Find today's most popular photos by PhotoRank from over 750501705 : July 3, 2009 - "March to the Beat of Your Own Drum" Summer doldrums? So, I thought I would try some different post processing. This is NOT a self portrait. The original, not as spooky, shot can be viewed at http://dakotacowboy.smugmug.com/gallery/8374515_pozc7/1/580836220_vC8oP This photo was shot at a German Renaissance Festival on the grounds of Burg Satzvey, Germany. A photo of the castle was in the daily posts earlier this year. http://dakotacowboy.smugmug.com/gallery/5146058_rXqrj/8/476876534_ji7Dp#476876534

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SmugMug > popular today > Christmas Tree Ornament - Dec 25 2009

Passed this yesterday on my way to buy a Christmas cake... couldn't get it right yesterday... and today things worked out better (I hope) so I have a Christmas picture after all ;-)

I hope every one had a terrific Christmas, or just a terrific day if Christmas is not your 'thing'. Have a nice and safe weekend!

SmugMug > popular today > December 26 2009 Airborn

Kyle and Braden got this new trampoline like thing for Christmas. Kyle wanted to see if I could get a picture of him jumping into it. Braden isn't sure this is a good idea :-)

SmugMug > popular today > Merry Christmas to All My Fellow Smuggers!

At our house on Christmas Eve, we were all trying to come up with silly photos to send to my Mom via her digital frame -- and this was my contribution. So, thought I would share it with all of you. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday -- and that I can continue to bring you a laugh or two in the new year. :-)
(December 24, 2009)

"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!”
~~ Charles Dickens

SmugMug > popular today > December 26, 2009 - "Along The Embrasures"

My photos of Dry Tortugas National Park were taken 8 years ago with my first digital point and shoot camera. Thanks to current post processing technology I have been able to enhance these images from photos approximately 400K jpg size.

Thanks for your suggestions to create some books of some of my post series. I recently added Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks to my published travel oriented books. You have seen quite a few of the photos in my daily post, but the entire book is available for preview at

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/975091
Covers and links to my other books are at
http://dakotacowboy.smugmug.com/Photography/Published-books/7482816_b2oDK/1/748788471_2k4fU

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Fort Jefferson's peak military population was 1,729. In addition, a number of officers brought their families, and a limited number of enlisted personnel brought wives who served as laundresses (typically four per company). There were also lighthouse keepers and their families, cooks, a civilian doctor and his family, and others. In all, there were close to 2,000 people at Fort Jefferson during its peak years. ....................

The fort remained in Federal hands throughout the Civil War. With the end of hostilities in 1865, the fort's population declined to 1,013, consisting of 486 soldiers or civilians and 527 prisoners. The great majority of prisoners at Fort Jefferson were Army privates whose most common transgression was desertion while most civilian prisoners transgressed by robbery. However, in July 1865 four special civilian prisoners arrived. These were Dr. Samuel Mudd, Edmund Spangler, Samuel Arnold, and Michael O'Laughlen, who had been convicted of conspiracy in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Construction of Fort Jefferson was still under way when Dr. Mudd and his fellow prisoners arrived, and continued throughout the time they were imprisoned there and for several years thereafter, but was never completely finished. Mudd provided much-praised medical care during a yellow fever epidemic at the fort in 1867, and was eventually pardoned by President Andrew Johnson and released. By 1888, the military usefulness of Fort Jefferson had waned, and the cost of maintaining the fort due to the effects of frequent hurricanes and the corrosive and debilitating tropical climate could no longer be justified. In 1888, the Army turned the fort over to the Marine Hospital Service to be operated as a quarantine station."

SmugMug > popular today > 12/26/09 Peace on Earth

May the peace of the holiday stay with us all into the new year. Here in the center of our little town of Bedford, luminaries light the darkness and give a warm glow to the cold winter.

SmugMug > popular today > December 26, 2009

My best gifts in life, my children Michael & Meghan, what more do I need! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas Holiday yesterday!

SmugMug > popular today > December 26, 09

Better inside :)

We had a freezing rain last night, still going on this morning.

Happy second day of Christmas! - in Canada this is called "Boxing day", when people
go into stores to buy what's left after the holidays rush, at discount - I wonder who will go today
with this kind of weather... :)

SmugMug > popular today > Day 119 (December 24, 2009) - He knows if you've been bad or good...

Christmas Tree Ornament - Dec 25 2009

Passed this yesterday on my way to buy a Christmas cake... couldn't get it right yesterday... and today things worked out better (I hope) so I have a Christmas picture after all ;-)

I hope every one had a terrific Christmas, or just a terrific day if Christmas is not your 'thing'. Have a nice and safe weekend!