On Saturday, September 21, 2013, the local newspaper, The Visalia Times Delta, published in the print edition an article I wrote on September 18 and posted to my blog “Alternating Currents” (where I post as one of three community bloggers on their website. You can read “Hate in a small town” here). Partially visible is another Times Delta article from 1996 that mentions me and other HAM radio operators as we were preparing for Field Day. The two identical looking plaques are the 2012 and 2013 proclamations issued by the City of Visalia, proclaiming June LGBT Pride Month in the city. These proclamations were signed by the Mayor Shuklian and the four other City Council members. (Take that, Porterville!) Also on the wall is my certificate from the Visalia Police Department’s Citizen’s Police Academy, issued in May 1999. Down in the corner is my Starfleet Academy diploma, certifying my status as an officer in good standing in the Federation Starfleet. Not visible are documents and diplomas that are work related, including POST training certificates, Dispatcher of the Year (2005), my HAM radio license, and other work related items.
So you have to ask yourself, “WTF?? What was the photographer thinking, and was it done on purpose?” The look on her face… and on his!
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
B&W Abe: Historical figure. Color Abe: A real man.
September 17, 2012
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Buzzfeed has a series of black and white photos that have been altered to show how they would appear if they had been taken in color. There are several that are more powerful to me in color than in the original black and white, but there are also a few who seem to lose some of their effect when translated into a color picture. Follow the link to see them. This one of President Abraham Lincoln is the most powerful to me. Seeing him in color makes him less a historical figure, and more a real man.
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