Eric the Red

After a bit of a break from photography, I offer my two-person audience a picture of Times Square in New York City.

And no, I do not have a *thing* for Chase Bank.

Heres the Chrysler Building in the distance:

Finally, one of Central Park:

I took these pictures with the camera on my LG VX 7000 on a trip to Chicago during Labor Day weekend.

The moral of this stroy: DON’T use a phone cam for long distance shots. Also, the Windy City was not so windy that day. I feel cheated….

I took the following picture with my camera phone a matter of minutes ago while walking from the Stamp Student Union to a meeting with some friends at Glenn L. Martin Hall. The banner was hanging from the Hornbake Library:

This is a perfect example of the sheer stupidity of modern liberalism. Everything and everyone must be labeled, categorized, cross-categorized and filed in the proper drawer: by age range, sex, race, religion, specific country of origin and physical handicapp (if any). There are no “American Indians”, its “Native Americans”. It isn’t enough to be recognized as Hispanic, you have to be Hispanic from El Salvador. Or, most accurately, “black-Jewish-El Salvadoran-womyn-in a wheelchair”….I mean “physical mobility impaired-El Salvadoran womyn of African origin practicing the Jewish faith”. Of course, the only ones that are remotely human are the Aryans right (emphasis on sarcasm)?

Well folks, I want my fair share of labeling and filing. From this point forward, I demand that the government recognize every possible combination of races and national origins so that each and every individual can feel extra special.

Are we promoting a subculture of nationalism within our own nation, where we will derive our strength not from our common goals and needs, but our ethnic and religious differences? That sounds more like weakness to me…

The following pictures are from a May cruise to Maine aboard the American Eagle. They were taken with a Sony DSC P52.

Day 1:

The mast, with its life preserver and crew members in the background.

This lighthouse and the breakwater that is is perched upon were finished after the local port went out of service.

The American Eagle has several small dinghys. This one was the largest.

A friend and I took these duck shots while on a National Zoo trip. He took (1), (3) and (4); I took (2). The camera in all cases is a Sony W-1.

(1) A seething herd of mallards. I was never able to figure out why they were agitated.

(2) An array of mandarin and wood ducks.

(3) Believe it or not, this guy swims under water. Unfortunately, we were unable to catch it on camera.

(4) White-faced whistling ducks, keeping a leg warm.