The Continuing Series of Photos and Comments

This started out as a photography blog many years ago.  Then transformed into a health blog as I started learning about vaxxes.  Then along came C0v!d so I shared information about that.  I am not a doctor but I went to the world's best expert doctors and scientists, several who were the most published in their fields of study in peer-reviewed journals.  I've shared that list on this blog.  Plus I've shared what I do to stay healthy (which took many years of trial and error but paid off in spades).  Now this blog is dedicated to health and photography.

So, about photography:  ON1 Photo Raw 2024.5 is my new favorite photo program (app as it's now called).  It works best, as the name implies, on RAW images.  It's not quite as good for old scanned images, but it still makes a huge improvement.  Below are new images for this blog.

An actress (whose name I don't know) from the early 1980s at Venice Beach.  The photos below are also from Venice Beach in the early to mid-1980s (except, of course, for the last photo).

This bottom shot is the Highway 154 Cold Spring Canyon Arch Bridge between Santa Barbara and the Santa Ynez Valley near Paradise.  It's the highest arch bridge in California.

COMMENTS

I received the new AARP Bulletin and it used fear tactics to promote C0v!d vaxxes.  The same vaxxes that increase the likelihood that those who get them will get C0v!d...multiple times.  Not to mention the side effects (heart disease, skin diseases, diabetes, cancer, death, etc.).  A new study out of Japan shows that those who got two or more shots/boosters were 5x more likely to die than those who didn't.  On the other hand, you can take care of your health and probably not get C0v!d or a mild and uneventful case if you do get it.  The choice is yours.  Enjoy a healthy lifestyle and life, or listen to the CDC and big pharma and suffer.

Speaking of a healthy lifestyle, here is someone worth listening to.  She, like I, changed her health through diet and exercise:  Jillian Michaels.  

Cold Photos For Hot Days....and the Usual Comments

I've been preparing to set up a new computer and shooting some photos at the paddle tennis courts. Once that's completed, I can continue fixing my photos and posting more of them here. I'm constantly amazed that an old degraded photo can be returned to its original condition. Slightly out-of-focus photos can be made sharp, and grainy or noisy images can be made perfect. However, to fix one image currently can take 15 minutes to an hour on this computer so I've been putting it off until I get my new PC.  Meanwhile, during this heatwave, here are some old icy photos as well as some artsy new paddle tennis shots.

My new PC has not arrived on time, so did the best with these old snowy photos.

She was a neighbor, probably a freezing neighbor, haha.  But would be nice to have a spot like that today.  Some of the LA Valleys were 117 - 119 degrees.  It was probably around 32 in this photo.

This was an unusual snowfall in the hills above Santa Barbara from the mid-1970s.

As three artists might have painted Mackenzie playing paddle tennis at Venice Beach - late August, 2024.  The top artist would have been Benson, the bottom one, Van Gogh, and the middle one, Leroy Neiman.

COMMENTS

November is getting close.  I hope you vote for which candidate offers the best policies for this country...assuming you can figure that out.

Photos (New Action Shots of Mackenzie & Bella) Plus My Usual Comments

 The photos for this post of two competitive paddle tennis players are recent photos for a change.  Hope you enjoy checking these out as much as I enjoyed shooting them.  I've been checking all my photos (29,000 of them!) and found around 2,000 or so that were duplicates or very similar.  I had to compare each set of dupes to see if one photo was better so was unable to use auto on duplicate finder software.  New software is amazing for fixing photos but it takes time and I wanted to fix the same images only once, hence the search and destroy for the dupes.

In the photos below, Mackenzie is in red and Bella is in black and white.  Reminds me of that old joke:  What's black and white and red all over?

COMMENTS

As many of you may know, I've discussed health in many past posts.  If you check the statistics, you'll find the U.S. is way down the list of all countries for longevity.  It is at or near the top of the list for infant mortality, chronic health conditions, and in general, we have the worst health of any developed country.  Not to mention autism rates going from 1 in 10,000 about 40 years ago to 1 in 32 (or higher) now.  So it was nice to hear RFK, Jr's slogan, Make America Healthy Again.  That is why I recommend The Highwire each week.  Here is what I do to stay Healthy.  I have now added ginger and Bioperine (black pepper extract) to that superfood mix.  

As always, I hope you enjoy this post and the photos. 

And may you all go to health.

Photos and Comments - the Continuing Series

 I keep discovering more photos I shot with negative/positive film and then scanned.  So I think I will have a never-ending supply to post here.  Without further adieu, here are my selections for this post.

The above photo was taken under the giant (and famous) fig tree along US 101 in Santa Barbara.  Probably late 1980s although it could have been taken today.

A lake outside of Phoenix, Arizona, 1970s.

Ocean Front Walk at Venice Beach - early 1980s.

The bottom photo was part of something that was being filmed - on Ocean Front Walk at Venice Beach, near the basketball courts.

COMMENTS

World-Renowned Vaccinologist Publishes Paper Admitting Lack of Vaccine Safety Studies.  I mentioned this in my last post but this is a more detailed look at vaccine "safety."  And in case you missed my past  vaccine posts on this blog, check out this week's The Highwire.  

