Words that haunt me

I've been realizing that several times a week, sometime every day, different phrases pass through my brain. These are words and phrases that were spoken to me that never leave me. I just think of them all the time. I don't dwell on them. But they're connected to memories (illustrated by their accompanying photographs) that I can't forget. They come, I think of them for several seconds and then they leave and echo back several times before leaving entirely. I'm going to post them as I think of them. This one I've thought of every single week for the last 3 or 4 years.

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Escondido Street Fair

Some pictures from this afternoon at the Escondido Street Fair.

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More From Comic Con

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m my four days at Comic Con.

First day at Comic Con

Here are some pictures from the first day of Comic Con 2010. I was there ALL day. Exhausting but amazing. More pictures from Friday and Saturday coming soon!

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Scott Pilgrim vs World Building Wrap at Comic Con

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Fallbrook on Fire

We had a weird summer thunderstorm last night. I happened to be in Fallbrook at the time and got some pretty good shots of the clouds and the sunset.[gallery link="file" columns="5"]

The good things

The next question is "what are the good things?"

The best of the last couple weeks

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Go SLO

Some pictures from my trip to San Luis Obispo over 4th of July weekend.[gallery link="file" columns="5"]

So then...

I look through the images that I take and then somehow, from somewhere, decide which words to put with them. The images inspire words, invoke memories and emotions in the viewer. But as the author, I have the unique ability to apply my own thoughts, words, memories and impressions to the image which then "trump", if you will, the viewers own ideas about the picture. So whatever you thought the purpose or the "point" of the image was before: that's now gone because I've imposed my own words on the picture.[gallery link="file"]

This is where I stopped...and other pictures from the mountain

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Night inspiration

I've been meaning to practice using the flash on my camera. I ran around last night in the dark and snapped a couple pictures of my yard. This is what happened.[gallery link="file"]

Fair Day and Father's Day

Here are some images from the San Diego County Fair Del Mar Fair and a couple pictures from our Father's Day celebration in Dana Point.[gallery link="file"]

The peaceful valley in Ramona

This is a secret place in Ramona, CA where there is only peace and virtue. Here are images from this utopia.[gallery link="file"]

New camera

So I purchased a Nikon D50 the other day. Here is the result of my first few days with it.[gallery link="file"]

The earth

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Masculinity

Been thinking about masculinity and how it is expressed in the modern world and how it may have been expressed before modern conveniences. Do technological advancements negate the necessity of masculinity? Have we substituted new rituals and expressions of masculinity in the place of older, more vicious and perhaps savage ones? Are these new ones as effective in nurturing the spirit of masculinity?

On an unrelated note, I'm going to be getting a camera soon to add pictures of my adventures. When that happens you won't have to just look at pictures that I've added words to.

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Rolling Lightning

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Fire

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Bring on the insignificant

I wonder what the legality is with grabbing images off teh intarwebs and adding words to them.[gallery]