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Some photos of the battlefield at Gettysburg, 1996.

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    Wrigley Field, Labour Day, 1988

The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series (1908), the Ottoman Empire was still in existence. via Trivials

If someone had offered a bet that fall that a black man would be elected President before the Cubs won again, would you have taken it?

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Mirror, Kew Gardens, 1993
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    Union Station, Chicago, 1988

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    Attica, 1986

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    The Embankment, London, 1984

I think its a monument to the Merchant Marine in WW2.  The point of this picture is the shadows, which seem to almost explode.

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    Burnside's bridge, Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1996

A deluge of US Civil War books will be upon us as the 150th anniversary passes.  Many will mention this bridge.  I'm not a fan of "what if" when it comes to war.  But many say that had Burnside not become so fixated on this bridge that he forgot about the battle, the Civil War might have ended in on this battlefield in September 1862.  Its a tempting idea, but supposes McClellan would have pressed a decisive victory. This was not in his character.

In any case, to play with such an idea misses the entire point of that war; we had entered an age where it was insufficient to defeat an army, you had to defeat the nation.  Its been the theme of almost every major war since.

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    Wrigley Field, Labor Day, 1988

I watched my first baseball game of the season last night.  Boston beat The Yankees in Florida.  I love baseball like no other sport.  I love the balance of the game, the pace, the lack of a clock, the intensity of the individual contests between batter and pitcher.  Most of all, I like that there's no set duration. You play until at least 51 batters are out.  If that doesn't decide it, they just keep playing until someone wins.  No overtime rules or special tweaks to make it more exciting. 

I also love Baseball for the stadiums.  Wrigley Field (above) was a terrific experience, but my favorite is Dodger Stadium.  Nodding off to sleep on a Saturday night while watching a west coast game is my ultimate comfort food.

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Its been a long time, almost a year since I last posted a photo. Last Christmas (09), I scanned everything left from Greece, intending to finish all the Greek photos and post them by end of spring.  Two things happened to thwart my purpose.  First is I was sick enough through the spring, summer and fall that there was no energy for such persuits.  Second, I was unhappy with the scans and due to the first reason, unable and unwilling to re-scan.  Fortunately, I've had more energy since December.  Also, I figured out a better way to scan and work on the photos.  So here is the first of the last batch of Greek photos from 1986.

This one is taken on Paros.

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Street and door, Sifnos, Greece, 1986
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Some nice textures on this one.

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    Door and window, Sifnos, 1986
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    Ferry to Paros, 1986.  A small part of the Aegean Sea.  Most of the rest was identical, except the
    white foamy bits are just around the edges.  Like wrapping.

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    Stairs and door, Sifnos, Greece, 1986
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    Sifnos, Greece, 1986
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Enough with the appetizers, the Greek photos are the main course.

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    Window light, Moscow, 1993

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Trees at the now demolished Sands hotel in Las Vegas.  The Sands was the last place you could see the Vegas of the '50s and '60s.  Love those trees. 

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Columns, US Supreme Court, Washington DC, April 1995

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    Wall and tower, Novodivichi Convent, Moscow, 1993
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One of the most remarkable places I've ever seen.  After Red Square, this is coolest thing in Moscow.  The graveyard beside the convent has a who's who of Russia since the revolution.  Anyone not famous or connected enough to be buried in the Kremlin wall is here. 

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Someone in the pool, 1982.  Kodak High-Speed Infrared.

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Lloyd’s Building, London, 1993