How insensitive!

Just found out a good friend of my wife's just got some more disturbing news. She works for the University of Nebraska Medical Center here in Omaha in the Internal Medicine department as a secretary. She has been battling cancer for some time and was planning on an operation in Iowa City, Iowa that would have left her cancer free. Well the good old UNMC told her that if she left to get the operation that they could not hold her job and she would be fired. Now she can't get the operation because she needs the job to provide a roof over her head.

I have to ask, "How could a medical center be so insensitive to do such a thing"? If anyone out there has any clout or email connections, please bombard this organization.

Do we have Obama to thank for this?

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Hello, it's me again. Just got back from a trip to Ohio to visit relatives. It cost me $700 to tune the van up before I went, and when I got there, $650 for new tires (I new they were iffy before I went but tried to sneak by). Guess I will hope that the weather stays descent so some of those golfers will still play and need my golf cart expertise and I can replenish my funds. anyway, I digress.

I was overwhelmed during the trip by the beautiful fall colors. Of course I didn't get to take many picture of them due to me driving and because of family requirements to do other things. However, I did manage to capture a few images one day while visiting some pumpkin patches. Since I did not have time to enter a panorama image in my camera club competition, I decided to whip one up an put it in here.

I worked it over a little with Nik filters to help punch up the colors a little.

Now that golf season is slowing down I might be able to do a little more photography and blogging. I also have my own domain name now, papagphotos.com , and I will be working on improving my photo selling site. By the way, I choose the domain name because some of my grand kids call me PAPA.This site is pretty cool because you can order prints, matts and fames and view what they look like before purchasing and they handle all the purchasing and shipping parts of the business.

Thanks for stopping by again and don't forget to shop at papagphotos.com .

Cox Classic Media Day

Yesterday I started my annual mission to photograph various events for the 2012 Cox Classic at Champions golf course in Omaha. The first event was the Media Day outing for local media personnel. It was a fun event and it was evident when talking to the various folks as they past by my area. They all said that there were other people photographing them on the course and they were all cuter than me. Hmmmm. Oh well, I have included here four of the on-air personalities from two of the local stations. Guess the other two stations don't have any avid golfers. More blogs will be coming as the tournament unfolds, which is August 2nd thru the 5th. Thanks for stopping by.

It's All About Competition.....................

The last few days my buddy over at Iowa farm Boy posted some more pictures from our NHRA drag race trip to Topeka KS. They were of burn outs and wheelies from the door slammers (street cars). So I decided to throw a couple up here to compete a little. He also put up a really attractive picture of me (not). Hope you enjoy these and thanks for stopping by.

Boy would I like to be these photographers just once.

And Now, The Rest of The Story..............

As promised in my last blog I am showing you what else happened to the dragster as he progressed down the track. He blew an oil line and caught fire. Now this is something that the NHRA track officials frown on because it oils down the track and they have to pause in the action to clean it up and prepare the surface again. You may ask what preparation are done to the track. They have to scrape the rubber laid down by the race cars and then apply a sticky substance to the surface to allow the racers tires get a better grip on the track. Besides frowning on this "oiling down" the racer is fined $1000. So you can see this was a bad run all the way around.

I have finished off this photo two different ways. Let me know which you like better (or not).

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This Can't Be Good............

Went to the NHRA drags in Topeka, KS last Sunday. turned out to be great weather and good racing. Top speed this day was 329 mph and this was done in 1000ft. This is the new distance NHRA has set to for safety reasons. I managed to get a few good shots (I think) of the action. Below is a lucky bonus shot of a dragster that is not having a good day. come back again to see what the results of the run looked like.

A Flashback Challenge

I happened to have last Wednesday off work so I drove over to Flashbacks for the weekly car show. I was hoping to meet up with my buddy Rich (Iowa * Farm * Boy) and do a little photo shootin' of the cars. Alas he did not show up while I was there but I got some good shots (I think). So here is one of them after running it through some post processing and painterly programs. Hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by and please visit my site if you would like to purchase a photo at gary-prill.fineartamerica.com .