David Thiel
My wife and I are into seeing this great broad world, tasting the wine, meeting the people, taking the pictures and writing about it.magic fella
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The Missions of San Antonio
Published: September 28th 2008North America » United States » Texas » San Antonio
September 28th 2008
The Missions of San Antonio I have a picture in my mind: there’s this little Franciscan monk wearing a black robe. He has a fringe of hair around an odd-looking bald spot. The sun is hot, maybe a hundred and ten degrees. This guy is lugging fifty and sixty pound rocks across an empty clearing and piling them carefully one on top of the other. Maybe he pauses to take a drink of tepid water. Maybe he takes a second to wipe his brow. Maybe he prays. As my “eye camera” draws back from a perspective in the clouds somewhere, I see many of these dark shapes moving across a desolate clearing carved out of a savage desert. What are they doing? Why are they doing what they’re doing? They are building Missions - churches. They ... read more
September 28th 2008
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 - September 26, 2008) It's a rare and wonderful thing to catch a glimpse of Hollywood royalty. And it's even better to have the opportunity to photograph them. It makes me sad to hear of the death of Paul Newman. My sympathies go out to his family, his friends and his fans. My encounter with this man was brief...but memorable. In the very short time that our life paths intersected, I found him to have Sundance's smile, Luke's cool and Fast Eddie's flash. He made me smile and he blew a kiss to my wife. The last time I saw him, he was puttering off into the sunset on a red scooter and waving good-bye over his shoulder. That's how I will remember him. It's here on my blog: http://photoshopbasicsin6hours.blogspot.com/2008/06/stalking-paul-newman.html ... read more
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