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Thank you for the responses on the last blog. I can't find a way of answering individuals but I left a comment for the Kiwi Gentleman about which camera for motorsports. I think if anyone has a question, I will answer it in the next blog.

In the last blog I showed an earl drawing called "Ugly Man." It was indeed modeled on an oil painting by another artist, which confused some people but others figured out.

In this blog the drawing will indicate why I use the name 17th Lancer. I served in the 17th/21st Lancers. This drawing was based on a print by the late Harry Payne. I did the drawing first, then later did it as a watercolour. I used paint in tubes, rather than the blocks of watercolour paint you can buy, but if you don't secure the cap properly, the paint in the tube will go solid. I wanted a more opaque finish which is why I used the tubes of paint.

So there are two images attached. The drawing and the watercolour. Someone couldn't open the image in the last blog. I've no idea why. It's a bit annoying I can't just upload the images from the computer. I'm putting links to one of three on line stores I have. This one is still under construction as it's taking time to upload all my work, but I have closed my Adobe account and uninstalled Photoshop (Adobe gave you a portfolio page). The reason being, I'm fed up paying a monthly subscription for something that no longer works well on the Windows 8 system I still have. In fact without Windows 10, I can't get the latest upgrades I'm paying for. Instead I bought Affinity Photo for a little over $50 and it's mine. If I want different upgrades, I can buy packages. It's much better in my opinion. I also use Coral Painter, a combination of the two allows me to produce a variety of digital art which is where I began as an artist.

Please feel free to comment and I will answer in the next blog.








I have finally ditched Adobe Photoshop. I'm still using Windows 8 but unless you are on Windows 10, you can't update either Photoshop or Lightroom, but you are still expected to pay the same never ending subscription. Instead I bought Affinity Photo for a little over $50. That's it, it's mine and in 5 months will have paid for itself. It is as good, if not better than Photoshop. Much of it works in a similar way, so if you're fed up with Adobe, get Affinity.

From The New York Times;


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From Rolling Stone;


Donald Trump is the single most untrustworthy individual to have ever occupied the White House.
He is unfit for the office and should be removed from it. He seems to have an unending stream of lies that he applies to everything he does. The only thing one can trust about Trump is that he will lie again.

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...again and a gain, in a public venue, while I'm trying to work on writing and Portuguese. One of my pet peeves, for which I've had more than one NY's resolution. And I'm actually making progress. Using ear buds, self trance, etc. But am I the only such intolerant huperson in God's lovely creation? I know one thing,.whenever I had a meeting with such a lady, who might have otherwise been a decent match, ---first and last meeting. No doubt. H E L P !

This morning I had a dream.
No, nothing as monumental as Martin Luther King Jrs.
In my dream I was walking up an offramp from a highway.
As it wound around, it went up over a river.
I looked into the water, as I was walking up
and suddenly what emerged was a.....
Well it looked like both a tiger.....and a male deer.
It had the body and markings of a tiger, but the color was different shades of brown, rather than orange and it had antlers.
It looked down into the water at perhaps prey it had missed,
and then went back down into it, not returning to the surface as I watched below from above.
I awoke with a WTF / well that was different impression of it.

I'm not sure, if it was a teer, or a diger.

In Ancient Documents INDIA 2449 B.C.
An Indian text recounts in detail how aircraft were used to launch a weapon that devastated three cities. The record is unnervingly similar to an eyewitness report of an atomic bomb explosion. It describes:
the brightness of the blast, the column of rising smoke and fire, the fallout, intense shock-waves and heatwaves, the appearance of the victims and the effects of radiation poisoning. The historical text states,
• An iron thunderbolt contained “the power of the universe.”
• “An incandescent column of smoke and flame, as bright as ten
thousand suns, rose in all its splendour.”
• “Clouds roared upward.”
• “Blood-coloured clouds swept down onto the earth.”
• “Fierce winds began to blow.” Elephants miles away were
knocked off their feet.
• “The earth shook, scorched by the terrible violent heat of this
weapon.”
• “Corpses were so burnt that they were no longer recognizable.”
• “Hair and nails fell out. Pottery broke without cause. Birds
were turned white. After a few hours, all foodstuffs were
infected.”
• “Thousands of war vehicles fell down on all sides…thousands
of corpses burnt to ashes.”
• “Never before have we seen such an awful weapon, and never
before have we heard of such a weapon.
The war zone: the upper regions of the Ganges.

PAKISTAN
Skeletons in Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa are extremely radioactive. Excavations down to the street level revealed forty-four scattered skeletons, as if doom had come so suddenly they could not get into their houses. All the skeletons were flattened to the ground. A father, mother and child were found flattened in the street, face down and still holding hands. The skeletons, after thousands of years, are still among the most radioactive that have ever been found, on a par with those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

SOUTHERN SAHARA DESERT
Albion W. Hart, an engineer graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while traversing a desert in the interior of Africa, was puzzled by “a large expanse of greenish glass which covered the sands as far as he could see.” Not until 50 years later, when he passed the White Sands area after the first atomic test there, did he recognize the same type of silica fusion.

ISRAEL
In 1952 archaeologists unearthed, at the 16-foot level, a layer of fused green glass 1/4-inch thick and covering an area of several hundred square feet. It was made of fused quartz sand similar in appearance to sand at the atomic test sites of Nevada and the Gobi.

BABYLONIA
In 1947, archaeologists on one site uncovered, in succession:
• A layer of agrarian culture
• An older layer of herdsman culture
• A still older layer of “cave man” culture
• Then they reached another layer—of fused green glass!
Lightning may occasionally fuse sand, but when it does, the fusing occurs in a distinctive, root like pattern. Only a nuclear explosion could produce an entire layer, a whole stratum of fused green glass.

Do you think we the people caused the great flood and the ice age?

I've always been fascinated by helicopter flight and especially watching a Bell Jet Ranger with it's sleek fuselage. It's amazing to see one streaking across the sky. For me, I lived due East of the Opa Locka airport where the United States Coast Guard maintains an air station.

I read that helicopters occupy only 4% of their total operations at that site. That percent seems low as I can hear helicopters flying over my house several times an hour!

Whenever there is some military activity in the area, you can hear chop chop chop chop of larger helicopters coming from miles away. Yeah, I would often run outside to see them only a few hundred feet up usually heading toward the ocean, most likely on a reconnaissance mission. A lot of military aircraft fly out of that airport. Over the years several presidents have used that airport as it's easier to secure than using the Miami International Airport.

My new place in Palm Beach County doesn't get much activity in the sky... I'm lucky to hear 3 or 4 helicopters in the course of the day. Tonight, as I approached the gate to my community, I could hear a helicopter at close range. There's a hospital just a few blocks away and it was apparent the pilot was making a slow descent to land on the rooftop helipad.