April_2_2006

April_2_2006
Originally uploaded by bobt54.

After my dismal failure to get any quality Cherry Blossom shots around the Tidal Basin, I got up obcenely early, at least for me, and captured this.

The best time of the year to visit Washington, DC is in the spring and the best time to photograph the Cherry Blossoms is at dawn.

March_31_2006

March_31_2006
Originally uploaded by bobt54.

Went downtown Friday evening and thought I would photograph the Cherry Blossoms around the Tidal Basin. Unfortunately, they were not lit up. I guess that is why I have never seen any good shots of the Cherry Blossoms surrounding the Tidal Basin at night. This is the best I could do. The blossoms are illuminated by streat lights and traffic with some help from my flash.

February_28_2006

February_28_2006
Originally uploaded by bobt54.

This ends my month of Black and White. This image is the bottom of Skylab taken in the Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

ESPN.com - Tennis Index

ESPN.com - Tennis Index

Made it to the big time today. My picture is currently running on the Tennis page of ESPN. Thought that was pretty cool. One of these days I will make it "to the big time" and actually get paid for it.

February_13_2006

February_13_2006
Originally uploaded by bobt54.

Lost my best buddy yesterday. Before Wrinkles, I had never been much of a dog person. He changed all that. He was such a gentle dog. Never threatening. I trusted him completely that even when roughhousing, he would never bite me, even by accident. Great with children. Always a crowd pleaser when we would go out. Got him when he was a little over a year old from my son who could not keep him because he had roommates with cats.

He will be missed by all he touched.

February_2_2006

February_2_2006
Originally uploaded by bobt54.

For the month of February, I am doing a Black and White theme. It should be interesting and quite a challenge. Also on a sad note, the cat pictured here, Chrissy, passed away. I am not sure but she was 15 years old. I think she lived so long because she never really expended much energy doing anything else other than sleeping, eating and of course her favorite past-time, pooping. That is the one thing I will not miss is that cat box.

Still she was a good cat. Didn't tear up stuff or take out her frustrations by peeing on your clothes or your bed as I have heard some cats like to do. Liked to stay inside most of the time but occasionally would sneak outside.

Not sure I will get another cat, at least not anytime soon. At this time of the year both my wife and I are out of the house a lot and that would be unfair to any new pet.

Chrissy, you will me missed. Goodbye.

January 18, 2006

January 18, 2006
Originally uploaded by bobt54.

Mirrored my PAD gallery on Flickr. Here is the URL.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobt54/sets/72057594054570779/

Best of 2005 PAD

cheese mouse
Originally uploaded by bobt54.

Re-posted these on my Flickr site. So far I am liking Flickr. Has a nice feel to it and it has many features that Pbase either doesn't have or you have to add with 3rd party help. It is not near as slow as Pbase gets. The only thing Pbase has over it is the ability to arrange your photos as you see fit.

firey sunset

firey sunset
Originally uploaded by bobt54.

This is my first post from my new flickr photo sharing site. There are a lot of neat features here that do not appear in Pbase. So far I like what I see.

New Photo Website

I have been looking at alternatives to Pbase as I have become increasing dissatisfied with what is going on there. Here is the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobt54/

Let me know what you think of the new site.

www.flickr.com More of bobt54's photos

Surprising picture

I am a little surprised that this picture has done as well as it has (in terms of comments received) I think there are much better pictures of Bryce, but they seem to like this one. Not sure why.

 

Yes, I know it is after Christmas, but I had two pictures from the Holidays I wanted to share. This is the first of two. The two houses are directly across the street from each other. One has to wonder what goes through these peoples minds when they are doing this. Where do they store all this stuff later? How much did it all cost? How much does it cost in electricity?

Up the street a bit, there are other houses that try to compete, but they are sadly out done by these two. You can find the other house in my PAD gallery.

Best of 2005 PAD pictures created

I created the best of 2005 PAD gallery. These are what I consider to the be the most artistic pictures for the entire year. Hope you enjoy them.

http://www.pbase.com/bobt54/best2005

New Year. New PAD

 


It was the first of the year with a new PAD. A PAD is a Picture A Day. To the purists at Pbase that means actually taking a picture every day. Not going to happen here, boys and girls. Yes, there are people that do it, but you here them in the middle of the year moaning and complaining that their creative juices have run out or that it has become a chore.

With my PAD I will try to showcase the best picture I have or the most meaningful picture for that particular day. I have found that having a PAD increases traffic to your galleries. Posting a PAD picture puts your picture, if only for a fleeting moment, in the front of the PAD gallery.

I gage the success of my pics by the number of comments I receive. If I get 5 or more I consider it somewhat of a success. 

Colorize Black and White Photos - Recolored

Colorize Black and White Photos - Recolored My daughter found this site that has a great program for recoloring black and white images. It is really simple to use and I was surprised I could achieve such good results from the program in only my first attempt.

Home: Free RSS to JavaScript Service - RSS-to-JavaScript.com: Free RSS/RDF to JavaScript Conversion Tool for Webmasters

Home: Free RSS to JavaScript Service - RSS-to-JavaScript.com: Free RSS/RDF to JavaScript Conversion Tool for Webmasters

Very cool site about how to insert and RSS feed into any html page using Java script.

December_28_2005.JPG photo - Bob Townsend photos at pbase.com

December_28_2005.JPG photo - Bob Townsend photos at pbase.com This was yesterday PAD image. Thought it would do better in terms of comments which is what I tend to gauge how a photograph is received.

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

I am thinking that this might be a cool place to go on our way back from VA Beach.

Yesterdays PAD

Thought I would get arty with this but either no one liked it or I just posted it at the wrong time. (too early for Europe and too late for US) 

Welcome

Welcome to my Photoblog. I will be posting pictures from time to time as well as providing links to where you can find more pictures like this. I will also be entertaining any discussion you might want to have concerning these pictures or photography in general.