July 31, 2011

July 31, 2011
Self – Portrait: Ride
East Bay St (downtown Charleston, SC)

“Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path.”
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July 30, 2011

July 30, 2011
Self – Portrait: Carpe Diem
Isle of Palms (South Carolina)

“Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.”
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July 29, 2011

July 29, 2011
Self – Portrait: Carnival!
Charleston Harbor (SC)

“We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat.”
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July 28, 2011

July 28, 2011
Self – Portrait: Horse with no name
South of the Border (Dillon, SC)

“Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”
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July 27, 2011

July 27, 2011
Self – Portrait: Hey little guy!!!!
68th STIKMAN – B/w 13th & 14th Street (Madison Drive, NW)

Dear Mysterious Stikman Creator: I see you have put down some new STIKMEN in Washington D.C., I know this b/c they just finished re-paving Madison Drive at the beginning of the summer. So - where are you Mr Stikman Creator? Who ARE YOU Mr Stikman Creator? I wonder if you’re the same stikman creator who the Post wrote about a couple years ago. I wish I knew who you were so I could tell you how fascinated I am w/ these mysterious little guys & how ridiculous I look trying to get pictures of your STIKMAN dodging in & out of traffic, it's quite entertaining especially when I get to tell passerby's how I've been intrigued for over two years now . Thanks. – A fan.

“As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.”
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July 26, 2011

July 26, 2011
Self – Portrait: Sunset + water
West Potomac Park

“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.”
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July 25, 2011

July 25, 2011
Self – Portrait: (Still) Nothing
Great Falls National Park overlooking the Potomac River

“Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.”
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July 24, 2011

July 24, 2011
Self – Portrait: Nothing
Great Falls National Park overlooking the Potomac River

“Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.”
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July 23, 2011

July 23, 2011
Self – Portrait: Summer days (Heat Index: 110)
National Harbor, MD

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanese Proverb
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July 22, 2011

July 22, 2011
Self – Portrait: My perspective
National Mall – Monument (al)

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
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July 21, 2011

July 21, 2011
Self – Portrait: Oops!
Theodore Roosevelt Island

"If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake."
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July 20, 2011

July 20, 2011
Self – Portrait: Wise words
Lincoln steps overlooking the Potomac River

“I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.”
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July 19, 2011

July 19, 2011
Self – Portrait: Out on a limb
West Potomac Park

“What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?”
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July 18, 2011

July 18, 2011
Self – Portrait: My own beach!
Patapsco River in Ft. Smallwood (MD)

I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean's voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore"
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July 17, 2011

July 17, 2011
Self – Portrait: Chesapeake Bay
Fort Smallwood Park (MD)

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

July 16, 2011
Self – Portrait: Chesapeake Bay
Bay Shore Park (MD)

“One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge…”
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July 15, 2011

July 15, 2011
Self – Portrait: In your face!
The Awakening (statue at National Harbor, MD)

“In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.”
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July 14, 2011

July 14, 2011
Self – Portrait: Cockeyed?

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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July 13, 2011

July 13, 2011
Self – Portrait: Gotcha!
National Capitol Columns

"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
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July 12, 2011

July 12, 2011
Self – Portrait: Airplane - spotter
Gravelly Point Boat docks

“Don't think you're on the right road just because it's a well-beaten path.”
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July 11, 2011

July 11, 2011
Self – Portrait: Cannon - ball!!!
Manassas National Battlefield Park

"So what the hell, leap!"
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July 10, 2011

July 10, 2011
Self – Portrait: Tricky
Blue Ridge Mountains (Shenandoah National Park)

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
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July 9, 2011

July 9, 2011
Self – Portrait: Sunset
Susquehanna River (Harrisburg, PA)

"As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen."
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July 8, 2011

July 8, 2011
Self – Portrait: Now or never
Baltimore, MD

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. ~Mark Twain
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July 7, 2011

July 7, 2011
Self – Portrait: Golden opp
Potomac River (Rosslyn Key Bridge)

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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July 6, 2011

July 6, 2011
Self – Portrait: Interaction
Tide Lock – Potomac River & Rock Creek meet up.

“There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.”
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July 5, 2011

July 5, 2011
Self – Portrait: Being me.
West Potomac Park (D.C.)

“I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.”
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July 4, 2011

July 4, 2011
Self – Portrait: Support
Autism Speaks 5k Run

“I love my freedom. I love my America.”
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July 3, 2011

July 3, 2011
Self – Portrait: Scenic
Monocacy River Valley (Frederick)

“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”
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July 2, 2011

July 2, 2011
Self – Portrait: Hanging on.
Tidal Basin (District of Columbia)

“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”
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July 1, 2011

July 1, 2011
Self – Portrait: Reality
Potomac River (WPP)

“The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.”
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