March 20, 2010 - "Big Bend Country Shopping"

This Prada store is virtually in the middle on nowhere.  It is located 40 miles north of Marfa, TX on a highway with no services for 74 miles.  I shot this standing in the middle of the 75mph speed limit highway with not much need to worry about traffic :)

There is a side view at 
http://www.dakotacowboyphotography.com/Photography/Daily-Photo-Proof-Alternates/8374515_pozc7#812887313_pouQm

from 2005 New York Times article-
"....Texas, as big as it is, does not have a Prada store. It does have Neiman Marcus, which carries plenty of Prada merchandise, but the state cannot boast a free-standing store dedicated to Miuccia Prada's expensive shoes and oddly shaped bags.

But on Saturday it is set to look as if a tornado had picked up a Prada store and dropped it on a desolate strip of U.S. 90 in west Texas. That is where Prada Marfa, a permanent sculpture by the Berlin artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset will be installed. (Actually it will go up in Valentine, Texas, about 26 miles, or about 40 kilometers, outside Marfa, a town of 2,400 that has become a magnet for artists and art lovers.)

The sculpture is meant to look like a Prada store, with minimalist white stucco walls and a window display housing real Prada shoes and handbags from the fall collection. But there is no working door. ...."
Remaining barracks at the Perm 36 Gulag. (RS)

One of the USSR's harshest Gulag camps, Perm 36 is located about 100 kilometers from the city of Perm in the Ural Mountains. Built in 1946, this camp, and others in the region, housed about 150,000 prisoners, approximately one-third of the working population of the region. This barracks housed 250 men, mostly political prisoners.

The camp was closed in 1987 and is now a memorial to Gulag victims.
August 15th, 2011

He actually looks like he might be thinking about eating me in this shot, but he's just cleaning his paws!
He is sitting on top of one of my outdoor field specimens for my Thesis research. I measure these blocks at 5:30 in the morning and I have been for about 3 and a half years': this is the first time I have met the fox. He has obviously been the one giving us fits with our equipment over here though: see him eating through my temperature probes! http://angelajones.smugmug.com/Animals/Critters/12735367_nsTFE#1431718179_vKxDwDC

Hope you all have a great Monday!

P.S. If your the one downranking this to pull off the daily photos gallery, please knock it off. Its getting old.
November 19, 2009 - "Point Bolivar Lighthouse"

Photographed one week ago.

from NPR (2008)
"It has become clear that Galveston Island was nearly ruined by Hurricane Ike. But compared to the Bolivar Peninsula, just northeast of the island, Galveston was lucky. Instead of entire neighborhoods, entire towns disappeared.

Upon returning to Gilchrist, residents who had lived in the coastal town for more than half a century could not locate their houses or even figure out where their street had been. ....."

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Point Bolivar Light is a historic lighthouse in Port Bolivar, Texas, that was built in 1872. It served for 61 years before being retired in 1933, when its function was replaced by a different light.
The current lighthouse is at least the second structure at the site. The first lighthouse was built in the mid 1850s and was pulled down during the Civil War so that Union warships could not use it as a navigational aid.
During the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the lighthouse served as a shelter for at least 125 people, saving their lives. It also survived another hurricane, in 1915, where winds of 126 miles per hour were recorded. The first lighthouse keeper, H.C. Claiborne, retired in 1918, after witnessing those two storms, and was replaced by a Captain J. Brooks. In 1947 the lighthouse was sold and, although still standing, is not open to the public. The 1970 film My Sweet Charlie, starring Patty Duke and Al Freeman Jr. was filmed at the lighthouse and adjacent caretaker's house.
The lighthouse is adjacent to the Houston Audubon Society's Horseshoe Marsh Bird Sanctuary.
The lighthouse was reported to have been destroyed by Hurricane Ike in September 2008. However, later eyewitness investigation found the structure appeared, at least from the air, unharmed.
October 4, 2011 Twelve Spotted Skimmer - another capture from Lions Park, I used picnk to improve color saturation of the background and crop the photo,  twelve spotted refer to the 12 dark spots on the wings (3 on each one).  Thank you so much for your comments on my Blue-eyed darner yesterday.
July 25, 2010 - "Wonderment"

This candid image of our Granddaughter was taken yesterday at our Grandsons birthday party.  I was sitting on the floor taking photos of our Grandson opening his presents, when I noticed that the bright light from the window just happened to fall on our Grandaughers face.
April 22, 2011- Imposter!! During a routine roll call, the scuttlebutt around the chicken coup was that there was a spy amongst the group! Ah, such trickery! Someone's slicker than a rubber duck if you ask me. (Day 112:365 @sharkbayte)

