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May 27, 2008 - Tuesday
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check out the beautiful woman I shot! (link to blog on other page)
Category: Art and Photography
I shot new head shots for the talented musician Rachel Shay.
the blog is on my other page, CLICK HERE.
I hope you check them out. Let us know which ones are best, please, she will be using them professionally.
Thanks, Julian.
P.S. Add my other profile and subscribe, please, if you haven't allready!.
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April 9, 2008 - Wednesday
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Wedding photography, Monkey style...Chad and Stacie
Current mood:  bouncy
Category: Art and Photography
CLICK HERE to go to the pics. They are posted on my new profile...add me as your friend and subscibe over there, please and thank you...J.
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April 1, 2008 - Tuesday
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Coming Attractions (if you like my stuff, you’ll like these)
Current mood:  artistic
Category: Art and Photography
First, I want to get a little business out of the way. I finally got around to converting my old backup profile into my new photography profile. I am going to begin doing all of my posting on this profile. I am doing this in order to use the URL http://www.myspace.com/monkeyamongchimps
rather than my old URL of http://www.myspace.com/julian_scanman This will be easier for me to communicate to my clients, eliminating the need for me to constantly emphasize "that’s an underscore in the middle".
I would request you please add me as your friend and kindly subscribe to my blog. Thanks in advance for indulging me in this!
OK, that out of the way, on to tonights post:
I have fallen WAY behind on processing my images... having some sitting around since last summer even. I thought I would post a representative shot from each prospective future photoblog. I hope you like one or two of ’em!
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Images from the State Fair several months ago.
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Random images from around OKC taken at various times.
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Goultry Oklahoma.
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Old footbridge at Government Springs Park. (still in progress) A collection of images showing the same landmark lots of different ways.
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The Birds and the Bees.
The rest of these were taken in the last month or so:
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VERY old adobe homestead ruins (courtesy of the lovely and considerate Amy and her kind father).
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Dugout, near the last house.
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Farmhouse a half mile from Amy’s Dad’s farm.
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Fairmont Oklahoma.
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Freaky Leatherface house.
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Abandoned hospital, Guthrie Oklahoma (that’s right!).
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Norman Bates House, Guthrie. (I have to admit, I moved that hat from the floor to that trunk...bad Mojo promptly visited me... I learned my lesson).
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Riverside Shack (spotted with my freshly lasered eyeball!)
Next three all shot last Sunday:
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Glass Mountains, Major County, Oklahoma. (One of my favorite places on Earth).
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Western Oklahoma drive
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Rattlesnake Roundup, Waynoka Oklahoma.
Last and most certainly not least, my next blog:
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Stacie’s Wedding. (I’m SO close to being finished, Stacie!!!)
Thanks to y’all for checking me out!
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March 17, 2008 - Monday
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March 15, 2008 - Saturday
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March 4, 2008 - Tuesday
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Throw my ass in the kitchen and I rock like BonJovi with big hair!
Current mood:  satisfied
Category: Food and Restaurants
My friend Becca often posts blogs about what she fixed for dinner. She always makes me hungry, and makes me want to do the same to you guys. I am fair to middlin with a camera, but I really am good in the kitchen ! I will have you all over my food like a fat kid on cake!
Tonight's Menu:
Pan seared lamb chops with sage rub and gin reduction
Oven roasted rosemary potatoes
Steamed broccoli with lemon butter
How do I make these??
I rarely use any recipes, just make stuff up as I go along according to what ingredients I find in the icebox (is icebox Okie enough for you?).
I just invented this tonight-
lamb chops:
rub:
fresh sage from my garden, chopped fine
chopped garlic
a little ground cumin
salt
fresh ground pepper
a dash of dried red pepper flakes
I rolled the chops in this mixture, then heated a good, heavy saute' pan on high heat till really hot, added olive oil, heated some more until almost smoking. Then, flash seared both sides of the chops. I then reduced the heat just a little shy of medium, and cooked them probably 7 or 8 min per side. (I kind of use Jedi Force to time my cooking). This made them nice and medium rare. I removed them to a plate and covered with foil. I then turned the fire on low, threw the remaining rub in for a minute or two (never let your garlic brown), then covered the bottom of the pan with some good gin. Turned the fire on high, deglazed the pan and reduced the mixture. I then turned the fire to below low, and finished the sauce with a pat of butter. I poured just a teaspoon of sauce on each chop.
potatoes:
small red skinned taters, quartered
red bell pepper, chunked
diced green onion
paper thin sliced elephant garlic
finely diced fresh rosemary from the garden
salt (use kosher salt, yum!)
pepper
olive oil
oven at 375
Put some oil in the bottom of a shallow baking dish.
Toss the ingredients together in your pan (enough oil to make everything stick together)(enough ingredients to make a single layer of taters). Cover with foil. Bake for 30 min. Remove the foil, give it a stir, turn oven to broil, put them close to the fire and broil another 5 min.
Broccoli:
steamed about 8 or 9 min
drizzled with just a tad of melted butter with the juice of one lemon and salt and pepper.
BTW, it helps to sing "oh yeah, all right" as you think of each new thing you are going to add!
Bon Appetit!
