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I’ve been spending a few hours each day sifting through photos from the trip. It’s an arduous task. I am processing over 3,000 images collected while we were in Spain.

The main goal is to isolate the ones I want to print, edit them if necessary and then make a re sized copy for upload to the gallery.

On the one hand, it’s fun going through the images. On the other hand, it’s making me a little loopy.

While I was processing the pics from Seville I noticed that I had two pictures of the garden of the Alcazar that were pretty cool. They got me to thinking that I really was wishing for a super wide angle on that day to try to capture more of the garden in one shot instead of these two:


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Thanks to Photoshop, I now have the shot I couldn’t get in the field….


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Back to work to the photo-mines….

It was 50 years ago today

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CYNTHIA!
You may be vintage, but you’re a classic and you’re still in mint condition!

Fun Facts For 1957

  • A postage stamp was 3 cents
  • The average cost of a new car in 1957 was $2,100
  • Gas cost only 28 cents a gallon
  • Average price of a new home was $19,000
  • A family’s average annual income was $5,000
  • The Wham-O Company produced the first Frisbee
  • American Bandstand began it’s 30 year syndicated run
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States
  • IBM sold the first compiler for the FORTRAN scientific programming language
  • Major John Glenn flew an F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
  • The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.
  • The laser was invented by Gordon Gould.
  • First flight of the Boeing 707 airliner

    • Zappa Plays Zappa – The Evidence


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    I caught the Zappa Plays Zappa show last night at the Verizon Wireless Theater. I had seen the Zappa Plays Zappa show last year featuring Terry Bozzio and Steve Vai and it was spectacular.

    This time around the special guest was Ray White who’s vocals and guitar work show up on such notable Zappa discs as Zappa In New York, You Are What You Is and Läther just to name a few.


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    The opening guitar duet with Frank was awesome, and maybe a little creepy. Father and son jamming together from beyond the grave.


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    And there were times during the show that Dweezil actually started to look a bit like his father….


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    It was a great concert and well worth staying up past my bedtime on a school night to go see.

    There’s a ton more pics in the gallery.

    [tags] Frank Zappa, Dweezil Zappa, Zappa Plays Zappa, Ray White, Houston [/tags]

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