Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Window at Hampton St. house

Photo by D. Bowden

Old house

D. Bowden
This is the front entrance of my daughter's new place

Old shed

Photo by D. Bowden

Cornfields and Blue Skies

Photo by D. Bowden
I took this as we were driving east on I-80 in Indiana.

Sun peeking through the tree branches

Photo by D. Bowden

Galaxy Diner - Richmond's Carytown neighborhood

Photo by D. Bowden
They have the best friend pickles, fried Twinkies and fried Oreo cookies! Also Coke in bottles from Mexico made with pure cane sugar instead of corn syrup.

Galaxy Diner

Photo by D. Bowden

Flower after rain

Photo by D. Bowden
Using Dare phone camera

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Tiger drinking

by D. Bowden
This is a tiger at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. I took a photo while he was refreshing himself and then used PhotoShop effects to give it a watercolor look.

Mary wading

by D. Bowden
Mary wading in the water at Hammonesset Beach in Connecticut. I took the picture with my Canon EOS and then scanned it and used some PhotoShop effects.

Death Valley

by D. Bowden - 2002

Pinky-orange sunset in early spring

by D. Bowden
View from my kitchen window

Palm Tree and blue

by D. Bowden

I took this shot while in St. Augustine, Florida a few years ago. I love this city and all of the history there. I especially love the blueness of the water, there. Absolutely gorgeous, clean and sparkling.

Desert lizard

by D. Bowden
Caught a shot of this little guy basking in the sun on the rim of the Grand Canyon, 1998.

Road to Meteor Crater

by D. Bowden
Road to Meteor Crater in Flagstaff, AZ - 1998

Grand Canyon 1998

by D. Bowden
I took this photo back in 1998 when we were on one of our last family vacations together, before everyone went and grew up on us. ;-) Now they take their own trips. I would love to go back here, though.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Sun rays in Mumbai

(AFP/Sajjad Hussain)
Indian couples sit on a sea wall as they enjoy the last rays of sun in Mumbai.

Spring in London

(AFP/Shaun Curry)
Daffodil flowers are pictured in front of London's Big Ben.

Colours of Malaysia

REUTERS/Zainal Abd Halim
Malaysians perform during the launch of the "Colours of Malaysia" festival in Kuala Lumpur March 21, 2009.

Pretty fishes

(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
Goldfish swim in an aquarium at a market in north of Tehran.

Seagull snack

(AFP/Mustafa Ozer)
A Turkish man throws a fish to a seagull during a sunset in Istanbul. The gulls on the Golden Horn have become quite adept at scrounging handouts from fishermen.

Mosque view

(AFP/Marwan Naamani)

A general view shows the Sheikh Zayed mosque, the third largest mosque in the world, located in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Egg on her dress

REUTERS/Carlos Barria

A model displays a creation designed by Agatha Ruiz De La Prada of Spain at Miami Fashion Week in Florida March 22, 2009.

I don't know who would ever wear these bizarre clothes that designers create. Never see even movie stars wearing them.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

A Dog named Shamrock

(AFP/Peter Muhly)
Happy St Patrick's Day!

Saturday, March 07, 2009

IPS cells

(AFP/Shinya Yamanaka-Kyoto University/File)
Photo provided by Kyoto University shows IPS cells which can develop into cells of various body parts: such as muscle, neural tissues and cartilage. US President Barack Obama is set to wipe out another contentious aspect of his predecessor George W. Bush's legacy by removing curbs on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research.

Bee sitting on a Dahlia

(AFP/Manan Vatsyayana)
Garden bloom : A honeybee rests on a dahlia blooming in a garden of New Delhi.

Tschaikovsky's Serenade

REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh (HUNGARY) Wed Mar 4, 7:51 AM ET
Ballet dancers perform Tschaikovsky's Serenade based on a choreography by George Balanchine in Budapest's State Opera March 4, 2009.

Holi Festival - India

REUTERS/K. K. Arora (INDIA)
People throw coloured powder while celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi (festival of colours) at Nand Gaon in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, March 6, 2009. The tradition of Holi heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India.

Baby red panda

(AP Photo/Mark Baker)
Pemba, a four-month-old red panda cub makes his first public appearance at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, Australia, Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Pemba is the 44th red panda cub bred in the zoo's international breeding program for the endangered species since 1977.

Louis, Hedley and Dorothy

(AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record Mark Wilson)
Ring-tailed Lemur family at the Spring River Zoo in Roswell, New Mexico, examine and nibble upon an old cardboard box that had blown into their cage Wednesday, March 4, 2009 during gusty winds. According to zoo director Elaine Mayfield the Lemur cage is cleaned out every morning to clear such debris.

Shadow bride

(AFP/Ferenc Isza)
Budapest catwalk : A model presents an outfit by Hungarian designer Imre Stumpf during the opening of Hometrend and Design exhibition in the Hall of Art in Budapest.

Dolphins and tiger cub

(AP Photo/Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Nancy Chan)
In this photo provided by Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Mavrick, a 14-month-old male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, blows a mass of bubbles while checking out Akaasha, a six-month-old female Bengal tiger at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif. on Thursday, March 5, 2009. Park animal staff strolled by the dolphin exhibit as they escorted the tiger cubs on their daily walk around the park.