The Whiskers Have It

I was sitting on the ground taking some close-up shots when Odin went past me and proceeded to pose. The distortions from the strange angle is the position of the eye on the head - it looks quite a bit higher than it really is, and the length of his neck - which is longer in real life..Yet, that is exactly what your eye really sees looking up at that angle. The late afternoon sunlight made his color really stand out against the blue sky.

Drips

Bridge to the Past

This old bridge built in the late 1800's connects two halves of a very small town in Arkansas. It was built to pivot from a center point to make way for large cargo ships traveling down the Little Red River, and it is as solid as ever. However, it is no longer open to vehicular travel, shut down with the latest round of safety standards. Supposedly, it needs one more support beam underneath to bring it up to standard. The town's mayor is beating on every door he can think of to raise the funding for the needed upgrade.

Photographing the bridge took a lot of observation and inching this way and that to get the lines horizontal and vertical. That wasn't easy to do since the builders weren't as obsessed with straight lines as I was when taking photos!

An Important Message

This crowd of high school teenagers were gathered near a football field to watch the progression of a car accident (below) involving classmates and alcohol. It was a major production, an enactment that would take the entire day. Local police, rescue and ambulance, fire department and a medflight helicopter brought the experience so alive that one girl that acted the part of back-seat passenger (on the gurney)  burst into tears while being cut from the car with the Jaws of Life. While everyone knew that it was a staged enactment, the message hit home, if the looks on their faces are any indication.