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MyAirForceLife.com is holding a photography contest to celebrate the Year of the Air Force family and I have submitted a couple images.

Below is what the contest is all about according to the myairforcelife.com website:

The Air Force is a great place to live, work and play! Show the world through your photograph just what living the Air Force life means to you, your family and your friends.

I have submitted a couple images that you can visit and vote for if you like. Below are the images and they are numbers #400 and #422.

Go here and look for my photos based on the numbers #400 and #422 and cast your vote. Don’t forget that you can vote once a day, so try and vote for my photos more than once if you can.

This Memorial Day I was fortunate enough to aid in the annual Memorial Day ceremony held at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial located in Cambridgeshire, England. This was my first time visiting the memorial and it was remarkably  beautiful and sad at the same time. However, I can not express how proud it makes me feel that I get a chance to serve my country like so many of these brave men and women.

The Cambridge American Cemetery is maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission and is the only American World War II cemetery located in Britain. It is home to three thousand eight hundred and nine headstones that extend in a fan shaped arrangement outwards from the flag pole. The cemetery is open to the public and can be visited every day of the year from 9am – 5pm except December 25th and January 1st. For some more really great information check out this website.

Here are some of my photos:

You can view the entire gallery by going here.

I had some free time and decided to revisit the beautiful Brill Windmill which I had originally photographed back in September. Here are some of the photos from my more recent trip.

The new year is only a couple of hours away and that made me think about the type of year 2009 was. As far as photography goes, 2009 was a year in which I developed the skills I learned in 2008. We were fortunate enough to travel to fun and exciting locations around the world which resulted in several truly fascinating photographic opportunities.

My biggest photography resolution for 2010 is to try new things and push my creative limits to the max. In addition, I want to really develop new techniques in 2010 and grow as a photographer and learn.

Below are some of my favorites pictures from 2009…enjoy!

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I wanted to get outside and take some photo’s recently so I packed up my gear and headed to Brill Windmill. Brill Windmill is located in the historic Buckinghamshire village of Brill. Although the windmill is not operational, there are continued restoration projects in the future.

Thought to be one of the oldest windmills is Britain, Brill Windmill was erected sometime in the 1680′s. It is considered to be one of the best preserved post-mills still standing from the 17th century.

The windmill itself is open to the public every Sunday during the summer. However, you can still go and take pictures of the windmill and surrounding countryside during the week. I believe I went and visited during the middle of the week sometime and it was just perfect. I didnt have to pay admission but I have seen some websites stating an admission fee of £2.00.

For more information you can check out the Brill Village website.

I must say that Chase Jarvis is a genius because he recently developed an iPhone application for those of you looking to get more out of your iPhone camera. The iPhone app is called Best Camera and it looks pretty cool.

I don’t own an iPhone but I can appreciate how he says,

The best camera is the one that’s with you.

Here is a video with a little more information on the app:

Make sure you check out his blog to find out more.

I was recently contacted by WingBus.com because they wanted to feature two of my photos on their website. Because I love having the ability to share my photos with others I said yes without hesitation!

But wait, what exactly is WingBus.com? After doing a little research I found out the WingBus.com is an online travel community in Korea. Pretty cool huh! I went to their website but unfortunately I can not read Korean or find anywhere on the website that gives the option to translate into English.

The photo’s are of some places I visited and documented in Okinawa while I was there. Both of the images are not currently on my favorite photographs list, but they are what WingBus.com was looking for at the time.

Here are the two screen shots of the photos as they appear on the website:

Many of you are aware that my wife and I recently moved to the United Kingdom. We have been here about two months now and have been fortunate enough to get out and visit some local destinations when the weather was nice.

Since I lacked Internet connectivity for the past two or three months I haven’t been able to post updates often as I would like. I wanted to post a couple of my favorite pictures from some of the places we have visited so far.

Feel free to leave a message and let me know which one is your favorite.

Oh yeah, expect to see routine updates on the site again….yay!!!

To view more photos taken throughout England check out my England Album.