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February 20, 2008 - Wednesday
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February 16, 2008 - Saturday
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Winter Does Not Release Her Icy Grasp
Current mood: saving the world, one life at a time...LOL
Category: saving the world, one life at a time...LOL Art and Photography
I have had these shots lying around for a bit, just didn't seem timely to post them. Now, another winter storm looms over my home...I am 'on call', waiting for the folks to start playing bumper brains and the ER to sing its' siren song to me. I will through these out for your perusal and hopefully your enjoyment:
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February 12, 2008 - Tuesday
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January 24, 2008 - Thursday
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Dirt road Adventures Part 2... The Ghost Lodge
Current mood:  frustrated
Category: Art and Photography
OK, this is the second time for me to do this...the first just up and disappeared:
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The building on the grounds of the Mount Zion Babtist Church. I managed to find my way inside...and was astonished at what I found...
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A fellowhip hall, still nearly intact as it was abandoned. I thought this was pretty cool to find, but...
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I reallize I haven't found my way upstairs...after some searching, I find the stairwell...the entrance hidden behind a big pile of folding chairs...I climb over them and up the creaky, dark old staircase...
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I find the breath stolen from my chest
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Prince Hall Freemasonry
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prince Hall Freemasonry derives from historical events which led to a tradition of separate, predominantly African-American, Freemasonic fraternal organization in North America. Prince Hall Masonry has always been regular in all respects.
On March 6, 1775, an African American named Prince Hall was made a Master Mason in Irish Constitution Military Lodge No. 441, along with fourteen other African Americans: Cyrus Johnston, Bueston Slinger, Prince Rees, John Canton, Peter Freeman, Benjamin Tiler, Duff Ruform, Thomas Santerson, Prince Rayden, Cato Speain, Boston Smith, Peter Best, Forten Horward, and Richard Titley, all of whom apparently were free by birth. When the Military Lodge left the area, the African Americans were given the authority to meet as a Lodge, form Processions on the days of the Saints John, and conduct Masonic funerals, but not to confer degrees nor to do other Masonic work. These individuals applied for and obtained a Warrant for Charter from the Grand Lodge of England in 1784 and formed African Lodge 459.
Despite being stricken from the rolls (like all American Grand Lodges were after the 1813 merger of the Antients and the Moderns), the Lodge restyled itself as African Lodge 1 (not to be confused with the various Grand Lodges on the Continent of Africa), and separated itself from United Grand Lodge of England-recognised Masonry. This led to a tradition of separate, predominantly African American jurisdictions in North America, which are known collectively as Prince Hall Freemasonry. Widespread racism and segregation in North America made it impossible for African Americans to join many mainstream lodges, and many mainstream Grand Lodges in North America refused to recognize as legitimate the Prince Hall Lodges and Prince Hall Masons in their territory.
For many years Grand Lodges who claim state jurisdictions have integrated membership, though in some Southern states this has been policy but not practice and Prince Hall originated Grand Lodges are also integrated by policy and practice. Prince Hall Lodges are recognized by the Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) as well as the great majority of state Grand Lodges and international Grand Lodges. While no Grand Lodge of any kind is universally recognized, at present, Prince Hall Masonry is recognized by most UGLE-recognized Grand Lodges and not by others, but appears to be working its way toward further recognition.[1] According to data compiled in 2006, 40 out of the 51 mainstream US Grand Lodges recognize Prince Hall Grand Lodges.[2]
So, yes, to my friends that asked if this was a black church...apparently so...and this was an all black Masonic Lodge.
I have no clue as to why it was abandoned or if it continued in a new location. (this was outside of Henesey Oklahoma)
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I felt like Nicholas Cage or something!
I also felt like I might be disturbing some residents!
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Post Note:
I have NEVER had so much trouble posting a blog before...something has gone wrong at every turn...so I hope this works now!
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January 22, 2008 - Tuesday
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120 mile dirt road cruise Part 1
Current mood: artistic
Category: Art and Photography
Monday I had to drive from Enid to El Reno to pick up my daughter. This is a little over an hour drive. I decided to go dirt road the whole way, stop and smell the flowers, so to speak...took almost five hours! I did get a couple of decent photos though, and had a really good time.
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Shades of Hitchcock! I think these were starlings...it was cold and very windy, these guys were flying in giant swirling clouds, only rising a few feet, then back to earth. I had to run out and get in the middle of them. Impressively weird (the birds or me, you choose).
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I was shooting this old silo, an old boy pulls up, I figure I was about to be "whut fer'd"...but, as I am learning to expect, I was in the country and he was just checking to make sure I wasn't having car trouble (I only get hasled in town...once recently, a guy at a local loan shark, I mean loan agency, sent his 120 pound secretary out to roust me because I was walking in a vacant lot across from his business). Anyway, old boy proceeds to tell me that the silo is 113 years old, that there is an identical one on the next farm that was raised the same day (all by hand). And told me of lots of other stuff of interest in the area (including a 130 year old Amish barn that was built without any nails, I didn't even know any Amish ever lived in Oklahoma). He even asked me if I had crawled inside the silo yet, and suggested I did...so...
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January 19, 2008 - Saturday
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January 12, 2008 - Saturday
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January 3, 2008 - Thursday
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December 30, 2007 - Sunday
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froggy
awake
sleepy
adventurous
accomplished
