Posting daily at 1pm central about all kinds of things. One day it's dating, the next it's TV commercials. I hope you're entertained. Professional photos on SmugMug – https://benwilder.smugmug.com
Somehow when I was camping around the south and southwest someone got hold of my credit card info (and other personal info) and bought stuff in Houston, Texas and a little town just north of Houston called Spring, Texas. I’m just now finding out about it weeks later.
What evil, rotten snakes they are. They’re also giving real snakes a bad name! So to leave us with good and happy thoughts, here are a few of my favorite original photographs I’ve taken of snakes and other reptiles and insects, with a friendly reminder: these are all available for purchase or download!
WhatsApp is a messenger service owned by Facebook, or Meta, or whatever they’re called today. To promote the privacy standards in the chat app, a commercial has been produced featuring a messenger pigeon and some unsuspecting customers. Take a look then scroll down for more info…
The Music. The song used for this commercial was released way back in 1971. It’s “Can You Get To That” by Funkadelic.
The Birds. The pigeon is central to this commercial’s message. With that in mind, I present you with my gallery of bird photos for viewing pleasure! Click here for the full collection but here are a few of my favorites. All of these, and the rest of the bird photos in the collection, are available for purchase.
The bison roaming around Caprock State Park are big. They’re also not interested in being less wild, and I love that about them. A woman recently learned the hard way that you don’t mess with them… meaning: don’t get too close, don’t tick them off, don’t get between them and their offspring, don’t take chances. Here’s the video.
“I didn’t want to go through the bushes again.”
woman in video
Looks like she ended up in the bushes again. 😉 But seriously, when I visited this beautiful state park the ranger at the check-in office made it very clear that the bison don’t mess around. In fact, she said something I’ll never forget and definitely raised my awareness when I camped there for 5 days. I told her I have 2 dogs and she said, “The bison see them as predators, and they will remove them.”
Yikes.
I hope this woman recovers and never again underestimates a big bison grazing around with his (or her) family. I know I won’t take any chances, especially after seeing this video. I’m very grateful to have a zoom lens so I don’t need to get all up in their face. Here are a few of my favorite bison photos, all available for download or purchase. Print one out for your living room as a reminder to NOT get gored by a bison! And yes, that’s my travel trailer in the last photo. And yes, I was very nervous.
I was watching NFL football recently and a commercial aired for a video game. I’ll admit the chant in the ad caught my attention. I was curious about which product was being advertised so I watched to the end. Definitely didn’t expect a video game! Take a look…
The Reaction. I’m not a “gamer” nor am I their target audience (based on this ad, at least), but it doesn’t look like the commercial is going over well with CoD fans. I’ll save you the trouble of reading the YouTube comments and sum them up in 2 words: commercial sucks. I might have found 2 or 3 comments that liked it but other than those, viewers are hating it big time. Like the guy who wrote this article about his love for the game but his disappointment in the ad.
The Cast. Check here for more details of the commercial with a few quotes from the creators at Activision plus, it’s where I found a pretty good list of cast members, including:
Nicki Minaj, Lil Baby, Pete Davidson, Kane Brown, Jalen Ramsey, David Long Jr., Nuke Squad (they posted a behind the scenes video), Lando Norris, and Bukayo Saka.
US of A. This commercial plays off the military cadence “left, left, left, right left” so I thought I’d leave you with patriotic photographs from my own personal collection. These are all available for download or purchase, so if you and your squad want to decorate your fancy gaming rooms, order one today!
These are photos from the last year and a half from camping and adventuring around the southeast United States. Flowers, though small, are bursting with beauty so I hope these photos captured at least a fraction of that! Thanks for checking out my photos today…
Out of the Wilderness 