Omaha Union Station (The Durham Museum)
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I have a great chance to photograph the legendary guitarist and songwriter Carlos Santana, along with his beautiful wife and drummer Cindy Blackman Santana, at the CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska last night [April 9, 2022]. Shot for Go Venue Magazine [www.govenuemagazine.com].
Locomotives await work at Union Pacific’s Omaha Shops in May 1984, including Western Pacific GP40 No. 3503. A couple of strings of no longer needed cabooses are in the background, as is UP’s former headquarters building that is just to the left of the flag pole. This entire 100-acre shop complex, a major overhaul and maintenance facility for the railroad, was closed in 1988 and demolished soon after. You wouldn’t recognize this site today—it’s the location of CenturyLink Center Omaha arena and convention center.
A visit to the D-Day landing beaches, to pay my respects to the bravery, courage and sacrifice given by the allied forces in June 1944, the photo above was taken Omaha Beach. NEVER FORGET.
The sun catches my original print from the legendary Robert Capa, a gentle reminder of those who passed before us.
He had a Contax and sheer gritted determination.
"The water was cold, and the beach still more than a hundred yards away. The bullets tore holes in the water around me"
"Between floating bodies I reached it, paused for a few more pictures, and gathered my guts for the last jump to the beach"
Q: Robert Capa, Photographer, Omaha Beach Landing First Wave, 6th June 1944.
80 years ago, June 6, 1944, the successful Normandy landings began the liberation of Western Europe from the Nazi regime. A major event which is commemorated in the following days.
Have we learned something since then? The current geopolitical situation seems to hint otherwise.
Omaha Beach, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Calvados, France.
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