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Cleaning out my desktop and I ran across this picture….

seriously, how cute is that?

hi everybody Wow! So many things going on in the life of Todd Carruth. And it’s always the website that gets neglected. Well, let’s change that now shall we?

how about a quote and a picture for this week?

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” - Maya Angelou

Boy, ain’t that the truth? Changes are afoot all around. And now, here is your picture for the week.

I call “Ghost Photographer”. Can you see why?

I went to the Museum of Modern Art during my last trip to NY and tried to catch some decent shots of people. People doing ordinary things without noticing me taking a picture of them. Last week I showed you the guy with at the hot dog stand. This week we have the MOMA guard in the outdoor sculpture garden.

I call this piece “Focused Tai Chi by Bored Guard Outdoors”

As near as I could tell, his biggest responsibility was keeping people from eating on this side of the sculpture garden. You see, you could buy ice cream and candy and drinks on the other side of that big orange sculpture, but you couldn’t bring them to this side. An elderly couple learned that the hard way. I just noticed he has some sort of bandage on his left index finger. Maybe he pointed it too hard at someone eating a snowpop. BTW, I put some fancy “effects” on here using Google’s Picassa software. Yeah, I know it’s not photoshop but it can still do some neat stuff quickly.

Wow, the site is slow today. Must be all the Russian hackers trying to infiltrate me. Listen up comrade, do not make me unleash ze hounds on you, da?

Anyway, it’s around 11pm in Times Square and I am killing time on what I think is going to be my last night (ended up staying an additional day because of airport delays) and I come across a row of sketch artists doing caricatures and portraits. I tried to line up the shot so you could see the artist’s rendering as well as the subject and I think I did a decent job but the lack of light didn’t help out with the focus.

If you notice, the artist puts a slight smile on his face, even though he looks like he’s deep in thought. Deep, deep thoughts…like why is this strange young man taking my picture?

Still throwing out some lovely pics for you to check out from my vacation in Vegas last month.

Here is the lobby of the Wynn.

Quite lovely isn’t it? You would have a hard time walking down that hall without getting your picture taken because it HAPPENS ALL THE TIME! Seriously, every single time I walked by somebody was taking a picture. And really, could you blame them? Directly ahead is the parasol bar (which I kept calling parasail bar for some reason) and just to the left is the casino. I made friends with the roulette machine very quickly and turned 5 bucks into 20 bucks and then magically back into 5 bucks. I’m a regular Doug Henning!