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German Engineering

Star Trek Weirdo

Brandenburg Gate at night

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Juggler at the Brandenburg Gate

Torino Olympic Games

Last month I was in Torino, doing some videotaping and photography, as Johnson & Johnson was one of the sponsors of the Olympic games, and will also be a major sponsor of the 2008 games in Beijing. Torino is a great city, and world-famous for its chocolate, a fact of which I was not aware, but quickly found out why. It is delicious!

Neve (snow) and Gliz (ice), the Torino Winter Olympic mascots


Outside the Olympic Superstore


Outside the popular Neutrogena booth (hint: Hot Chocolate!)

Irv's Party redux

Some pictures to music, not complete, but done with the very user friendly Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows. Music worked out great too!

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A Passage to India

On the first leg of a journey that will take me to Mumbai (formerly Bombay) India, Beijing and Tokyo. All in 10 daze, including travel! Working with a photographer taking pictures for our Annual Report. First stop here in the Frankfurt airport.

Casey's walk

Casey Jones taking his constitutional the day after Thanksgiving, at Mills Reservation in Montclair, New Jersey

 

Mister Robert's Neighborhood

A couple of wonderful people from the neighborhood. Ted, from  "Beyond the Bagel", where I go every Friday (as President of the J&J Bagel Club) to bring these enormous, delicious bagels to  club members. And  Tony, the tailor, who does a great job, and whose wife loves Neutrogena products!

Two girls in Mumbai

Just liked this picture from my trip to Mumbai (formerly Bombay) last Spring.  India's another country with a booming economy, but a lot of poverty. And there ARE sacred cows here!

 

Wheaten Halloween

Soft-coateed Wheaten Terriers are really cute dogs. They're very smart, have lots of personality, and are easily trained. They're also one of the few dogs that are hypo-allergenic. Like poodles. They do have a stubborn streak though, and they're very energetic, so they're somewhat high maintenance canines!

Botshabelo

Botshabelo Community Development Trust, about 2 1/2 hours outside of Johannesburg represents a haven for a population of mostly women and children who have been subjected to violence, disease and sub-standard living conditions.

SLR camera

A manual single-lens-reflex (SLR) camera is a camera where the photographer sees exactly the same image that is exposed to the film and can adjust everything by turning dials and clicking buttons. Since it doesn't need any electricity to take a picture, a manual SLR camera provides an excellent illustration of the fundamental processes of photography.

The optical component of the camera is the lens. At its simplest, a lens is just a curved piece of glass or plastic. Its job is to take the beams of light bouncing off of an object and redirect them so they come together to form a real image -- an image that looks just like the scene in front of the lens.

SLR cameras also avoid the difficulty of parallax in close-up photography. Cameras with a separate optical viewfinder system show the scene from a different viewpoint from that of the camera lens. For photography at normal distances, this difference is not significant, but where the gap between the viewfinder and lens is a significant fraction of the distance to the objects in the scene to be photographed or to objects close to the camera that the photographer wants to keeps out of the photograph (for example a windowframe when taking a picture out of a window), this difference in viewpoint may mean that the image recorded is quite different from that seen through the viewfinder.