Got 'im ('er?) ... if I were a hunter that would be venison ...

It's definitely a Her, Chas. Bucks have shorter faces, and by that time of year, there would have been some fuzzy antlers growing. Good photos, love the flowers, too.

Gary

In 1975, I herniated 3 discs in my lower back and ended up paralyzed from the waist down. After extensive surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, I spent the next three weeks in the hospital and was sent home to convalesce. For the next 5 months, I spent much of my time in a wheel chair, and in bed, though I did go to physical therapy 3 days a week during that period. I was bored out of my mind and Carol convinced me to try my hand at painting with acrylics. This resulted in 21 paintings during that 5 month period.

Here are two of them, which I photographed hanging on the wall of our family room. They are behind glass, so they were difficult to photograph, but for someone with absolutely no training, I think I did OK.

Gary

Tony, Ya been holding out on us, I've seen your past painting and they were very good, this one of the flower is exceptional.

Chas I've never been a video guy just still photography.

Russ you're the real pro when it comes to graphic arts.

Gary, Pretty good stuff for a guy who had never painted in the past.

Thanks Steve - sure wish I were down in the sunny south today. Got an inch of snow overnight, mixed with a bit of freezing rain this morning. Temperature back down to 32 currently, and everything outside is back to freezing rain - nasty! Bet you guys were wearing shorts today.

Merry Christmas,

Gary

79 yesterday; 29 tonight!

Believe it or not, I have a job next year to photograph custom staircases all around Europe. I will be using a 4"x5" view camera with FILM! Typically, in the studio you use a digital back and a computer. These images are too big to use with a laptop, so I'm going completely "old school".

The camera I will use is a 1960 Calumet given to me by Ray Brown.

Transparencies will be processed on location and scanned when I get home.

Book is a $250,000.00 project for one of Italy's premier staircase designers.

Russ

Gary, Just so happens I’m not flying until Sunday to the sunny south, I had to be here for Christmas gigs in December I booked over a year ago. They are wearing shorts and t-shirts. I have to laugh though when I watch WESH TV Orlando when they talk about a cold front ain’t nothing like the cold in the north

UD and DNJ pay someone to do this - I have to do it myself. Had to shovel of the deck to prevent it from caving in, then from the deck to the end of the driveway with the snow blower, it's 150 feet, leaving me just 300 feet X 10 feet of driveway to clear so I could go to work and play music. Only took 3 hours to get to the road. Those 4 seasons in this part of the world are BS!


Oh, one more thing, more people have died from cold weather by a huge margin than ever died from warm weather.

Merry Christmas, everyone,

Gary

You wanted a big homestead in the country!