Ok, here's another thing I was messing around with in PS. Blending two photos together. I didn't have much to work from since I moved all my photos off my laptop to an external harddrive. But I thought these two went together well since my buddy Mark is very proud of his hometown of Bakersfield. And yes, that's the 'Crystal Palace' sign in the background 
This is a shot made from the window of the pub at the end of my street. This is where the crew setup the car and such. Also they were filming in the house just to the right of this shot and across the street.
I don't know about you, but I remember Kate Winslet best for her naked couch scene in Titanic...also filmed in here in Dartmouth.
This is a photo I made coming back from the pub. You see the production truck towing the prop car with actor inside. Apparently the actor should be Kate Winslet, but it might be her stand-in today. Rumour has it that Kate won't be in town until tomorrow. I'll try to make a photo then.
This is a photo my sister, Stacy, made last year...errr the year before, at in my parents dining room. The lighted boat is known as a 'pond boat'....google it. My dad restored a few of these, and this is not the most detailed one. He has one with wood plank decking and lapstraking which he found in an antique shop in Maine, I believe, for about $50 which he completely brought back to life. I suspect it could sell for upwards of $1000 at auction.
This is what happens when you really get into that tie football game while filling your waterbed! It was actually my landlady's....I was just renting. Imagine if this had burst!
This is a Searay 44' that I skippered for awhile. This is the first morning I arrived in Brockville, Ont where it was tied up. Sunrise about 5:30am. This boat had two diff stereos, builtin TV/VCR, builtin vacuum system, etc etc. And they paid me $100 a day too! hehehe!
This is another photo of me taken about 10 yrs or more ago, while I was an International Fisheries Observer. Next to me is who I think is the 2nd refrigeration engineer. Heck, he might have been the 1st. Never really could figure much who was who....but never saw him do much so he must have been an engineer. This is about 3 weeks out to sea....no sight of land. I can tell because I usually only shaved once a month at sea. Can't remember the ship's name...might have been Luga again. Looking down over the rail to my left shoulder would be the trawl deck where they hauled back the fish. Silver hake is what they were fishing for....it's an oily fish, sometimes known as white fish.
Taken from the wheelhouse of a 45' ice-reinforced trawler, this photo a sunset about 10 years ago in the North Atlantic off the coast of Cape Breton. The ice you see is called slog ice, or pancake ice. It's semi-hard slushy/mushy ice in 10-20' diameters. Since you sleep in the V berth of these boats, it an interesting noise as it slams up against the hull a couple of inches from your head. You're always wondering which one is going to be the one to open up a hole into your bunk. An interesting side note here is between the 4-5 day trips I stayed at a hotel, where reading the paper one morning I just happened upon the obit of a friend I had gone to high school with, along with being in the same basic training class for the navy a 7 years earlier. He had joined the regular navy as a diver, and while conducting hull searches in a foriegn port, he was sucked into a cooling intake of an American ship. Cause of death? Ineptitude, possibly drug use.....who knows on US ships. They aren't a well motivated military.....just blindly loyal.
This is a photo I took while I was an international fisheries observer working/living aboard Russian Factory freezers. Although this was a year after the fall of communism they stacks still showed the red, yellow, black of the Soviet Union, although they flew the new flag of the Russian Confederation. I'm standing on one of the after houses, looking forward on the factory freezer. I think the boat was named 'Luga', from Lativia. The freighter beside it is where they offload all the frozen product they've caught over the last few months. It also brings mail and much needed (although meager) supplies. The whole process takes about two days and it's a good break for most of the crew....and myself.
The tides in the Bay of Funday are about 20', and happen twice a day. It's not unusual to see these boats grounded between high tides. In fact, it's not unusual to see people out there painting the bottoms of their boats while they get a chance.
This is a test to see if this works ok on a diff computer. Photo was taken at a fire on Hwy1431 in Marble Falls, TX.
Structure fire tonight in Cottonwood Shores. Nothing much to photograph since the fire was almost out. Ironically, just as I was getting to THIS fire, another structure fire broke out at the opposite end of town, about the same distance from home. Nothing much of that one either....a admin building for a cemetery.
Always wondered how hard it is to hunt in TX. But, apparently you just go to any gated community and wait for them to lay down in your driveway. Not hard at all!
Again, just messing around in PhotoShop and came up with this poster. A little late, but oh well.
Now, this is the hard one to keep in focus. After trampling the kid he decided that the big ol' camera man made a nice target!
The hotshot of the day is actually a series of photos. I had to post them backwards so you could see them forward. Having the full weight of a bucking longhorn can't be any fun for this kid. Watch the action of the bull-fighter (white shirt) and the judge (wine shirt). This rodeo was the benefit for the judge's medical bills from the last rodeo....where he had 5 metal plates implanted to hold his cheek/jaw together.
Here the Bull-fighter (they don't like to be called Rodeo Clowns anymore and after this sequence of photos I think they deserve that) rushes in and prepares to deflect more kicks of the hooves.
This is where training becomes 2nd nature. Notice the Bull-fighter doesn't hesitate to put his body over that of the fallen rider and in between the bucking steer. I was really impressed when this happened and am even more amazed after seeing the photos. Just amazing stuff.
