How To Make A Sunset Picture Interesting

Jan 30

How To Make A Sunset Picture Interesting

This may surprise some of you, but I’m not a huge fan of sunset pictures. Don’t get me wrong, sunset is a great time to take pictures … just not always of the sky. The thing is, it’s not too hard to get the feeling that when you’ve seen one sunset picture, you’ve kind of seen them all. Even when I lived in paradise, getting a...

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Baghdad Tour Baath Party House

Nov 11

Baghdad Tour Baath Party House

As promised, more pictures from my Baghdad Palace Tour. First, a few more pictures from the roof of the Victory Over America Palace …View of Baghdad skyline from bombed out window on the palace roof.This is the “Flintstone Village” that Saddam built for his grandchildren. Next we stopped at what is purported to be the last remaining mural...

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Baghdad Palace Tour

Nov 06

Baghdad Palace Tour

A couple of weeks ago, right after I got to Iraq this time, I had to go up to Baghdad for a conference, and change of command. While I was there, we got to play tourist for a couple of hours. A couple of times a week, the Army public affairs conducts tours of some of Saddam Hussien’s palaces. We got to see a couple of examples of the aftermath of American...

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