhood near the edge of town. Right near the hotel was a station for one of the main rail lines -- the Ferrovia Metropolitana FM3. This was a rail line that served the areas around Rome. The endpoints of the line were posted at the station. One end, of course, was Rome. The other end was a town called Viterbo.]]></description>
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<title>May 05, 2006 - In the stroll garden - #1</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0125.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a vertical panorama of a wooded scene in a Japanese stroll garden on Long Island. It was originally shot in infrared and then converted it to give the appearance of a sepia print.]]></description>
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<title>May 04, 2006 - Rocket ship landing</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0124.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you're old enough to remember the original Flash Gordon serials from the 1930's, you'll recognize this as the spaceship used by Ming the Merciless. It's shown here just as it's coming in for a landing on the planet Mongo. This photo is the colorized version, done after Ted Turner bought the rights to these and other early films.]]></description>
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<title>May 03, 2006 - In the pool</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0123.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Well we opened the pool yesterday. It'll take about a week until the water is clear and correct and everything is running right. But that's not a problem because the water is still quite cold. Last year, I bought the Hobbitt a wet suit so that she could start to use the pool earlier, and that worked out well.]]></description>
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<title>May 02, 2006 - Isochromatic Pablo</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0122.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[By golly, it's our old friend Pablo. Here, the areas with the same color (isochromatic) have been neatly outlined in red, sort of like a topological map, or a map showing the areas where the barometric pressure is the same.]]></description>
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<title>May 01, 2006 - Road kill</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0121.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three years ago today, in what will ultimately be seen as the most bizarre, highly staged photo-op of all time, the president of the United States landed on an aircraft carrier, dressed in a military uniform, to make a speech that would turn out to be as phony and ill-conceived as the rest of his presidency.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 30, 2006 - First butterfly of spring</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0120.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[We put in a long day yesterday, the Hobbitt and I. We cut the grass in the field, watered the new lawn (still under the straw), and generally worked on the property.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 29, 2006 - Graindeer</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0119.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[These images are from videotapes, obtained by CNN at a Blockbuster Video near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. (Right next to the bazaar where they sell the stolen computer drives with government secrets.) ]]></description>
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<title>Apr 28, 2006 - Orphan</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0118.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[It is 1965, just outside of Seoul, in Korea. This young boy is in a "mixed blood" orphanage, run by the church. Most likely his mother was Korean and his father an American GI. He is at the orphanage because he has been abandoned. And because of his parentage, he has been shunned by the families who might otherwise adopt an orphan.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 27, 2006 - Abstract - #1</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0117.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This was done about ten years ago in a "natural media" painting program for the computer. The interesting feature was the ability to create your own brushes, complete with their own characteristics, and that's what I did.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 26, 2006 - The Fool</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0116.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Back when I was designing computer systems, there were many things to take into consideration. The more obvious ones were the various functions and data, where they were located, how things were connected, processes, interfaces, and the usual gory details of systems design.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 25, 2006 - Believing</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0115.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes your subjects are uncooperative. Sometimes they're in a hurry. and sometimes they just want the photographer to buzz off. Sometimes, while you're carefully composing an interesting shot, your subject might just make a beeline for home.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 24, 2006 - Lovebirds</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0114.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Happy anniversary, Hobbitt! It's our 35th, so I thought I would post a picture that expresses my thoughts.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 23, 2006 - The Hobbitt at sunset</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0113.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[It's sunset and the Hobbitt is out, standing in her field, grokking the sunset. It's a very peaceful time of day.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 22, 2006 - Fantasy cat</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0112.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The cat belongs to Claudine and Didier and resides in Saints, near Faremoutiers, about 35 miles east of Paris. The forest is in a park in new York City. How they came together is an interesting tale.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 21, 2006 - A wedding in Girona</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0111.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Girona is a beautiful town on Spain's Costa Brava, about 60 miles northeast of Barcelona. Because it's in Catalonia, the name of the town can be pronounced as starting with an "H" (Spanish), or starting with a "G" (Catalan).]]></description>
