NASCAR at The Glen

A road course for a NASCAR team is a bit of a challenge. With only two on the Sprint Cup schedule of 36 races they are an anomaly. A huge part of a racing team's research and development budget is spent on making their race car go fast, improve its handling and its breaking. The monkey wrench for a road course is that the car has to make right hand turns. I know this may sound a bit strange to someone that has never looked closely at a racecar, and specifically a Sprint Cup racecar, but for 34 races the cars are honed, tweaked, and designed to turn left with the greatest efficiency and power at speeds upwards of 140 mph. The car almost looks like it's turning left when it is parked. At Watkins Glen International and Sonoma Raceway, these fire breathing, high horsepower beasts have to evolve into machines that can hug the curves, bounce over curbs, wind through ess turns and gracefully exit corners. It's a challenge NASCAR has accepted, and the fans love it. Here's a few of my favorite images from the weekend. Enjoy.

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August 2016 Desktop Calendar

Recently my wife and I got to spend a weekend in the fabulous Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. It was a mini vacation that we both desperately needed. The view from our room was full of color and lights in the evening (right through until morning) and crowed with the hustle and bustle of the Strip all day long. Now you can enjoy the vision that greeted us each time we gazed out the window on your desktop. Click here to download the high resolution version: August 2016

He Waits

My dog came with my wife when I met her years ago. I was never an animal lover and didn't have pets as a child, unless you count the random tiny fish or short lived Hermit Crab. It was a challenge I willingly accepted and gradually our relationship grew from toleration through acceptance and finally into love. That being said the kind of devotion Jager feels for me is a shadow of the emotion he displays for my wife. The joy in his tail when she talks to him and the longing in his eyes when she's not at home is genuine and adoring. Here he lays, patiently waiting for his mommy to come home. He waits...

Travel Days

For me, travel days are the days between. Between games, between races, between work, between the past event and the next possibility. They exist to restore life to the weary, or give inspiration to the prepared. These days between provide barriers for experiences, compartmentalizing life into locations instead of time.