My father (to the left) and his friend Ken, circa 1970, by “the original Can Of Worms” vending machine. I unfortunately do not know where this photograph was taken, other than maybe somewhere in New England, perhaps Massachusetts.

On Saturday, October 27, at least 100,000 people from all walks of life and in every part of the country participated in 11 regional demonstrations against the war in Iraq. Scores of other protests took place across the country.

October 27 : Fall Out Against The War
United for Peace and Justice

More photographs: Boston, October 27, 2007

Again, the view of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier — mostly of the Changing of the Guard — growing up was narrow, usually of a guard’s solemn face with his gun held before him.

However, the view one has as one walks up the path and to the barricade before where the guards pace… You see the guard’s humanity.

The day I was there I first saw the guard facing away.

I find that most views of Arlington National Cemetery — that is, most photographs are trying to “view” the place only to portray it in a narrow way — do not really show what the place is like.

When I walked there I found the place much different than the view of it I grew up with.

I have tried to portray it as it is — a cemetery.

This is my “The Environment” post/photograph for Blog Action Day.

The image is of a flattened plastic cup in the street. It is a really interesting shape, which is what caught my eye.

I know that this is not a blog about the “environment,” but many of my photographs are of the environment (see this post, and this post; and I started photographing mushrooms with my first digital camera).

Most of the greatest photographers ever spent much of their lives out of doors photographing the–our–environment.

Sometimes things just line up for the camera, and I sigh…

These are some photographs of the Answer Coalition March on Washington, DC, September 15, 2007. I have several more posted to my Panoramio portfolio.

Inside a coffeeshop in New Paltz, NY. Since it was about 7:30AM and the snoozing patrons were with instruments, I assume they are from a local band. One imagines they were up late the night before performing to a grateful crowd.

Sometimes I think the excessive light washing in from the window is a flaw, but then again, I sometimes like the effect.

A beautiful, mist encompased morning just outside New Paltz, NY, on route 299. Looking into the sun shining through the mist was much clearer than the camera could capture (I adjusted the contast of this photo ever so slightly in attempt to fix it).

The title is “Missed Shot” because just a few seconds later the bicyclists—four of them—zoomed by is a blur of bright color….