Val Bueno

Placed 11^th in the challenge. The best corkscrew is the one you have with you. I always have my Swiss Army knife on me, so I am always ready to open a bottle.

Placed 39^th in the challenge. Sunlight and shadows on the flagstones of Venice, Italy.

Placed 41^st in the challenge. The Ef-2000 needs to be started, the A6m5 need to be painted, the Anti Aircraft M3 needs an engine to be installed, the MaK Venus needs her face to be painted and her arms attached, that Egg Shuttle in the back needs repainting and the Japanese tanks need the water to set hard and.....

Placed 20^th in the challenge. A woman lights and offetory candle in the Cathedral in Salamanca, Spain

Placed 9^th in the challenge. Mushroom ring at Iolani Palace a few years ago.

Placed 3^rd in the challenge. Cost estimates from my bin, supreceded and tossed.

Placed 66^th in the challenge. Moss on a rock wall.

Placed 34^th in the challenge. Unpainted Airfix 1/72 scale Spitfire plastic model.

Placed 61^st in the challenge. This was taken in the tidal flats surrounding the airport at Inchon, South Korea.

Placed 25^th in the challenge. With Virgin Atlantic offering Near Earth Orbit flights, visiting the moon cannot be too far off, right?

Placed 40^th in the challenge. Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii as my plane lands at HNL on Runway 26R8L

Placed 47^th in the challenge. After working all night inspecting the airport's runway and taxiway pavement, I shot this aicraft sitting on the North Ramp at HNL.

Placed 43^rd in the challenge. As seen from the Chateau at the top of the hill.

Placed 29^th in the challenge. A cargo ship gets loaded with containers at Honolulu Harbor's Sand Island Terminal.

Placed 2^nd in the challenge. Adding the final touch to my latest Magnum Opus, the 1/72nd scale Airfix Spitfire PR XIX.

Placed 4^th in the challenge. This is a small number of the bones held in the stupa at the killing fields in Choeung Ek, Cambodia.

Placed 96^th in the challenge. I was blinded by the sunlight in Fatima, Portugal. I didn't realize She was in the picture doing Her thing. She pushed me harder to take more pictures and to think creatively than anyone or anything else, and She didn't even realize it.

Placed 48^th in the challenge. From 1/4 mile away, a photo of Pope Benedict greeting the mass of people who came to celebrate teh canonization mass of 7 new saints. I was there with a group from Honolulu to celebrate the canonization of St. Marianne Cope.

Placed 21^st in the challenge. A fisheye view of the London Eye.

Placed 86^th in the challenge. Now that's a clock! London's famous Clock Tower with Big Ben the mighty bell ready to chime the hour.