http://www.frankbrueske.com Vintage America on Parade Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:25:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.frankbrueske.com/riverside-musiciank/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/riverside-musiciank/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:49:16 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1363 You never know what you will run into while walking alone the Mississippi River levee at New Orleans.  This “cowboy” type musician was entertaining levee walkers on a spring afternoon with his ballads. Sometimes the would stop and talk to him as well. As I said, you never know what you will see while walking [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/riverside-musiciank/feed/ 0 http://www.frankbrueske.com/night-bridge-on-the-mississippi/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/night-bridge-on-the-mississippi/#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:12:44 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1344 This photo of the week is from my scenes of the Mississippi that have not made their way to the gallery yet. I am not quite sure which it is…I think it is at Burlington, Iowa. I enjoy taking night scenes but have not been taking many lately. They have a real serene presence of [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/night-bridge-on-the-mississippi/feed/ 0 http://www.frankbrueske.com/jewish-cemetery/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/jewish-cemetery/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 02:00:10 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1280 The photo of the week is actually two photos taken at the old Jewish Cemtery in Josefov, Prague, The Czech Republic. While Prague is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, it has this somber part as well where more than 100,000 Jews are buried in a very small space in this very [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/jewish-cemetery/feed/ 1 http://www.frankbrueske.com/abandoned-railroad-passenger-car/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/abandoned-railroad-passenger-car/#comments Tue, 18 May 2010 03:08:07 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1244 I found this abandoned railroad passenger car sitting behind an abandoned grain elevator at Prairie du Chein WI while taking photographs along the Mississippi River in 2009. The clouds of the summer day and the dirt surrounding the old tracks tell a story of times long gone by for many river towns along the river. Who knows [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/abandoned-railroad-passenger-car/feed/ 1 http://www.frankbrueske.com/beach-bum/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/beach-bum/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 18:04:42 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1160 When we talk abouit “beach bums” we all have different ideas of what a “beach bum” could be….it could be a person who loves the beach and hangs out there, a person who loves the beach….or a homeless person who lives on the beach. This photo of the week is my version of a “beach [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/beach-bum/feed/ 1 http://www.frankbrueske.com/florida-keys-sunrise/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/florida-keys-sunrise/#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:43:03 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1089 The Photo of the Week is another view of a sunrise on the Florida Keys. The rising sun coming through a broken layer of clouds gives a dramatic view of the two palm trees whose trunks have by curved the winds. It started to rain about 20 minutes after this scene was captured near Marathon, [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/florida-keys-sunrise/feed/ 3 http://www.frankbrueske.com/end-of-the-road/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/end-of-the-road/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:10:50 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1039 The end of the road  (US Highway 1) is at Key West, FL., is about as far south as you can go in the states, I think. I do not know if this old pickup truck was driven there at one time or was hauled there, but now it sits on a dock at Key [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/end-of-the-road/feed/ 1 http://www.frankbrueske.com/lobster-traps/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/lobster-traps/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:10:27 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1011 The photo of the week is a photograph of a stack of lobster traps at Marathon, FL on the Florida Keys. The pattern of the stacked traps and the barnacles on them caught my eye. They leave an interesting vertical design design in light and dark. This stack was just one of many hundreds of [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/lobster-traps/feed/ 0 http://www.frankbrueske.com/bayou-labatre-shrimp-boats/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/bayou-labatre-shrimp-boats/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:27:38 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=970 Bayou LaBatre, the heart of Alabama’s shrimping industry, ws divisasted by Hurricane Katrina in September of 2005. It was one the deadliest storms in the history of the country. Most of the shrimp boats were tossed around like corks on a stormy ocean and sunk, ended up tossed up on shore or were badly damaged. [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/bayou-labatre-shrimp-boats/feed/ 0 http://www.frankbrueske.com/new-orleans-street-art/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/new-orleans-street-art/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:08:53 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=892 I begin the new year with a photograph from the end of 2009, the art work of a street artist on the edge of the French Quarter. It was near dusk when this scene was captured and the very brilliant colors in the paintings jump out at you from the dark background of vegetation. There [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/new-orleans-street-art/feed/ 0