Photos and New Comments

The photos below are some new and some old.  Shot some Memorial Day photos of the bodybuilding and bikini competition at Venice Beach.  Hope you all had a wonderful and safe Memorial Day weekend.  I'm using ON1 Photo Raw for most of the processing and Lightroom for naming and cropping.  

One of the competitors on Memorial Day

The above photo was as shot.  The woman in white was a competitor in the late 1940s.

I felt this background was more fitting for this subject and ON1 makes it easy to switch backgrounds.

And now for a few more photos from the early 1980's - these were taken in Santa Monica by the beach:

COMMENTS

Remember over the past four years when they told you to do this and that or you might be killing grandma?  Why is it now, with the borders wide open and illegal aliens (I think I'm not supposed to use that phrase) bringing in drugs, disease (I just read about a measles outbreak in an immigrant shelter), and committing crimes (including murder), that there is no mention of grandma's safety?  Or your children's safety?  Or your safety?  Over 100,000 deaths from Fentanyl!  What is the cost of room, board, medical, transportation, etc., that is being paid for these expenses?

On The Highwire this week (Episode 373) Francis Collins, the head of the NIH (National Institutes of Health), under oath, admitted the 6 foot distance was not based on anything.  Common sense told me that from the beginning.  The Highwire also talks with the founder of Xclear Nasal Spray - it looks like it probably works similarly to the Iodine/hydrogen peroxide nasal spray.  It has four ingredients:  Purified water, salt, xylitol, and GSE (grapefruit seed extract).  I haven't tried it but plan to in the future, only as needed (i.e. - at the first sign of an infection in the nasal area).  For an ongoing problem, you can follow the label directions.  If you're good with these things and use it all the time, you could mix up (make) a batch for a fraction of the price.