Thank you for all the wonderful comments and suggestions on my photo yesterday!
in a remote village in Northern Vietnam.  I snapped this picture north of the village Sapa Vietnam which is one of the poorest but most beautiful regions of Vietnam.  This little girl who is probably no more than 5 years of age is carrying and caring for her young brother while her parents work in the rice fields.  They came down from their hut to meet us because we brought a few small candies for them to eat. The girl and boy had never tasted candy before and they were delighted with the small candies we gave them.  The trip was heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. They had so little but treated every small gift as something amazing.  While it seemed like I had so much compared to them, I realized when I was there that I had very little compared to them.  They had learned to appreciate each other and their families as cherished possessions while I had been taught to cherish material things.  It was a moment where I think we all had reason to envy each other.  What an eye opening and life changing experience it was for me.
Fishing in the Sunrise

I was lucky when this boat at the mouth of the Indian River Inlet drifted right across the sun's reflection on the water.
March 20, 2010 - "Big Bend Country Shopping"

This Prada store is virtually in the middle on nowhere. It is located 40 miles north of Marfa, TX on a highway with no services for 74 miles. I shot this standing in the middle of the 75mph speed limit highway with not much need to worry about traffic :)

There is a side view at http://www.dakotacowboyphotography.com/Photography/Daily-Photo-Proof-Alternates/8374515_pozc7#812887313_pouQm

from 2005 New York Times article-
"....Texas, as big as it is, does not have a Prada store. It does have Neiman Marcus, which carries plenty of Prada merchandise, but the state cannot boast a free-standing store dedicated to Miuccia Prada's expensive shoes and oddly shaped bags.

But on Saturday it is set to look as if a tornado had picked up a Prada store and dropped it on a desolate strip of U.S. 90 in west Texas. That is where Prada Marfa, a permanent sculpture by the Berlin artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset will be installed. (Actually it will go up in Valentine, Texas, about 26 miles, or about 40 kilometers, outside Marfa, a town of 2,400 that has become a magnet for artists and art lovers.)

The sculpture is meant to look like a Prada store, with minimalist white stucco walls and a window display housing real Prada shoes and handbags from the fall collection. But there is no working door. ...."
March 20, 2010 - "Big Bend Country Shopping"

This Prada store is virtually in the middle on nowhere.  It is located 40 miles north of Marfa, TX on a highway with no services for 74 miles.  I shot this standing in the middle of the 75mph speed limit highway with not much need to worry about traffic :)

There is a side view at 
http://www.dakotacowboyphotography.com/Photography/Daily-Photo-Proof-Alternates/8374515_pozc7#812887313_pouQm

from 2005 New York Times article-
"....Texas, as big as it is, does not have a Prada store. It does have Neiman Marcus, which carries plenty of Prada merchandise, but the state cannot boast a free-standing store dedicated to Miuccia Prada's expensive shoes and oddly shaped bags.

But on Saturday it is set to look as if a tornado had picked up a Prada store and dropped it on a desolate strip of U.S. 90 in west Texas. That is where Prada Marfa, a permanent sculpture by the Berlin artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset will be installed. (Actually it will go up in Valentine, Texas, about 26 miles, or about 40 kilometers, outside Marfa, a town of 2,400 that has become a magnet for artists and art lovers.)

The sculpture is meant to look like a Prada store, with minimalist white stucco walls and a window display housing real Prada shoes and handbags from the fall collection. But there is no working door. ...."
March 20, 2010 - "Big Bend Country Shopping"

This Prada store is virtually in the middle on nowhere. It is located 40 miles north of Marfa, TX on a highway with no services for 74 miles. I shot this standing in the middle of the 75mph speed limit highway with not much need to worry about traffic :)

There is a side view at http://www.dakotacowboyphotography.com/Photography/Daily-Photo-Proof-Alternates/8374515_pozc7#812887313_pouQm

from 2005 New York Times article-
"....Texas, as big as it is, does not have a Prada store. It does have Neiman Marcus, which carries plenty of Prada merchandise, but the state cannot boast a free-standing store dedicated to Miuccia Prada's expensive shoes and oddly shaped bags.

But on Saturday it is set to look as if a tornado had picked up a Prada store and dropped it on a desolate strip of U.S. 90 in west Texas. That is where Prada Marfa, a permanent sculpture by the Berlin artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset will be installed. (Actually it will go up in Valentine, Texas, about 26 miles, or about 40 kilometers, outside Marfa, a town of 2,400 that has become a magnet for artists and art lovers.)

The sculpture is meant to look like a Prada store, with minimalist white stucco walls and a window display housing real Prada shoes and handbags from the fall collection. But there is no working door. ...."
See photo in original gallery.

Comments

|