Tony's Photo of the Day

Flippin'

Most of the time I spend very little time watching TV...since I spend my spare time on-line. But yesterday I finally got around to watching a bit of my Dark Angel season one box set that I got for Fathers' Day...not all of it, just 7 or 8 hours worth. So, this is what I saw for a lot of the day when I looked down from the TV.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Hello, Joe

You know, I grew up with coffee-drinking parents. I went to college with some coffee-drinking friends. I went to work with coffee-drinking people. But I still didn't pick up the habit of drinking coffee 'til I was about 24 and had an on-line friend tell me I needed to try espresso instead of regular coffee. And thus began my addiction.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

All Keyed Up

I spent a few hours at church last night helping set up the sound cabling for a group that is helping lead the worship on Sunday. It was a long and busy night. When it was all over, all that was left was me and the instruments (and all of the cables waiting to be plugged in on Sunday). But more than anything, the piano caught my eye. A photo of the beautiful glossy black body with the shiny white keys is something that always says music...even if it's silent.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: Iglesia Luz y Vida in Dallas, Texas USA

Not So Bright Idea

My co-worker had this light bulb in his office today. I'd never seen a bulb quite this shape before...and I rather liked it. I like the clear glass that lets you see what it's really made of. There seem to be few things that are really interesting on the outside that will let you see what they're really made of.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Co-Worker's Office in Dallas, Texas USA

Shoe Whee

If you've spent any time with me, you've probably noticed that I almost always wear a pair of black wingtip dress shoes. I'm not quite sure why I like those...just that my dad drilled in my head when I was young that those are what look good. And now, my brain still tells me "That's what looks good."

See you tomorrow.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: Dallas, Texas USA

Now You've Got Yourself In A Pickle

Hey now, what's the dill? You get yourself in a pickle and want me to help you out? Sweet talking and buttering me up won't get you anywhere. So just mosey along so I can get back to vegging.

(Thanks for stopping by...and I'll see you all for tomorrow's photo).

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Flamed

Monday evening, like many evenings, we lit a candle for both the fresher smell it adds to the apartment and for the more emotional warmth that a candle tends to bring. I love the way flames look directly, but the way they look refracted through the glass interests me even more. So I took a few photos of the glass and the light shining through it from up close.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Chex and Mates

And start the week / finish the weekend with some junk food. I know I've been snapping a lot of food lately, but that's what's at hand.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

I Think I Can

For 16 years this was a view I looked at several times a day. Instead of coffee, I started the day with a Dew. For lunch, I had a Dew. With dinner, a Dew. While sitting and relaxing in the evening, Dew, Dew, Dew. Since I've been trying to cut the sugar down some, the Dew has gone by the wayside for the past four months. But the cans still live here...since I passed on my Dew addiction to my wife and kids. Oh well...it's a good test of willpower. = )

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Bass-ically

Have I got the low-down for you. Bass-ically, this is just another electric guitar...but it almost never gets high (like those other electric guitars). Its life seems full of lows...always fretting about stuff. I offered to take it's photo...and noted that it would be posted her on the web site. And not just wanting to just string it along, here's the photo.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

I've Got The Power

If ever there was a standard piece of equipment that is a part of my daily life, this would be it...the standard grounded power cable. All the computers at home and work use it. All of the monitors use it. All of the printers. External hard drives, CD drives and DVD drives use it. The scanners use it. Even some of the small non-computer-related appliances use it. It's everywhere I am. And as boring as it may be, I definitely wouldn't be me without it.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Munch A Buncha

After Tuesday night's snack of chips, my late night snack Wednesday night was on health freak level in comparison. But I looked in the fridge and found these grapes. And "munch a bunch" is what I did...after I took a few photos of course.

See you all tomorrow.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Chippity Chip Chip Chip

Midnight came around and I was still hungry...so I pulled out the Pringles. Always good for a salt and fat fix.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

My Big Hang-Up

I'm not sure how long my wife spent washing it, but I spent an hour and a half last night hanging up clean laundry. This right here is exactly what I was looking at for all that time. Is it any wonder I couldn't help but share it?

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Pitifully Pitless

Isn't this peachy? No, really...this is a photo of the inside of a peach with a light shining through it.

Peaches are definatley my favorite fruit. Sweet and tangy with a fuzzy skin. From the texture to the taste, I love these things.

I bought a few today and thought I should probably take some pictures before I devoured them all. So here you go.

See you tomorrow.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Monkey Business

When I was a kid, my grandma made each and every one of us grandchildren one of these monkeys. Every time another kid was born into the family, there was another monkey in the family as well. She's kept this up even with the great grandchildren. I reccon some day one of my great great great grandchildren will wind up with a pile of monkeys...wondering where they all came from. These monkeys are some of the most abused and loved toys ever in our family.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Roll 'Em Out

When I was younger (I mean really younger...like 10 and under), I spent quite a bit of time on something like this. Roller skates were one of the biggest parts of our self-entertainment as kids. We'd strap them on and roll back and forth in the same little space in the basement as fast as we could for hours on end. The skates were plainer...with black or white leather and shiny steel wheels...no bright colors and softer rubber cushioned wheels. Now my daughter plays in her skates. Sometimes a few little wheels are enough to make the day go by.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Anti Agua

This image is a vision of what I saw much of the day (and night) on Thursday. With the rain coming and going, an umbrella was the best thing to have at hand.

