June 30, 2011

June 30, 2011
Self – Portrait: 20-Pounder Napoleon
(Used in 2nd Battle of Manassas)
Manassas National Battlefield Park

“Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do?
Back off and take its picture.”
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June 29, 2011

June 29, 2011
Self – Portrait: Past tense
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (D.C)

“We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”
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June 28, 2011

June 28, 2011
Self – Portrait: Me, myself & I
Kennedy Center – Watergate building

“I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.”
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June 27, 2011

June 27, 2011
Self – Portrait: Clouds & Sky
National Harbor docks (MD)

“We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.”
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June 26, 2011

June 26, 2011
Self – Portrait: Daily Harvest
North Beach pier overlooking the Chesapeake Bay

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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June 25, 2011

June 25, 2011
Self – Portrait: Danger
North Beach (MD)

“Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.”
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June 24, 2011

June 24 2011
Self – Portrait: Carpe Diem!
Jefferson Rock, Harpers Ferry, WVA

“Life is like a cement trampoline”
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June 23, 2011

June 23, 2011
Self – Portrait: Little body, Big attitude * (STIKMAN, not me!)
Located my 67th STIKMAN in D.C. in a SE/NE intersection on the Hill – Still on the trail ….

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill
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June 22, 2011

June 22, 2011
Self – Portrait: Double vision stikman!
Columbus Circle – 63rd, 64th, 65th Stikman locations

“No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.”
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June 21, 2011

June 21, 2011
Self – Portrait: Summer Solstice
Tidal Basin (paddleboats)

“I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.”
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June 20, 2011

June 20, 2011
Self – Portrait: Queen of Appearances
West Potomac Park

“Pretty is the queen that rules our land.”
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June 19, 2011

June 19, 2011
Self – Portrait: Caution?
Chesapeake Bay

“But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.”
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June 18, 2011

June 18, 2011
Self – Portrait: Play
United Daughters of the Confederacy (Richmond, VA)

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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June 17, 2011

June 17, 2011
Self – Portrait: Ellipse
Washington’s National Arboretum – National Capitol Columns

“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”
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June 16, 2011

June 16, 2011
Self – Portrait: Solitude
On the steps near the Lincoln Memorial overlooking Ohio Drive and the Potomac River

“Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.”
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June 15, 2011

June 15, 2011
Self – Portrait: Daydreaming
(Shutter Priority, 30 seconds)
Arlington Memorial Bridge view from the Lincoln Memorial steps overlooking the Potomac River and a view of the Rosslyn (VA) skyline.

“I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.”
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June 14, 2011

June 14, 2011
Self – Portrait: Standing for Shutter Priority, 30 seconds
Ohio Drive along the Potomac River, Washington D.C

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. ~Thomas Jefferson
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June 13, 2011

June 13, 2011
Self – Portrait: Vogue
West Potomac Park (Washington D.C.) – where I like to go in the morning

“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?”
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June 12, 2011

June 12, 2011
Self – Portrait: Confluence
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers – Harper Ferry (WVA)

“Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly.”
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June 11, 2011

June 11, 2011
Self – Portrait: Duck … duck …
Tidal Basin – Potomac River

“Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase - that's what wild geese are for.”
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June 10, 2011

June 10, 2011
Self – Portrait: Checkmate
Chess players – John Marshall Park (D.C.)

“It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.”
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June 9, 2011

June 9, 2011
Self – Portrait: Hokey
West Potomac Park (Washington D.C.)

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne
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June 8, 2011

June 8, 2011
Self – Portrait: Tree of …
East Potomac Park (Washington D.C.)

“If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.”
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June 7, 2011

June 7, 2011
Self – Portrait: Higher
Washington Harbour, Georgetown

“Expectant of greater things,
We try climbing -
Higher
And Higher;
An effort that costs us much,
Leaving us short of breath
To find only
The ground below is much prettier.”
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June 6, 2011

June 6, 2011
Self – Portrait: Reservoir dog
Tidal Basin (District of Columbia) – Jefferson Memorial view

“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”
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June 5, 2011

June 5, 2011
Self – Portrait: Worth the wait …
West Potomac Park sunset – Washington D.C.

“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”
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June 4, 2011

June 4, 2011
Self – Portrait: Letter ‘d’
West Potomac Park sunset – Washington D.C.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover -
a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher.
b) that you're still just a block of marble.
c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes.
d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.
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June 3, 2011

June 3, 2011
Self – Portrait: Edge
Gravelly Point – Potomac River

“Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.”
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June 2, 2011

June 2, 2011
Self – Portrait: Crossing the line
South of the Border – State Line for North & South Carolina

“There is a fine line between dreams and reality; it's up to you to draw it.”
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June 1, 2011

June 1, 2011
Self – Portrait: Role play
Isle of Palms (South Carolina)

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
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