Week #11 for Roger's Creative Photography Contest...click on the banner above if you want to learn more and enter or just feel like sliding around the Bloggosphere and checking out some really fantastic photos...
ALL PHOTOS CAN BE ENLARGED...
All I did to this is neutralize the colors some. Not grayscale it though. There is still a color curve in this. The original (below) had a reddish tint to it. This was due to the stormy skies (which are out of frame) and it being late in the afternoon. It was 1983 in Colorado. This is McClure Pass.
My bud Rich was living out there and I went to visit and we spent 10 days skiing Aspen Highlands, Aspen, Keystone and the mother of all mountains, Arapaho Basin.
Hope you like it.
Do you like AC/DC? I personally have always been a huge fan.
Well, here is some cool news...
Columbia Records will release No Bull: The Directors Cut, a newly edited, comprehensive DVD of the band's famed July 1996 Plaza De Toros De Las Ventas concert in Madrid , Spain, on September 9, 2008
No Bull: The Directors Cut also available on Blu-ray, features over 2 hours of classic AC/DC in concert with bonus features including "Angus-cam" songs and 2 rare performances from the Ballbreaker tour.
No Bull: The Directors Cut will be available for purchase exclusively at walmart.com and at acdc.com.
You can see the Trailer for No Bull: The Directors Cut in windows media HERE; and in quicktime HERE.
Want to preorder No Bull: The Directors Cut? You can do that HERE.
I will be getting a copy to review soon and might also be getting a second copy to use as a give-away. Stay tuned for more details.
What else would we play today?
ENJOY...
ALL PHOTOS CAN BE ENLARGED...
All I did to this is neutralize the colors some. Not grayscale it though. There is still a color curve in this. The original (below) had a reddish tint to it. This was due to the stormy skies (which are out of frame) and it being late in the afternoon. It was 1983 in Colorado. This is McClure Pass.My bud Rich was living out there and I went to visit and we spent 10 days skiing Aspen Highlands, Aspen, Keystone and the mother of all mountains, Arapaho Basin.
Hope you like it.
Well, here is some cool news...
Columbia Records will release No Bull: The Directors Cut, a newly edited, comprehensive DVD of the band's famed July 1996 Plaza De Toros De Las Ventas concert in Madrid , Spain, on September 9, 2008
No Bull: The Directors Cut also available on Blu-ray, features over 2 hours of classic AC/DC in concert with bonus features including "Angus-cam" songs and 2 rare performances from the Ballbreaker tour.
No Bull: The Directors Cut will be available for purchase exclusively at walmart.com and at acdc.com.
You can see the Trailer for No Bull: The Directors Cut in windows media HERE; and in quicktime HERE.
Want to preorder No Bull: The Directors Cut? You can do that HERE.
Track Listing:
1. Back In Black
2. Shot Down In Flames
3. Thunderstruck
4. Girl’s Got Rhythm
5. Hard As A Rock
6. Shoot To Thrill
7. Boogie Man
8. Hail Caesar
9. Hells Bells
10. Dog Eat Dog
11. The Jack
12. Ballbreaker
13. Rock And Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution
14. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
15. You Shook Me All Night Long
16. Whole Lotta Rosie
17. T.N.T.
18. Let There Be Rock
19. Highway To Hell
20. For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
1. Back In Black
2. Shot Down In Flames
3. Thunderstruck
4. Girl’s Got Rhythm
5. Hard As A Rock
6. Shoot To Thrill
7. Boogie Man
8. Hail Caesar
9. Hells Bells
10. Dog Eat Dog
11. The Jack
12. Ballbreaker
13. Rock And Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution
14. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
15. You Shook Me All Night Long
16. Whole Lotta Rosie
17. T.N.T.
18. Let There Be Rock
19. Highway To Hell
20. For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
I will be getting a copy to review soon and might also be getting a second copy to use as a give-away. Stay tuned for more details.
