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Susan's Eyes
Susan's eyesFinal color for smug mug
From Portraits
"Each year the week before the fall equinox, a band of artists on the Homer Spit face the challenges of weather and create a huge, finely crafted basket. And then they burn it." Quote from Michael Armstrong's article in the Homer News more here:

http://homernews.com/stories/092408/arts_16_001.shtml
burning basket final Homer Alaska surpass Homer Spit community art Alaska art
From Posters
Elie Marisol Cruz Sharp
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From Portraits
morning light
From Crane Festival 2011 Monte Vista CO
Patio Bar at Rex's American Grill and Bar. 5 image HDR composed in photomatrix pro 3.x and Photoshop CS3 Note the ISO 6400!!! New D700 with Nikkor 14-24 VR
Rex's patio bar night final HDR D700
From Miscellaneous Projects
DSC 9015
From Lil' House
Darin Maroni, BMW motorcycleist
From Portraits
Family Kerfuffle. tweaked the color here.
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From Crane Festival 2011 Monte Vista CO
peek cabo pulmo mexico
From Under Water
The local shopping mall had the grand opening of a new addition on Saturday. The festivities included a "Cirque du Soleil" type ice skating and acrobatic show. Here are a couple of images I managed from up in the bleachers. Ok yes they are a little "artsy". I tried to make a comment on performers concentration, the "distance" between this kind of performer (physical) and those he is entertaining and also how it's sometimes hard to "see" for looking from the audience. Too much? Ok- cool dude in flowing robes jumping and flipping using "powerizer" jumping stilts.

Tech Note: D700 1/400 at f/5.0 ISO 25,600 ( no that is not a misprint twenty five thousand , six hundred) Hand held 116mm ( 70-200 nikkor zoom)
Cirque du Soleil jumping powerizer Park Meadows
From Posters
Rainbow over Seaside Farm, Homer Alaska Late September 2008
Homer Alaska seaside Farm Rainbow
From Posters
Rex Brice 2007 Principal Steamboat Restaurant Group, Steamboat Springs, CO

http://www.rexsgrill.com/
From Portraits
Captain Joe October 2009 Homer AK. Not ready to drop anchor yet.
From Portraits
Vicki Connacher final poratrait 4x6
From Portraits
Tia Carolina
Caroline Santa Fe 2007 tritone nikkor 50mm f1.4
From Portraits
ellie 100110 0378 BWcopy
From Portraits
rex staff final
From Miscellaneous Projects
first of a series of portraits of dogs and their people who walk by the house every day
KAT 4623 finalforweb
From Portraits
Darin Maroni, BMW motorcycles
motorcycle rider Maroni arai BMW poster
From Posters
I think that this is a mated pair with their yearling of last spring. Note the ice in the water
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From Crane Festival 2011 Monte Vista CO
Poster for friends who own this Cafe,antiquarian bookstore and B&B in Homer Alaska. A great place Homer is a spot of wonderful shining blue light in the constant red of Alaska. If you are there drop in and say hello to Sally and Andy.
Mermaid cafe Old Inlet Bookshop Homer AK poster daily photo
From Posters
McLeod Ganj, or as it is more commonly known in the west, Upper Dharamsala, is the home of His Holiness the Dali Lama and the seat of the Tibetan exile government. The town is located in northeastern India at the blessedly cool altitude of 5800 feet. It is to be found in the mountains north of the Kangra Valley. To get there took us five hours. The three of us and all of our gear were jammed into a taxi that hurtled thru the night from the nearest large airport in Amritsar. The first thing I noticed when we got there and the sun came up (other than the "assertive verticality" of the the place) was the profusion of prayer flags . Everywhere I looked, the brilliantly colored flags were flying in the breeze sending prayers into the clearing morning sky.
mcleod ganj Dharamsala India Himachal Pradesh Dali Lama prayer flags Buddhist Tibet Kangra Valley
From Posters
http://www.rexsgrill.com/
espresso
From Food
spinach quiche closeup final
From Pierre Michelle Menu board images
From Lil' House
Shrimp Salad Close Final
From Pierre Michelle Menu board images
http://www.rexsgrill.com/
tonemapped
From Food
burgers ready to go to the table

Rex's American Grill and Bar, Steamboat Springs, CO
From Food
Andy Wills, Entrepreneur, book seller, master of many crafts. Andy and his wife, Sally, own and run the bookshop, the Mermaid Cafe that is in the same building and a great B&B apartment upstairs. If you are in Homer don't miss the chance to stop in.

http://www.oldinletbookshop.com/index2.html

Andy is a third generation book seller. He offers used, rare and out-of-print books, and has been operating in Homer since 1997.

The shop has moved from its original location in the basement of the Old Inlet Trading Post to its new digs up the street, now located in a dovetail notch-constructed log cabin in historic Old Town. About 400 feet from the waters of Cook Inlet, the log structure, known as the Hansen House (because it was Burt Hansen who moved it from the south side of Kachemak Bay to its present location in the early 1930s), was one of Homer's very first stores. The provenance is still a mystery, but some locals believe the cabin was built on Yukon Island in 1905, making it one of the oldest buildings in Homer.

Totally renovated, the cabin offers old pioneer charm to the add-on new construction that houses the Mermaid Cafe and B&B. The bookshop specializes in Alaskana, polar exploration, natural history, modern firsts, children's and medical books. We also offer a wide array of general stock in most genres.

Of the 20,000-plus titles available for perusal, one might find a signed Rockwell Kent illustrated first edition Moby Dick in a dust jacket, or a John Muir Cruise of the Corwin with a manuscript tipped into it. There is the possibility of securing a paperback of a favorite fiction writer, or a naval text detailing all the major submarine battles of World War 11.

Also available are original oil paintings by local artist James Buncak, oil paintings by Chicago artist Sue Spero, whale-bone and ivory carvings by Point Hope Eskimo Tom Fields, and photographs by renowned photographer G. Brad Lewis.
andy wills shop
From Portraits
Croc Monsieur closeup Final
From Pierre Michelle Menu board images
eye puffer fish pacific box solomon islands
From Under Water
crinoid arm
From Under Water
Orange soft coal detail
solomon islands scuba underwater photography Nikon RS Fujichrome Velvia50 orange soft coral
From Under Water
Purple lettuce lefe coral. about three feet across
solomon islands scuba underwater photography Nikon RS Fujichrome Velvia50 Lettuce leaf coral purple
From Under Water
blue jacks
From Under Water
nursery coral head solomon islands scuba underwater photography Nikon RS Fujichrome Velvia50
From Under Water
moray eel friends cabo pulmo mexico
From Under Water
Barracuda He was pretty big , about 4' long. he came by to check out the flashy stuff we had on our rigs.

Solomon Islands
baracuda
From Under Water
black white crinoid yellow bits are legs sea fan wakatobi banda indonesia
From Under Water
exercise time crop
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From Crane Festival 2011 Monte Vista CO
Sand Hill Cranes flying into the sunrise.
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From Crane Festival 2011 Monte Vista CO
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Nikon D700
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