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Another view of this terrific looking vehicle.
For many of the shots I took of the cars at the Heavy Rebel Weekender car show, what I really wanted to do was highlight the cars, to let them stand out from the background. Being a car show and not a studio, I had to contend with [...]

I wanted to be a test pilot.
From late childhood to late teenage years, I wanted to be a test pilot more than anything else. Notwithstanding that I wore and still is wearing glasses, the idea to be in command of a machine and push it to its limits had its appeal to me. From time [...]

Another sweltering day here in Winston. Seems every day is a record high for the area. You can not do much outside yet I went out and valiantly tried to mow the lawn in the heat of the day. It had two weeks of growth and the heat and humidity made it lush and thick [...]

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Hopefully this will be the start of a regular series for me of highlighting videos of various topics, some of a personal nature, others I find in my travels along the web.
Forty years ago, this summer Robert F Kennedy was on the cusp of gaining the Democratic nomination for president when his life was cut [...]

Saw the list of the 600 Starbucks location that are closing in the United States over the next several months. With 12 locations scattered throughout the city with most of them opening in the past three years, it was with some surprise that the only location Winston-Salem location closing is the one at Harpers Commons [...]

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A candid shot from the Heavy Rebel Weekender car show. If you are wondering why my photos for the past two weeks have been nearly exclusively from this event, well, I took over 300 photos there of everything. Shoot enough photos and you probably will get more than your full share of high quality photographs.
I [...]

I am a big fan of iTunes and this was even way before I switched over to the Mac. It was perhaps three years ago that I made the iTunes my standard player for home and then later for work. Its blend of user interface aesthetic, the interface to the iTunes store and the ease [...]