Up In Smoke BBQ

Hillsboro, TX

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posted by Paul @ 3:06 PM

Sylvie

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posted by Paul @ 2:09 AM

Happy Thanksgiving, Y'all

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posted by Paul @ 4:11 PM

Lone Star

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posted by Paul @ 4:28 PM

Independence Day in the Catskills

Linda and I took an unexpected July 4th road trip to the Catskills and spent the night at The Shakdaken Inn, enjoying the good company of our gracious hosts Dean and Brig.

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posted by Paul @ 2:22 PM

Dead End

"Lines joint in faint discord and the stormwatch brews..."

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posted by Paul @ 11:08 PM

Chasing the light

Interesting fog after sunset at Monksville Reservoir on Tuesday night...

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posted by Paul @ 9:36 AM

AAR Eagle

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posted by Paul @ 8:32 PM

'Cuda been a contender...

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posted by Paul @ 4:13 PM

Mousefoot

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posted by Paul @ 1:37 AM

Bad Cat

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posted by Paul @ 1:20 PM

Got Nuts?

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posted by Paul @ 10:05 AM

Cedar Key Sunset

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posted by Paul @ 1:23 PM

Tournée du Bad Chat Noir

Evil Imitates Art

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posted by Paul @ 11:10 AM

Edinburgh, Scotland

I'm really starting to embrace the whole black & white thing, and Aperture has turned out to be a great tool for working in monochrome. As I go back through my photo library I'm finding many shots that didn't do much for me in color but really come alive in b&w. This shot is one of them, taken in Edinburgh in March 2004 - I have no idea what building it is, but I remember taking the shot because I was freezing my ass off at the time!

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posted by Paul @ 10:56 PM

Don't Mess With Texas.

Photos from our trip now on Flickr.

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posted by Paul @ 11:36 AM

2001 Canadian Grand Prix

Photos from the last Canadian Grand Prix I attended - and will likely ever attend, because after 13 visits in 14 years I grew increasingly tired of French-Canadian assholes. Too bad, really, because Montreal is such a beautiful city. If le douchebags Québécois really dislike stupid, ugly Americans so much then I suppose I'll have to find another vacation spot to spend my stupid, ugly American dollars. But I digress...

The race was all about The Brothers Schumacher, with Ralf beating out Michael in the end. Mika Hakkinen finished third, and some rookie named Kimi Raikkonen ended up fourth. Photos taken with a Canon EOS Rebel 2000 35mm SLR + Sigma 100-300mm zoom lens; these images were scanned from prints (which is why they suck).

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posted by Paul @ 3:18 PM

1994 Canadian Grand Prix

The two races leading up to the '94 Canadian GP were pretty depressing - first Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger were killed at Imola, then Karl Wendlinger's F1 career-ending crash at Monaco. This weekend saw the first F1 start by a skinny kid named David Coulthard, called upon by Williams to fill Senna's seat (DC finished a respectable 5th in his maiden race). Michael Schumacher won his first of a record seven Canadian Grands Prix in the Benetton-Ford that would carry him to the first of a record seven F1 championships. Race results here.

Peter Bauer managed to secure pit credentials for Oliver and me through the good offices of Mercedes-Benz motorsports honcho A.B. Shuman. We really had no business being in the Sauber garage during Friday and Saturday qualifying sessions, but the team pretty much let us roam around and take all the stills and video we wanted. Oli took these amazing photos with his Canon EOS Elan 35mm SLR; the video I shot from this weekend is coming soon to an internet near you. I scanned Oli's prints years ago with a crappy old flatbed scanner; someday I will have the negatives scanned with a proper film scanner, but until then... enjoy!

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posted by Paul @ 3:08 PM

Watkins Glen Vintage Weekend 2004

Photos now on Flickr.

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posted by Paul @ 9:02 PM

Watkins Glen State Park

Photos from our visit on September 22, 2007 are now online. See the New York State Parks web site for more info.

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posted by Paul @ 12:14 PM

Giraffe Du Jour

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posted by Paul @ 1:21 PM

My Little Pecker

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posted by Paul @ 8:54 PM

Glass Menagerie

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posted by Paul @ 1:33 PM

House Guests

While the house in Closter is being torn apart, we've taken in a couple of refugees in Sussex...