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<title>Apr 20, 2006 - Winter sunrise</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0110.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Spring is finally here, after a winter that seemed to go on forever. Temperatures are moderate, the grass is growing, and needs mowing again. Spring and fall are the best times in this area, with winter and summer keeping you inside during temperature extremes.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 19, 2006 - Les ombres de mes amis</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0109.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This picture, showing the shadows of my friends, has a Magritte-like quality in the way that it superimposes two worlds, many miles distant.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 18, 2006 - Blue Madrileño</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0108.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is another denizen of the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid. (Note: A Madrileño is someone who lives in Madrid.)]]></description>
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<title>Apr 17, 2006 - Simplification</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0107.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This picture illustrates what I feel is the difference between being a photographer and being an artist.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 16, 2006 - Tokyo afternoon</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0106.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here we are in Tokyo. It is the summer of 1965. Just a year earlier, Tokyo had hosted the Olympics, so everything was standing tall. There was still some open space but it would slowly evolve, forty years later, into one of the most crowded cities in the world.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 15, 2006 - Income tax time!</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0105.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Wow! It's Income Tax time! (Actually, you get a few days grace this year because April 15th falls on a weekend, but it's close enough to feel the pressure.) So I thought I'd post a picture to show how I feel about getting squeezed by the government and say a few things about what they do with my tax money (and yours).]]></description>
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<title>Apr 14, 2006 - The museum becomes art - #3</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here we are, inside the Louvre. Not normally a very exciting subject.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 13, 2006 - After the rain</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a story about weeds and greed and seeds. So stay tuned because it has a happy ending.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 12, 2006 - Pinhead</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0102.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pinhead, like Pablo (see 2-20-06) is one of my regular subjects, a little late in making his first appearance in my journal. Shown here in a formal portrait, it's clear how this acupuncture model got his nickname. The Hobbitt bought him for me when I was trying to learn how to draw. I needed a model so that I could study the effect of light and shadow on the human head.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 11, 2006 - Mr. Escher visits the Met</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0101.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This looks like just another gallery at the Metropolitan, with light coming through the overhead windows and lighting up a picture on the far wall. Looks fairly normal until your eye reaches the top of the picture, and there's Mr. Escher going up one of those fancy, multi-connected staircases, just like in his pictures. Maybe he has some sort of special gravitational field around him.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 10, 2006 - Floating monk</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today marks the 100th entry in my journal, so I thought I'd put up something special.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 09, 2006 - Broken shell</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0099.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[One of the earliest exhibits at the fledgling Techno-Impressionist Museum was called "Techno-Impressionism - Art From the Sea." It's still there and a lot of people have linked to it and made comments about it.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 08, 2006 - Meditation object</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Time to stop and meditate. On things past and on things that will be.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 07, 2006 - Ghost train - #2</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0097.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have been under the weather all week. At first, I thought it was a cold that I had caught from my granddaughter. But the symptoms never developed into a cold. It was just a fever with aches, and severe dehydration with weakness and dizziness. But none of the traditional cold symptoms.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 06, 2006 - Argument between clouds</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0096.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[About twenty years ago, I was consulting for a large bank that, among other things, was the master trustee for some of the largest pension funds in America. I was part of a team working on a PC-based application that would get data from the bank's mainframe and allow the customers, at their site, to run an analysis on the current data.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 05, 2006 - A stroll in the park</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0095.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[I took this picture in Central Park, just around sunset. To see the original scene, tilt your head so that you see the picture upside down. What we have here is just the shadows.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 04, 2006 - At Mason Neck - #2</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is the shoreline at Mason Neck, a wildlife refuge off of Occoquan Bay, which joins the Potomac River.]]></description>
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<title>Apr 03, 2006 - Portrait of the artist as a sick person</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0093.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is how I feel today. I caught a bug from my beautiful little granddaughter, so it's probably not a very big bug. So far, the only symptoms a fever and the feeling that my blood is about two units low. The Hobbitt volunteered to give me a transfusion as we both have the same blood type. (How's that for hardware compatibility?)]]></description>
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<title>Apr 02, 2006 - The royal pharmacy</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0092.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Real Oficina de Farmacia (Royal Pharmacy) is one of the more interesting sights at the Royal Palace in Madrid. It's been restored to its original state, with many of the original pharmaceutical tools on view. (I'm not sure what purpose the crocodile served. It may have had some medicinal use, or perhaps it was just there to impress the customers.)]]></description>
