Monday, March 29, 2010

"Betty" ~ Austin, Texas © 2010 Skip Hunt


Grabbed some fresh snaps at the Fairgrounds on Friday.

"Betty" ~ Austin, Texas © 2010 Skip Hunt

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Martin Aircraft Company Jet Pack
Jet packs have been available before but this latest design from Martin Aircraft Company is perhaps one of the most affordable options yet for those seeking new and exciting personal travel options. Marketed as good for personal use, emergency services, and even the military, each duel-propelled pack boasts 200hp and can travel up to 30 miles in 30 minutes on a single tank of fuel. Plus the unit is light enough that no pilots license is required for use (in the UK, anyway), so on a nice day the average Joe can forget hopping in the car to go pick up a gallon of milk and strap on a jet pack instead.


The New Zealand-based company is looking to start production soon and hopes to produce up to 500 jet packs per year for sale at pound;50,000 each.


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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

"El Pintor de Orizaba" ~ Orizaba, Mexico © 2010 Skip Hunt

I'm wondering... do you suppose this subject would make a nice documentary if I could find this guy again?

This man was considered a mad man in his city of Orizaba. The locals avoided him. He paints on this abandoned building everyday and stands by his morning's work for the afternoon. He was so happy that I didn't think he was crazy and wanted to make his image. He's a true "artist" in my book.

"El Pintor de Orizaba" ~ Orizaba, Mexico © 2010 Skip Hunt

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

"Fado" ~ Coimbra, Portugal © 2010 Skip Hunt

“The last rights were given... all was lost.

He'd hoped for a miracle or for the huddled mass to finally awaken from the wicked enchantment.

It was not to be.

And so it went... fluttering and battered... slipping out through shuttered window crack...

Perhaps one day they could finally see. How furious they'd be!

He packed up his rage... folded it carefully, and placed it neatly next to his hope...

He closed the pack and made his way down the darkened passage singing a lone sad melody.”


"Fado" ~ Coimbra, Portugal © 2010 Skip Hunt

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Friday, March 19, 2010

"Varanasi Symphony" ~ Dawn on the Ganges in Varanasi, India © 2010 Skip Hunt

“Difficult to describe the fragrance of the burning faithful... a life now a sinuous stream floating delicate above the mother Ganga...

The sandlewood dreams of a lifetime... Perfume for the living as we breath-in the misty remembrance of a precious life... now passed... 

Back into the depths of life's soupy stream from whence we came... 

Carried along sweetly in Mama's arms until we've finally ended this bitter 
sweet journey....

and... return back into Her mystic... Eternal womb."


"Varanasi Symphony" ~ Dawn on the Ganges in Varanasi, India © 2010 Skip Hunt

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