Photography, Fiction, Travel, and Opinions.
In brief, these posts serve to introduce new readers — and reintroduce regular readers — to photos from the early days of this blog and, occasionally, to photos from days before this blog came into existence. Today, I'm featuring the photos from this SmugMug gallery<<click containing only 19 photos. There is no blog post associated... Continue Reading →
For them not interested in reading, you can see the photos in THIS SmugMug Gallery. For a SmugMug slideshow click HERE. When you click the link, it will open in a new window and you have two options: 1) Manually scroll through the photos by clicking the "<" and ">" symbols to the left or right of... Continue Reading →
As predicted, the "V" stories voting stalled as people celebrated various religious holidays. It's likely to stall again as we hit the next holiday in the span of one week. That's fine; family and friends first, then food, then — if there's any energy left — reading and voting. For them who take the time... Continue Reading →
. . . and the opportunity for readers of the “D” short stories offerings to vote for their favorite of the ”D” stories (HERE) will end. Not as many votes for the "D" stories, but I imagine everyone is concerned about the world coming to an end. Because, you know, sometimes it feels like it.... Continue Reading →
I follow the blog Cosmic Focus where a recent post showed a photo of the moon. I hesitate posting other people's photos here (as in: I rarely do) so if you want to see the photo, it's HERE. If I understand the process correctly, that photo is generated by taking a video of the moon... Continue Reading →
I'm reasonably certain anyone wanting their fill of Apollo 11 has been thoroughly satisfied with the coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing. I vaguely remember it but — as I've mentioned before — to my then 16-year-old eyes and expectations, it didn't seem that extraordinary. I mean, yes; amazing that we went... Continue Reading →
Last month, on a clear night, next to a gently lapping lake, the moon offered up a visual treat as it danced on the uneven water surface. I had a particular version of this image in mind . . . I wanted the details of the moon to show up in the reflected image. Alas,... Continue Reading →
I showed this photo in a previous post . . . That was hand-held and a week ago. Tonight, I went out and shot the moon (not the way that sounds) using my tripod. Very rarely do I use a tripod. I should, but it's a bother and I'm not a professional and I can... Continue Reading →
To some, it may look like I'm slacking off in my posting. Well, I'm here to tell you that once you retire, you'll find time just slips through your fingers. Whereas I used to be able to do a lot when I was working forty hours a week — fifty, if you count travel times —... Continue Reading →
One of the reasons you can tell that it's a lazy Sunday is that the titular post goes live on Monday. Oh, well . . . whatcha gonna do. Notice: photos of spiders later in this post. FYI, as usual, click on any photo for a larger version. There's a gallery at the end of the... Continue Reading →
This is a really short post. Enjoy. Last night and tonight I stepped out again to shoot the moon. Again, hand-held and at 2000mm (83x zoom). This next shot is a stacked image from four sequential shots taken last night. Note: you get a better image when the moon is not at full or... Continue Reading →
This is an uncharacteristically short post. Enjoy. On July 28th, 2010, 5:28 am (Colorado time) I shot what is probably the best of all the moon photos I've taken. Here are two versions of the same photo, shot with my then Nikon D200 and the Nikon 80-400mm lens. You can click on the photos... Continue Reading →
Some might recall this video I shared earlier this week: I added the photos below to the existing SmugMug gallery HERE. If you watched the video, you know the 19th and 20th offered the opportunity of photographing two different isosceles triangles. The previous post (HERE) showed the first. Here is the second. As usual, you... Continue Reading →
This paragraph is here because otherwise this poor excuse for an editor continuously loses the setting for opening the photos in a separate window or tab. Aggravating that, and I still don't see why I can't have that as a general option (as it used to be), but instead have to set it for each photo... Continue Reading →
I snapped the following last night at 7:05 PM Mountain Time. Hard to see, but . . . that's the moon, obviously. The bright dot below it, near the houses, is Venus. The dot directly to the left of the moon is Mars. There is another dot above Mars and slightly to the left .... Continue Reading →
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