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She also is an author and artist of visionary works...

Photography Alert - Great Tip on White Balance

I get a great newsletter every month from wild life photographer, Lynn Berreitter.  Thought you might like to know a bit more about those dials and buttons on your camera, too...
Understanding White Balance will help you get optimum color and consistency from your images, plus help you become more creative with your camera.For most, the automatic WB Control on your camera will work fine and give you nice results. Sometimes though, the light cannot be balanced correctly and you will have to adjust the white balance manually.

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Now is a Good Time to Stop and Think about Time

According to Cheryl this is the
When it arrived the other day, i was prompted by my inner being to put it here today at this very time so you all would stop and gawk and wonder what is happening and then smile at how easily we can stop the clock and make everyone else wonder what we are up to now.  Such a simple concept, but seldom put into motion.

Views of my home town...once again...humor me

Catlady sent me these photos...an update of the ones i shared a few days ago... These are so much better!  Why?  They have my favorite view of the Golden Triangle from the middle of the West End Bridge, a great shot of my alma mater, Pitt, and great pictures of the two places i spent most of my adult life high among the clouds over the city.

If you have never been to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, here is a very good representation of the city proper and its closest neighborhoods.  Suburbs are all so very predictable, but olde Pitt is not.

http://pittsburghskyline.com/content/2007/06/05/pittsburgh-may-2007/

Updated Pittsburgh Skyline in Winter 2008

I don't know, but i think the pics from 2007 were a tad better...but perhaps that is because he got all those shots correct and is now trying to find different angles.  Maybe i will share with you all here shots i took of the Taj Mahal last week....but probably not.  No one really digs pictures of places they have never been to as much as places where they have lived. 

Click here:

http://pittsburghskyline.com/content/2008/01/07/pittsburgh-in-winter-january-2008/ pittsburghskyline.com/content/2008/01/07/pittsburgh-in-winter-january-2008/

St. Anthony's Chapel in Pittsburgh

While living in Pittsburgh i made many trips to Troy Hill, a working class neighborhood on a bluff overlooking the city from the north side, to view the wondrous collection of relics that a long-ago Belgian priest collected all over Europe with an inheritance left by his wealthy family.  He arrived in Pittsburgh about the same time as my paternal grandparents and for about the same reasons, so i continue to pay attention to the lovely little chapel when he honored St. Anthony of Padua and left it to his poor parish to maintain later.  They could not, so it fell into almost total disrepair over the years and was only opened to the public after much work by locals and money from pilgrims from all over the world who traveled to Pittsburgh to see this marvelous collection of art and artifacts--and just old-fashioned history of the Catholic Church.  Gone over 10 years, i still think about the chapel and would like to see it again.  Always happy to hear that others have discovered it and appreciate its art, too.

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Christmas Greeting from Rita

Here is a card sent in by Rita to share with you now...Have a Happy, Merry Holiday!

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1366430247074&source=jl999 

John Lennon's Slant on Life

This is for those of you who read about John Lennon in Angel of The Maya and were surprised to find him there.  Someone sent in this poem he created...not sure why...

you can shine you're shoes
and wear a suit
you can comb your hair
and look quite cute
you can hide your face
behind a smile
one thing you can't hide
is when you're crippled inside

John Lennon

Been getting a lot of feed-back on Angel of The Maya that might help all of you who are reading it now or finished it and are starting over again.  Maybe today...or tomorrow??  We will get something out soon...a promise!

Yes, There Were Penny Postcards

At Christmas some people like to reminisce about the good old days when bread cost a nickel and all sorts of other things that no one really cares about...but apparently collectors really get off on post cards.  Here's a huge collection by state.
 

Here's a Mystery for You to Figure Out--or not

Take a look at this link and read it over and examine the picture attached...BEFORE you hit the link to read what came to me about the scene...

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2254.html?theme=light

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Da Vinci's 'Last Supper' Now Online

 Believe it or not...the final restoration of Leonardo DaVinci's masterpiece, The Last Supper, is done and now available for up-close viewing online.  Amazing what they can do now!
 

More Beauty From the Internet

Special thanks to Barry for finding these links on the Internet and sharing them with all of us here. 
 

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