Find today's most popular photos by PhotoRank from over 749959484 : "Defining Paris " Well , this may not be the best way to describe Paris, but I just gave a small try.I had this tiny Eiffel souvenir which I bought from Paris , so thought that the best way to picture Eiffel is by dropping it in wine.One of most beautiful things to experience in Paris is by going on top of the Eiffel and having a french wine at the dusk watching the sunset :-) How on the earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love. ~Albert Einstein~

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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

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 > Dec 26th, 2009
Sunfire- Once again and with each sunrise we start!! I just love watching the sun rising behind a tree, and, I started the countdown to the new year!

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 > "Mr. & Mrs.Smith"

“That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked”~ Bill Cosby~

SmugMug > popular today > Merry Christmas
Fri. December 25, 2009 (Day 214)

I guess I've been good this year.
Can you guess what lense that I got for Christmas?
AF-S VR Micro-NIKKOR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED!
YAY! Thank you Mr. Santa Boese.

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."

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!