War on "------"

I heard a quote once and i am sorry but i don't remember who said it. Any war on a verb is a war we can not win.

Think about it. Has the "War on Drugs" stopped or even slowed the amount of drugs that have flowed into the US since it has been started? Has the War on Terror stopped 'terror' from happening? How bout the war on poverty? global warming? you get my drift.

If our enemy is not something material or solid then it is impossible to fight it and have a definite victory. It ends up becoming an excuse to pass more legislation, and spend more money our government doesn't have because they are able to use the fear of the people to create a perceived need for such things.

Lets stop fighting Wars on "-----." and start being responsible and admitting that such policies do not help us arrive at the intended results.

More HDR experiments

On my way to my room i pass this awesome vase every night, and the statue above. I don't know why but they looked like they would be fun to photograph so here they are.

Why are we so blind to the plight we are in?

http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/

You think that our leaders would wake up and realize that the spending they are currently doing is absurd and unsustainable. So much so that our allies are going to start dumping our currency to save themselves from our sinking ship. Wake up Washington!

sunday drive

This is our living room. Just messing around with the different effects.





On my way home from sunday dinner i took the alpine loop. It was rainy and cloudy so the colors didn't turn out that well but practice is practice.

Take 2 HDR

My first HDR Image

So i got a new toy recently to take me back to the days when we used to develop our own film in the wasatch high dark room and we would roll our own black and white, push 400 exp to 800, etc etc. Here is my first picture taken. It is terrible and is really rough in so many ways but i am going to use this as a benchmark or starting point. As I continue to take pictures i can look back at this and hopefully see improvment

Wanna be friends?

This weekend I went to the park with a friend and her niece. It being a Saturday there were kids running around all over the place.

One little girl came up to a boy about her age that was playing on the monkey bars. She walked right up to him and the first words out of her mouth were "Wanna be friends?"

The boy looked down from his perch above her and without hesitation answered "ok." They then introduced themselves and started talking about how one of them lived really far away and the other one lived really close, among other things that 4 year olds would talk about. For the rest of the time i was there these two kids ran around that park together, sometimes helping each other over the obsticles in the playground, acting as if they had known each other their whole lives.

For some reason this little exchange caused me to evaluate my life, and how easy some things should be. If we took the view of this little girl and assumed everyone was a possible good friend until we had reason not to how much more inviting would life be?