Finding Art in Bathroom Explosions

I know what you are probably thinking....but that isn't what we were thinking when we heard a tremendous crash tonight. Our bathroom shower, a big thick glass thing, had....EXPLODED!


The Scene as We Walked In

Not being one to miss an opportunity to get a few cool photos, here is the "art" part.

Shatter Pattern On Door

Broken Bits

More Broken Bits

Pioneer Cemetery

I have a long list of "things to do" for my times in Cincinnati. Any given trip, I only have time and opportunity to do a couple of them. One of the things that has been on my list for a couple years is to take my camera and check out the Pioneer Cemetery (aka Columbia Baptist Cemetery) down by Lunken Airport. This past trip, Shelby and I woke up relatively early on a very crisp clear morning and had a look around. Buried in this cemetery are the earliest white settlers to the area.


Pioneer Cemetery - Columbia-Tusculum, Cincinnati

Harriet

Frosted Headstone

Frosted Grass

Along the Little Miami

During my time in Cincinnati, Shelby and I took a walk along the Little Miami River near Camp Dennison. It has become almost a tradition when I'm in town that we go for walk there with our cameras. Here are some of the photos I took.


Wavy Glass - Little Miami River Reflections

Bench - Camp Dennison

Red Leaf - Little Miami River

Fossils - Little Miami River

Yellow Springs

Had a couple weeks off back in Ohio for Thanksgiving with the family including a couple days of a get away up in Yellow Springs. The entire two weeks was a great break from work. The weather was generally crisp and clear, a beautiful late fall.

I'm sort of surprised they don't call it "Orange Springs".

The Yellow Spring - Yellow Springs, Ohio

The Yellow Spring - Yellow Springs, Ohio

The Yellow Spring - Yellow Springs, Ohio

Upset Alert???

I think CNN/Sports Illustrated needs to learn what "upset" means.

When a team is 1-9 and they are losing...I don't care who they are losing to...newsflash...not an upset.

When a team is 9-0, ranked #1....and they are losing....I don't care who they are losing to...upset.

Fireworks!

Everyone loves fireworks. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of its constitution, Kuwait put on what is reportedly a world record fireworks show. Tonight's extravaganza was over an hour long, a few miles of fireworks along the Gulf Rd. We watched from a friend's apartment.


Traffic Looking for Parking

The Red Ones

Grove Of Palm Trees

Blue Ones (My Favorite)

More Blue Ones (Because this is my blog, and they're my favorite)

White Ones (My Second Favorite)

walking around

with my camera and here is what I saw today.


Minarets - Salmiya, Kuwait

Rocks in Black and White

Sunset in Abstract

Kuwait Towers - Kuwait

been very busy....

and blogging isn't what pays the bills (somehow, I don't suspect that surprises you).

Finally got a break in a very long weekend and I took the opportunity to start working on my photos from our trip to Istanbul. Still have a way to go, but I've worked through the food and market themed photos... here are a few:

Carpets - Istanbul, Turkey

Lamps - Istanbul, Turkey

Schawarma in the Making - Istanbul, Turkey

Turkish Delight - Istanbul, Turkey

The Evil Eye - Istanbul, Turkey

Medusa in the Baslica Cistern

I did think of it earlier...I just didn't generalize from underground and indoors darkness to the darkness after sundown...

The Basilica Cistern was well worth the visit. Pretty cool how they light it in modern times. I'm sure it was an engineering marvel in its time too. All the way back in the corner are two pillars with Medusa heads at their base. I took these photos just moments before hoards of tourists literally gridlocked the walkway around them.

Medusa - Istanbul, Turkey

Medusa - Istanbul, Turkey

Second Medusa - Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul at Night

I wish I'd thought of this earlier...just putting the camera on the ground to hold it still with the 16-35mm wide angle on it, a real small aperture (f22), slow shutter speed etc. Unfortunately, I only started messing with it on our last night there. Here are some night time shots of the Hippodrome with the Obelisk of Theodosius aka the Egyptian Obelisk, and with the minarets of the Blue Mosque playing a supporting role.

Obelisk of Theodosius - Istanbul, Turkey

Hippodrome - Istanbul, Turkey

Back From Vacation

And our luggage made it too...apparently that is an uncommon miracle when flying though Istanbul's Ataturk Airport.

Lost Luggage - Istanbul, Turkey

Lost Luggage - Istanbul, Turkey

Lost Luggage - Istanbul, Turkey

Rust and Iron

Via the wayback machine....from 25 June 2006...I can't believe I've had my camera for over 6 years!

Rust and Iron - Antigua, Guatemala

A Little Bit of Green

It has been a month, insert the usual excuses here:________
A bit of green from our visit to Hawaii in the spring.

Valleys and Waterfalls - Na Pali Coast - Kaua'i, Hawaiʻi

Waimea Canyon - Kaua'i, Hawaiʻi

Waimea Canyon - Kaua'i, Hawaiʻi

Photos From Our Greek Adventure

Finally finished with my photos from Greece. I ended up with 146 or so, which is too many and I still may cull a few. So if anyone wades their way through the entire slide show, and sees ones they don't like, tell me and I may remove them. Here are a few teasers. The full slide show hosted on Photobucket can be seen HERE.

Column Details, The Acropolis - Athens, Greece

Grand Vista & Monasteries - Meteora, Greece

Water Taxi - Hydra, Greece

White Columbine

In Our Front Yard

Butter, Lost in Translation

Churn the corn milk and get...Butter! I'm not guessing when I say it wouldn't pass my sister's taste test...the sign used to just say "Homemade Butter", but now they've come clean and defined exactly what they are churning here.
"Butter"???

Action Scenes From Car"cass" IX

Here are a couple of my cellphone shots from the scene. At this point the occupants of the vehicle on the right had been removed, and the fire was extinguished.

Bystanders

Smoke and Haze