Back to Florida for this Top 200 Photo

photo #53 is:

Here’s yet another Coco Peli. I wonder why he was in the middle of these palm trees. Here’s some more info on Coco Peli, from wikipedia:

Kokopelli is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player (often with a huge phallus and feathers or antenna-like protrusions on his head), who has been venerated by some Native American cultures in the Southwestern United States. Like most fertility deities, Kokopelli presides over both childbirth and agriculture. He is also a trickster god and represents the spirit of music.

Back to NYC for today’s Top 200 Photo

photo #54 is:

This is from the Greenwhich Village Halloween Parade. If you want to see some of the best costumes outside of an anime or comic convention, you have to go to the Greenwhich Village Halloween Parade. This photo is not representative of some of those amazing costumes, but those will show up in a future post. I think it’s pretty obvious these are supposed to be three breasts. Other than that, I’m not sure what the connection is. I just always think of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s mention of the Triple-Breasted Whore of Eroticon Six. Danielle always thinks of the girl from Total Recall.

Back to Baltimore for this Top 200 Photo.

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This photo is not photoshopped in any way. This photo, taken in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, is just an example of how cameras can help us see things differently. If you leave the shutter open long enough to have the scene lit up, you can some unique colors. In this case, I left it open for 5 seconds. So as the photons collected on the camera, the scene lit up in a way I could never experience with the naked eye.

Back to wedding photography for today’s Top 200 Photo

photo #56 is:

Any wedding photographer can get the usual shots (and better if he doesn’t want to lose business). Shots like this one are the ones that set you apart. Once you’re done with the ones you need, just follow the bride and groom around and stop directing them. Let them do what they want to do and they’ll do some great stuff that will reveal their personality and give them something to talk about when they go over the album.

Here’s today’s Top 200 photo.

photo #57 is:

This is the computer I built for my father-in-law. At this point I was essentially done putting it all together. It was time to test it before closing it up.

Baltimore’s Farmer’s Market in Today’s Top 200 Photo

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We were looking for something to do and decided to check out the Baltimore Farmer’s Market. It was OK. As always, it’s a hard decision to make because it’s great to support local businesses, but I don’t run a charity and if I spend my money on that produce I can’t spend it on other things. And, nowadays, more and more grocery stores are buying locally anyway.

Once again we find ourselves at Cornell for this Top 200 Photo.

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I think my flickr description is perfect:

Every year on Columbus Day our Native American and Hispanic groups on campus protest the celebration of a man who began the genocide of an entire race of people. The photographer (myself) currently does not hold an opinion either way, but since this occurred in the middle of the Cornell, Ho Plaza, I wanted to record what was going on.

London’s Big Ben appears in today’s Top 200 Photo

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When Danielle and I went to London for about 24 hours, we had no idea we’d be able to see nearly every landmark. It was pretty awesome to be able to achieve it all. I think all we missed was the Tower of London. (And a leisurely stroll along the Thames) I love this shot of Big Ben, Parliament, Westminster, and the Thames and it’s currently on display in our dining room.

Waxy Top 200 Photo

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The only reason this photo even made it into the ranks of the Top 200 is that it was featured on a website talking about how to remove candle wax from a carpet. That led to 474 views in one day! And hopefully some of those looked around my photostream and became followers of my photography.

I’m not quite sure why this is a Top 200 Photo

photo #62 is:

I think the flickr description sums it up best:

While putting some lotion on Danielle’s back, it looked to me like the way they prepare cakes at nice restaurants. I hadn’t purposely tried to do this, so I *had* to photograph it!