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Re: World Cruise 1966 on 7 Seas letters  
November 23, 2011    I found your account of the voyage to be extremely interesting. I was reminded of Burton Holmes Travels a multi-book series of his world travels.I read the complete set when in my teens. You visited such a fascinating variety of countries and you did a great amount of research regarding the places that you experienced.I am amazed that you took the time to write so extensively about the travels considering that you were so wrapped up in looking for interesting facets of places where you stopped.Also,I was quite impressed by your choice of words in describing the visits and you made it more interesting by inserting your personal reaction to the many new to you features. All-in-all it is simply a most interesting story of your adventure. I might re-read some of it. Bud Hill
 
10-Aug-11 What an absolutely amazing collection. And I haven't seen them all. Nancy Webb
 
6-Aug-11 Love this Vic, you are an amazing photographer  Linda Bahne
 
5-Aug-11 14   Wonderful to see your work again.    Jerry Kincaid 
 
November 7, 2010     You would think that structures and country scenes in Great Britain would be the same as in the US...but your fotos have a bucolic quality that is not seen here.    Bud Hill
 
September 27, 2010     superb images, will check your site on regular basis  Ken Billington
                                                                                                                            
September 18,2010  Thankyou so much for the pictures, they have such wonderful atmosphere. Gill Fowler
 
August 28, 2010   Wow these are marvelous!! Thelma Johnson
 
August 28, 2010   Hey Vic- These pix are gorgeous! I love your mind's eye... visual poetry, always stirring up emotions in my heart & in my head. john webb
 
August 27,2010    love your work   craig morabito
 
April 19, 2010   you are an artist   philippe ( fi-fi from France)
 
march 19, 2010  Absolutely GREAT photos Vic. I loved seeing the "old" and "modern" in close proximity to each other.  What was that very modernist structure with the water around it?  Very interesting. Virginia and I looked at all 148 photo's of Spain... Ken Hicks 

 

march 22, 2010...your pictures are breathtaking as usual.  I watched till my eyes wore out….at one sitting.  Thank you so,  so much for sending them. Helen and Robert

 

January 20, 2010 What a pleasure to enjoy ! I take my time and come back here often to just relax and invoke the senses... Tony Plake (Dallas, TX)

 

January 6, 2010     Awesome....!!     Kenro

 

January 3, 2010  Very inspiring work you have here. Wesley Smith

 

from Twitter December 31, 2009  salespowertips: Love your work. Looking forward to your tweets. Hopefully mine will be inspiring and motivational...Let me know if I can help..Butch

 

from Twitter December 28, 2009   strangerob: lovely photos of vegas. Did you ever run into a photographer in NY by name of Leonid Lubianitsky. Just curious

 

from Twitter November 8, 2009   chriswalsh812: thanks for the slideshow! It's great!

 

from Twitter November 3, 2009  freebizforum: I enjoyed your photos , they where beautifull. I am an internet marketer here to assist you make Extara Income online  from twitter

 

from Twitter Friday, 10 July 2009  t4kimuli: amazing pics: gorgeous im speechless ....   kampala, uganda  4kimuli: i definitely will with everyone i know that loves to perfect beauty. its a dream i wish for but few make it there.absolutely gorgeous thx

 

from twitter tarathralls: Thanks for the slide show - really enjoyed it - going to London in 2 wks, can't wait...suggestions?

 

July 8, 2010   Wonderful work! I was actually trying to find a way to email you and thank you for tweeting one of my blog pieces on Sarah Palin. I'm curious how you found me. (I'm active on Facebook but not on Twitter). So finding these images was a surprise treat.

 

 

From Facebook "Victor, I will indeed take a look at your web site. Yes, 30 years is a long time. One of my more vivid Bretton Hall memories is of coming over to your apartment to watch some Met opera production or other on PBS. I later became quite a fan of the opera, and when I lived in New York again in the 1990s, I attended the Met regularly. I am in particular a fan of Benjamin Britten and I revel in the fact that I have a connection to Britten - however tangentially - through you. I'm still writing and playing bass in several bands here in Tucson. It's good to be back in touch."  Fandrae

 

Nice to hear from you Victor   How lucky you are to be living in the Lake District!   I used to own a house overlooking Beatrix Potters' farm at Far Sawrey.
All good wishes, Richard Gaddes

 

Dear Victor, Your photography is exceptional. The one you gave us years ago of Central Park in full fall colors continues to give us pleasure. Our, super who is into photography, always comments on that picture when he comes into our apartment. Cesare (manhattan) 

 

July 2, 2010 Hello Victor! I love your photography! You are amazingly talented! I also love your website...very nice!  susan gonzalez

 

Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 11:23 AM
To: Victor Parker
Subject: World Trade Center Inside 
 

Victor,  Thank you so much for the pictures.....I'm sitting here crying and remembering how beautiful it was inside.  I was inside them a lot back in the late 70's and early 80's before I moved to Florida.  I worked for M

errill Lynch and our investment group was inside the black building to the east of the Towers on the plaza.  I spent many, many lunch hours eating in the plaza reading.  I never took any pictures though....you just think they will be there for ever.......little did we know..... I remember how scary it was taking the elevators up 110 stories in something like 35 seconds....and the elevators held 50 people going up to the observator then walking to the windows and "hanging on" to the railing before looking straight down and seeing the street below?  Even though you we inside, it was still very very scary. 