Have you heard the story of 9-year old 10-year old (today is his birthday) Jericho Scott from New Haven, CT. Well, Jericho plays in a small league comprised of 8 teams and about 100 youth called the Youth Baseball League of New Haven.
Jericho is ahead of most of his league-mates in regard to baseball skills. It is estimated he can throw a baseball 40 mph. On the small field that is wicked-fast (five years in Massachusetts showing there!).
Now let's keep in mind that Jericho was invited to play on another team - the defending league champions - at the beginning of the season and decided to stick with his friends. That team is sponsored by the employer of one of the league administrators. Rut-ro...messing wit da man....
Jericho's team is 8-0 as of about a week and a half ago. Jericho is mowing them down. Jericho is faster than any other pitcher in the league.
Here it comes kiddies....the league has now ruled that Jericho can no longer pitch!
League officials say they first told Jericho's coach Wilfred Vidro that the boy could not pitch after a game on Aug. 13. On August 16th Jericho played second base for his team. Last Wednesday Jericho took the mound for his team, ready to pitch and then BAM!, the other team walked off and a forfeit was called.
There was screaming and Jericho's mom even called the police to stop the injustice from happening.
Now the league says they will disband Jericho's team and move the kids to other teams. Parents and team members from Jericho's team have said they will not allow that to happen. The league also stated that Coach Vidro has quit the league. Coach Vidro responds by saying that he has not quit. This past Saturday the parents, players and Coach held a protest at the league's field to push for Jericho to play and pitch.
Get this kiddies... do you think Jericho would be pitching if he accepted the position on the team sponsored by the administrators employer???
League attorney Peter Noble says the only factor in banning Jericho from the mound is his pitches are just too fast.
"He is a very skilled player, a very hard thrower," Noble said. "There are a lot of beginners. This is not a high-powered league. This is a developmental league whose main purpose is to promote the sport."
Wait...back that up please..."This is a developmental league whose main purpose is to promote the sport."
Get that? Where kids are supposed to learn. Evidently, playing against someone with skills more developed then yours at your age is not good for your development. Oh and let us not forget these kids are 9-years old, developmental leagues in my experience are for 5, 6 and maybe 7-year olds.
What do you think? Is this a group of parents who tell their kids every night "You are perfect...you are great...that teacher should have given you an A+ not a B-...you got an A+ as far as we are concerned...."
This comes back to a rant we posted HERE. This 'entitlement stuff...and 'no child left behind' rubbish. Schools ending competitive sports ...towns where kids play but no one keeps score (except the kids..they always know what the score is)...just so little Camden or Ashley do not have their feelings hurt because Bobby and Sally happen to be better than they are at something...
HAVE I SAID RUBBISH?!?!!?!?!?
So Jericho has been told..."Sorry son, you can not do something you love, you are too good at it." WTF?!?!?!?!?!
When Matt was playing Little League there was a boy one year younger than he was. Kevin was 6'1" when he was 12. Pitching off a mound 45' from the batter...When he released the ball he was probably 40' away and he could bring the heat. No one ever backed down. Hell, when someone got a hit off of him it was HUGE for them.
It builds character to get knocked down in life. We have all experienced it. Oh and since I just said 'knocked down', Jericho has not hit one batter all season! This is not a safety issue...this is about the parents on the other teams (and I bet one team in particular), complaining that their kids are getting beat.
Oh --- so sorry, we forgot, in your world everyone wins and no one is ever allowed to lose. Hope your kids boss understands that when Camden goes psycho on him if he does not give Camden a big raise for sitting on his arse and not doing anything...
This is wrong kiddies...just so so wrong.
Let the kid finish the season with his team and then next year, if his skills continue to develop, move him up an age group...let him play as a 10-year old with the 11's and 12's.
But stop trying to coddle your kids and protect them from the real world, because when they finally make it to the real world, they will be swallowed whole and never be heard from again....
