blue space by NASA

blue space by NASA

Originally uploaded by robertg6n1.

I agree with the digger. This the neatest image of space I have seen.

My new header image

I copied this image from Bernard Languillier’s Flickr site ==>

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardlanguillier/

It is a panorama image of the Suukunianshan range. The Picnik-ing of it I have done gives the image a portraiture look, which I like.

A Suzhou water scene

For a few weeks during the summer of 2005, I planned a trip to southeastern China, including a side trip to Suzhu mostly to see its canals scenery. So whenever I find an image of Suzhou online I give it a second look, as below:

Part of Yangzi headwaters?

I have often wondered about the headwaters of the Yangzi. Then I found an image on Flickr and decided to jazz it up with Picnik, my usual trick with most copied photos. I truly envy the original photograper who got to that place to get this image and I feel that what I have done with it is a good form of imitation, not plagiarism.

Whatta bridge!!!

Great engineering and amazing feat of constructin!
THX to Original Signals aggregator page I found this site and did my own Picnik thing.

 

Finally words that I can relate to about this unhappy subject (Imus’ shock-talk)

Los Angeles Times: Don Imus: the good-natured racist

I don’t like all the holier-than-thou talking going on about this nasty but not deadly incident.

Americans, like many all over the world, do more hateful things every minute of every day than Imus’ mindless shock-talk. Sharpton & Co are rank opportunists in this politico-cultural game and they are uncommonly loud in their protesting somebody else’s victim status.

I particularly like Rice’s ending thought that all of us should reconsider our own glass houses.

Yes I have had what others may have considered offensive and non-PC thoughts about others and as I get older I seem to have them more often, or it seems that way. But being older I feel, maybe wrongly, that I can keep a lid on them.

Whoever is perfect and politically correct all of the time can cast the first stone at me???

More in this vein here! 

 

False Creek panorama

False Creek panorama

Originally uploaded by robertg6n1.

This morning I felt that my blog needed a Vancouver view.

The great Great Wall

The great Great Wall

Originally uploaded by robertg6n1.

I regret that I haven’t clicked any of my Great Wall pics myself. But a pic I like is just that!

The GW is a physical artifact that is totally China, so much of it, all over the country.

An encouraging message for the fight with extremist Islam

An Easter Sermon – New York Times

• Wright’s tone hear seems so gentle compared to the tone and words he sues in his vlogs with Mickey Kaus and othe bloggingheads. I think the basic message in this column could be used successfully by Barack Obama to counter the meaness of GWB’s policies. This message surely would appeal to many centrist Americans.
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Oxford, shadow, blue sky and clouds

Oxfords ,shadow and clouds

Originally uploaded by robertg6n1.

Oxford is definitely on my list of places I would visit if …

I found this image via Google images, copied it and then re-rendered it with Picnik. I feel that the framing delivers a new image. I resized, resaturated, and sharpened the original image. It seems to have a 3D look after the Picnik-ing!