With Major League Baseball Spring Training breathing fresh life into these cold March days, I thought I’d reflect upon the best San Francisco Giants players that I’ve seen play. Rather than just choose a list filled with all-time Giants legends like Mays, McCovey, and Marichel, I am going to select, by position, my favorites that [...]
My Chancellorsville Book
With the conclusion of each Civil War Trust Battle App project I find myself with this huge surplus of battlefield photos that scream out to be placed in a book. Here’s my Chancellorsville book with many of my favorite photos from this remarkable battlefield. To see the book in a larger size on your computer [...]
My Ten Favorite Photos from 2011
2011 was a great year on the photography front. I had many great opportunities to take photographs at amazing places throughout the country. Here are my ten favorite photos from this past year. #1 Reynolds Monument in Winter Gettysburg, Pennsylvania #2 Taking Aim Fort Jackson outside of Savannah, Georgia #3 The Churchyard at Dusk [...]
My Five Favorite Books of 2011
2011 proved to be a challenging year for many throughout the world, but on the book front it was a runaway bull market. Given all the great books I had the pleasure to read it was actually pretty hard to settle on just five. This year’s selections are all non-fiction works and heavily skewed towards [...]
Distant Thunder
Distant Thunder: Photographs from the Manassas Battlefield Here’s an online preview of my new collection of Manassas Battlefield photos. Too expensive to buy, I’ve provided a full online preview below. Click the full-screen expand button (near the Blurb logo) to see the book at a larger size. Distant Thunder: Photographs from the Manassas Battlefield Distant [...]
The Fredericksburg Battle App
Using 21st Century Technology to Help Illuminate a 19th Century Battlefield On May 4, 2011, the Civil War Trust officially launched the Fredericksburg Battle App – a GPS-enabled battlefield tour for iPhone and iPod Touches. This launch brought to a close a project that I had been thinking or working on for the better part [...]
Desert Storm: 20 Years Ago
It was January 17, 1991 and this tiny room filled with sensitive communications gear was buzzing with energy from thousands of miles away. As I listened into the stream of words and noise, not all intelligible to this junior officer, I can remember being filled with a flood of powerful emotions. Could this really be happening? Could the United States and dozens of other nations really be flying hundreds of attack aircraft on missions over an Iraqi landscape filled with sophisticated surface to air missiles, MiG-29s, and tens of thousands of dumb, but effective anti-aircraft guns? My mind raced and my heart beat.
Cloudscapes: A 2010 Collection of My Favorite Photos
Check out my new 2010 photo book, Cloudscapes. This book contains all of my favorite art and landscape photos from the past year. In the preview widget you can see the entire book online.
My Favorite Books of 2010
Check out my list of my five favorite reads of 2010. 2010 was a great year for books and a watershed year for digital books. Despite being anything but an early adopter of e-readers and e-books, 4 of the 5 top books for this year were either read on my iPad or listened to as audiobooks on my iPhone.
World Ser-ious
After two heart-attack inducing playoff series the San Francisco Giants are now World Series bound. Amazing. Who would have thought that this club, so imperfect early in the season, would now be playing for the 2010 championship? As a lifelong Giants fan I have always said that my one sporting wish would be to see the Giants win the World Series before I expire……just once.
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