Gone? Again?

I haven't posted much since I returned from vacation 2 weeks ago. The problem with vacations is that the work still piles up while your gone and you spend 2 weeks catching up from a 1 week vacation. We should do like many Europeans (and Chrysler Motors): all take vacation at the same time so we aren't creating work for each other and we can ALL enjoy our time off.

The point of this largely pointless post is to tell my readers (both of you) that I will be gone again, from July 22 until about Aug 1. I will be in Ireland and Scotland taking pictures. Travel industry pictures as well as some model photography I have set up in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Until I return, I'll leave you with two photos from my last trip to Brussels and Paris.

Au revoir, until August! (click on the pics to see a bigger view, especially the panorama of Grand Place in Brussels)

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Michigan is a beautiful place this summer.

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What I did on Summer vacation, by Neil A

Blah Blah Blog, will be on vacation!

I am taking a much needed vacation. I'm not even going to bring my laptop, and my cell phone won't work. Needless to say you won't see anything new on this blog until I return the first of July. I hope I return with a lot of great images and a few new ideas for blog posts. In the meantime, here's an image from my last vacation to Puerto Rico.

Buenos dias, amigos!

Model: Chrissy Hill

"Want What You Have"

What a shame that we always want what someone else has. I read a post on the photography forum of Model Mayhem in which the poster lamented the fact that she met someone who was not even a serious photographer, yet owned very expensive camera and lenses.

She admitted she was jealous, and she seemed resentful that someone should have better equipment only because he had the money to buy it.

My response to her was the title of this post: "Want what you have". What I really wanted to say was there will always be someone with a better camera, a nicer car, a bigger house. No matter how much you have there will be those with more, and if your happiness depends on having the most, best or biggest, you are sure to be very unfullfiled.

Why is there such resentment towards those that have the means? It seems there's almost a sense of entitlement; that no one should have more than me, and if they do, they don't deserve it. What a sad way to go through life. If you want something, work to put yourself in the position to purchase it. If you can live without it, do so until you can afford it.

As my wife says: "You can have ANYTHING you want. You just can't have EVERYTHING you want.

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Coyote