I love the pictures....thank you so much for the memories.....my heart is still very heavy....but it was wonderful seeing and remembering ......Marcia

 
 
Really loved the new slideshow....can't wait for more...!!  jsd 

 

This is some dedicated photographer, peaceful and relaxing art with talent such as I have not seen in a long time....

 

Way Cool!!! Thanks....Shirley

 

In part, these remind me of the modern art that we saw in the 60's, the Newtons rings that appear with some microscope slides and lenses and the trapped air you sometimes get with acacia or balsam based microsope specimens. Some look like cross-section slide specimens of tree branches as prepared from pine. Certainly they represent to me what I might imagine other environments look like or I should say, to be found in other existences and reveal the unexpected discoveries of extra terrestrial environments. Some folks have averred their theories that such existences are the obverse of our own and so its therefore not unexpected that this would result from the alternative affects of silver nitrate on negatives or similar. An interesting yet pleasing result that produces designs that would adorn the walls of consulting waiting rooms (for example) as conversation exhibits of a plasma like classical nature. Probably would be enhanced by exhiiting with an background illuminated motion (fan effect)-- Henry

 

Hi Vic, These are a trip. Many look better than a lot of modern art I've seen, and many look like you did get hold of a new batch of PhotoShop filters and just went crazy. Others stood out for me- the ones that were less protoplasmic and solarized. I'm not a big fan of radians or lense flares, but that's just me. Without a doubt, 219 invoked the most wonderment. Is that Purgatory? 58 is my favorite in the more abstract class, very soothing and sexy. That needs to be framed in a cocktail lounge. 98- wow! the chem lab explodes under a black light as you duck behind a counter- a really cool tie die effect and color set I also liked the muted tones in 69 the sense of loneliness in 111 The neon gold colors and Picasso-esque shapes in 53 strike a groove... though the black sun is begging for a strong white, yet fairly tight corona bound within the yellow area. The radian rays might be worth trying in coarser form... less on quantity, broader width each. 136- whacky abstraction... looks like more than just a filter 24 - interseting set of unsettling colors- how it would feel to swim in EMP and radiation waves after a nuclear air burst while climbing glaciers in the arctic  -- John 

 

That was a real work of art. I think it is my favorite so far. You are expanding my horizons. ha        Love,   Marlene

 

Hi Vic -- that picture is priceless... I'll bet you couldn't find that scene anywhere again... Things must have changed in the last 27 years..

Incredible shot. Love the subtle colors, and the abstract-ness. Keep em coming!! -Scott  

hi victor....keep up the great work that you do...

 

Hi Victor, I think your photo is spectacular. It should sell very well.  

victor....it is a wonderful picture.....however it still makes me sad and mad to know that so many people's lives ended much too soon......southern california beckons you......love mona

 

Hi Victor, I'll tell you what we think of that picture. It is super wonderful...and beautiful. Brings back many memories. You did an excellent job.....

 

Victor, I think it is certainly interesting enough for me to copy and

put on canvas with acrylic !  Beautiful colors ! Tony

 

victor...if that is your photograph......you are fabulous.....Happy New Year....

 

My God, what a wonderful picture! I'll save this one for sure, and pass it on to all the rest of my fish eating friends. I do have a medallion that was blessed by the Pope, but of course, I didn't get it in person, and I'm sure that they were blessed in the millions. Thanks again,  Rick

 

Hi Victor, Well, you hit the jackpot again! This pic looks as if it came straight from Abraham's day.....We love it. Thanks for including us. Helen

 

What a delight. Robert and I looked the ships over and over. We both liked the black and white ship best. We liked the old ships contrasted with all the new buildings. The full sails were/are beautiful. It almost made tears in my eyes trying to visualize seeing them in person! It must have been a wonderful day for you. You must have some camera! Can you imagine traveling on a ship like that out in the open sea...in a storm!??? Think of all the men rowing below!!!

 

As usual your pictures are wonderful.  Hope you
both are having a wonderful time.  Keep the
pictures coming!  Do let me know when you will
be back in the states

 

Beautiful photographs, so much detail that there would be too much to comment on...


Monday, December 22, 2003

Victor,

What a nice surprise getting this picture so soon. I really didn't expect to receive anything until after the Holidays. Glad you enjoyed the car, but I feel I definitely got the better of the deal. This picture, its beautiful and I'm very much looking forward to receiving your other masterpieces.

I don't get the opportunity to check my email every day, but your picture was a beautiful way to start the day.

Happy Holidays....