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<title>Apr 01, 2006 - Abandoned tractor</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0091.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[There's a large property near where we live. It used to be a cattle farm, but the owner sold it to developers to build ten-acre home sites. The good news is that they put down this nifty new road that runs through the development. In total, it's a couple of miles long and there's hardly any traffic. So we now have another place to take our walks.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 31, 2006 - In loving memory</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0090.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[In New York City, cemeteries are large and anonymous, surrounded by high walls and fences, seldom seen or visited. Down here in the farm country of northern Virginia, it's quite different. The gravesite in this picture is in a cemetery in a churchyard just north of the Bull Run battlefield. As you can see, it's tended by friends and relatives who still cherish the memory.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 30, 2006 - Catalan cat</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0089.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This happened while traveling from Perpignan to Barcelona. It was along a major highway and, like the major highways in the US there are places along the road to stop and get a bite to eat. At this rest stop, the restaurant was on one side of the highway. From the other side you reached it by going up in sort of a tower and then across and above the road in a bridge-like arrangement.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 29, 2006 - Japanese lantern</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0088.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This picture was taken at the John P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden in Locust Valley, NY. The lantern hangs from a pole near the teahouse. We found this place quite by accident when driving between Glen Cove and Oyster Bay. It was closed that day, open only on the weekend, so we came back the next weekend.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 28, 2006 - Horse over my head - #2</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here's another look at the weathervane on the cupola over my studio.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 27, 2006 - The museum becomes art - #2</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0086.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is inside the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Many years ago, museums were very ordinary buildings, seen merely as containers for art. Don't want to detract from the art, after all. Just take a look at the Met in NYC or the Louvre in Paris. Talk about building palaces for art. The Louvre actually was a palace before it was a museum, which sort of gave it a head start.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 26, 2006 - Squirrel outside my window</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0085.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Our house has become a veritable bird sanctuary, thanks to the Hobbitt's love of birds, and thanks to my willingness to schlep 20-pound bags of gourmet birdseed from the local bird food boutique. Actually, "birdseed" belies the many exotic ingredients, designed to go beyond the ordinary fare that most put out, and take us to at least a three-star rating in the feathered equivalent of the Le Guide Michelin.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 25, 2006 - Shall we play a game?</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0084.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a magical scene. It looks like a contest between age and youth, taking place in a different universe. The scene seems frozen in time. What sort of game are they playing? What are the stakes for the outcome?]]></description>
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<title>Mar 24, 2006 - Giacometti shadow</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0083.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[So there we were in the Metropolitan Museum and I was taking a picture of the floor. The museum guard kept looking at me, probably wondering what I was up to. It was okay to take pictures in the museum, but most people took pictures of the art, not the floor.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 23, 2006 - Portrait of the artist as a young sunset</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0082.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[You never know where things will lead. That's part of the fun of being an artist rather than a photographer. Most photographs are pretty well resolved at the moment the shutter is clicked. But, as I've said before, the artist sees this as just the first step.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 22, 2006 - Angel on the ceiling</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0081.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Madrid is a fascinating city, with lots of things to see. Some, like the Prado, are well-known, but there are other places to visit if you have the time. The Atocha railway station, for example, was rebuilt and now contains trees and sculptures. (Unfortunately, it was the scene of a terrorist attack in 2004.) And the Hobbitt bought a cape at Casa Seseña, the same store that made the capes worn by Picasso and the most famous bullfighters. We happened on this little store by accident, on an out of the way street.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 21, 2006 - Abandoned barn</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0080.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Where we live in Virginia, there is constant change, as opposed to New York, where things change very little. This is because New York City is pretty well built up. There is very little undeveloped land, so most of the new building, what there is of it, takes place when an old structure is torn down and is replaced by a new one.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 20, 2006 - Portrait of George</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0079.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The portrait of Washington on the $1 bill is probably the best-known picture of our first president. As such, it represents a real challenge for an artist to do something interesting with it. This is one of my attempts to that end.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 19, 2006 - The face of war</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0078.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three years ago today, under the command of the president, the mightiest war machine in the world attacked a sovereign nation that was, compared to us, defenseless.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 18, 2006 - Armored Personnel Carriers near the DMZ</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0077.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[These are Armored Personnel Carriers (M113) on maneuvers near the DMZ in Korea. This was over 40 years ago, when we had troops stationed in this area. One of my jobs was to drive an M113 as part of our medical platoon. My M113 had a big red cross on the side, hopefully warning the bad guys that we were medics and please don't fire at us. We thought the red cross would look great in an enemy's gunsight. ]]></description>