About 10:30 p.m. the lights went off for 5 minutes while the hail and rain poured down louder than I've heard in quite a long time. The wind blew. The lightening flashed. The thunder boomed. Mmmm...I like storms. It made for a very relaxing evening.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Office at Work in Downtown Dallas, Texas USA

A Chip Off The Old Block

It's hard to find a food more perfect than chocolate...well, as long as you don't count the fact that it's full of sugar and fat...and don't consider vitamins and other nutritious things important in your food. But if it wasn't for all that, chocolate would indeed be the only thing needed for sustenance. As it is, it's hard to resist it as a supplement to your diet...just by merit of its taste alone. It is because of that, that I absconded with one of my daughters' cookies this evening...just to um...take pictures of it. Yeah, that's it...I only wanted it for the photos.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Jumping For Joy

I'm not sure what the deal is with bugs and spiders in my apartment this month. But this cute (?) little creature wandered its way into our apartment last night and was hanging around on the wall in the dining room. So I decided that since it was posing there so nicely, I'd snap a few photos. It was doing amazingly well 'til suddenly it seemed to get freaked out and attacked...jumping right on the lens of the camera. Fortunately, the camera is immune to jumping spider venom. I pulled the camera away from the wall and it jumped back off of the lens onto the wall where it had been before. I tried to catch it to throw it out of the house, but it jumped off the wall and took off under some furniture, never to be seen again...for now anyway. I just hope it lets me sleep through the night. = )

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: The Dining Room in my Aaprtment in Dallas, Texas USA

Things Are Looking Up

Oh every day I take the bus
Into the part of town
Where office buildings rule the air
And concrete rules the ground

I walk the blocks to where I work
Within this building high
And ride the 16 stories up
There closer to the sky

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: The Building where I Work in Downtown Dallas, Texas USA

Red Light District

I turn my mouse over and all I see is red. I don't see orange. I don't see brown. But the camera sees so much more than the eye.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Vinyl Vividness

Sometimes, just the bright colors are enough to catch my eye. I guess this was one of those times.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: Chuck E. Cheese's in Dallas, Texas USA

A Whole Lot Of Nothing

Some days turn up all aces...some turn up like this. I guess you just have to take the good with the bad.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Wet Washed Window

This was my view of the world any time I looked out the window from work on Thursday. After a week of 85 to 95 degree days, it finally rained and brought sweet coolness to the air. The temperature actually hung around 70 degrees most of the day. So although it's somewhat of a pain to get around downtown walking in the rain...it's a blessing to have the bearable temperatures return.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Office in Downtown Dallas, Texas USA

Cloudy Cliche

After spendings two more hours at work on a last-minute PowerPoint presentation that somebody didn't plan for ahead of time (even though they had three weeks to do so)...I was tired and didn't feel like hunting for a photo. So I lifted up my tired, hung head and saw a sky that looked painted...and snapped a few photos. I hope you enjoy it.

See you tomorrow.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camer: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: Dallas, Texas USA

Belly Up

It's now been June for 3 days (four if you count today). And you know, it's been the strangest thing. Around our back door and back bathroom...inside the apartment...I have found about 25 dead June bugs since this month began. That has to be the strangest way I've seen to ring in a new month. Oh well.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My Apartment in Dallas, Texas USA

Special Condensation

Monday night we went out to dinner with some of my daughter's classmates (about 30 of them) and we were sitting by a window. I was taking photos of my daughter and her friends of course. But I liked the way light of the evening sun was shining through this pop...so I snapped a few photos of it. I like the difference...and yet the likeness of the condensation drops on the outside...and the "drop-like" bubbles on the inside.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: Golden Corral in Mesquite, Texas USA

Thump Thump

It seems I've been listening to a lot of thumpity music lately with plenty of bass. So with that and the fact that I seem to be stuck on light-related photos at the second, it only seems natural that this caught my eye to become today's photo of the day.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: My car in Dallas, Texas USA

Sunset City

I grew up way out in a suburb of Indianapolis. By way out I mean that there were corn and soy bean fields on three sides of our small neighborhood. We even went and played in the woods that were between the field behind our house and the next one. For all practical purposes, I guess I grew up in the country...or close enough to it to feel part of it. But I've been living here in Dallas for the past nine years...and it just doesn't feel the same. Sunsets, which are beautiful with a horizon of trees, hills and water...just don't seem the same with the hard borders of steel and brick. It's still pretty, but not quite the same.

-Tony (Eravau)

Camera: Nikon CoolPix 4500

Location: The Apartment Building where I Live in Dallas, Texas USA