Hi Gabriel - I hope you're contest goes well!  Please see my photo entry for the AR contest.  Like you're idea it's just another wonderful way to get people to share.

Hi Gabriel, Ok I have 3 taken today especially for you. The view from my living room. The sunset from my living room and a playmate for Enoch, our 97lb German Shepard "Brutas Tutas" 

Cynthia, great photos in your blog (just a note, my last name is Silverstein! but thanks for the link back).

BB - love the ring to Brutas Tutas!  The sunset is gorgeous as well.  Any good bass in that pond/lake? 

Great idea, Gabriel. This weekend I'll have to go looking for a shot I took some years ago of the Dolomites with just that pink glow.

Sharon, come back with that shot, please.  Here is my best sunset shot: 

This is from Isla de la Juventud, the largest non-mainland island of Cuba, where I went diving for a week or so a few years ago.  This I think was actually the film version that I scanned.

Note added after the fact:  I decided to enter this one for my Microsoft Vista WOW entry - please feel free to vote for me here.

Gabriel, TLW and I are the only ones that ever fish it because there is no access without tresspassing on our property or the groves. It is full of bass! Spring fed lake very clear with a white sandy bottom. The largest we have caught was about 7lbs but the neighbor caught was 12 lbs. During the summer months I can pretty much catch them at will.

I'll let you know when we are in the neighborhood BB, and I'll bring the Culprits!

Gabriel, I was thinking more of a hook up in Costa Rica for some Marlin fishing.

Gabriel, I posted mine here. Just a few I can grab right now....

Good idea for a break from blogging. And don't forget to post these to Localism (if appropriate). I just downloaded Picassa (from Google) and have been cleaning up my hard drive to get rid of a bunch of old listing photos. If I find something good I'll be sure to post. Picassa's a nice tool - quick for organizing and making basic photo edits.

BB - I've fished out of Quepos but mostly got tuna and sails, no marlin, though we weren't fully in marlin season.  It's one of the few places on earth to get a grand slam on marlin in one day.  I'm in without hesitation.

Loreena, great shots and clips (I have always loved the Petronas Towers design), thanks!

John, I'm planning on doing the same thing with Picasa, I just have to get some "free" time!

nice pics     

Gary, put some up of your favorites, don't be shy!

The shot on the left was taken from the top floor in my dorm at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks in January, 1978.  It was early January and the air temperature was about 50 below zero.  The plume you see is fog coming out of the cooling tower at the coal burning power plant.  It was drifting off to the south that afternoon.  By the way, the time of day was around 12:15PM - pretty much the highest point the sun would get that day.  The second shot is about 55 below the next day at sunrise - about 11:45AM.  There was no wind and the fog turned to ice fog (tiny suspended ice crystals) and settled over the city.

Sam, I love the shot on the left.  I love Alaska, but I like going there in the summer!

Here are two more, from a sunset last week shot from our study. 

Is it better with or without the window frame?

Okay so I've been quite absent for the last two weeks, but thats been because of the blessings of lots of great deals in the works.  I could go on and on about the best photo submitted, or better still, the best I've seen around AR, but Jonathan Washburn just posted his favorite photo of the day award and I love the shot so much I'm giving it my WOW contest winner prize.  It's a serene waterwheel/mill shot on a still waterway (how does a water wheel work without moving water, one might ask!) in Virginia, taken by Jeff Craig.  I highly recommend checking it out.