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posted by Paul @ 5:15 PM

Peglet Gets Her Soul Captured

Miss Peggy is more difficult to photograph than the Loch Ness monster. She finally sat still long enough for me to snap a few good ones.

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posted by Paul @ 4:28 PM

Bad Sylvie in Morning Shadows

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posted by Paul @ 11:00 AM

Sun Pillar

Sun Pillar - (meteorology) A luminous streak of light, white or slightly reddened, extending above and below the sun, most frequently observed near sunrise or sunset; it may extend to about 20° above the sun, and generally ends in a point. A visual phenomenon created by the reflection of light from ice crystals with near horizontal parallel planar surfaces.

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posted by Paul @ 5:59 PM

Bookends

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posted by Paul @ 3:49 PM

Not Good Girl

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posted by Paul @ 6:04 PM

Mr. Squirrel

Got nuts?

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posted by Paul @ 8:29 AM

Biblets In Silhouette

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posted by Paul @ 11:07 PM

1988 Canadian Grand Prix

Senna wins from pole after taking Prost at the final chicane before the straight. I'm not 100% certain, but I believe that pass was the first time Senna overtook Prost on-track since becoming team mates; the stage was for one of the most bitter rivalries in F1. Results here.

Photos taken with Nikon FG and Sigma 70-210mm zoom; scanned from (poor) prints and (over-) processed with Photoshop. I really need to scan the negatives with a good film scanner and try again, now that I actually know a little about using Photoshop.

More F1 photos coming soon; I've already posted my 1999 photos (see below), and still have several years left to sort through, including stills (by Oliver) and video (by me) shot in the Sauber garage during the 1994 qualifying sessions. Also tons of stuff from the CART races at the Meadowlands, and a few vintage events at Watkins Glen (the GT40 reunion!) if I can find them.

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posted by Paul @ 1:13 AM

1999 Canadian Grand Prix

Race won by Mika Hakkinen (ahead of Fisichella and Irvine), on his way to his second consecutive World Championship. The last three World Champs (Villeneuve, Hill and Schumacher) crashed into the same wall at the exit of the chicane coming onto the pit straight. Our seats were in the grandstands after the hairpin, where the cars were hitting 4th gear. Results here.

Photos taken with Nikon FG and Sigma 70-210mm zoom; images scanned from prints.

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posted by Paul @ 12:20 AM

Cedary Key, FL - May 2005

Photos from our visit with Oliver & Doreen this past May. Linda & I drove down in the Jeep, leaving Friday morning, stopping overnight in Knoxville, TN, then a night in Panama City to visit with Sara, Landon and Leona, before pulling into Cedar Key on Day 3.


Faraway Inn is awesome, and the village of Cedar Key is so laid back you soon forget it's Florida. The biggest tourist attraction is that there are no tourist attractiions. Did some boating, explored some of the protected islands, did a little stargazing, smoked a lot of woobie. Then we drove back, leaving on Friday morning, overnighting in Asheville, NC, arriving home early Saturday evening.

Trip Stats
Total mileage: 3,177
Driving time: 51.5 hours
Avg. speed: 61.6 mph
Max. Speed: 90.3 mph
Coffee: 28.7 gallons

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posted by Paul @ 10:32 AM

Great Britain & Ireland - March 2004

New York to London to Mells to Cardiff to Clevedon to Bristol to Dublin to Limerick to Sligo to Colraine to Carlingford to Dublin to Edinburgh to Glasgow to Ingleton to Cheltenham to Forest Row to London to New York. In 12 days.

Photos from our adventure are online.Humping a video camera, two digital cameras and a laptop all over the British Isles netted over 500 photos and 3 hours of video. Someday I will sort through it and post more. Someday.

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posted by Paul @ 9:47 PM

Banff National Park, Canada - September 2000

This was my first (and so far only) trip to the Rockies. Banff is a perfect 10 on the Heaven-On-Earth scale. Images were taken with 35mm (Canon EOS Rebel 2000) and digital (Canon Powershot A50).

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posted by Paul @ 10:00 AM