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Nikon D3X, Micro Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 Auto nonAi (reversed using BR2), extension tubes and rings, SB28, SC17
+ no Photoshopping, no cropping, raw only converted in Phase One Capture 6 but no adjustments
Checking out "The Lisa Marie" -- The King's opulent plane.
It's not that I'm not a fan, more that I'm not a super fan. I thought "going to Graceland" meant seeing the mansion...I didn't realize that it's practically a resort of Elvis shrine-dom.
For a man who photographers of his era saw as a second coming of Narcissus, it is actually a fitting tribute for such a shrine to exist in his image.
The "displays" left me with a heavy feeling, however. I left feeling sad for a person who I began to perceive as fragile, and who shared too much of himself with a public who didn't care about the man behind the artist. Case in point: instead of seeing him as ailing at the end of his life, people chose to obsess on his fluctuating weight (which was clearly edema to me, but maybe that's just because I have my bouts with it).
Nearly every story talks of his gentleness and generosity...but there is always a darker undertone because we know how it ends: he died sick and sad and alone. Even if he had not died the way he did, I'm not sure how much longer anyone could have survived such a splintered life--who is the guy from Tupelo, MS and who is Elvis Presley? But, I digress...
All along the Big Sandy where we were hiking you could see fallen trees from the lumber harvesting effort going on. In the mini-Canyon photo you can see felled trees covering part of it. I didn't want to focus too much on them.
David Michael Kopp in action. Resurrected my dead camera battery for one frame; shame I over-exposed the flash (by about two stops).
Someone said it looked like I was being waited on by my servants.
And Gordon just wanted to amputate.
The United States has a military presence in two-thirds of countries around the world, and some of them have had enough. A group of terrorists calling themselves The Engineers initiate a terror ultimatum called the Blacklist - a deadly countdown of escalating attacks on U.S. interests.
The United States has a military presence in two-thirds of countries around the world, and some of them have had enough. A group of terrorists calling themselves The Engineers initiate a terror ultimatum called the Blacklist - a deadly countdown of escalating attacks on U.S. interests.