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Mount Sequoyah

Brad — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:06:15 +0000

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Mount Sequoyah

Brad — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:58:08 +0000

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Confederate Cemetery

bdshepherd — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:48:36 +0000

Another shot from the Confederate Cemetery. This is one of the carved cannons on the memorial, looking north at where the Arkansas soldiers are buried.

Price Tower

bdshepherd — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:26:36 +0000

Another photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. I’m mainly posting this to try something with SmugMug‘s social sharing features.

The Thinker

Brad — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:00:28 +0000

One of my favorite photographs I’ve taken, and that’s in spite of my self. The original is underexposed and oversaturated, with strips of glaring afternoon sun away from the subject matter. The gorilla (at the Memphis Zoo) only held the pose for a moment, though, so it was a matter of just aiming and hitting the shutter release. Thankfully, there was enough time to focus, so I was able to salvage this fun moment.

Confederate Cemetery

Brad — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:38:20 +0000

Got out to the Confederate Cemetery this morning. It’s been a while since I’ve done the full-blown lugging of the tripod, leisurely setting up shots, and taking way too many pictures. So long, in fact, that I think the last time I did it I wasted actual, physical film.

Price Tower

Brad — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:40:28 +0000

Price Tower is Frank Lloyd Wright’s only skyscraper. If you had to guess what city it was in, you would guess wrong. It was built, of all places, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma (original home of Phillips 66, which explains how there was enough money there). It is now a hotel, and a rather nice one.

Arkansas & Missouri Railroad

Brad — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:39:40 +0000

The Arkansas & Missouri Railroad runs an excursion train from Rogers to Van Buren. A few years ago my in-laws bought tickets for all of us to ride. This photo was taken looking out the back of our passenger car as the locomotive shunted the caboose around.

Smug Mug

Brad — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:33:22 +0000

This is a test of posting from my Smug Mug photo account. Seems pretty great so far. There’s a free trial, and you can get $5 off an account if you decide you like it (& I get a little money toward my next subscription payment too) if you follow this link.

I took this photo during Bikes, Blues & BBQ here in Fayetteville three or four years ago. The rally happens every year, and there are tons of beautiful bikes around, but I just haven’t made the time to walk down Dickson Street and take photos more recently. Figuring out what to do with (currently) two- and four-year-olds while strolling through a bike rally taking pictures has had just a bit to do with that.

Ugh

Brad — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:35:32 +0000

Finally hit the 20,000-word mark a couple nights ago. That would be great, except I should have been pushing 30,000 instead. The last three weeks or so have been difficult. At first, I blamed MineCraft, an addictive little Java game that isn’t really that little. It’s definitely worth checking out, but if you like it enough to play more than a couple minutes, be warned: you will be up late playing.

That definitely made it harder to focus on my writing, but the main reason is that I’ve just been feeling fuzzy and sleep deprived, a combination of getting ready for Boy 2′s first birthday (last week) and something in the air this fall inducing hay-fever-like symptoms. I could have been writing regardless, but with ready-made excuses . . .

So now I’m trying to get my focus back, even though I have actual paying work I need to do. That’s probably the worst of all: instead of either writing or goofing off, now the choice is between two productive activities — work or writing — and goofing off. Goofing off still wins most of the time, but I need to change that.