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[...]Yes, there is a good reason why my daily photos are (temporarily) exhausted. I’ve been working round the clock building a new web site, and I just haven’t had time to keep up with anything else. The new site is called BookBalloon. It’s a kind of discussion board, [...]
Terar Dum Prosim, May I Be Consumed in Service
Two more tiles from that same fireplace. [...] 
The Firemaker
A friend of mine rented an old house in Indianapolis, the brick work of the fireplace had been set some very interesting tiles. This is one example. [...] 
Indoor Pool [...] 
Eight Blue Shot Glasses [...] 
Blue Horse [...] 
Old Door [...] 
Mantis [...] 
The Playhouse [...] 
By the Pool [...] 
Pool Loungers [...] 
Metro Floor [...] 
Metro Ceiling 2 [...] 
Copper Beads [...] 
Arms [...] 
Grave with Balloons [...] 
Dark Corner Under the Stairs Back of the Pub [...] 
Untitled [...] 
Toaster [...] 
Exuberance [...] 
I don’t know what these things are. I’m guessing lawn decorations. They were lined up outside someone’s house in Manassas. I had to stop to get a shot. The kids cowered in the car, mortified.
Painted Bicycle Umbrella Flower Things [...]
Untitled [...] 
Yellow No. 3 [...] 
Yellow No. 2 [...] 
Yellow No. 1 [...] 
The Visitor [...] 
Untitled [...] 
Violet and Yellow [...] 
Beluga, Vancouver Aquarium
Two stories about the belugas at the Vancouver Aquarium:
The sign near their tank revealed that belugas are notorious pranksters. For example, they have been spotted sporting caribou antlers on their heads. “Look at me! I’m a caribou!”
Also, I watched in fascination for several minutes while this [...]
The Sturgeon’s Armor [...] 
Sturgeon, Vancouver Aquarium [...] 
Children Feeding Pigeons, Vancouver, No. 5 [...] 
Children Feeding Pigeons, Vancouver, No. 3 [...] 
Today’s guest photographer is Tessa HD Campbell. This is her entry in the grand finals of the “Last Photographer Standing” contest. I judged one round of the contest, and I placed in one round too, but Tessa made it all the way to the [...]
I’m fascinated by the variety of patterns the sea weaves into shoreline sand. This shot is the first in a series I’ll share over the next few days. [...] 
We came upon a blackbear sow and her two cubs along a road in the mountains north of Vancouver. The mother shooed the cubs up a tree straightaway and kept an eye on us until we left. You can just make out her face through the brush at [...] 
Taken along Vancouver Island shore. I’m terrible at identifying things. If you know what these are, please comment! [...] 
Today’s guest is Chris Tulk. Chris gave me a little backstory on this fine shot of his son:
I took the shot after watching my son Matthew playing in some dirt in the the back yard. He had fallen off his bike a few days previously and scratched his [...]
I spent 12 days traveling in Costa Rica last November. The Costa Rican landscape is peppered with small villages. A typical village center has a church and a soccer field, and further out there is, not uncommonly, a large round cake of a building, a bull fighting arena.
Today’s guest photographer is a new discovery of mine (actually she e-mailed me first, but whatever), Amanda Hardy. This is one shot from her lovely series “Newfoundland House Wife.”
I think this is a first rate portrait. The model is relaxed and natural. The setting, costume, and color [...]
This is a black & white treatment of a shot you’ve seen before. Which do you like better? [...]
Snakes 
Metro Ceiling 1 
Ferns
Mellons
My favorite thing to do in the grocery store: take pictures. 
A Nuthatch in Hand 
Again, if you know what this is, please drop a comment! 
