The movies of George Lucas have been said to have a lot with silent movies. This is both a slap at his dialog and a complement to his visual style. If you think of his movies there are numerous visuals that are iconic.…
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I took my mother this weekend to the Salvador Dalí exhibit, Salvador Dali: Visions of Eternity, currently showing at the Arlington Museum of Art.
While at her 102nd birthday lunch, my grandmother mentioned that she and my aunt had learned of a memoirs written by the son of one of her cousins on the Munn side of the family. She told me the stories in the book were “scandalous”.…
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On Friday afternoon I drove out to Longview for lunch for my grandmother’s 102nd birthday. On the way I stopped to take a view pictures of the Sabine River (Río de Sabinas). It is named for the sabinas, bald cypress trees, that are common lower down river.
Just because you don’t have a football team doesn’t mean you can’t have a football stadium. This is still Texas.
As they built the new Apple Campus in Cupertino, it became a Mecca for drone photographers to document the progress of the construction. At one point Apple security tried to discourage enthusiastic remote pilots but that proved to be a harder task than they thought.…
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Pictures from and around Penitentiary Hollow at Lake Mineral Wells State Park. This is a nice park for some light hiking. There was a bit of a squall brewing when I was there which made it a bit too windy for flying the drone.…
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Here are a few pictures from Wings over Dallas 2017 air show featuring the Commemorative Air Force. I was not able to stick around for the flying part of the show. I was able to get in before dawn and have the run of the place for a couple hours to take pictures.…
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At Dallas Executive Airport there is an Embraer jet, tail number N100FZ, painted up with images from Star Wars that made me laugh. On one side of the tail is the Millennium Falcon. On the other is a painting of what looks like an X-Wing with the fuselage of a jet.…
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