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Pray for Obama

Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8

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Salton Sea - Revisited

Josh and I had the opportunity to revisit the Salton Sea area this past Saturday.

My Shotz

 

Josh Shotz

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Huntington Libraries Chinese Gardens

Had the opportunity to scope out the "new" Chinese Gardens at the HUntington yesterday afternoon.  Here's some shots from that excursion.

AgentZ

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An Anecdotal Story About Why our "Hope" for Change is Crushed

Laws of Physics

 From a senior level Chrysler person: Monday morning I
 attended a breakfast meeting where the speaker/guest was
 David E. Cole, Chairman of the Center for Automotive
 Research (CAR), an Engineer with 40+ years automotive
 experience, full Professor at the Univ. of Michigan.

 You have all likely heard CAR quoted, or referred to in
 the auto industry news lately. Mr. Cole told many stories of
 the difficulty of working with the folks that the Obama
 administration has sent to save the auto industry.

 There have been many meetings where this very experienced
 automotive expert has had to listen to a newcomer to the
 industry; someone with zero manufacturing experience, zero
 auto industry experience, zero business experience, zero
 finance experience, zero engineering experience, and
 apparently zero brains tell them how to run their business.

 Mr. Cole's favorite story is as follows: There was a team
 of Obama people speaking to Mr. Cole. They were explaining
 to Mr. Cole that the auto companies needed to make a car
 that was electric and liquid natural gas (LNG) with enough
 combined fuel to go 500 miles, so we wouldn't "need" so many
 gas stations (A whole other topic). They were quoting BTU's
 of LNG and battery life they had looked up on some web site.

 Mr. Cole explained that to do this you would need a trunk
 FULL of batteries, and a LNG tank as big as a car to make
 that happen. And that there were problems related to the
 laws of physics that prevented them from...

 The Obama person interrupted and said (and I am quoting
 here),

 "These laws of physics? Whose rules are those? We need to
 change that (while others wrote down the name of the law so
 they could look it up). We have the Congress, and the
 administration. We can repeal that law, amend it, or use an
 executive order to get rid of that problem. That's why we
 are here, to fix these sort of issues."

 My friends ... we are screwed.

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Is Arnold really growing 'nads?

So, is Arnold really growing 'nads? Here is his rejection letter for bill AB1176. He has become increasingly frustrated by the legislatures failing to take on the serious issues confronting the state. Note the first letter in each line of the two paragraphs that constitute the body of the letter. Coincidence? I think not. I left the URL to the Cal Gov site where this release appeared.

You decide!

 

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Facebook | My Photos - MISCELLANEOUS

Added this to my online Photo Gallery in Gallery #4 @ Digital Images by JPL
http://www.agentz.com/digitalimagesbyjpl/Gallery1.shtml

Prints now available as well as Standoffs and Gallery Wraps

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Facebook | My Photos - MISCELLANEOUS

Added this to my online Photo Gallery in Gallery #4 @ Digital Images by JPL
http://www.agentz.com/digitalimagesbyjpl/Gallery1.shtml

Prints now available as well as Standoffs and Gallery Wraps

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Great Article on "10 Way to Improve your Photography without Buying New Gear"!

An article by Scott Bourne that's well worth the 5 minute read.

http://photofocus.com/2009/10/12/10-ways-to-improve-your-photography-without-buying-gear/

Regards,
Jean-Pierre "PETE" LeClair
President, AgentZ
www.AgentZ.com
Photography by JPL
Flickr Photostream

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Facebook | My Photos - Where theres smoke...

Did something I've been wanted to try for a while today. Set up a black background, lit a stick of incense (patchouli I think although it has no bearing on the images) and set up an old Vivitar 283 off to the side triggered by my on camera 580EXII. Only processing was done with NIK Define 2.0 (noise reduction) and several were processed with Nik Silvver Effects Pro. Color in #6 is from a gel filter on the flash.

Slide show also available at Flickr: Where There's Smoke...

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New Print Arrived

I ordered a 16x24 standoff print over the weekend of dusk at the Salton Sea. The standoff print is mounted on 1.5" gatorboard and the edge is wrapped in black. I was torn between this and a gallery wrap. Maybe the next one will be the gallery wrap. Here it is on the wall in the living room.

 

IMG_5186

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