Random writings, photography and artwork: June 2007

Friday, June 29, 2007

Friday, June 15, 2007

Light style

(AFP/Sam Yeh)
Two Taiwanese models demonstrate their LED
light clothing during a photonics festival in Taipei.

Casting into the Missouri River

(AP Photo/Great Falls Tribune, Robin Loznak)

Trakker Koon, 6, stands on a rock as he casts into the Missouri River near Great Falls, Mont., while fishing with brother and father on Tuesday, June 12, 2007.

Kiev Pigeons

(AFP/Sergei Supinsky)

Pigeons besiege an elderly man passing in front of the Soviet era Monument of Russia-Ukrainian friendship in Kiev.

Yangtze alligators swim in a lake at the Chinese Alligator Propagation Research Center in Xuancheng, east China's Anhui province, June 12, 2007. Chinese experts have warned that inbreeding could harm efforts to save the country's endangered Yangtze alligator, already decimated by environmental pollution in its native habitat, state media reported.

Fishermen at sunset

REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GEORGIA)

Fishermen haul in their nets at sunset in Gagra, a town in the Georgian break-away region of Abkhazia, June 7, 2007. Picture taken June 7, 2007.

Jimmy Hendrix light sculpture

(AP Photo/PA, Yui Mok)

A newly-erected sculpture of Jimi Hendrix on the site of the Isle of Wight Festival at Seaclose Park, Isle of Wight, England, Thursday June 7, 2007. The Isle of Wight Festival starts Friday and runs through Sunday.

Poppies and purple flowers

Photo by D. Bowden
Taken at Thomas Jefferson's garden walkway, Monticello Virginia

Poppies

REUTERS/Michaela Rehle (GERMANY)

Poppies are pictured on a sunny day in a field near Olching, around 25km (17 miles) west of Munich

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Grand Canary Island fountain

Photo by my friend, Susanne Windebo

Peoplefall

artist unknown (If anyone knows who did this, please leave a comment and let me know.)

President James Monroe grave

By D. Bowden
June 2007

Sunrise on the highway

Photo by D Bowden
Somewhere in Indiana, June 2007

Mount Vernon, front view

Photo by D Bowden
June 2007

George Washington's Conservatory, Mount Vernon

Photo by D. Bowden
June 2007

Virginia state capitol building, Richmond

Photo by D. Bowden

Bell Flowers

Photo by D Bowden
June 2007 at George Washington's gardens, Mount Vernon

Saturday, June 09, 2007

Jumala sunset

(AFP/Janek Skarzynski)

Swans fly over the Baltic sea during a sunset in Jurmala, near Riga.

Tiger swimming

(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Odin, a five-year-old, 445 pound white Bengal tiger dives for a piece of meat during a performance at the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif., Wednesday, May 30, 2007. Odin was born at the park and was hand raised.

Fireworks over Moscow

REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA)

White peacock

(AFP/Noah Seelam)

White peacock : A white peacock opens its feathers at its cage in the Nehru Zoological park in Hyderabad.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Brigantine beach at dusk

I love it here . . .

Photo by D. Bowden

Yorktown Tom Turkey

Photo by D. Bowden

This turkey was just wandering around the Yorktown farm at the Yorktown Victory Center in Virginia. It was gobbling away and strutting around for photographers, however, if you got to close he would stick his rear end towards you and ruffle his feathers in a warning to back off!