Photo of the day

Got a call from a friend just a few minutes ago and he started out with a “wierd science” question.  He told me to go out and look at the moon and then look just a bit to the north west of it and tell him what was I seeing. I saw it, and was […]

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Teddybear Sunflower – I’d never seen or heard of these before Napa    

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I live in the great American west, what do you expect? Full story here.

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At first, this just might look like another one of my many lightning shots. What you don’t know however, is that this is 100% luck.  It’s a daylight shot, and the only reason the lightning is in the image is that it flashed 3 times and after I pressed the shutter the first time, I […]

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Back on April the 18th I posted a couple of photos of these orchids.  Here we are almost 4 months later and only two of the 6 blooms have dropped off, but the bottom one of these three is in danger.  I decided that I’d grab a last photo before they are gone for the […]

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(edit – 8.10.12) Looking at a book about the Rio Grande Valley I  found the name of this creature – Flame Skimmer dragonfly. I took the weekend off from the mountain, worked around the house, did some studying, swam and relaxed. This morning I had a visitor and since he seemed to be willing to […]

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It’s about time. I looked in the archives and found that I have no photos in June, 10 series in July and 10 series in August.  Then there are a couple in September, and one or two in October.  And that’s that, that’s all you get.  I can’t believe that I have not had a […]

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Well, it’s a screen capture turned into a photo, but it’s time to remember so I’m posting it. It’s my Sunday morning walk up the mountain, in case you were wondering. The big news is found in the time section.  See that – even though I started a minute later that indicated, it’s still under […]

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Took the morning off from hiking today and by the time the afternoon rolled around we headed on up to Santa Fe to attend the “Spanish Market” which supposedly draws some 70,000 people a year to view the various wares. I took pictures of other stuff. This was growing like a weed on a street […]

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The day is still young, but these were from this morning. This is a good example of an nearly impossible shot without a tripod and a HDR software package.  I actually tried to have Photoshop do an HDR conversion (High Dynamic Range) but it didn’t work out, so what I ended up doing was taking […]

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