Photo of the day

Unknown wildflower – yet to be identified. Shot in an overcast, I may try again tomorrow.  These are very very small, the pink cluster to the right is less than the size of a dime. Story over at the writing blog.

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I suppose it’s fitting to post a flower called a skyrocket on the 4th of July. I had no idea of it’s name till after I was back editing images. The flower is a biennial, with clusters of bright red, trumpet-shaped flowers on slender, often solitary stems up to 2-2 1/2 feet tall.  Typical of […]

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The weather has been without drama for the past several weeks and the last several road trips did not yield any photos, although not for the lack of trying.  So while working on a new gallery of wildflowers I was tweaking the color settings when I decided to get a bit radical because of the […]

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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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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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Busted up to the top of the mountain in my best time yet – 3.5 hours for 7 miles and 4,000 feet.   Sunday saw another 8 miles but that day was an up-and-downer – just kills my knees.  But on that trip I looked for hidden treasure, so to speak, and was partially successful. […]

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This is the second day in a row that I’ve climbed the Sandias.  Yesterday was a brutal climb up the chimney route and today was the more usual route up the LaLuze trail.  Took no images yesterday that qualify for recording here, maybe in a log of the trail, but nothing to memorialize. So today we […]

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I was hoping that you could fake out a blog, but it seems that is not possible, unless I’m just missing something. I wanted to go back in time and create some entries, but this thing seems too smart to let me insert posts for back in February. I suppose what I can do is […]

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