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<title>Mar 17, 2006 - In Topsmead's forest</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0076.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is along the nature trail in Topsmead State Forest, located in Litchfield, Connecticut. It was a day trip from the city, in search of a little wilderness. ]]></description>
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<title>Mar 16, 2006 - Candlelight vigil on the eve of war</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0075.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three years ago tonight, a group of people, organized over the Internet by the Hobbitt, met in a tiny park in the middle of Forest Hills, New York. It was close enough to the city to have seen the World Trade Center from that vantage point.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 15, 2006 - Visitor at my window</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0074.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[One day, shortly after we moved into our old house in Virginia, I spied this creature on the bathroom window. Fortunately, he was on the outside. I watched for a little while, but he didn't move at all. Perhaps he had expired while attached to our window.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 14, 2006 - Ghost train - #1</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0073.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[We found this blast from the past on a trip through the Amish country of Pennsylvania. In the town of Strasburg, there's a railroad museum and a functioning train, complete with steam engine that you can take a ride on. If you want, you can even have lunch while riding through the Pennsylvania Dutch countryside.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 13, 2006 - Stone face</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0072.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This face was in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 12, 2006 - Into the sunset</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0071.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lots of things have changed in the switch from film to digital cameras. One of the things that hasn't been mentioned is grain. In film, this irregular pattern can bring an interesting texture to an image. Sometimes the grain can be exaggerated to build this effect even more.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 11, 2006 - Sky Meadows</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0070.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Driving around one afternoon, the Hobbitt and I decided to go to Sky Meadows Park. It was very cloudy, the sky dark and threatening rain, but we decided to chance it.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 10, 2006 - Sunflowers</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0069.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[There are lots of horse farms in the area where we live, some of them quite large. We pass by them when we go for one of our walks.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 09, 2006 - Japanese maple</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0068.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The sun shining through the leaves of this Japanese maple give a red that almost looks as if the tree were on fire. This is in a Japanese stroll garden at the Hammond Museum in North Salem, New York.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 08, 2006 - Flight</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0067.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This was shot on Long Island, where there are lots and lots of geese. Sometimes they gather by a lake or pond, sometimes they gather on parkway off ramps, and sometimes they gather in parking lots, but wherever they gather, you have to watch carefully where you step. In some areas, they're considered pests, just like the deer that invade suburban neighborhoods.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 07, 2006 - The Hobbitt in the pool</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0066.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[While the winds of March are blowing, it's comforting to know that we'll be opening the pool in about eight weeks. I'm not much of a pool person, but the Hobbitt is a regular water sprite. Last year, I bought her a wet suit so she could begin using the pool while the water was still a bit nippy.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 06, 2006 - Winter landscape</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0065.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Winter is a desolate time. The trees are bare and the sun, during its brief winter day, shines on a forbidding landscape. That is the feeling that I tried to capture in this image.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 05, 2006 - Hand writing</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0064.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[There was a time, a while back, when I played with creating images from stock photos. These were not from the expensive "royalty-free" collections containing high-quality, multi-megabyte images and costing hundreds of dollars for each CD. The ones that I worked with were more of the "65000 images for $50" variety that you can find on the shelf in any computer store. They contain a wide variety of images, and you never know what you're going to find.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 04, 2006 - Power supply</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0063.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[I love this picture because it has a very 1930's industrial look to it.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 03, 2006 - Where French wine comes from</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0062.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[In 1997, the Hobbitt and I took a vacation in France. We spent one week in the countryside of Provence, and one week in Paris. In Provence, we stayed in the 13th century town of La Bastidonne, and in Paris, we stayed in an apartment by the Bastille. ]]></description>
