I am an amateur photographer, avid reader, bicyclist, hiker, fitness swimmer and cruciverbalist.

 

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

 

Marcel Proust

 

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."

—Henry David Thoreau

  

A birth certificate shows that we were born. A death certificate shows that we died. Pictures showed that we lived.

-Unknown

 

What an inspiring and handsome young man Stephen Sutton was!

 

Picture that made a difference

 

A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark And those lights weren't there six years ago.

 

The Photographer's Ephemeris. Check it out if you haven't already.

 

Good information at this Photo Attorney Blog.

 

Google Art Project

 

Amazing 3D Picture of the Sistine Chapel

(To view every part of Michelangelo's masterpiece just click and drag your arrow in the direction you wish to see.)

 

The Eternal City as viewed by the The Human Camera

 

Production of 70 Billion Pixels Budapest image

And more

 

Photographer who rides the waves (literally).

 

President Barack Obama's 2009 Inaugural Address GigaPan Pic by David Bergman - NEW VERSION Be sure to click on "Take A snapshot"s below main picture.

 

Inspiration:

Pilot Jessica Cox

 

The First Grader

 

Musicians and Songs I like:

 

Sam Cooke, : Cupid

 

Lenny Kravitz, : It Ain't Over Till It's Over

 

Yo-Yo Ma & Bobby McFerrin

 

Hooked on a Feeling - Blue Swede and the original by BJ Thomas

 

Eric Clapton - Layla

 

Dionne Warwick-That’s What Friends Are For

 

Eva Cassidy - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

 

Stand By Me-Andy, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora & Friends and another version by Ben E. King and more recently

  

BOLERO-RAVEL

 

Eire

 

Spencer Day-Vagabond EPK

 

OVERTONE - SHOSHOLOZA

 

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana perormed by UC Davis University Chorus, Alumni Chorus, Symphony Orchestra, and the Pacific Boychoir

 

This Old Heart Of Mine been broke a thousand times, so

DON'T Go Breakin My Heart!

 

But It's Alright by JJ Jackson

 

The Walk by Mayer Hawthorne

 

Smooth Sailin by LeonBridges

 

Brand New Me by Alicia Keys

 

The Game of Love by Michelle Branch and Carlos Santana

 

Sauvecito by Malo

 

Smooth by Rob Young and Carlos Santana

 

Maria Maria by Carlos Santana

 

A Night Like This by Caro Emerald and

A Night Like This Live at Sziget

 

Ordinary People by John Legend

 

Save Room by John Legend

 

When We Were Young by Adele

 

Save the Last Dance for Me by the Drifters

or by Michael Buble

 

Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran

 

Shut Up and Dance!

or the original artists Walk the Moon

 

We Don't Talk Anymore by Charlie Puth and Selena Gomez Live or Charlie Puth Official

 

One Call Away by Charlie Puth

 

Where Is the Love 1972 and now

 

Summer by War

 

Here Comes My Baby by Cat Stevens and by by the Tremeloes

 

Allegri, Miserere mei, Deus

 

Arabic-Mix Version of ‘Despacito’

 

Somebody That I Used to Know

or the original artist Gotye

 

1-800-273-8255 Alesia Cara, Logic and Khalid

 

Portugal. The Man

 

Perfect by Ed Sheeran and Beyonce

 

Havana by Camila Cabello

 

Sufjan Stevens, : Tonya Harding (In D major)

 

Closer by Tegan and Sara

 

Back to Life by Alicia Keys

 

Alan Walker+Breaking Benjamin Mashup

  

Amazing videos:

 

Women In Art

 

David Gallo shows underwater astonishments

 

Fun Animations:

 

Animusic

 

The Lion sleeps tonight

 

Unique Photographer:

Erik Johansson

 

Eye opener

 

Oprah and Wordplay documentary and here

 

Interesting books I've read:

 

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Second Opinion and How Doctors Think by Jerome Groupman

Complications and Better by Atul Gawande

Blood Matters by Masha Gessen

Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen

The Lighthouse by PDJames

The Wild Trees by Richard Preston

Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell

Boom, Voices of the 60s by Tom Brokaw

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

DNA, The Secret of Life by James Watson

The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Against Medical Advice by James Patterson and Hal Friedman

Bridge of Sighs by Richaed Russo

The Soloist by Steve Lopez

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

Cezanne: Father of 20th Century Art by Michel Hoog

Leonardo da Vinci by Alessandro Vezzosi

Darwin and the Science of Evolution by Patrick Tort

The Shack by William Paul Young

The Associate by John Grisham

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

White Girl in Harlem by Elsie Wagner Fenic

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Making Rounds with Oscar by David Dosa

Open by Andre Agassi

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

Total Recall by Sara Paretsky

The Blessings of the Animals by Katrina Kittle

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Look Again by Lisa Scottoline

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Tom Clancy's Endwar by David Michaels

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

War by Sebastian Junger

The Bishop's Boys, A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Tom Crouch

Ape House by Sara Gruen

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli

The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks

Growing Up Laughing by Marlo Thomas

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

The Wave by Susan Casey

A Time of Terror by Allan W. Eckert

The Great Dayton Flood of 1913 by Trudy E. Bell

Room by Emma Donoghue

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Moonwalking with Einstein by Josh Foer

13 Bankers by Simon Johnson and James Kwak

The Red Market by Scott Carney

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua

Gems of the Greater Dayton Region by Brian Hackett and Dane Mutter

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

Your Medical Mind by Jerome Groopman

and Pamela Hartzband

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Gabby, A Story of Courage and Hope by Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly

No Impact Man by Colin Beavan

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznik

The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman

American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar

Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise

and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean

by Les Standford

Bossy pants by Tina Fey

behind the beautiful forevers by Katherine Boo

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani

Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

Doc by Mary Doria Russell

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The Midwife by Jennifer Worth

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

I Rhoda by Valerie Harper

Lifesaving Lessons by Linda Greenlow

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

The Curious History of the Crossword by Ben Tausig

Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

The Midwife of Hope by Patricia Harman

A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren

The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin

The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew

Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett

Gray Mountain by John Grisham

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Bergoglio's List by Nello Scavo

Tell by Frances Itani

Dead Wake by Erik Larson

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

On the Move by Oliver Sacks

Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule by Jennifer Chiaverini

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

The Martian by Andy Weir

The Girl from the Train by Irma Joubert

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Mercies in Disguise by Gina Kolata

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Camino Island by John Grisham

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

A Column of Fire by Ken Follett

Stronger by Jeff Bauman

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams

Zucked by Roger McNamee

 

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