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“Satan descends upon Earth.” Gustave Dore, 1866

Engraving.  Illustration for John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

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Filtered Botetourt.

Just one more filtered photo — this obviously isn’t as good as the ones I’ve been running over the past couple of days.  This is the James River in the Town of Buchanan in Botetourt County.

The original photo was too dark — and it only helps so much to run it through a warm filter.

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Cover to “Red Hood: Lost Days,” Billy Tucci, 2010

DC Comics.

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Filtered Roanoke.

These are just a couple of shots of Roanoke that I altered with basic photo-editing software.  I don’t know why, but I like black-and-white photos with their details enhanced and with plenty of dark spaces in them.

I have no doubt that a proficient photographer would look at shots like these and find them to be elementary stuff.  But I’m still learning about the process and having fun with it.

 

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Cover to “Creepy” #23, Tom Sutton, 1968

Warren Publishing.

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Cover to The New York Times, May 24, 2020

Because The New York Times listed only 1,000 names on its front page yesterday, it represented only about 1 percent of the American lives lost to the virus.

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The Piker Press features “Ode”

I’m so happy today to see that The Piker Press has featured my very short love poem, “Ode,” in its May 25 issue.  You can find it right here.

As always, thanks to Editor Sand Pilarski for including me in The Piker Press community!

 

 

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Postage stamp commemorating the Battle of Iwo Jima, United States Postal Service, 1945

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Remember the fallen.

Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.  Photo by Carol M. Highsmith.

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“Mrrf- Rrff- RRFF- Grrble.”

Today begins my efforts to establish a National Talk-Like-Bane Day.

(We already have Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day; why not this?) And it will persuade people to wear their masks.

 

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