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Posted in Flag Photos, History, Scouting on Sep 26th, 2008
A photo reminder of what not to do, on half-staff flag days. Remember, when the U.S. flag is flown at half-staff, all the other flags are lowered to half-staff, too.
The next scheduled half-staff flag day is December 7—National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
Posted in Flag Photos, History on Aug 1st, 2008
Photographer Alex Richman has lots of big flags in his portfolio. Here are some of my favorites. Click into the photographs for a larger image.
The Marine Air Terminal at La Guardia Airport in New York City.
A famous design from the town that made it famous—Philadelphia
You don’t have to be a New Yorker [...]
Posted in Flag Photos on Jun 20th, 2008
I found a recurring theme in the photos that Sidewalk Photographer Alex Richman sent to me this week. At Coney Island, he photographed the American flag on the giant Wonder Wheel in the amusement park. Closer to home, there was a street festival in his own neighborhood, where he found a much smaller wheel—a pinwheel—that [...]
Posted in Flag Photos, History on Apr 15th, 2008
What happens if you wear magnifying glasses (2.50x power), hold a 4-inch wide 3x power magnifying glass in your hand, and stare for hours upon the computer screen at enlarged (”power” unknown) digitized photographs circa 1860? You give yourself a headache and an upset stomach.
But how else shall I find the tiny images [...]
Posted in Flag Photos, History on Apr 10th, 2008
I’ve been on a mission this week: to find the earliest known photographic images of the U.S. flag. My guideline was simple—any image that includes a easily identifiable U.S. flag. I have found many images that almost meet the criteria, and I could extrapolate and assume the flag was indeed the Stars and Stripes, but [...]
Posted in Editorial on Mar 13th, 2008
Section 8(f) of the U.S. Flag Code puzzles me.
(f) The flag should never be used as a covering for a ceiling.
Believing that most laws (and rules) have an originating factor, my mind races to understand what must have transpired requiring this sentence’s inclusion in the Flag Code.
I can see it now—
Dateline Washington D.C., [...]
Posted in Flags in the News, History on Mar 13th, 2008
I like this photo because of the flags arrayed at the back of the room. Standing in absolutely correct order to the left of the U.S. flag are the flags of the Armed Forces, whose positions are predicated on the time-line of congressional authorization for that armed force. As we view the photo from [...]
Posted in History on Mar 10th, 2008
Larry and I have have written before about using Google Reader to search for news and stories about flags. Larry has specific search guidelines set up in his reader, and I employ a *different set, but we do overlap in searches for these words: U.S. flag, American flag, Stars and Stripes, Texas flag, and Lone [...]
Posted in Editorial on Mar 10th, 2008
At long last, a little relief. My news reader overfloweth no more … at least not as bad as before the politicians came to Texas.
The Texas primaries were held last week and I’m sure glad they’re finished. The influx of news stories including references to flags saw a significant increase over the last month. [...]
Posted in Flag Videos on Mar 7th, 2008
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