Coronado Island, San Diego, California – August 14, 2010

I know some of you have missed my short commentaries on the work…

I have said for a long time, “Some of the best photographs I take in my own backyard.”

Here is another case in point. It’s not my backyard, however, but my friend Al & Kimberley
Graham’s front yard. This guy returns every year to inhabit a space outside their window.

For those interested in tech specs, I used an off-camera flash and an aperture of f/32

David

This Day in History (August 16)
1991    President Bush declares recession is near an end
1988     Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
1987     Astrological Harmonic Convergence – Dawn of New Age
1985     Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
1984     Andrea Doria’s safe opened
1984     L.A. federal jury acquits auto maker John DeLorean on cocaine charges
1983     Paul Simon weds Carrie Fisher
1975     Peter Gabriel quits Genesis
1974     Ramones concert debut (NY’s CBGBs)
1969     Woodstock rock festival begins in New York
1962     Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer
1961     Martin L. King protests for black voting right in Miami
1955     Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
1954     Sports Illustrated magazine begins publishing
1946     Great Calcutta blood bath – Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die)
1934     U.S. explorer William Beebe descends 3,028′ (923 m) in Bathysphere
1914     Zapata and Pancho Villa over run Mexico
1904     New York City begins building Grand Central Station
1896     Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala
1894     Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return
            to their old Indian faith
1870     Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn’t an optical illusion
1863     Emancipation Proclamation signed
1861     President Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
1691     Yorktown Virginia founded

Today’s Birthdays
1988     Rumer Willis, child of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore
1963     Steve Carell, born in Concord, Massachusetts, actor, comedian, producer, known as Michael Scott on ‘The Office’
            television show, films include, ‘Evan Almighty’
1960     Timothy Hutton, born in Malibu, California, actor, Turk 182, Ordinary People
1958     Angela Bassett, born in New York City, actress, What’s Love Got to Do With It
1958     Madonna, Ciccone, Bay City, Michigan, singer and actress, Like a Virgin
1954     James Cameron, born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, writer and director, True Lies, Titanic
1953     James Taylor, born in South Carolina, rocker, Kool and The Gang
1953     Kathie Lee Gifford, Paris, Florida, hostess, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
1946     Lesley Ann Warren, New York City, actress, Cinderella, Mission Impossible
1935     Julie Newmar, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Catwoman-Batman, Living Doll
1930     Frank Gifford, born in California, NFL halfback for the New York Giants/ABC sportscaster
1930     Robert Culp, Berkley California, actor, I Spy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
1929     Bill Evans, U.S. jazz pianist
1928     Ann Blyth, Mount Kisko, New York, actress, Kismet, Mildred Pierce
1928     Eddie Kirkland, Jamaican/U.S. blues guitarist, Have Mercy
1925     Fess Parker, Fort Worth Texas, actor, Davy Crockett, Old Yeller
1897     Robert Ringling, circus master
1879     Ethel Barrymore, classic film and stage actress, Pinky, Moonrise

 
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