 

Dec 21, 2003  Thanks for the photos and the card, they are brill. Have saved a load of them Have a great Christmas, wish we were all together. Miss you Love you Mandi, Shaun and Crew x x x x x x x ---

Hi Vic -- that is a great picture... I've never been to New York, so what area is that a picture of??? Let me hear from you...Love, Aunt Marge

how did you get these on internet? scanner? how are you? what is going on in your end of the neighborhood? how's the little woman? i'm off to the store to buy some wrapping paper....josh ---

Victor,
Thank you so very much for the cards! I have been thinking about you, especially on Thanksgiving. How was your holiday? I hope all is well with you. Things are more than crazy over here, especially with Christmas coming. Please let me know how things are with you. Take care, and I wish you the best now and always!
Merry Christmas!
Donna

 

I like it, keep them coming!!! May you have a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year, Judy Cole

 

Sunday, December 28, 2003 (responses to the "Snow Driving" photo)  Very cool! I got a digital camera for Christmas and can't wait to figure it out! Pat Donavan

 

Victor, I think it is certainly interesting enough for me to copy and

put on canvas with acrylic !  Beautiful colors ! Tony Plake

 

Hi Vic. This is an interesting photo... it could almost be entitled, "The parting of the Red Sea". We are leaving Canada tomorrow, (29th) for our trip home. We have had a pretty good snow fall here as well. More later when we get home!!! Ken Hicks

 

Victor,
Thank you for the wonderful emails. Would you please give me a call and leave your telephone number on my machine? The telephone can be more convient for me. Thank you. I hope all is well!
Take care,
Donna

 

Hi Vic & Stella:

Thank you for the pictures you have been sending our way. I really enjoy them. Marlene

 

Monday, December 29, 2003

Thanks for sending us the neat picture you took while traveling in the snow. Kevin too has discovered many fascinating "tricks" with his digital camera that he could never pull off with a normal 35mm SLR. Very interesting stuff with lighting, filters, effects, and on and on. The more he experiments, the more interesting the results. It's nice to see other's creative ideas too. He keeps threatening to follow in Victors footsteps and try to sell some of his creations. Stay tuned.

 

We are enjoying your pictures that you send to us and hope to see more of them. Keep up the good work. Hope you have a happy new year.           Kevin & Kristina

Way Cool!!! Thanks...Happy New Year......Shirley

 

very interesting.   i forwarded the rest to a friend.  it's like driving to the cabin. happy new year.    josh

 

Tuesday, December 30, 2003

hello!! great picture...many thanks and all the best from Gerhard Samuel

 

Wednesday, December 31, 2003

hi victor & stella......awsum..ausum....aasum.....are you in tahoe....looks fabulous......happy new year to both of you. love mona

Jan 1, 2004

 

Victor,

It is so full of energy that it makes me want to get up and do something...how motivating! It makes me feel like I'm sitting on the front of a bullet train in Japan. It is wonderful, great preview of wonders yet to come. Happy New Year and looking forward to your other great works of art! Marcia

 

Monday, January 05, 2004 Hi Vic-- that is a beautiful picture, and must be a georgeous beauquet...Was there a special occasion??? Have a good day, and keep in touch...Love, Marge

Hi Victor,
Happy New Year! Would you please, please, please send me your telephone number via email, Love,
Donna

Victor,

I skipped through my other 14 messages to anxiously see your next picture. Wow! You are so talented and I love the picture. I'm sure Stella enjoyed her flowers, but its nice that the rest of us can enjoy your picture of them too. Keep them coming!!!!

Marcia.

 

Thank you, We needed that!!!!  Judy (Cole) Mesquite, NV

 

Monday, January 05, 2004  Hello.....this is the first "official" VictorPicture of the year 2004....taken almost 30 years ago in New York...vp

victor...if that is your photograph......you are fabulous.....Happy New Year......Mona

 Tuesday, January 06, 2004  (Death in Venice photo sent yesterday)

Hey Vic,
Thanks for the pictures. I really do totally appreciate them. Sorry for not saying so sooner. I appreciate you including me. You are an excellent photographer and I am a visual person, so that's what I mean when I say I really do appreciate them. I can appreciate beautiful composition and interest subject matter, not to mention the technical prowess of lighting, etc.
It's exciting you have a film scanner and will be sending more soon. Good job! I look forward to receiving more and again appreciate you including me. Hope things are well. Take care.
Scott Webb

 

Wooof is what I think! Brad

 

Hi Vic -- this picture is outstanding....Love, Aunt Marge -- keep sending what you can...MH

victor....in a word...."awsum" mona

Hi Vic,

Nice pic! Hope all is well with you. I was going to tell you, if you have any weather shots and want to get your name out there, you can post your pics to a site that I edit called Weather Picture of the Day. There's an awesome "tribute" photo by Jack Corso with lightning striking the World Trade Center down at the lower right. See http://www.wpotd.com. If you submit a pic, I can post a link to your website under the "Photographer" section, to stimulate some traffic & raise interest.

I like this album format, but you may want to consider getting some more recent album creating software than what we use here. This is old software called Jasc Media Center. In any case, drop me a line at home sometime...

TakerEZ,

John

 

Me thinks you have a very very talented eye! Loved it!...Pat Donavan

Friday, January 09, 2004

Hi Vic -- your Tahoe pictures are great, snow and all... Also thanks for the picture of Chase... He looks like his mother Linda, and I see a little of Diana in him... thanks, Aunt Marge

You have been to many places! Lucky Guy you are! I am enjoying getting these! Thanks so much!......  Brenda "Hicks" Sheriff

Victor:

I forgot to mention to you that Jan Boleto sent me pictures of the OTSL English Village Sports Day Party from 1978 – do you remember that???

