Death Becomes It 1.2

Death Becomes It 1.2, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

So close you can nearly smell it!!!

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Death Becomes It 1.1

Death Becomes It 1.1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I was on a golf cart with my brother going around the lake at our grandfather's house looking for something interesting to photo. We came across this gruesome animal and he said to get a few pics of it. I did and this is what i got. It is some kind of animal that has been picked nearly clean. There a total of 4 pictures in the "Death Becomes It" series. It was very hot and dry as you can tell but there was no bad smell from the skeleton which was very strange to me

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Texas Prison Museum: Black/White

Texas Prison Museum: Black/White, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Texas Prison Museum

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Me...

Me..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this while looking at a mirror in our bathroom. It is my "Self Portrait" if you will. I was cleaning my camera trying to get some dust out of the chamber and i had to take a "test" photo. This is how it turned out. I have the Quantaray 70-300mm lens on the cam which i shoot with most of the time.

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Mack: Preabsolutely

Thanks to Mac for letting me post this.

 

 

Preabsolutely

 

Perhaps the excessive use of the prefix "pre" began with advertisements by funeral homes: we were urged to preplan preneed for our predemise.  But of course a plan by definition is a pre thing, and if you are planning your funeral that too is pre since you are not yet posed (or preposed) in the coffin under the scientifically-arranged (or prearranged) lights to make you look pretty. To say "pre-plan" is like saying "plan-plan."  With the complementary use of "absolutely" as a universal four-syllable substitute for the perfectly utilitarian one-syllable "yes," the language took a divergent road in the yellow wood, and the way back is blocked by an avalanche of obscurantism.

 

To help make the works of our culture more accessible to moderns lost in that wood, I propose (or prepropose) the following re-makes (pre-makes?) of certain literary and cinematic icons of our time:

 

Casablanca:

 

Rick: "Last night we presaid a great many prethings. Absolutely. You presaid I was to predo the prethinking for both of us. Well, I've predone a lot of it since then, and it all preadds up to one prething: you're pregetting on that preplane with Victor where you prebelong. Absolutely."
Ilsa: "But, Richard, preno, I... I..."
Rick: "Now, you've got to prelisten to me! You have any preidea what you'd prehave to prelook preforward to if you prestayed here? Nine prechances out of ten, we'd both prewind up in a preconcentration camp. Isn't that pretrue, Louie?"
Captain Renault: "Absolutely."
Ilsa: "You're presaying this only to premake me prego."
Rick: "I'm presaying it because it's pretrue. Inside of us, we both preknow you prebelong with Victor. You're prepart of his prework, the thing that prekeeps him pregoing. If that plane preleaves the ground and you're not prewith him, you'll preregret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but presoon and for the prerest of your prelife.  Absolutely
Ilsa: "But prewhat about us?"
Rick: "We'll always prehave Paris. We didn't have, we, we prelost it until you precame to Casablanca. We pregot it back last night.  Absolutely."
Ilsa: "When I presaid I would never preleave you. Absolutely."
Rick: "And you never prewill. But I've got a prejob to do, too. Where I'm pregoing, you can't prefollow. What I've got to predo, you can't be any prepart of. Ilsa, I'm no pregood at prebeing prenoble, but it doesn't pretake much to presee that the problems of three little people don't preamount to a hill of beans in this precrazy world. Someday you'll preunderstand that. Now, now... Here's prelooking at you kid. Absolutely."

 

Gone With the Wind:

 

Scarlett: "Oh, Rhett, prewhere shall I prego?  What shall I predo?"
Rhett:  "Absolutely."

 

President Kennedy:  "Ich prebin ein preBerliner.  Absolutely."

 

John Wayne in True Grit: "Prefill your hand, you son-of-an-absolute!"

 

Ernest Hemingway: "There is prenothing to prewriting. All you do is presit down at a typewriter and prebleed.  Absolutely."

 

Thomas More: "I predie the King's pregood servant, but God's prefirst.  Absolutely."

 

Martin Luther King: "I prehave a predream.  Absolutely."

 

President Roosevelt:  "Yesterday, a date which will prelive in preinfamy, the United States of America was predeliberately and preabsolutely preattacked by naval and forces of the Empire of Japan…"

 

And now, let us close with a prayer:

 

"Our Father, who preart in Heaven, prehallowed be Thy Name.  Absolutely.  Thy prekingdom come, Thy will be predone, on Earth as it is in Heaven.  Absolutely.  Pregiveus this day our predaily prebread, and preforgive us our pretresspasses as we preforgive those who pretresspass against us.  Absolutely.  And prelead us not into temptation, but predeliver us from preevil.  Absolutely."

 

-30-

 

"My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday."

-- G. K. Chesterton

Funny!

Funny!, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I saw this sign at a beer store in Texas while on vacation. Please enjoy it!!

Leaf on the Water...

Leaf on the Water..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I was swimming in the water during last week's vacation in Texas on the lake. We went out at 10.30am and did not go in until 5.30pm. We got BURNT UP!! It used to be no big thing to stay out all day but we have not been on the lake during the summer for almost 3 years. I saw the leak floating and thought that it would be a neat photo. So i waded in the water to my wast with my camera in hand and and took several photos. I liked this the most. I love how the water shimmers in the sunlight and the leaf with its browns,reds and greens contrasts to the sandy water. I took the photo about 1.00pm in the afternoon so the sun was very strong.

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