Random America: The Country in Photos

America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples.

~Aurora Raigne

Dedication

To RonTipton, Friend and fellow Photographer

July 4, 1969 Marina Rockhall, Maryland

A Shadow of Myself Pennsylvania 1956

First of all, I have no idea why this text is underlined and I don't know how to turn it off. There is no underline button on the toolbar.  Secondly, when my PC crashed two weeks ago, I lose my Random America file. I didn't lose my original photographs, but they are scattered throughout several files. I need to reselect what I wish to publish here. The photo above is my shadow in my Pennsylvania backyard when I was 15 already shooting everything in sight. 

Pier on the Sassafras Maryland 1961

"is There Anyone out There?" Vail Mountain, Colorado 2006

 © 2008

Photo was taken from an observation tower atop 14,000 plus high Vail Mountain. This was an evening Bar-B-Que thrown for we quests at a user conference. There really were quiet a number of people to hear the country and western band, but they were gathered around the long tables and pits of food .

I went up this tower with a lady who had not been to work in over two months claiming a delicate, problem pregnancy. Yet, she managed to fly with us across country, travel by van to the resort, ride a cable car up the mountain and then walk up several flights of steps in this tower. On our return, she again was too fragile to return to her desk job. makes you wonder.

She was fired the next year for undisclosed crimes involving abused of client confidentiality. No comment, except one might tend to suspect her integrity.

There is a slight reflection and blurring on the photo caused by being shot through a glass window at the top of the tower.

Sailing School, Mystic River, 2006

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"Shopping Eyes" Newport, RI 2006

Double Vision Houston, Texas 1983

Sunbeams in Solitude, 2003 Brandywine Creek State Park, DE.

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Lobster Docks, Coast of Maine 2006

Smokey Mountains, Kentucky 1975

Brandywine River, Wilmington, Delaware 2004

Lighthouse and Lobsters, Coast of Maine 2006

Wharton Village, New Jersey 1978

Lexington, Kentucky 1975

Phoenix, Arizona 1982

I took this shot of Phoenix from a plane window as we were coming in for a landing. My old Minolta was acting up, thus the blackness at the left and right margins.-- LEM

"Beware the Giant Pidgins", Borgata, Atlantic City, NJ 2007

Daylight on Bourbon Street, New Orleans 1984

After the Storm, Springfield, PA 1978

Twilight on the Mighty Miss, New Orleans 1984

Garden Pond, Los Angeles 1986

Calm Before the Storm, Pacific Ocean off California 1986

Upon the Summit, Rockies, Colorado 2000

Windows Over Ninth Street, Wilmington, Delaware 2003

Carpenter Hall, Philadelphia, PA 2006

Peering into a New Day, Maine 2006

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Little Rambling Shack, Hamptons, New Hampshire 2006

I. M. Pei Building, Wilmington, DE 2003

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Dining at the Dino Cafe, Wilmington, DE 2003

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Alone, Vail, Colorado 1999

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Rutted Road Colorado 1999

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Halloween Parade, Delaware 1992

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Under the Willow, Longwood Gardens, Pa. 1980

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Summer in the City, Philadelphia 1967

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In the Bull's Eye, Virginia safari park, 2007

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Catamaran, Atlantic Ocean 1969

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Are They Statues? Michie Tavern, Virginia 2007

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Wow factor, Atlantic Ocean off the Coast of New Hampshire, 2006

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Lunchtime Rain Boone, North Carolina 2008

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Moonlight Swim, Cedar Lake, Massachusetts 2006

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Can you Guess the School Colors? The Corner, U. of Virginia, 2007

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Dawn at the Bridge, Natural Bridge, VA 2007

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First Fishermen Casco Bay, Maine 2006

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Faire Fare Mount Hope, PA. 2004

A Scotch Egg and fries, a favorite lunch at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire

Stone Cold Philadelphia 2004

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Wildwood Days Wildwood, New Jersey 1993

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On the boardwalk in Wildwood. Seems to be frozen in time. I was taken there when I was a kid and this photo was 15 years ago and those are my three kids, Laurel, Noelle and Darryl.  This was an Easter weekend, not exactly sunbathing season. It was a chill and windy day, thus the coats.

The KID in Wildwood 1957