Hysterical picture of the two of us. God, I was young – and had hair!

Brad

Friday, January 09, 2004... Moroccan Photo (Fountain)

"Beautiful".......Pat Donavan

January 11, 2004

Victor...you have the "eye" of a genius.....i love this picture.....mona  (Morrocan photo)

Hi Victor,

Interesting pic... I'll get this pic up for 1/28/04. We don't have a whole lot of people posting from the west... most are back east & Canada. It would be nice if you could get some stuff from there. Summer in the Carson Valley would be awesome with lightning pics as storms clear the passes. I'll never forget one summer heading to the cabin from Grover Hot Springs, heading up Kingsbury grade with strikes coming down all around us... wild & freaky! Send me your snail mail address & I'll send you a copy of the Weather Picture of the Day ScreenSaver on CD if you want. Shots from all over the world, & they're absolutely awesome. The pictures are fullscreen, not these tiny little 640x480 guys. It is inspiring to say the least... John

Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Hi Victor ! not my favorite, Gary  (Ruppell)..re...Death in Venice

Hi Vic. Got your pic in the album for Weather Picture of the Day. See http://www.weatherpictureoftheday.com/album/wpotd-album-i0867.htm , or go to http://www.wpotd.com , click on Album at top, then click Page 25 at bottom left.

Thanx- John

 

Wednesday, January 14, 2004

That is great - looks so dramatic. (Pat Donavan....weather photo)

Thursday, January 22, 2004

VICTOR...PICTURE RECEIVED...YOU ARE THE BEST....MONA.......(" along the immigrant trail")

Victor,

Those are beautiful! Thank you   (Pat Donavan)

 

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Hi Vic -- this is a beautiful picture -- the oldest bar in Nevada...keep up the good work Love, Aunt Marge

good pic of the old watering hole! ....Pat Donavan

Thursday, January 29, 2004

 

Wow, I can't believe it's been seven years already. Thanks for the great pic of Diana - I still miss, her, too!  Shirley


Super picture of "Cousin" Diana... thanks for sharing. Ken

 

Hi Vic and Stella -- thank you for that beautiful picture and rememberance of Diana...I printed it and will keep it... It doesn't seem like 7 years... A Marge

 

Hi Victor,    What a beautiful picture of our sister. It made me break down and cry. I really, REALLY miss her. ANd it doesn't' get any better with time either!!!! That was a lovely Tribute to Diana. Thank you for sending it.

 

Hi Vic,

I don't see anything under the attachments section, so I don't know

what to download to get your picture of Diana.  Would love to see it.  It is wonderful of you to remember her during this time.  Any suggestions? Mary Ellen Landry 

 

Saturday, January 31, 2004    (Sent the Two Towers picture today)

hi victor, hi stella....let's meet for a drink at the bar...(The Old Genoa Bar Picture)...looks fab..love mona have you ever visited virginia city.nevada.....just an hour or so north of you?.....it is sooooo cute....i loved the mark twain museum.....mona   (victorpicture #4...Old Genoa Bar)


Victor great photo, it gives me the shivers though. Len (Two Towers)

 

Sunday, February 01, 2004  

I like it very much - love the towers in the background with the bridge in the foreground! Hurry up with your web site!  (Pat Donavan)

 

Hi Victor, I'll tell you what we think of that picture. It is super wonderful...and beautiful. Brings back many memories. You did an excellent job.....but, I can't even hang up all the pictures I have. We counted 350 at the old three story house where we lived five years ago...before we moved here. The walls were covered. I collect Mother and Baby pictures. Anyway, Robert has let me hang some here, but I started out only a few...and then a few more. He does not want the walls covered here. So we aren't buying any new art work. Hey, have you seen the movie: Surviving Picasso...? It was very good...with Anthony Hopkins. Thank you for sending your photos to us, we enjoy seeing them. We think of you soooo often and miss you. Much love, Helen and Robert

 

Hi Vic and Stella -- this is a great picture, and taken in 1980... what a treasure... So, you will be putting them on your own website... Bette with her paintings, and you with your photos... Sounds like good business....Love, Aunt Marge

I like it. It's OK to hold a memory of what it looked like before.  John Haug

 

victor....it is a wonderful picture.....however it still makes me sad and mad to know that so many people's lives ended much too soon......southern california beckons you......love mona

So pretty. I wish I were using my camera on that shot. I'd love to be in the snow. So would the kids!!

Vic, seems like you are really getting into the scanning of photos and finally filing all of your great pictures. How is the web page?

Love Linda

Dear Vic:

Thanks one more time for the wonderful picture. I really do enjoy them. Don't you dare feel guilty about not writing a personal letter to each individual you send your pictures to. It's more than enough that you care enough to send them. If you had to take the time to write a message with each one, you would never find the time and we would all miss out and lose touch again.

