"bling bling"

"cheap cheap" should have been called "bling bling', shes been anything but cheap! for a starling I hadn't expected much, but now I'm amazed. smart, playful, sings like a cardinal

gem

gem, the sexy lady in my life' sitting in a window box, looking out at the pacific

mexican birds

sneaking up on these guys was easy

wisdom in an old pelican

motor boat, motor boat, goes sooo fast

its a play on birds

all the markings of a jay, with a crown

looked like our starlings, only larger

more mexican birds, hundreds of them, maybe more

slogans

its been a while! theses are photos I've taken and applied "slogans" that I thought fit the pic. enjoy

london roofscapes

more roof-scapes from londons east core. next week i'll go down to street level

london roofscapes 2

formerly grand buildings still stand in londons east core. now the peaks of some are still beautiful, but age and decay are showing down below. at street level, neglect, age, and lifestyle are all having an effect.

i find them amazing, they're absolutely huge! they're magnificient when you come into an area dotted by a widfarm. this one is about 30 minutes from home and has about 40 turbines. you don't get a feeling of how large they are until the kids stood at the bottom.

"sunrise". a plastic toy cup one of my kids owns. in the bottom are 3 led lights. cropped but untouched.

the "little big man" picture. gem took this picture of me, messed it up, said i was just a big kid. we found a caterpillar on a tree stump that day, brought it home to a terrarium. Caterpillar to cocoon to moth in about a month. the kids thought it was fantastic.

one of the first pictures i took that i really liked. 3.1mp Kodak DC4800, circa 2001.

stargazer lily

stargazer lily backlit with a "natural" fluorescent light. a beautiful, long lasting flower that fills a room with scent. canon rebel, tamron 18-250DiII. photoshop elements 2

birds

gem took this photo of two vultures who acted like a couple, almost kissing

lots and lots of vultures. all of them fat!

local flowers. i admit to having a soft spot for flowers, they make great photos.

gem took this photo in the courtyard of a small hotel

dragonfly

matthew, my youngest son asked for some very specific things from mexico. mexican water, iguana bones, a skeleton, lizard skin, some rocks and some bugs, he's 7. so this dragonfly flew back on a jet, 3500km just to have its photo taken. thanks matty! this is the original, untouched photo.

children of mexico

this 1 1/2 yr old had the coolest little hand shake goin on with his dad

this little girl asked me if i would bring her back a print of her picture next year.

these are some of the children of oaxaca, mexico. smiles are the order of the day. it's a place where people still stop and talk on their way down the street. the crowd in the back is looking at copies of photos we took last january when we where here.