Last night, as my youngest son’s first flag football practice was ending, the nearly-full moon was rising over the trees. I had to take 3 separate shots, underexposing by a little more each time, to darken the sky enough to see the moon. The sharpness isn’t the best, since I used a 1/15 shutter speed, and the colors are a little off, but all in all, I like the end result.
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Categories: Encounters · Kids, Family · Pics · Sports
Click to see hi-res versions at the defenselink.mil Lead Photo Archive for March ‘08:
Captions L to R:
Karlo, a U.S. Army working dog, relaxes in the sun in front of a painted building after completing a full day’s work with his handler in Kirkuk, Iraq, March 20, 2008. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Samuel Bendet
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class James Boucher smiles as an Iraqi child enjoys trying on his helmet and sunglasses during a community outreach visit to the Al-Fahdl Clinic in Baghdad, March 21, 2008. Boucher is assigned to the 10th Mountain Division’s Troop A, 3rd Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, attached to Multinational Division – Baghdad. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Grant Okubo
The U.S. Military in Iraq
It would be really nice if once — just one time — we could see a picture like one of these splashed on the front page of a magazine or newspaper.
Is that too much to ask?
Yes, apparently it is. The bright lights that run our major media organizations have all decided that none of these pictures — or the stories that accompany them — are interesting enough to carry.
Here are the captions for each picture (L to R):
ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS
A U.S. Army soldier from 2nd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment plays rock, paper, scissors with an Iraqi child at a clinic with coalition and Iraqi doctors in Buhrez, Iraq, Jan. 25, 2008. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sean Mulligan
FRIEND IN NEED
While on a routine “meet and greet,” mission in Iraq, Marines from Regimental Combat Team 5, 23rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Battalion met a family Jan. 22, 2008, who had a two-year-old girl in need of urgent heart surgery. The battalion worked with the Iraqi government, and the U.S. State Department and Department of Homeland Security, to fly the child to a hospital in Nashville, Tenn., where the surgery will be done at no cost. U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Shawn Coolman
AFGHAN CLINIC
Army Spc. Beverly S. McDaniel, a combat medic assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 782nd Brigade Support Battalion, gives a young child medicine at a health clinic in Nawa District, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, Jan. 13, 2008. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Nathan W. Hutchison | Story | More Photos |
Categories: "Journalism" · Media · Military · Pics · Serious
While on a recent vacation my wife and I visited Armstrong Forest in California (near Healdsburg) to see some giant redwoods.
UPDATE: I had a pic here but took it down.
Categories: Encounters · Leisure · Pics
It’s called The Season.
The tagline is “Following one prep team at a time”, and it focuses on the Joliet Catholic girls’ volleyball team called the Angels.
The photographer is Scott Strazzante.
Here’s just one example of the pics there, that I really like (pic is a link to the entry in the blog):
Check it out.
First pic posted here, from my new Nikon D40, that is … 
This weekend we went out on a little camp-out with my middle son’s Cub Scout pack, and I brought my youngest boy, too. Saturday morning, we stopped by this engraved stone, near a bridge, honoring a local young man.
His name was Marine Sgt. David Caruso, and he died in service to Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004. Apparently, Mr. Caruso had been an Eagle Scout, and had helped build the bridge in this forest preserve in 1996. Since his death, I’d read his name in the local papers often, and almost went to his funeral.
So it was nice to see this small gesture, completely unexpected, in the middle of a forest preserve. Who knew, when he was an Eagle Scout, that some small act like building a little foot bridge would later cause a memorial to be erected here, in his honor?
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