Mudwalker Newsletter

07/25/2022

This month's newsletter for July 2022 is extremely late, but better late than never right? View and/or download it at the link below.

https://ddavidd.com/newsletter/

MUDWALKER NEWSLETTER ISSUE #4 JUNE 2022 EDITION The 4th issue of my MUDWALKER NEWSLETTER is available for downloading or viewing online. You may view it directly below, and there is a download opti…

07/06/2022

07/04/2022

07/04/2022

This month, Retro Pop welcomes the world's best girl group - Bananarama - to the cover, as they prepare to release their stunning new album 'Masquerade' amid their 40th anniversary celebrations! In a career-spanning interview, Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward look back on four decades of pop excellenc...

07/04/2022

The next newsletter is a little late this month. Sorry. I'm a little busy. Happy 4th of July 2022.

06/18/2022

This weekend on Twitter I am posting lots of livecam screenshots from Earthcam. Go give me a follow to keep up with them. twitter.com/mrdthrift

Outdoor photography and art by David Thrift. See West Point Lake with me through my lense. Livecam enthusiast. Get my photo ebooks at https://t.co/EjtBXHdHnI

06/12/2022

Cardinal on a post. Photo taken at 5:55 PM CST, Sunday, June 12th, 2022 in Salem, Alabama. Download my current MUDWALKER NEWSLETTER at ddavidd.com/newsletter

06/12/2022

A beautiful on this Sunday, June 12th, 2022 @ 5:49 AM CST. May everyone have a peaceful day ahead. Don't forget to download my newsletter if you haven't already at ddavidd.com/newsletter

06/11/2022

My favorite kind of sky on 2022-06-11-SAT @ 3:20 PM CST in Salem, AL nature
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06/10/2022

MUDWALKER NEWSLETTER 003 is now available for viewing and downloading on my website - https://ddavidd.com/newsletter/

It is also available for viewing on Issuu - https://issuu.com/mudpix/docs/mudwalker_newsletter_003

This newsletter comes to you in pdf format with 178 pages and file size of 1.21 MB. I am a little late this month with getting this issue available due to needing some extra time to transform my content to a new format from Taskade over to Open Office (a free open source word editor). I put a lot of work into this issue for this month to give it a new look and style including a new front page cover design, and a table of contents to help you easily navigate through the pages for the content you want to read. There is also some better organization throughout the chapters. Yes you read right, I said chapters. You will now find headings in some chapters to help outline the listings and information. Also the pdf file has clickable navigation on a desktop pc pdf reader that allows you to easily click through the chapters. Depending on your mobile device and the pdf reader you may use, you will be able to tap on links in the table of contents of the pdf to go to these chapters. This newsletter has turned into more of an ebook than anything else since it's first issue, and it's going to continue growing each month as I add updates to existing content, and add new content as well. Hence the changes in organization. This has been in the planning for this publication all along, but I honestly didn't expect it to grow to this size so fast. I've still got much more work to do in order to get this newsletter to be how I want it in regards to using it as a tool to build awareness of my content, but I am proud of this issue, and it's got a lot of information in it. So I hope you enjoy my MUDWALKER NEWSLETTER this month in June 2022.

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05/29/2022

Just started sharing "shorts" (vids) on my YouTube Channel today. Are you following? Help my channel grow if you love the outdoors like I do. Share this post, and thanks!

Also the June issue of MUDWALKER NEWSLETTER will be posted soon.

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The official YouTube channel for MUDPIX OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY by photographer David Thrift. This channel will feature video footage of locations where David lo...

05/15/2022

My latest photo ebook, DAY TRIP 001, is now available. View it on my Issuu page, get a free watermarked version, or purchase a non-watermarked premium version in my Gumroad ebook store for a affordable price. All the information you need can be found at https://ddavidd.com/2022/05/14/day-trip-001-photo-ebook/

It’s finally here. My photo ebook DAY TRIP 001 which is 380 pages long with 364 full page photos in pdf format. In this ebook, I’m taking you along for my drive to Veasey Creek Park on …

04/29/2022

MUDWALKER NEWSLETTER 002 FOR MAY 2022 IS NOW AVAILABLE.

This issue contains 31 pages, and the pdf file size is 1.89 MB. You have two options to view this newsletter online, and it's available to download on my website. More details at the links below.

View and/or Download On Website: https://www.ddavidd.com/newsletter/

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Thank you for reading MUDWALKER NEWSLETTER!

Above photo credit: Taken by David Thrift at Veasey Creek Park, next to West Point Lake Dam on West Point Lake, on Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 @ 5:56 PM CST. MUDWALKER NEWSLETTER ISSUE #2 MAY 2022 …

04/28/2022

My current collection of quotes and sayings is fierce! Read these daily, and I promise you will keep a strong mind. These and maybe some more are coming up in the next issue of MUDWALKER NEWSLETTER in May 2022. Get the current issue here: ddavidd.com/newsletter

Always be a first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else. - Judy Garland

Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of only standing still. - Chinese proverb.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Everyone isn't replaceable. Be careful how you deal with good people.

Healing yourself can be offensive to those that benefited from your brokenness.

I did not make it this far by caring about fake people's feelings. Be real with me, and I will be real with you. - David Thrift

I don't measure me by what someone else thinks.