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<title>Mar 02, 2006 - On the roof at Casa Milà</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0061.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[I've always believed that the best way to travel is to spend a lot of time in one city, rather than hopping around the country, trying to see everything in a single trip. On this venture, the Hobbitt and I spent about 12 days in Barcelona. This length of time lets you take a leisurely pace and explore all the aspects, sort of pretending that you live there. It also leaves time for unplanned adventures, as we shall see in future journal entries.]]></description>
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<title>Mar 01, 2006 - The spirit of autumn</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0060.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[I like this picture because, if you look closely, you can see a figure with its arms outstretched. It was taken by a lake in Connecticut, on one of our many trips outside the city to commune with the countryside. This is one of the last pictures I took before leaving NYC for northern Virginia.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 28, 2006 - Sage advice</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0059.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This picture is the result of a happy accident.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 27, 2006 - Friendly rabbit under our window</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0058.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This little guy came around the front of our house one day last year and parked himself under a bush by one of the windows in the library. Almost like he was keeping an eye on us.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 26, 2006 - Into the woods - #1</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0057.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This was taken at one of the many parks in Queens, NY. Here we have the Hobbitt, walking down one of the trails, reflected in a puddle from a passing rainstorm. Although it looks like a vertical panorama, it's just an extreme cropping to emphasize the subject matter]]></description>
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<title>Feb 25, 2006 - Message from the trees</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0056.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This was originally a vertical panorama, shot in infrared, with the color shifted towards sepia. It was then cropped, duplicated and flipped to produce a mirror image, then pasted back together to produce the final image.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 24, 2006 - The sun</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0055.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The sun makes an interesting subject and it shows up in a lot of my pictures. Here, the sun is partly obscured by clouds and near sunset late in an August afternoon.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 23, 2006 - Manhattan canyon</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0054.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is how I remember new York City. When you live here for a long time -- more than 60 years in my case -- you get used to the layout of the skyscrapers in Manhattan. They don't feel oppressive, and you sort of like the compactness of the city and being able to get everywhere on foot or with public transportation.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 22, 2006 - DMZ - Korea</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0053.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[I served in the US Army from 1963-1965, a draftee. The second year of this was spent in an armored scouting unit stationed by the DMZ in Korea. This is an isolated area in mountainous country. In 1964, Korea was still recovering from the war which had ended 11 years earlier. This area with filled with small villages. As you got closer to the DMZ, much of the area was closed to civilians.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 21, 2006 - Afternoon in the park</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0052.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Even though Queens is part of New York City, with its population density at over 20,000 people per square mile, it still has room for an amazing number of public parks. Some include lakes, and some touch Long island Sound. Most are well-maintained and landscaped, with places to walk, picnic, bike ride, and generally get away from the city's daily grind.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 20, 2006 - Chrome skull</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0051.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is Pablo, one of the subjects for my work. The Hobbitt bought this for me as a birthday present when I was studying art, and it proved invaluable at helping to understand the anatomy that makes up the face and head.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 19, 2006 - Long Island autumn</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0050.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) is located on Long Island's north shore, just east of Roslyn, in part of the legendary area known as the Gold Coast. The museum, itself, is in what was the owner's Mansion, situated on over 200 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 18, 2006 - Looking east on Logmill Road</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0049.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The country around here is very hilly. Not with the precipitous drops that you get in San Francisco. More like a roller coaster, with a continuous series of ups and downs.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 17, 2006 - Bamboo leaves</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0048.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[When we lived in NYC, I grew six different varieties of bamboo in the space around our little house.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 16, 2006 - Hands up!</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0047.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This was in Paris. ]]></description>
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<title>Feb 15, 2006 - On the way to Buitrago</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0046.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[We are off to Buitrago del Lozoya, home of the world's smallest Picasso museum.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 14, 2006 - Happy Valentine's day</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0045.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is for the Hobbitt:]]></description>