Love, Marlene

 

beautiful flower....(Pat Donavan)  

 

Hi Victor, I think your photo is spectacular. It should sell very well. Good luck,  Hilly and John Haug  (The Two Towers)

 

Victor Parker wrote:

Dear John and Hilly,I thank you for your comments on the Two Towers picture...I have had it stored for all of these years along with my thousands of other negatives and slides...am in the process of scanning them so they will be preserved forever and I can print them out with the touch of a button without all of those long and lonely hours in the darkroom....I will get out to take some more pictures of the house tomorrow and will send them on to you. How are things going? Victor

 

hi victor....keep up the great work that you do......mona

Hi Vic and Stella -- What a beautiful flower -- keep them coming... Love, Aunt Marge (re: yellow flower close-up in front of house)

 

Hey Victor I am enjoying receiving these from you! Impersonal? I don't think so! You are sharing with all of us. On the other hand I am being impersonal and I don't mean to be. I promise that by the end of this week I will call you and Stella. My good friends Allen and Sally (who you met in Mesquite) and Sharon send you and Stella their regards. Anyway, talk to you.  (Leonard Sternlieb)

 

That's so beautiful! Leonard   (re: snow on Jobs Peak)

 

Friday, February 06, 2004    (Great Plains sprinkler...victorpicture  #6)

I am amazed by the photo - it looks like it goes right up to sky. It's really fabulous. Thanks for sending it! (Pat Donavan)

Hi Victor, Friday 6:30 p.m. Both Robert and I like your picture very much. The colors blend beautifully, but the thing we both liked is the ACTION seen in the picture. One has to take a second look, asking, "Is that a mighty wind blowing, or maybe dust, No, It is water...and wind. Also the irrigation machine itself is sooo different from today's. I would like to see a modern irrigation picture beside this one. We think it is really beautiful....We both like "old" things and that bedraggled irrigation machine looks like a falling down fence! You really captured a good one. Thanks very much for including us. R & H

Incredible shot. Love the subtle colors, and the abstract-ness. Keep em coming!! -Scott (Webb)

 

Victor - The photos were great.. All came through OK and I do appreciate you doing this for us. It's fun to see the house growing. I think the sprinkler is wild. I like it. John Haug

 

2/7/2004   Great Plains...sprinkler

Vic,

You are a wonderful photographer. This picture is very interesting. I sure hope that you can do something with all your photos----make a bit of money on them.We had a garden photographer come and speak to our Master Gardeners last month. It was pretty amazing to see all the tricks he uses to capture the right light. He even carries a collapsable cloud around with him. He has photos in several popular garden magazines and is now working on a wildflowers of the Northwest book. Nancy   (Webb)

 

Hi Vic: A wonderful photo. If you hadn't said what it was though, I would have guessed a fire. I really do enjoy the pictures you have been sending.  Marlene

 

That is so awesome! I am enjoying your pictures. Leonard Sternlieb

 

Hi Vic -- that picture is priceless... I'll bet you couldn't find that scene anywhere again... Things must have changed in the last 27 years...Love, Aunt Marge

how unusual....and wonderful to look at......that same trip would take 6 months with traffic jams....and at $2.00 a gallon .....would cost a mighty fortune....love mona


Friday, February 13, 2004    Victorpicture #7...Mustard and English Walnuts...

That was a real work of art. I think it is my favorite so far. You are expanding my horizons. ha        Love,   Marlene

 

Victor,   I can relate!!! Wow, only trees..... where can this be found today?? !!!!  Great shot, makes me want to visit you in Petaluma !!! Miss those days, and I know you do too!!.........Linda

 

Your teacher (John Loengard - LIFE Magazine Photo Editor) was right. That is a lovely picture of a great walnut orchard, filled with mustard. Now you know why we love California!!! ken (Hicks)

 

Saturday, February 14, 2004

Hi Vic -- We get used to seeing that sight around here, mustart and english walniuts -- but -- what a nice picture... You really caught it at it's best... I like it... Looks like home...Love, Aunt Marge...

Great Tree! You did good!!~ Love, R and H

 

It's beautiful!!!! (Nancy Webb)

 

awe summmmmmm love mona

 

Monday, February 23, 2004

hi, the picture is very beautiful!  (Two towers) but I am so overloaded that I wouldn't know where to put it...please understand...in any case ...congratulations and all the best, always   Gerhard Samuel 

Saturday, February 28, 2004
     .....victorpicture..#9..St. Peter's
...out of this world, picture,thank you....Helen Lozier

 

Hi, Have loved all your pictures - thanks :-)    Shirley  (Shaw)


Monday, March 01, 2004

Hi Vic and Stella -- That is a great picture of St. Peter's -- I printed it and showed it to Steve and Carol this a.m. Steve says he remembers seeing the pictures you took, and that you told us we had all been blessed by the Pope. For some reason I don't remember that or seeing your pictures. Maybe you can refresh my memory someday.

Anyway the picture is outstanding...Love, Marge

Sunday, March 07, 2004    (icicles)

Thanks for the photos Vic, they were great. Glad to hear you are going to set up a site in e-bay, they do an amazing business. My cousin, Bob Ransom, retired from State Farm, and has a web base through e-bay. I'm going to take some pictures the next time I go to Chico, or maybe just take a drive with taking them in mind. I have wanted to take some pictures of the Vina Plaines, both aiming toward East, with maybe Mt. Lassen and Broke Off. and West with the Coastal Range in the back ground. When the wild flowers are in bloom, along with the greenery of the grass, it can sometimes be breath-taking.