Oh and how does Jericho feel? "I feel sad," he said. "I feel like it's all my fault nobody could play."
INCREDIBLE!
Jericho is ahead of most of his league-mates in regard to baseball skills. It is estimated he can throw a baseball 40 mph. On the small field that is wicked-fast (five years in Massachusetts showing there!).Now let's keep in mind that Jericho was invited to play on another team - the defending league champions - at the beginning of the season and decided to stick with his friends. That team is sponsored by the employer of one of the league administrators. Rut-ro...messing wit da man....
Jericho's team is 8-0 as of about a week and a half ago. Jericho is mowing them down. Jericho is faster than any other pitcher in the league.
Here it comes kiddies....the league has now ruled that Jericho can no longer pitch!
League officials say they first told Jericho's coach Wilfred Vidro that the boy could not pitch after a game on Aug. 13. On August 16th Jericho played second base for his team. Last Wednesday Jericho took the mound for his team, ready to pitch and then BAM!, the other team walked off and a forfeit was called.
There was screaming and Jericho's mom even called the police to stop the injustice from happening.
Now the league says they will disband Jericho's team and move the kids to other teams. Parents and team members from Jericho's team have said they will not allow that to happen. The league also stated that Coach Vidro has quit the league. Coach Vidro responds by saying that he has not quit. This past Saturday the parents, players and Coach held a protest at the league's field to push for Jericho to play and pitch.
Get this kiddies... do you think Jericho would be pitching if he accepted the position on the team sponsored by the administrators employer???
League attorney Peter Noble says the only factor in banning Jericho from the mound is his pitches are just too fast.
"He is a very skilled player, a very hard thrower," Noble said. "There are a lot of beginners. This is not a high-powered league. This is a developmental league whose main purpose is to promote the sport."
Wait...back that up please..."This is a developmental league whose main purpose is to promote the sport."
Get that? Where kids are supposed to learn. Evidently, playing against someone with skills more developed then yours at your age is not good for your development. Oh and let us not forget these kids are 9-years old, developmental leagues in my experience are for 5, 6 and maybe 7-year olds.
What do you think? Is this a group of parents who tell their kids every night "You are perfect...you are great...that teacher should have given you an A+ not a B-...you got an A+ as far as we are concerned...."
This comes back to a rant we posted HERE. This 'entitlement stuff...and 'no child left behind' rubbish. Schools ending competitive sports ...towns where kids play but no one keeps score (except the kids..they always know what the score is)...just so little Camden or Ashley do not have their feelings hurt because Bobby and Sally happen to be better than they are at something...
HAVE I SAID RUBBISH?!?!!?!?!?
So Jericho has been told..."Sorry son, you can not do something you love, you are too good at it." WTF?!?!?!?!?!
When Matt was playing Little League there was a boy one year younger than he was. Kevin was 6'1" when he was 12. Pitching off a mound 45' from the batter...When he released the ball he was probably 40' away and he could bring the heat. No one ever backed down. Hell, when someone got a hit off of him it was HUGE for them.
It builds character to get knocked down in life. We have all experienced it. Oh and since I just said 'knocked down', Jericho has not hit one batter all season! This is not a safety issue...this is about the parents on the other teams (and I bet one team in particular), complaining that their kids are getting beat.
Oh --- so sorry, we forgot, in your world everyone wins and no one is ever allowed to lose. Hope your kids boss understands that when Camden goes psycho on him if he does not give Camden a big raise for sitting on his arse and not doing anything...
This is wrong kiddies...just so so wrong.
Let the kid finish the season with his team and then next year, if his skills continue to develop, move him up an age group...let him play as a 10-year old with the 11's and 12's.
But stop trying to coddle your kids and protect them from the real world, because when they finally make it to the real world, they will be swallowed whole and never be heard from again....
Oh and how does Jericho feel? "I feel sad," he said. "I feel like it's all my fault nobody could play."
INCREDIBLE!
ENJOY...
