Bad Dream

Taken at the Homes for Our Troops Sporting Clays event last weekend. The event included well equipped reenactors displaying a lot of historical military equipment from WWII and Vietnam. Seeing this truck, equipped with three machine guns, it's easy to imagine that enemy combatants might first duck for cover and then try to wake up from their "Bad Dream".

Title: "Bad Dream"


Shot data: 1/500s f/4.0 at 90.0mm iso200
Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105 L zoom
Post-processing: Adobe Camera Raw > Photoshop CS4

The Pinta

This past weekend we visited the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History. The museum owns replicas of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria built by the Spanish government to celebrate one of the anniversaries of Columbus's voyage to America. The Santa Maria and the Pinta were both seriously damaged by a runaway barge a while back and had to be removed from the water and dry docked. The Nina was still floating and we were able to visit her where she was docked at one of the piers in Corpus. I liked the contrast of the old wooden Pinta replica and the newer steel construction of the bridge in the background.

Title: "The Pinta"


Camera / Lens: Canon 40D / Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 zoom