Well, I have to get ready for Mass, so I'd best close. Thanks again for sending the photos. Oh, if they turn out, I'll send the best ones to you.

Rick (Tamagni)

 

Hi Victor & Stella, All I have to say is, "Brrrr"....and I have never seen icicles that BIG!!! I would think the rooves would cave in! The third place sure had a wonderful view. Just made me cold looking at them. How does one reach those places with soooo much snow? Thanks, H  (Helen Lozier)

 

Wow! Some of those really bring back some memories of times gone by. (Thanksgiving '91 or was it '92?, and visiting you on top of Heavenly when you lived near the ridge, to name a couple) One or two of those looked an awful lot like your old apartments. Thanks again for sharing your photos with us. We are always looking forward to the next ones.  Kevin (Stewart)

 

Hello Victor!

So glad I finally made your list. These are all beautiful! I can't wait to see more! New printer is still in the box, can you believe it!!!!!!!!! It will be fun to get together and figure it all out! I'll keep you posted on the unwrapping! You are welcome to use it anytime, and yes, let's get together soon!

Thanks again for the great shots!  (Nicole Novitsky)

victor...you are a pro's pro... mona

 

(Jobs Peak picture)

Beautiful... are you using film, or have you gone digital yet? Ken (Hicks)   Yeah, they came through that time!! Sure are big icicles!!

 

Monday, March 08, 2004

Hi Vic -- that picture of Job's Peak is outstanding... Love, Aunt Marge

Hi Victor, That is a beautiful peak.....We have a similar one very close to us...and Mt.Rainier. My son in law climbs it about once a week. It doesn't take five minutes to drive to its base...it is called Mt. Peak. How about that. I don't think it is the "center' of anything. My son in law is a fireman....so he has to keep in shape. Thanks again for very nice picture. Helen

A special peak and a special photo!   Pat Donavan

 

That's the same mountain we can view from the east, right?  John A. Haug

 

WOW! Very awesome! Leonard Sternlieb

 

Monday, March 15, 2004         Bellagio photos

yes and they were wonderful - when i went to vegas i shot the bellagio - now if I can just find those 35mm pics - we are moving to another townhome here within the complex - my pic and negs are the only thing i am not paring down lol (tony Plake)

 

Hi Victor, We were surprised and happy to hear that you are moving to Las Vegas. It will be a little closer when we ever come to Mesquite. We were happy cuz' you sounded happy. Will you be working at the Desert Passages? That sure does stand up high....Yes, we could really see it. Beautiful picture. Love, Robert and Helen

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

That second shot of the pillars and the tower is a masterpiece! (Not that they all aren't, of course.) Scott Webb

 

Friday, March 19, 2004   The Great Pyramid...victorpicture.#10  Final preview

 

Nice - and how fun to be there then, instead of now. Probably not quite so safe :-) Have a great weekend - I've enjoyed the pics - thanks, Shirley (Shaw)

 

Great picture. I remember it well. I was there in 1958. (Ken Hicks)

You do have the eye my friend!   (Pat Donavan)

Hi Vic -- I'm not sure that I responded to this e-mail...this is a great picture. I printed it out to keep...Thanks..--

Victor, of all the pics you have sent me, I have to say my favorite is

the snowstorm on highway.  I even used crayolas and tried to copy it in

my "inspiration book" which I use to gather ideas for art as well as

writing.  I really favor abstract forms of art and actually own a

6'x10' acrylic I had commissioned in 1988 in similar colors to the blues in

this "snow/hwy" pic or yours.  I am probably in the minority here since

most people like solid "likeable" pictures that didn't require the

photographer to really think it all out but just point and shoot.  Back

when I used to enter pics in competitions here in Dallas (not the

cutting edge of competitive photography) all the 1st prizes typically

went to a baby in an antique perambulator in a field of blue bonnets

!!!

Write me when you can and, of course, keep shooting - it ain't over

tell you're dead !!!!!!   Tony Plake

 

Hi Victor, Well, you hit the jackpot again! This pic looks as if it came straight from Abraham's day.....We love it. Thanks for including us. H     (Helen Lozier)

Thanks Vic, I have enjoyed seeing your pictures, and I hope that you will continue sending them, as you see fit. Rick  (Tamagni)

March 30th....Daffodils

Beautiful! Especially with the mountains as a back-drop. Thanks, Rick

thanks a lot....they look great....I hope we'll see each other before too long....
am turning 80 on the 20th! fortunately I neither feel nor look my age and am busy as ever composing....presently an opera for performance in Baltimore in a year
all the best always............yours..........Gerhard
Samuel


Wednesday, April 14, 2004    Purple flowers and Jobs Peak

This is gorgous Vic. I love how you framed it with the flowers. Thanks, I have saved it along with all the others. Rick

 

Sunday, May 09, 2004    (Tall Ships)


Wow, beautiful shots/ships. Published in which magazines? That's great.  Scott Webb

