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We've travelled through both city and field, walked over grass and stone. Today is the conclusion to our brief photographic tour of America. This is the finale of Stars and Stripes:



This is the famous Cadillac Ranch, skilfully captured in time by JoWiJo.

Indeed, that's the Cadillac Ranch, not to be confused with Carhenge, or Stonehenge for that matter. Enjoy your day all.

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For my friends, the penultimate installment of Stars and Stripes:



I stumbled into a gorgeous collection of photography, perfectly entitled how i spent my summer vacation..., belonging to fstopinertia. This forms just part of Day Ninety.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency stated that for the year 2000, 72.7 million acres of America was covered in the above crop for harvesting. That equates to 15.1 billion dollars worth, which is indeed quite a golden amount of corn.

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We've gone in a straight line, from the big apple, to the sleepy suburbia, to the heart of the countryside, this is the fifth installment of: Stars and Stripes, lets celebrate the country I know you love!



With a fantastic grasp of all things country, this find is the work of Anon Nona, entitled Old Red Barn.

I have to say, before arriving in America a couple of years ago, the whole "red barn" phenomena was completely lost on me. A colleague has a good friend who works in a large scale hardware store, here in the states. He talked about an obvious markup from certain paint manufacturers on the shade "barn red". It appears if you are one to base your patriotism on the shade of your woodwork, to have a barn that isn't this traditional hue, just isn't American.

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Onwards we move, below lies the third instalment of my Americana photo tour named: Stars and Stripes.



Again, I've looted the vast electronic albums of Philippe Sainte-Laudy with another aptly titled work: Pontiac.

Learn about the Pontiac, the man, on Wikipedia.
Buy prints of the work of Philippe Sainte-Laudy on Zenfolio

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We're out of the city, followed the interstate, and now we're ready to pull off for another visual morsel of Stars and Stripes. My fellow foreigners can feel free at this point to tell their boss how much they're learning on the companies' time. This is your National Geographic!



Belonging to dshearer, the photographer calls it Americana. I'm going to take this to the logical conclusion and call it Al's Diner.

I too have begun to wonder why that Arthur Fonzarelli spends all his time loitering in the men's bathroom of that particular establishment.

P.S. 25 cent coffee! (that's 13 pence well spent!)

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Thank you for joining me once more. If the statistics tell me no lies, I should likely be saying to you: "Welcome back"!

You've arrived just in time for the deuxième part of Stars and Stripes - and just look at you! everything's going your way these days!



This is the property of Mr. New Yorkled, with the self explanatory title: Ellis Island Immigration Museum. A favourite image, and the obvious starting point for a lot of the world, when visiting the country I now call home.

I'll spare you the usual reference points, facts, figures, etc. save to say the often quoted trivia: It is estimated today that about one third of the present population of America can trace at least one ancestor who arrived in the country through Ellis Island.

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I've been dusting off the cobwebs here at Sirharris.com, making the place more comfortable for you, dear guest.

As I worked my way down the right column of this website, I groaned whilst finding, one by one, the majority of the interesting little sites I once linked to, are either not so interesting, or just generally redundant.

At the top of my hit list are Truth Laid Bear, who never seemed to track the majority of my incoming links anyway, Photo Bloggers (since when did I label myself a photographer anyway?), and Blogshares who, at some point, purged any record of my site from their memory.

I was gone two years after all. I suppose I would find the internet more depressing if nothing had changed on me in all that time. Nevertheless, I am enjoying my renewed resolve. Please spread the word to those you know, I am most certainly back.

Welcome to the commencement. It's the genesis of a photographic tour of America via what we call: Stars and Stripes.



Better than the real thing? This is the work of Philippe Sainte-Laudy named Statue of Liberty - Last Vegas.

For the curious amongst you, QuoteWorld will make sense of the title.

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In an effort to swiftly build momentum, I present to you my next feature.:

Stars and Stripes
Seven is my magic number. Here comes seven images that represent my own personal America, summarised through the photography of others.

Polish off your staring apparatus, and prepare yourself for a little brass, a little dazzle, and a whole load of that good old red, white and blue.

Good Morning,
As I continued my ritualistic spring cleaning of things accumulated and unused, I found myself languishing in an old email account, browsing the neatly lined columns of archived mails. There in the midst of it all was nearly a full page of "your web domain will expire in three months", "your domain will expire in two months", "in six weeks your domain is lost!" etc.

The conclusion of which was a mail stating I had just six days to renew sirharris.com or it would fall into the ether, perhaps to be set upon by the electronic robots which frequently hold pockets of the internet hostage.

I will not claim to be anything but predictable; I received my six day warning, reassessed the ten years of this location's existence, in one form or another, and I promptly took action.

If you are reading this far, you have tolerated my schmaltzy relaunch message very patiently. For that I am most grateful:

Here comes Sirharris.com again, art I love, things that interest me, and another chance to steal fragments of your lunch breaks and quiet time.

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