The 2010 International Lindy Hop Championship is held was held in Alexandrian, VA this year and the world’s best lindy hoppers attended.

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I headed out to Brazos Bend State Park last Thursday to view the Perseid meteor show near its peak. Most people appeared to be headed to the observatory, so I headed out to 40 acre lake and had the place to myself. While taking long exposures of the sky with film, I saw this scene across the lake back towards Houston. Click on the image to view it larger.

A Tucan tosses a nut while trying to crack it.

A couple pictures of monkeys at Iguazu’ in Argentina.

I recently had the opportunity to do a photo shoot with Alex and Samantha. We had fun, and got some fun shots, despite the heat (it is Houston in August, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised).

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Literally “Market of the Lineman”, Mercado de Liniers is an expansive facility located inside the megalopolis of Buenes Aires which deal exclusively in cattle for slaughter. Fifty or so cooperatives sell cattle at the market, drawing from hundreds of ranches in the country surrounding the city of thirteen-million people.  Every morning ranchers deliver thousands of head of cattle. By 10:00 AM they have all been sold and are on their way back out of the city to the slaughter houses. The auction sets the price for beef throughout the expansive and meat loving country of forty-million people and is broadcast live on several television networks. Prices even find their way onto the internet in near real time despite the markets very simple “old school” way of handling its records.

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This is the familiar pampas grass, but this time, actually in (or near) the pampas region of Argentina.