Hi Vic -- these pictures are outstanding... I'll bet it was a memorable day... Thank you for sending them to me...Love, Marge

 

WOW! These are great!!!!!!!!!! What wonderful experiences you have to share! Amazing work! I also loved the photo of Stella...! See you soon, for sure!!  Nicole (Novitsky) Thanks, Nicole.....It was a most memorable experience to say the least....I saw some of those same ships again 2 years ago at Santander,Spain. I was also on the large Spanish tall ship "El Cano" in Gran Canaria 10 years ago....I do love the sea. I also sailed around the world on the Seven Seas in 1966....but don't get me started.... Good to speak with you and Lisa yesterday. I will be more than happy to take some photos at a future wedding as long as you reemember that I am not an offical wedding photographer!!....More later, Victor


Friday, June 18, 2004     Death Valley Today and Lake Tahoe

Nice - but the poor little coyote looks like he needed a drink :-)
Shirley Shaw

 

Wow, beautiful shots, Vic, thanks. We're going up Monday night, hopefully. Tuesday at latest. We'll barely catch my folks, I guess, thanks to some lame meeting Enid has to go to on Monday.

I think the close-up green water shot (my favorite) would be an even more interesting composition -like abstract art- if it didn't have the grey rocks on the lower left and lower right. It would take a minute to realize what it is, -more unique. With the rocks, you instantly know.
Appreciate the pics!

Scott Webb

 

No wonder Tahoe is one of the most photographed places in the world - it's so beautiful.

Love, Pat

Thanks Victor - it was great seeing you and I've always enjoyed the contrasts of Death Valley.

Love,  Pat

 

Hi Victor, Midnight Wednesday

Your pictures are great. So far that differently shaped, white, atomic like cloud was my favorite. Then the tall, skinny tree at the bottom of Lake Tahoe was marvelous...makes one want to go there and just enjoy God's green earth and beautiful clear water. Thanks for sending them. Helen

 

gary and nancy look great.  the cabin is beautiful. how old is it?   so many of them now are these over ambitious looking chateaux like monsters.  sort of looses the 'cabin' nature of the mountains don't you think ? j-

 

November 2008 Cumbria  Kodak Gallery victors Cumbria 

The Good Lord Almighty was truly generous to the British Isles when one thinks of how many miles you can travel in ther USA and experience so much of the same terrain. It seems that every nook and cranny of the BI's is so variously packed with beauty and quaintness. Its' truly a condensed compendium of everything interesting and beautiful. I  hate to think of what future ethnicity will permit to happen to it, having regard for the level of historic interest that might wain through cultural differences of parents. My Dad frequently tells me how his London Borough is administered by Africans as the local authority (how did that happen?) and the area is being allowed to become a shanty. Historic monuments are disregarded through disinterest and ignorance, yea even left to deteriorate. How can one explain to future generations how the peoples of the middle east, Africa, Asia, the Baltic States, come to be living in derelict shanties around the marvels of engineering such as Tower Bridge. maybe someone will look back into history underneath some dust and strata confused by the presence of such numerous asian bones laying around technology developed by a superior race!!!  Or maybe I am jumping the gun and they will find some of these nomadic remains holding some sort of space invader game that once contained an ever ready power cell, thinking they were an intelligent race. Perhaps I am prejudiced about what has become of my country. Not much huh??!!! 

 

Thank you so much for those photographs they are all excellent and I will keep them for posterity and sentimental fondness for Cumbria, where we frequently stopped on the way to the A74/75 Dumfries Road to visit Matthew, out youngest son in Stranraer. How nice it would be if you ever get the chance to go visit him and say I met your Dad in Lake Tahoe, show us the sites. 

Hello,  those pictures were gorgeous!  I think the colors this fall have been the MOST vivid I have ever seen.  The reds are sooo red; yellow sooo yellow, etc .  Thanks for the pictures.  H/R

 

Victor and Stella,

All I can say is England certainly agrees with both of you.  Victor all of your pictures have been wonderful, but this group is especially outstanding, or maybe I’m partial to fall.  For the past 5 years I have traveled to my sister’s in NY, north of Albany and spend at least a week up there.  This year financially I wasn’t able to go and I missed seeing the fall, but your pictures helped a lot….never mind that they were of England and not NY.  Victor you are so talent!!!!  

Thanks again for sharing your wonderful photographic gifts with me.  Did you ever think that almost 5 years ago when I gave you that convertible that it would have led to such a nice friendship with priceless rewards?????  I certainly never did.  We never know what God has planned for us….never. Marcia  From Dollar Rent A Car

 

 

Thanks for sharing.  Your pictures are beautiful.  Jodi

 

Thank You.  I hope all is well.  Nancy Beaulieu

 

Wow, these are really nice!! I recognize the shopping center Janie and I were at?? Very beautiful shots...makes me 'homesick'...Betty

Nice!  Gorgeous countryside!  Denise

 

Guy Fawkes Fireworks Video on U-Tube with Mark  Nov 1st, 2008

 

Hi you two,  We miss you.  We enjoyed hearing your voices on the three videos…made us more ‘homesick’ to SEE you.