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<title>Feb 13, 2006 - Cloud dogs at sunset</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0044.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Happy anniversary! Two years ago today, on Friday the 13th, we took ownership of our new (old) house in Virginia.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 12, 2006 - In Union Square</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0043.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[One of my digital cameras has a built-in facility for taking infrared pictures. Most other digital cameras have a special filter inside the camera that filters out this range of light. There's a switch on top of the my camera that moves the filter out of the way to enable infrared. There are some limitations, but it opens a whole new area of photography.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 11, 2006 - Wheat sculpture</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0042.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a little something that I did about four years ago. Yes, it's real wheat. And yes, it was grown in the heart of New York City.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 10, 2006 - Hilltop at Sky Meadows</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0041.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Even colder here today than yesterday, with a forecast for snow. So I thought a picture from a warmer time might be in order. And here we are, on a beautiful autumn day, In Sky Meadows Park.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 09, 2006 - A winter face</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0040.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[It's cold here this morning, and still an endless wait for spring and warmer weather.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 08, 2006 - Picasso meets Frank Lloyd Wright</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0039.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a Roman face.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 07, 2006 - View from above</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0038.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Once a year, there is an air show at the little airport near Manassas. Lots of vintage aircraft, some jets, and some helicopters. The helicopter company was local and they were giving free rides to the show attendees.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 06, 2006 - Self portrait with tree</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0037.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[I love to shoot panoramas.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 05, 2006 - Spaced out</title>
<link>http://www.ti-journal.com/ti-journal-0036.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, I will make an image based on a stock photo rather than one of my own. Picasso did this with the works of Velasquez and others, and Van Gogh was inspired by Millet.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 04, 2006 - After September 11th</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Four days after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Hobbitt and I went to visit the scene. Both of us had worked at a number of locations in the Wall Street area, some of them adjacent to the World Trade Center, now destroyed. We were quite familiar with the area and wanted to see the effect on places that we knew.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 03, 2006 - The Hobbitt and I, watching the sunset</title>
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<description><![CDATA[And so, as the sun sinks slowly in the west, the two of us smile and think about what an excellent day it's been. Another day in paradise, or in hell. I guess it depends on your outlook, and on which outfit you got to wear today.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 02, 2006 - Carina's world</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is one of the playspaces of my beautiful little granddaughter.]]></description>
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<title>Feb 01, 2006 - Horses on Logmill Road - #2</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Forty eight years ago, I began work as a photographer. Mostly magazine and advertising. I also did some writing for photography magazines, articles on how-to projects and techniques, as well as testing, evaluation, and review of photographic equipment.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 31, 2006 - A bird on the wire</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The simplest images are the strongest.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 30, 2006 - At Mason Neck - #1</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One day, I read a story in the New York Times about how eagles had been spotted at a wildlife refuge off of Occoquan Bay, which joins the Potomac River. It was just a short drive from our house down to Mason Neck State Park where the eagles were supposedly hanging out.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 29, 2006 - Electric swimming pool</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When we bought our house two years ago, it came with a little something extra -- a swimming pool, installed by a previous owner. Although I wasn't in love with the idea of having a pool, the house itself, the property that came with the house, along with the geographic location, made it irresistible. So we bought the house. I thought that we would deal with the pool. If it didn't work out, we could always fill it with gravel and turn it into a Japanese garden.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 28, 2006 - The Hobbitt, sliced and diced</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There are times that we here at the Techno-Impressionist journal feel that we don't get the respect that we so richly deserve. After all, we are a journal, not a blog, and we don't have RSS, CSS, or even XML. To even things out, we've decided to go high-tech and we're proudly announcing our revolutionary new software product -- Download Me Elmo 2.0.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 27, 2006 - At day's end</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's evening, and a storm is approaching. Time to move the horses out of the North pasture and back to the barn for the evening. From my vantage point on the road, I had time to take two shots before it was all gone. This is the second one.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 26, 2006 - Self portrait at sunrise</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After we moved into our new (old) house, I spent a lot of time looking for inspiration in my new surroundings. ]]></description>
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<title>Jan 25, 2006 - The museum becomes art - #1</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is one of the large galleries at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. It harbors part of their collection of modern art.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 24, 2006 - Portrait</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Photography and painting have always been intertwined.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 23, 2006 - Sunset toast</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At the end of the day, what better way to celebrate the sunset than by toasting it with a glass of champagne? The Hobbitt prefers cava (the Catalan version), and I prefer rosé champagne from France. (Fortunately, this is one area where we have been able to compromise.) And here, on the kitchen counter, the sunset shines through a fresh-poured glass, just before taking it outside for an evening toast]]></description>