I'm not the bigger person. You better leave me alone.

If you see someone struggling, help them.

If you want to know who your tribe is, speak your truth and see who sticks around. Those are yours.

If your absence doesn't affect them, your presence never mattered. - - - I've read that one many times in my life. On one hand I agree. On the other, I think sometimes people are just content with their own presence. We all go through periods in our life where we can just BE... without the need to BE AROUND OTHERS. All situations are different, and you're the only one who knows your situations best.

It's amazing how after 50, you really start looking at things AND people a lot differen't. Why? It's because you don't have any more time to play some fu***ng games. - David Thrift

Life always dangles what you want, then laughs at you. Life can be a bitch sometimes. Also sometimes, it's just you. - David Thrift

Me losing respect for you is worse than me being mad at you.

No worries, no stress, no trouble, no drama. Learn it, live it, love it, and be happy! - David Thrift

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.

Other people's perception of you ain't none of your business. - Lisa Nichols.

People be lying, knowing they lying, knowing you know they lying... and still lie.

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be. - Harvey Mackay

Above photo credit: Taken by David Thrift at Hardley Creek Park, next to West Point Lake Dam on West Point Lake, on Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 @ 8:37 AM CST. MUDWALKER NEWSLETTER ISSUE #1 APRIL 20…

04/28/2022

Because the 1st of May is on a Sunday, I'm considering to publish the May 2022 issue of MUDWALKER NEWSLETTER tomorrow. I never know when I can get online on weekends, and sometimes I don't feel all that work. Get the current issue at ddavidd.com/newsletter

Also for more updates go to: ddavidd.com/updates

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I love creating photojournal ebooks full of my nature photography, and other ebooks. My personal photo ebooks contain hundreds of my outdoor photos taken around Lake Harding and West Point Lake in Alabama and Georgia. Visit me at www.mudpix.com or www.ddavidd.com for other news, content, and disc...

04/25/2022

Exploring more music on Spotify tonight. Here's Sequal. Check out this album if you like the freestyle sounds from the 80's.

https://open.spotify.com/album/04R9pmzDyooVkRyNyrYGoG

Sequal · Album · 1988 · 11 songs

04/25/2022

32 years in space. That's incredible.

Happy 32nd birthday to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope! 🎂

Seems like just yesterday you launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery to help us explore the universe. Showing true millennial spirit, you captured a spectacular grouping of five galaxies, hanging out in their own corner of the universe. While groups of galaxies are not rare, typically found in the heart of huge galaxy clusters, these wallflowers prefer to do their own thing. In about 1 billion years, they will collide and merge to form a giant elliptical galaxy: https://go.nasa.gov/3vCYKrC

Wnat to know what Hubble saw on your birthday? Check this out: https://go.nasa.gov/3MtcJH7

04/25/2022

It's time to start getting this page on the roll. If you're following, you get to see things first before they appear in a future issue of Mudwalker Newsletter.

Tonight I rediscovered a favorite pop music album from 1988. It's Bardeux. I've provided some info about the group from Wikipedia below.

Bardeux is an American dance duo from the 1980s. The group was formed in 1986 and consisted of Stacy "Acacia" Smith and Tairrie B. Their first single, "Three Time Lover", went to No. 10 on Billboard's Hot Dance Singles Sales chart. Tairrie B left the group to pursue a solo career and was replaced by Lisa "Jaz" Teaney. In 1988, the group released their album Bold as Love and their second single "Magic Carpet Ride". The single went to No. 5 on Billboard's Hot Dance Singles Sales chart and No. 81 on the Billboard Hot 100. The group performed the song on Club MTV. "When We Kiss", the third single from the album, would turn out to be the group's biggest hit going all the way to No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100. The fourth single released from the album, "Bleeding Heart", was a top 40 hit on the Billboard's Hot Dance Singles Sales chart. A fifth and last single release from that album, "Hold Me, Hold Me" did not chart.

Jaz left the group in 1989 and was replaced by Melanie Taylor. Shangri-La was the group's second and last album. "I Love the Bass" was the only single to make it on to the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 68, No. 3 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, No. 32 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. The second single "Thumbs Up" made it to No. 17 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and No. 59 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. The last single from the album, the title track "Shangri-La," rose to No. 40 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. Jon St. James produced both Bardeux albums.

Bardeux is often considered a one-hit wonder, but the group produced many dance hits in their short career.

Acacia resurfaced as a new incarnation of Bardeux (presumably a solo act) in 1995 with the single "Be My Man" (credited as "Bardeux Featuring Acacia") on Thump Records in 1995, taken from the compilation album Thump Retro Disco Volume 3. Melanie Taylor later went on to perform as one of The Staggering Harlettes (Bette Midler's backup troupe) from 1993 to 2000, and released a collection of holiday songs on a solo album, This Christmas, in 2000. Tairrie B went on to release a critically acclaimed gangsta rap album called Power of a Woman on Comptown/MCA Records in 1990, and then resurfaced in the late 1990s as the co-founder and lead singer of the nu metal band Manhole (later renamed Tura Satana for legal reasons), and then the alternative metal band My Ruin in the 2000s.

Check out the album on Spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1QQN6sLkycVBrIBDmQhwjB

Bardeux · Album · 2020 · 11 songs.