Florida armed bystander stops gunman at crowded back-to-school event at park, police say

An armed bystander shot a man who opened fire at a Florida park filled with over 100 people -- including children -- for a Saturday back-to-school cookout, officials said. The Titusville Police Department said in a news release the man was involved in a fistfight with another person at the...

Chicago protesters demanding Rahm Emanuel's resignation march to Wrigley Field, closing major roads

An anti-violence march in Chicago briefly closed Lake Shore Drive on Thursday afternoon, as protesters demonstrated against the city's spiraling crime crisis and called for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to step down. A spokesman for Chicago police said Lake Shore Drive was closed for about 35 minutes on...

33 Dead, 130 Injured in China Knife-Wielding Spree

A group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in southwestern China on Saturday, killing at least 29 people and injuring more than 130 others in what Chinese officials called a terrorist strike, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Four of the attackers were also shot dead and only...

Trump pardons sailor in submarine photos case

President Donald Trump has pardoned a Navy submariner sentenced to prison for taking photos inside the classified engine room of a nuclear submarine, the White House announced on Friday. Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier pleaded guilty in May 2016 to two felony counts, one for unlawful...

The media is ignoring ties between the Clinton campaign and Russians

There is no better illustration of this than what we now know went on between Clinton allies Sidney Blumenthal and Jonathan Winer and the author of the infamous dossier, Christopher Steele. We know that Steele was paid with Clinton campaign money and that he was “passionate about [Trump] not...

The Liberal Land Grab

As New York City has become a dystopian wasteland of drug stores and bank branches, there is a politically fashionable way to flee the hellscape: Moving to the “red states.” The New York Times told its readers in October of last year to “Go Midwest, Young Hipster.” And Slate, the next month,...

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Helping my daughter with a cover photo for a mystery she is writing in school. What do you think?

Wanted something that looked like the cover of a Dick Tracy novel. The story is about a detective trying to solve the murder of a rich powerful man that took place in the parking lot of an upscale apartment building.

Experimenting a bit

I don't really do much experimenting in photos but lately I have been trying to experiment more with tonality, lighting, and even software tweaking. What do you think?