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Jean-Pierre was fascinated by the captured image at an early age. His tools have changed with the times but his unique view through the lens has not.
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Festival of Lights
Went to downtown Riverside late yesterday to see the Festival of Lights at the Historic Mission Inn. Here are a couple of teaser images. The rest are at my Flickr site.
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Updated
Updated the cards section and the Posters & Prints section of my Cafepress site with some HDR
(high dynamic range) images of Multnomah Falls and the Columbia River
Gorge.
Posters & Prints: https://www.cafepress.com/images_by_jpl/1382583
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Economy and Additions part Deux
Well, its official, the economy is sucking... Here in the manufacturing sector we been suspecting someone pulled the plug but its now official, we're circling the drain.
The company I'm with has cut about 130 jobs from their U.S. operations in the past 2 months and we were pretty lean to start. I've had to lay off 3 of my guys in the western US and my dealers have shed some jobs and some have cut hours (4 day work weeks) to stem some of the losses.
All we can do is hang on....
In the mean time I'm using my evenings to update products on my Cafepress site and review, edit and create new products with new images. It helps put the fiscal problems aside for a while.
Along those lines I added a few new t-shirts in a new section I'm building TeeZ by AgentZ
Also added some posters to my Prints & Posters section.
Check them out...
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Additions....
Updated and added new "Inspirational Cards" based
on images from my "Inspirational" set at my Flickr account.
Check them out here:
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Fall Comfort Food
Started early today to make a slow cooker stew. Rolled beef in seasoned flour then browned it. Added chopped onions to the skillet and carmelized them them deglazed the pan. Added fresh baby carrots, sliced celery, and diced potatoes. Seasoned with garlic, fresh ground pepper, and kosher salt. Made the stock from beef broth, a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste, and a bottle of Sam Adams Octoberfest beer. Slow cooked for about 9 hours. Ummm ummm good!
And there's enough left over for our lunches tomorrow....
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Gettin' out of town
Between sub $2 gas, the rain & holiday traffic this was the I5 heading north out of the city at about 12:30 yesterday. The normal 4 hour trip took 6.5 hours. The holiday travel season is officially open....
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Saw this quote and...
Saw this quote and thought of Sally. Thought
I'd use this to check out how my posterous account links to facebook so I know
how this is going to work before I hit the road again.
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Headin' Home
Its been a busy week. Started in Omaha on Monday, meetings all day Tuesday, headed for Elmira early Wednesday. Meetings Thursday from 0700 to 1800 then continued planning for 2009 over dinner. Up early Friday and out to drive to Buffalo to catch a flight.
Southwest broke the early arrival streak they had been on with recent flights and bumped me to a Vegas flight because the Phoenix flight was delayed. Turns out the Vegas flight was delayed more than the Phoenix flight so they moved me back with a later connection out of Phoenix. However, in doing so I lost both of my prime boarding positions (A1 & A9). To make up they were quite generous as you can see in the photo ( I got to keep all my drink coupons - I'll use to 'em to spread the joy and make a new friend on another flight).
The other picture is downtown Chicago & Lake Michigan from. 39,000 feet.
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Late Afternoon Shadows
Late Afternoon Shadows
Shadows of a barren tree late afternoon in Omaha. Wall is made of glass blocks with a pleated blind pulled in front of them.
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