Henderson NV
On a back road leading to our house, not 5 miles distant, we found this replica of an old Signal gas station! While we took photos, we could hear a pool party going on beyond the brick wall of the back yard adjacent to us as the smell of barbecue wafted our way.
After you fill up, why not cruise on by Photos By Emilio for refreshments?
And thank you to the multi-talented Jaytee59 for my new gravatar. I love it!
Elgin NV
“Grief is a Freight Train,
Oh what’s a little pain
When you’ve got so much to Love.”
Freight Train – Lyrics by Sara Jackson Holman – | MetroLyrics
This deserted boxcar was discovered on a side rail of tracks just outside the ghost town of Elgin NV.
Please visit Photos By Emilio for a little something in color, too!
As most of you (or maybe only some of you) know by now, Joe of The Visual Chronicle is the mastermind behind Monochromia! When he saw the post I did last week on my blog, he commented: I think it looks great and has come a long way from that blah Jpeg file. The last step would be to convert it to black and white and post it on Monochromia 🙂 And remember “you could trust your car to the man who wears the star”
So here it is, my blah Jpeg file color corrected in Lightroom to glorious black and white. I think I prefer the color version this time but please let me know what you think! (That’s a not so sneaky way of getting those of you who have not yet visited our individual sites to go visit mine for a start, then go visit everyone else’s.)
Nelson NV
Brent Mail is a professional photographer from Australia who recently interviewed Cole Thompson, a fine art photographer from the United States. It is a great interview. Please go take a peek! Among many of the things he said that resonated with me concerns the Rule Of Thirds:
“I have my own “Rule of Thirds”. (I don’t like Rules of Photography so I make up my own).
My Rule of Thirds says a great image is comprised of one-third vision, one-third the shot, and one-third processing.
The vision is what drives the other two-thirds.
It drives the shot because when I know what I want the final image to look like, that directs how I capture the image.
Likewise with the processing, which is where I do the majority of the creative work on the image, the vision drives it.”
Get used to his name. Cole Thompson. I expect to be quoting more of his interview from time to time!
“You goin’ in?”
“Nope!”
“Why not?”
“Too cold.”
“You’re joking, right?”
“Nope.”
“That’s like a Vapor wetsuit.”
“Right? Five hundred dollars!”
“That should keep you warm.”
“You think? I’m dying in it.”
“So go on in.”
“You’re joking! And ruin the look?”
“The look?”
“Chicks dig the look. I haven’t been in the ocean in about 3 years. I just stand at the edge of the water and wait. Never go home alone.”
“Dude, you’re giving us real surfers a bad name.”
For real color photos, please visit Photos By Emilio!
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it!” ~~ (Wrongfully) Attributed to Mark Twain
So who is the great thinker who designed an outdoor shopping/ restaurant center in the middle of Las Vegas, with little to no shade, knowing the temperature exceeds 100 degrees during the summer months? My wife would reply, “it was a man, of course!”
Of course!
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