I’ve finally worked up the nerve to attend a meeting of a local photo users’ group next week. By Sunday night I need to have picked out two images for critique. I’ve whittled the six thousand (no joke) I took in South Asia down to nine and now I’m stuck. Your vote on your favorite two would be more helpful than you could possibly realize. I need opinions by this Sunday night, January 4.
As before: When you click on each thumbnail below, its one-word slug will show up in white letters under the bottom row of thumbnails. Click on that link for a full-sized picture.
Beneath the photos is where you cast your vote. It’s all anonymous and doesn’t require logging in or anything. Really, many thanks.
Molly sent me this YouTube video. It’s really stupid. But it is seasonal and goes well with the spirit of my Christmas program I put in my previous posting and lightens my dark holiday mood just that wee bit.
How did this happen? It can’t be Christmastime already. But I know it is because there was X-mas Muzak in the Hong Kong airport and now the house down the street has its illuminated holiday sign: “Ho Ho,” it says on the roof. “Ho” it says on the porch just below. So of course I always read it as “Hoho, ‘ho.”
Many years ago I produced a half-hour Christmas special for public radio. People tell me it’s still floating around out there on the airwaves, but I have no idea where or when. That’s okay. Here it is.
T’is the Season begins with the divinely corny theme music written and performed by Hot Combo. Then you’ll hear a whole lot of me — unusual for my work, believe it or not — starting with a recording of Dad and me singing Silent Night when I was two. But there are lots of other great people in there, many of them (like Dad) dead now: A woman homesteader remembers brutal North Dakota winters in the 1920s, blues legend Brownie McGhee describes homemade Christmas presents, Adi’s father reveals that all New York Santas gain entry through the fire escape, and an Oroville grandfather tells about how he uses the snow machine to make his plastic Christmas tree even more realistic.
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