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<title>Jan 22, 2006 - Scoured tree</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a tree perched on the riverbank along Bull Run. Here the flow gets greater as it is joined by other tributaries on its way to join the Occoquan. In this area, Bull Run is also the county line.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 21, 2006 - The Hobbitt's gloves</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Hobbitt loves to work in the field behind our house. The fences around the property had become overgrown with vines and ivy and other foliage including poison ivy and poison oak. Besides being unsightly, the overgrowth was killing off the small trees near the fences.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 20, 2006 - Night comes to Uijongbu</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It is the winter of 1964. Uijongbu is a small, rural town, about 10 miles north of Seoul and 30 miles south of the DMZ. In front of me is a landscape of houses and farms. Behind me is the 121 Evac Hospital.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 19, 2006 - Movin' down the road</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I love the country. ]]></description>
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<title>Jan 18, 2006 - Horse over my head - #1</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We live in Haymarket, an area surrounded by horse farms. In fact, there may be more horses per square mile than people. So it's not surprising that lots of things around here have a horse-themed motif.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 17, 2006 - Mirrored sunrise</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When we moved to Northern Virginia, we had to decide whether to build a new house or to buy an existing one. ]]></description>
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<title>Jan 16, 2006 - Parisian sunset</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's our last afternoon in Paris. Where to go to watch the sunset? The Pompidou Center. On its west-facing side, an outdoor escalator system, enclosed in large, transparent plastic tubes. And the top floor is high enough to give a vantage point over all of Paris.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 15, 2006 - So tell me, what else happened on your vacation?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A lady goes to an opening at a fashionable art gallery.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 14, 2006 - Member of the wedding</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just a brief glimpse of a wedding party waiting outside a church in Manhattan.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 13, 2006 - Barn cat</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This cat lives on a buffalo ranch near Culpeper.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 12, 2006 - Self portrait with Giacometti self portrait</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I love art museums, and this is one of the things I miss about not living in New York City anymore. (The rural life makes up for this in many other ways.)]]></description>
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<title>Jan 11, 2006 - New York scene</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here we are, looking down Third Avenue, with the Citicorp building on the right, and Philip Johnson's "Lipstick" building on the left. And me, standing in the middle of the street, trying to compose the shot without getting run over.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 10, 2006 - Dancing trees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is Sky Meadows Park, about 20 miles from where we live. It has some historic houses, but the real reason to go there is because it's a great place to hike.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 09, 2006 - The woman in white</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, I took pictures for NBC television, mostly for ads that would appear in newspapers. At the time, the photographers working for NBC used large format cameras, with carefully posed subjects.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 08, 2006 - Daibutsu Buddha of Kamakura</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Daibutsu Buddha is actually much taller than it is wide. And the bowl of oranges is much smaller than the statue, which stands almost 40 feet tall. Even worse, the statue is covered with dirt and other stuff. (You can look up "Daibutsu Buddha" on your favorite search engine to see what it really looks like.)]]></description>
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<title>Jan 07, 2006 - Here's looking at you</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Time to introduce the Hobbitt.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 06, 2006 - Metropolis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a tribute to Fritz Lang's robot in the movie Metropolis.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 05, 2006 - Tiger swallowtail</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Never throw anything away. You never know.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 04, 2006 - Evening candles</title>
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<description><![CDATA[About two years ago, we moved to a rural area in Northern Virginia. After 60-plus years in New York City, it was a big change for us. Many artists -- Picasso, Monet, and Steichen among them, made this same choice when they grew older. I think it's the lower stress and the closeness to nature that are the most appealing parts of this move. You give up a lot of things by moving away from the city, but what you gain is a different life and a new chance for creativity.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 03, 2006 - Reliquary head of Saint Yrieix</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A few words about how I work.]]></description>
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<title>Jan 02, 2006 - First snowfall</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Whenever I contemplate the purchase of a new camera, I think about several things. There's the usual cost/benefit analysis -- size, weight cost, number of pixels, etc. But the most important question is an intangible:]]></description>
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<title>Jan 01, 2006 - Horses on Logmill Road - #1</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is the first entry in my journal. In honor of that, a brief poem.]]></description>
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