Splash Photo Archives
When I redesigned the site in 2002 to the “Minimalist” design, I also redesigned the splash page (example seen at right), which, from February 2001 until June 30, 2012, was the first page people saw when entering the site. Until August 2002, the splash page contained the logo in large size and the URL, with an invitation to click to enter. With the 2002 redesign, the splash page reduced the size of the logo and added a picture of me, which I changed monthly. This was the splash page’s design for more than nine years, with only minor color changes throughout the years until the splash page was discontinued with the completion of the site’s conversion to WordPress in 2012. At that time, the splash photo feature was temporarily moved to the Welcome page. When the site was redesigned in September 2012, the splash photo, though now smaller in size, was placed in the upper right corner of every page.
Since August 2002, I have run many photos in the spaces where the splash photo has resided, with “whatever I find interesting” as the guideline. All of the photos that have come and gone over the years are listed here, and I hope that you will find these photos interesting, too…
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December 2024Drone selfie wearing a red speedo and a Santa hat. Notes: There is a small backstory to this. See "Yes, that is a photo of me in a red speedo..." in the Journal. |
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November 2024Selfie in a building at Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Notes: For more photos from this outing, see "A bus adventure in Charleston…" in the Journal. |
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October 2024Selfie on the beach in Montauk, New York. Notes: For more photos from this outing, see "A visit to New Jersey and Long Island…" in the Journal. |
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September 2024Selfie with some cases of bottled water at Sheetz. |
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August 2024Walmart selfie. |
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July 2024Drone selfie at Terrapin Nature Park in Stevensville, Maryland. Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A weekend loop trip…" in the Journal. |
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June 2024Ace pride. Notes: Thanks to Aaron Stone for the great photo. |
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May 2024Selfie in the HR-V. |
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April 2024Operating MATT, a former Fairfax Connector Orion I bus, now part of the Commonwealth Coach & Trolley museum fleet. |
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March 2024A serious-looking selfie in a podiatry chair at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center in Olney, Maryland. Notes: Funny how this worked out. The doctor that I was seeing was not a podiatrist, but rather my weight doctor. But the office staff put me in a podiatry room. I remarked that since the chair was so comfortable in here, they should put me in here for every appointment. |
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February 2024Selfie on the Chicago “L” train. |
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January 2024Drone selfie in front of the house. Notes: For more photos from this flight, see "Yes, we are back in the air again…" in the Journal. |
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December 2023Selfie with a photo of mine from Funk the War 3 on display at the Kent State University May 4 Visitor Center in Kent, Ohio. Notes: For more photos from this adventure, see "A trip to the Midwest…" in the Journal. For the original photo, see see "Funk the War 3" in Life and Times. |
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November 2023Trying on a shirt at the Buc-ee’s in Florence, South Carolina. Notes: For more information about this adventure, see "I can’t believe that we went to South Carolina…" in the Journal. |
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October 2023Selfie on the Metro. Notes: For more photos from this outing, see "Toronto was fun, and flying… wasn’t bad." in the Journal. |
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September 2023Selfie in the fabric department at Walmart. |
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August 2023Selfie in front of the round window at the Hudson’s Bay flagship store at Yonge and Queen Streets in Toronto. |
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July 2023Selfie on the O-Train, the light rail system in Ottawa, Ontario. Notes: For more photos from this trip, see "I went to Ottawa..." in the Journal. |
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June 2023Drone selfie with the new HR-V while wearing space tights and clear glasses in Michaux State Forest near Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. |
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May 2023Selfie with the “TATTOO” sign from the Ink Master television show on the Ironbound Studios building in Newark, New Jersey. Clearly, I do not have what it takes to be Ink Master. Notes: For more photos from this day, see "A weekend in New York…" in the Journal. |
