The Khas Mahal, Delhi, India:
30 January 2011, Canon 20D at ISO-1600, 1/125 at f/5.6, 18mm, here.
The Daily Parker may miss a couple Photos of the Day over the next week or two as I'm ramping up a new project. I've got a few photos in the queue for the feature, but it takes time to find them, edit them, and post them, time I won't have lots of until probably the end of July.
Here, however, is Four Courts, Dublin:
22 June 2008, Canon 20D at ISO-100, 1/125 at f/8, 18mm, here.
Whiting, Vt.:
17 October 1992, Canon T-90, Kodachrome 64, exposure unrecorded, here.
Last one (I think) from Pittsburgh, from the Duquense Incline, inside the machinery room:
9 July 2011, ISO-100, 1/320 at f/5.6, 18mm, here.
Yet another view of PNC Park, from the Warhol Bridge, after the fireworks:
9 July 2011, ISO-1600, 1/30 sec. at f/5.6, 29mm, here.
Continuing the Pittsburgh theme, a view of PNC Park as the groundskeepers set up for the .38 Special concert:
ISO-3200, 1/15 at f/2, 50mm, here.
The indefatigable Paul Krugman smacks down the excuses for why the government has failed to get the economy going:
[A] destructive passivity has overtaken our discourse. Turn on your TV and you’ll see some self-satisfied pundit declaring that nothing much can be done about the economy’s short-run problems (reminder: this “short run” is now in its fourth year), that we should focus on the long run instead.
This gets things exactly wrong. The truth is that creating jobs in a depressed economy is something government could and should be doing. Yes, there are huge political obstacles to action — notably, the fact that the House is controlled by a party that benefits from the economy’s weakness. But political gridlock should not be conflated with economic reality.
This is the frustration: the GOP does not want the economy to improve. I hope Americans understand this by next November.
As TPM's David Kurtz puts it:
Republicans are taking the country to the brink of default demanding spending cuts that will signify their commitment to fiscal responsibility, smaller government and austerity—but for reasons that are political in the macro- and micro- sense, they can't come up with a list of cuts that actually gets the job done. It's not that they can't do the math.
One begins to feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis...
The Roberto Clamente Bridge in Pittsburgh, after Saturday night's fireworks, from the Andy Warhol Bridge:
9 July 2011, ISO-6400, 1/4 sec. at f/5, here.
Pittsburgh, Pa., exactly 24 hours ago:
ISO-100, 1/250 at f/5.6, polarizing filter, here.
After almost almost a year hiatus, the 30-Park Geas resumed yesterday in Pittsburgh:
Not only did I see a Cubs 6-3 win and a surprise, game-ending double play, but also a .38 Special concert complete with fireworks:
(My theory, not shared by the people around me, was that the fireworks were to celebrate the Cubs win.)
More photos today and tomorrow.