Photo of the day

Hiked to the summit again today – my sixth time for the month. Nature does small things so well…. and then finishes off the day with the grand and the majestic.  

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This was a big weekend for variation, and this day as a matter of fact, a big day for the variety of images. First we start on the the seashore near Carmel, California where I had both cameras fast at work, one doing the close up thing, the other the telephoto thing. From what I’ve […]

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I’ve been shooting this flower over the past several days  and I have been trying to get the “perfect” bee shot – but that remains to be seen. Meanwhile, there is this – in the golden hour. And then there is at least this bee from earlier in the day.

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Sunset this time – including a panorama The panorama is a stitch of 5 separate images. You can see the larger image here.

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Back on the trail again – second day in a row. Today was also the second day that I got to try out the discovery about my manual focus macro setting on my “marginal” Olympus 5060 zoom. Seems to me that what was once marginal, is now full functional, at least in the manual mode. It’s […]

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Recently I bought a “pocket” or “travel” camera that has a great zoom, HD video and is small and compact.  So small and compact in fact that it fell out of my hands one day as I was getting stuff out of the car and it landed on the concrete. Bad move for a digital […]

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The drought of lightning images that is.  I’d post a link to the last set that I took last year, but I don’t have them up yet.  I should get going on those, it was a cool rare late October storm.  At any rate, there have probably been some good storms here as of late, […]

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Thousands Flee – North of Albuquerque – Ash breaks through 35,000 feet. The New Mexico Volcano has a unique translation from the Spanish.

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Ok, so I’ve got the pages on this new theme all set up and linked up – that is until the menu drops some of them.  So if the galleries will work, this will be a go – otherwise it’s back to plan B, which is the old blog style and the flash galleries.   […]

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I’m trying out a new premium wordpress theme which I really like, but I can’t seem to get to work.  I’ve spent almost two full days on this and am betting very frustrated. So this is supposedly the first “post” of the new theme. Now it won’t edit properly, the galleries won’t upload and I’ve […]

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