Rant Air – Welcome Aboard!

See part 2 here.
Up bright and early (well, 8am, which is bright and early after getting checked in dark and early), I had a quick bite to eat and headed down the road in great weather towards the subway that would take me to Fenway park. The subway was pretty packed with people, due to [...]

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See Part 1 here.
It was the heaviest I’d ever packed for a two-day trip to work. The reason was that it was really going to end up being a marathon five days away from home, and I needed to be prepared. Normally, I pack pretty light, but when you add a pro DSLR camera, three [...]

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My trip to Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium was planned in a sort-of short-notice style. After flying with a particular Captain for two consecutive weeks in July, and having him talk me into putting it all together (after seeing my Dodger Stadium print in my little photo book, he wanted a Yankee Stadium [...]

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Some of you know that I took three of my days off last week and used them to travel to Boston and New York. This is all in forwarding my quest to see every major league ballpark in the U.S. I took in games at Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium during my trip. Lots of [...]

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More interesting passages. These from Robert A. Heinlein’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
“[There] are no circumstances under which State is justified in placing its welfare ahead of mine.”
“Women are amazing creatures – sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we [men] are.”
“Rules and laws are always for the other fellow, because no [...]

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Several of my images will make an appearance in the 2009 calendar for my airline’s cargo division. This is kind of a big deal to me, since it is the first time I will be compensated for my work as a photographer. I was given the choice of a cash payment or a positive-space round [...]

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Lately, I’ve taken to writing passages I find meaningful in the backs of the books I’ve been reading. I started this practice while reading Robert Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love, and continued it over the next six or seven books I’ve read.
Here are a couple interesting passages from Orson Scott Card’s book The Worthing Saga. [...]

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