Smiley Derleth's favorite photos

Or, "Triple A," for you baseball fans. There has to be one or two. You can see the three A's there in the wooden planks. :D "Anything you want to know, just ask me..." Shown smaller than the original completed size of 5085 X 4080 pixels. See one original source here . Reference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmTGFQ7gOxw

This one got about half-finished and then sat around for months before I finally got serious about completion. By coincidence, there was a brand new post-mortem about *Titan* on You Tube, just a few days ago. The phrase is a play on "Lush Life" by the late Billy Strayhorn. I always forget what a pain text-heavy works are, until it's too late. :D Shown smaller than the original completed size of 2454 X 3625 pixels.

This is an old layout that I couldn't resist recycling. Shown smaller than the original completed size of 2685 X 3570. See one original source here .

Shown smaller than the original completed size of 2502 X 3609 pixels. See one original source here .

Guest-starring Auguste Rodin's The Age Of Bronze . (1875-7) Clipped, a bit clumsily I admit, from an old Tate Gallery postcard. Date of photograph and photographer's name unknown. Grand-père would probably not care for my recoloring job. Oh, well. Shown smaller than the original completed size of 5000 X 4375.

© Nicolas Mertens. All Rights Reserved. Now what? Left? Right? Ahead? Menorca: Fornells— Plaça de Pere M. Cardona More perplexing on black: press Z (or click the picture :)

© Nicolas Mertens. All Rights Reserved. Menorca: Cala Galdana. Call it fake and artificial if you want, but it is not :) More surreal on black: press Z (or click the picture :)

Five fellows dressed in suits and hats posed for this photo more than a hundred years ago. For more information, see the cropped version of this real photo postcard.

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of photobooth kids . An undated photobooth photo.