You are right…it was DARK out there…and I even felt cold!  BUT……

I want you to know,   I patiently waited all thru’ all 3 for you to SING, Victor!  You have that wonderful gift and you aren’t SHARING it!    PLEASE….please make a video and sing something for me…please.  I know your lives are full of other people and friends….but, you have some ‘little’ people right here who love you and miss you, too.  Robert also sends greetings.

We haven’t been to Mesquite for 3 years!  Love,  Helen


Hi Victor and Stella

You are amazing Victor You should be making money for your talents...Iv only watched  a few but you are very very good.Thank You Hope all is well tell mum (stella ) I miss her dearly I hope to hear from her Love ya guys always Julia xxxxoooo Hugs and kisses

As usual your pictures are wonderful.  Hope you
both are having a wonderful time.  Keep the
pictures coming!  Do let me know when you will
be back in the states

Tony

 

Beautiful photographs, so much detail that there would be too much to comment on.

The cowslips or variety of what we call primroses were particularly pretty and the spider was a wonderful action shot. I noticed that the tomb was empty, bet that was taken in Scotland.

I was sitting here facinated by areas I have not been to in years on my own mainland and pondered just how I have taken those scenes for granted, but discarded it for the rockies.

I will attach photos of our local mountain fire and hope they reach you as I am not one for uploading stuff. Henry

 

Hi Vic, What fabulous pictures!  Thanks for sharing them.   Mary Ellen

Fabulous pictures Victor.  I'd love to see those places in real life.  Send our love to Stella.  Love, The Clarks

Wow! These are beautiful!! Very nice!! Betty

 

Beautiful pictures Vic.  I recognized some from your video.  And I noticed your putting on a little weight there!!!!   Your looking more like your Mom now too.  Thanks for sharing.  Ken

 

Beautiful photos!! Everyone at work agrees!!

Hi Vic:  We liked your fotos of England,they seem to like stone structures. Also liked the party featuring Guinness and girls. Looks as if they like to party there,also.
Those videos are sump'n we have only received one other one.
Doesn't look likee heavy traffic or fast-paced living there,we could use some of that here.
Best to both of you
Auntie Clair and Unka Bud

Hi Vic,

Thank you for the show. I feel like I have a good sense of where you are living- I've been on a trip. There are some wonderful pictures in the group. Turn your hobby into gold.

Luv to you both,

Nancy Webb

 

 

Love the photos of the countryside. Thanks    Pat


Mystic Landscapes One  comments  Nov 8, 2008

Really different and quite interesting. Not my style of art but pretty facinating. I wish I had gotten some of your talents from our family.-- Marlene

Rhonda & I love these pix Vic. When shall we come visit?... This is all truly Photo Stock or Image Bank material... if not better. - John

 John

that is some serious art dude….scott webb

A little bit of Picasso and Van Gogh!  Nice works.  Ken

 

Hi Vic: Rather a mystic collection. Clair and I looked at them and wondered just how these were created. Don't bother to explain ,with our limited understanding of matters computerish we wouldn't comprehend.
The list of credits that you have built up were rather impressive. Clair and Unka Bud

 

seriously awesome photos. as usual  scott

 

hi victor & stella....thanks for staying in touch and for the wonderful pictures......miss you.....are you ever coming back to california......mona

Really different and quite interesting. Not my style of art but pretty facinating. I wish I had gotten some of your talents...marlene

 

Those pictures that you most recently added to your kodak account are amazing. I can't believe what a beautiful place you are living in. I want to go there and check it out. ...and the landscape surrounding you is truly breathtaking! Seems like a very nice place to live; very serene and peaceful.  Chase

 

 

Well, you folks have done it again!  You really have outdone yourselves!

Of ALL the thousands of pictures we’ve seen….these take the cake!...  all the whistles…and fireworks!

I know one thing for sure….I will take the ‘old’ over the breathtakingly beautiful, wondrous, or different…because the ‘old’ contain all the above adjectives.

I have looked and looked and RE-looked at these last pictures.  Each one is outstanding.

Makes me wonder how many you had to discard???  Since I have over 3,000 in my own gallery, just of snapshots I have taken;  and know how many pictures one has to take in order to get THE ONE…..makes me see a pile of discards;  but how would you ever choose from this group?

I have loved photography all my life.  Have had a camera since I could stand up!

I have never gone any deeper than just taking pictures for my own enjoyment.

Everyone that comes here, has a good time viewing the sideshow that is on constantly every hour of the day…almost.(on a moving screen}

My pictures are mostly ‘people.’  I love faces…young…old…black…white etc. etc.

Anyway…Thank you again… it was VERY NICE seeing you  both in a picture or two.  I like people in pictures.   I wouldn’t change these for the world.  They are perfect…all the textures,  tones,  shadows…These pictures draw all kinds of feelings out of a person…a longing to be there and feast ones eyes on such beauty…as the countryside…the bricks…stone fences..and gorgeous landscapes, the towns, the people.  I could go on and on, but won’t take up your valuable time.

Needless to say, they make us miss you two…a lot.  We’ve had some very lovely times with you.

Thank you for all the pleasure you have brot’ into our lives. Helen and Robert