Not much time to write - two words - kidney stones. Most pain that I have ever felt in my life, and my rock is still with me.  Could be surgery time on monday, we will see................take care all. S

Wow, that was a boring masters - tune in to augusta and a us open breaks out.

 

Zack Johnson- thank you jesus.....................enough of that crap.................believe me jesus doesn't care who won the masters, and he certainly doesn't care about any other sporting event.

 

Gotta run, but as Jim Nance would say -thanks friends, I am milktoast beyond belief................nice defense Phil, great job

Okay it is officially spring!!! The baseball season has begun and the Masters starts tomorrow.  It indeed means that winter has gone and it is once again time for great weather.  The Masters website is much better this year - hit this link to check it out.  http://www.masters.org/en_US/index.html     Tiger will not win = trust me on this, bet the farm.

 

Question - why do plumbers make so much money?? They were at the house for 30 minutes and it cost me 125 bucks - where I come from that works out to 250 per hour, which is what a decent attorney makes.  At any rate, I am in the wrong business.

 

The photos have been backed up, all 9000 of them, so getting ready for the next photography adventure. We will see how things go, but looking forward to it.  Gotta run, but remember those national champion Oregon state beavers in the fine game of baseball.  

 

See ya. oh, cheney is a troll that lives underground and only comes up to eat various forms of life that don't like halliburton and the war - interesting, but he is starting to talk like the penguin from batman............................later.

Okay what is up with the french??         As I plan for a vacation in france, I am looking to rent a villa in the south of france. I find a great place, great location, cool villa, and great price. Now the fun starts - they only take cash, I have to do a wire transfer to get them the deposit, and on top of that, the form they send me to fill out is completely in french!! A lot of good that does me - so I ask them for the english version, which does not exist.  So I am supposed to sign my life away here on a doucument I can't read, including the cancellation provisions.

 

It is amazing at the incredible lack of customer service for anything in Europe - we are spoiled here in the states, to say the least. I still have not had all of my questions answered, and I have still not sent the cash.

 

On top of that, they are always so snippy about their language.................geez, sorry I don't speak fluent french, but there are sounds in there that are not possibly human in nature.  They are a bit bitter about french, which was the default international language for business, etc., being replaced by english. They are not players anymore, so get over it.

 

Final four this weekend  Georgetown over Florida.  Bet the farm on it.......................and then the next week, the masters - it is officially spring and that means the clubs can come out of purgatory.........or the basement, I can't remember where I left them.

 

Note to President Bush - try to do one right thing in your eight years and get the exchange rate down with the Euro - that 30 per cent tax is killing me!!!

Okay I am ahead in my NCAA pool - 27-5 in the first round, and doing all right after that.  The money will come pouring in, to say the least!! Greece planning for trip is just about complete, so it is all ready to go.

We are now looking to plan a trip to paris and the south of france - been to paris three times, and enjoy the city tremendously. As a photographer lots of sites and places to shoot - check out some of my black and white work http://www.popokiphoto.com/Europe-BW.html.

 

I also have done a lot of color work in Europe you check out that stuff here http://www.popokiphoto.com/Europe-Color.html

 

Airfares right now are real expensive to Europe and the exchange rate doesn't help once you get there.  But hey love to travel so you pay the price..................I am so sick of people not taking responsibility for their actions - guy sticks a firecracker up his butt, lights it on fire, blows up his ass, ends up in the hospital, and is suing the fireworks mfg because there was no warning that he shouldn't insert it where the sun doesn't shine and light it.  Nice, the gene pool is getting very shallow at this time - where oh where is natural selection when you need it??

 

That is about it for now - will post some more later......................thanks people.    

Thanks goodness for March madness - this time between the NFL and start of baseball season is slow, and college BBall to the rescue.  Working on a trip to Greece and Sicily for vacation - amazing how their culture and ours are so different.  Reservations seem to be an afterthought there, while we don't leave home with out them.  Santorini - should be great photographs there.  This website talks about the volcanic eruptions that have occured over time on Santorini - http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/europe_west_asia/santorini.html.   Other scholars think that a major eruption in the past buried a city there which could have been atlantis - the old one, not the one in the bahamas.  This site has some free photos of Greece you can use -  http://www.theimagegallery.co.uk/.

Any one with advice for travel to Greece or Sicily, please shoot me a comment - thanks. Scott

 

 

 

Short and sweet - new to this blogging and would like to exchange information with other photographers out there. I travel and shoot photographs wherever I am, and would like to hear about others doing the same.

 

I will try not to be dull - you do run across some interesting things out in the world.  My website is http://www.popokiphoto.com if you would like to take a look at some of my stuff. 

 

I have recently returned from the Big Island with some great golfing shots - http://www.popokiphoto.com/hawaii.   Aloha and Mahalo. SMC