Photo of the day

After the shot taken yesterday I set my alarm so that I would be up and ready for the moon set today.  What surprised me was how far south on the horizon the moon had moved in just one day.

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It was all happening in the sky today I guess, at least from the point of view of my cameras. I only had time to use my cell phone to take this one after walking out from an early Valentines day dinner.

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I’m not exactly sure what caused me to look to the east today, for when I looked west, the sunset, while nice, was what I would call uneventful. However, something caused my path to wander to the back of the house and I caught the reflection of the sunset off of the tops of the […]

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I was working on a home improvement project Thursday evening when out of the corner of my eye I saw a flash of light.  In my house however that’s not always what it appears since we have some kind of anti-hardshell bug repellers that emit a bright blue flash of light on a regular basis. […]

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It’s about time.  Hopefully the photo drought is over, as will be the real drought, sooner rather than later. I’ve written about it over in the journal.

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I happened to be driving home yesterday from the fix-it store and remembered that it was the “Supermoon” weekend, prompted of course by a giant rising full moon over the mountains.  Unfortunately there was a rather thick layer of high cloud that obscured the moon so I put it out of my mind until later […]

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I used my tram pass to hike the upper trails prior to my big weekend of hiking, did a quick 4 miles and was able to sit and watch the sun set from 10,000 feet. For a bit of interesting perspective, the mountain 5 years ago was covered in fresh snow and I took off […]

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No April fool’s joke, this, another amazing sky sculpture shot from my balcony. Larger panorama here (click to enlarge after loading) – and even that could have included a lot more sky.  The panorama shows over 100 miles from north to south.  This view shows about fifty  miles north to south, and the mountain is 65 […]

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Sierra Blanca Peak and it’s range – view to the left of me – looking east – And to the right of me – note the sky at the top of the image that starts to turn to pink, which stretched all the way behind the mountain in the top image. Full sized panorama here.

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Time to get posting again.  Over the weekend I did some  major site work, and from what I’ve seen, I’m very happy with the changes.  I moved my entire site, including two wordpress applications and the slideshow database and it all works. So now I’ll go back in time and post a bunch of things […]

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