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/when-is-enough-enough/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/when-is-enough-enough/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:24:27 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1376 The question is when do you stop shooting a particular scene? As you know I am not an advocate of over shooting, but you also do the opposite of not doing enough if the you have time to do it. In this blog, I have taken several photos of the St. Charles Streetcar in New Orleans.  [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/when-is-enough-enough/feed/ 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/you-dont-need-a-bright-light/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/you-dont-need-a-bright-light/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:12:13 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1298 Don’t let anyone tell you that the sun needs to shine to get the best photographs. You can get exciting photographs are cloudy days, raining days and even after the sun has gone down…or before the sun comes…and at night too. You just need to use your imagination a bit..that is all. Some of my best [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/you-dont-need-a-bright-light/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/do-not-let-life-slip-away/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/do-not-let-life-slip-away/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 11:32:57 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1257 In this modern age of instant gratification whether it be something we buy on impulse with a credit card or a digital photograph we take and see instantly, life passes us by quickly and we tend to forget those things we thought were important a few minutes ago. While this blog is intended to improve your [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/do-not-let-life-slip-away/feed/ 0 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/venice-la/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/venice-la/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 11:39:22 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1179 Normally this blog is about creative photography but I am going to deviate a bit this time with the oil rig crisis in the gulf. We were down to Venice, LA in early April as I was shooting more photographs for my Mississippi River Gallery. Right now Venice is the center of the news concerning the [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/venice-la/feed/ 0 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/a-new-gallery/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/a-new-gallery/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:24:06 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1136 Normally this blog is used to help you improve your photography. This week it is to introduce a new gallery on my website: ” French Quarter Doorways,” in New Orleans. How many times in our lives have we made a committment to finish one project right now without going off in another direction before it was [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/a-new-gallery/feed/ 0