Archive for December, 2009
Photography Subjects Are Everywhere If You Just Open Your Eyes & Take A Look Around…

Photography Subjects Are Everywhere If You Just Open Your Eyes & Take A Look Around…

Posted 28 December 2009 | By stephen | Categories: Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Tiller?2, originally uploaded by Stephen B. Ruppe.
It’s really amazing some of the subjects you can find to photograph just walking around right outside your home (or Grandfather’s home in this case).  The above picture, taken with a nikon d300 and 50mm lense, is a picture of a tiller (dragged behind a tractor) that my Gradfather [...]

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AVATAR (for the second time…)

Posted 28 December 2009 | By stephen | Categories: Uncategorized | 4 Comments

I Don’t Usually Do This…
I’m home visiting family for the holidays and realized that no one has seen the new amazing 3D movie, Avatar.  Well, I was certainly impressed by James Cameron’s latest master piece, despite some of it’s predictability which I’ll mention later…so…I insured that we set some time aside to go see this feature film, [...]

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10 Websites That Contain Some Great Black & White Photography

Posted 21 December 2009 | By stephen | Categories: Uncategorized | 8 Comments

(My photo first – Scroll down below for the actual links)

Le Marqui’s Lounge – A Ghost Town(1 & 3), originally uploaded by Stephen B. Ruppe.
Le Marqui’s Lounge – Fayetteville, NC – A Ghost Town of a Lounge – I’m blogging these photos just as an introduction to the post. I had to crawl under a [...]

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Old Song Reviews Found – Song: All In Due Time

Posted 19 December 2009 | By stephen | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

 Lazy Recording Attempts Should NOT Be Uploaded…
     I was cruising the internet the other day and found some old (really old)  reviews of a song that I had uploaded to garageband.com several years ago.  I had forgotten all about this song.  …
The song:  All In Due Time
     It was an attempt at a professional recording; [...]

Amplifier Controls of my Line6 Guitar Amplifier

Amplifier Controls of my Line6 Guitar Amplifier

Posted 19 December 2009 | By stephen | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

Amplifier, originally uploaded by S. B. Ruppe.
I like this shot taken with a 60mm macro lens. This is simply the top of my Line6 guitar amplifier (not my favorite amp, but still a good one – and it was available right next to me)…
Hopefully one day soon I’ll get my old Music Man amplifier back [...]

old books – Sir Arthur…

old books – Sir Arthur…

Posted 19 December 2009 | By stephen | Categories: Gov/Mil/Hist | No Comments

old books, originally uploaded by S. B. Ruppe.
a random shot of some old books that I have… Making this picture, I didn’t realize that there was a Sherlock Holmes Movie coming out on Christmas Day….
I only have a handful of these old books, most of which came from my grandparents… I think the only one [...]

chinese knife tip

chinese knife tip

Posted 19 December 2009 | By stephen | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

chinese knife tip, originally uploaded by S. B. Ruppe.
The tip of a chinese knife (actually more like a letter opener) that my mother brought back from here trip to China… I should have had the dragon head a bit more in focus…
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bronse crab (candle holder – mouth flips open)

bronse crab (candle holder – mouth flips open)

Posted 19 December 2009 | By stephen | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

bronse crab (candle holder – mouth flips open), originally uploaded by S. B. Ruppe.
Watch your fingers!… I Bite! …
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Relaxed Yet Alert

“The Cats of Rome…”

Posted 13 December 2009 | By stephen | Categories: Gov/Mil/Hist | No Comments

Cats, Cats Everywhere…
     I was listening to the radio the other day – National Public Radio (NPR) – and there were some callers trying to win a free trip to see the Diane Rehm Show, get an autographed copy of a book of hers, or something along those lines… 
     They were calling answering some random [...]