A New Blog Post with Old Photos & New Comments

The hardest part of these blog posts is knowing what to say in the title.  Some of you may be wondering why I switched from posts on FB to blog posts here.  It's because I can add links here that my FB memories have shown as missing, plus too many ads and other things popping up on my timeline.  Here are the new old photos for this week.  Hope you enjoy them as well as the comments.

A cutout of Reagan and a beautiful young local Venice girl named Jana.  Having photographed many models, I used to tell her she should go into modeling.  I don't know if that influenced her but she became a top model.  A wonderful person and a beautiful model.  You never know who you might meet along Ocean Front Walk at Venice Beach.

Joey the Clown - along Ocean Front Walk, Venice Beach, early to mid 1980s.  

Some fun at KABC - the girl delivered birthday telegrams.  Those kinds of telegram companies were a big thing in the 1980s.  I wonder if they still are?

LAPD beach patrol officer in front of the old Venice Beach Pavilion, early 1980s.  I used to have some nice conversations with him.  I heard he had quit the LAPD and went into teaching.

In the mid 1980s I drove a Limo for a company called Limo, Limo, Limo.  Here are two of my passengers in the back of the limo, the one on the left raised show horses in FL, and the one on the right was a weather girl for a TV station at the time.

Finally, for this week, a photo from a movie set in Santa Monica.  I don't know if that girl was posing for me or I just got a lucky shot but either way, love the result.

COMMENTS

So much has happened over the past couple of weeks, from the attempted assassination of Trump to Biden not seeking re-election, and Harris being the nominee now.  Plus the Crowdstrike software upgrade caused computer systems worldwide to malfunction.  If my computer does that, I have an older backup computer.  Why didn't they have a backup computer system?

The above facts are probably the only truthful things in the news, other than perhaps local accidents and things of that nature.  Unfortunately, the lies are coming fast and furious from the mainstream media.  If it involves health, politics, environment, immigration, etc., whatever the news says is happening, it's most likely the opposite.  What can you do?  Think critically, do your own research from neutral experts, observe, don't believe the news, and use common sense.  

What does Dr. Henry Plotkin (the Godfather of vaccines, as he is known, and author of the textbook on vaccines) say about their safety, under oath?  Watch The Highwire to learn the truth about vaccines from those who wrote the book on it.  Pretty much what I've been saying on this blog for the past 9 years.

Also, this doctor and I are in complete agreement.  Click to hear what he has to say.  Only 2 minutes, 40 seconds.

Old Photos & New Comments

 I started this on July 16th but got sidetracked with all that is going on, plus still working on old photos.  Here are some new old photos (an oxymoron?) that I hope you enjoy.

Many photos I shot at Venice Beach have boring skies - usually not a cloud in sight.  I added some in the above shot.  This is another one from the early 1980's when half the people along Ocean Front Walk had skates on, myself included.

Arizona desert and lake - may be from the 1970's.

Armed and dangerous above.  Although you'd never guess it.  Shot in Santa Monica by the beach.

Someone I met while out skating.  Early 1980's again.

COMMENTS

Tonight, on the evening news, they said Trump & RFK Jr. lied about vaccines.  The evening news lied, as they always do, saying vaccines were safe and effective, and studied meticulously.  Turned out the liars were the media (and not Trump & RFK Jr), as usual.  Dr. Stanley Plotkin is known as the godfather of vaccinology and wrote the book on vaccines.  The media gets most of their income from drug company advertising, which should never have been allowed.  Only one other country allows this - New Zealand.  If you are interested in your health and well-being, and that of your children and families, the below article is a must read.  Hopefully, you've learned this over the past 4 years from C0v!d.  Whether the news media is talking about vaccines, global warming, illegal immigration, the economy, or politics, the opposite of what they report is most likely a lot closer to the truth (or perhaps is the truth).

After decades of Dr. Stanley Plotkin and his vaccinologist disciples insisting vaccines are the most well studied products on the planet, they just penned an article admitting precisely the opposite.

Old and New Photos, plus Comments

 I've been working on a few hundred photos I scanned from negatives and slides over the past couple of weeks.  Each time I thought I was finished with the dust spots I found more of them as I was fixing the color balance or other imperfections.  They are still not perfect but will be posting them here anyway.  Hope you find them interesting.

Ocean Front Walk, Venice Beach - early 1980s

Santa Barbara beach, July 4th, early 1980s - Party time!

Occasionally I manage to sneak into a photo.  Sometime around 1980.

In front of The Sand Castle building at Santa Monica Beach.  Colorful is nice.  Early 1980s.

Ocean Front Walk, Venice Beach.  She was a regular skater out there.  And that's Harry Perry - still playing his guitar (an electric one, now) out on Ocean Front Walk.  Taken around 1980 or so.

COMMENTS

If you are a concerned citizen, then you should read this and sign the  Hope Accord Petition.

People have said, "You are not a doctor," or you are not a "______________," when discussing Covid.  It's as if they don't understand how education works - that you got your facts from the best and most honest doctors, virologists, epidemiologists, vaccinologists, etc.  Then you use critical thinking and ask yourself if what they said was logical and if it makes sense.  This brings me to know years ago what is now reported was the truth:  Sweden's response to Covid.  

If you want to see the list of experts I went to for my information, just type in the search bar at the top of this blog, "some additional notes" and then scroll down the page.  If you want updated info on what they are talking about now, go to X for the very latest.