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Photos of the day, 1.17.2011

Friday, February 4, 2011 Posted in The kids

Ainsley June

 

 

 

 

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Photos of the day 1.9.11

Friday, February 4, 2011 Posted in Landsacpes of the west

We drove back from pagosa springs to Ojo Caliente – soaked in the hot springs for a couple of hours and headed on back to Albuquerque.

On the way we took a detour to Ghost Ranch, the famous former environs of Georgia O’Keeffe. Her ashes were scattered on the grounds.

As we were driving into the ranch I spotted a raptor in a tree near the road.

This is why I like the new portable camera that I bought – the Panasonic DMC- ZS7  because in a pinch – if you don’t have your big lens – the 12x optical zoom does a fair job.

 

Thanks to Nikki Price at Hawkwatch international I now know that this is a juvenile Bald Eagle.

Just down the road a piece is one of my favorite s-curves.

 

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More snow, more blue Photos of the day 1.8.2010

Friday, February 4, 2011 Posted in Landsacpes of the west

Durango  Colorado

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Snow and Blue Sky – Photos of the day – 1.2.2011

Sunday, January 16, 2011 Posted in Landsacpes of the west, New Mexico Sky

I knew it was going to be one of those days – bright sun, blue sky and frosted trees.

The slopes did not disappoint.

After angling down the slope from the top of the run on sunrise, you take a 90 degree turn and look back into this bowl which frequently finds it’s photo on my cell phone.

 

Primo day – that’s all I have to say

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Time for the new year – Photos of the day – 1.1.11

Sunday, January 9, 2011 Posted in Albuquerque and Environs, Landsacpes of the west

I had a plan, but the snow kind of took away a part of that plan.

You see the last several years found me on New Year’s day or the day after, climbing up to the top of the Sandias.  This year however, the snow came early in the week and by the time it was over, the ski resort was reporting a 35 in base.  That meant that there was some serious snow on the summit and memories of my 2010 slog through the last mile of snow kept me curled up in the house working on this, that and some of the other.  I primarily worked on moving computer systems around in the house as I have a new desktop machine but one that won’t work with some of my older technology.

The view that greeted me was the same as I’ve seen quite a few times after a snow, the top of the mountain is covered in frost while the base of the mountain remained free of visible snow.

That’s not so special, so I zoomed in a bit.

That is mind you, a panorama of three images stitched together.

But you really can’t see the detail, so let’s go closer.

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That’s a bit blurred, but at 100% you are seeing the snow on the roof of the building just to the right of the towers on the top of the mountain.  I measured the distance with a mapping program and it’s a little over 11 miles from my balcony.  That’s what a 2x converter and a 200mm telephoto gets you on a digital image.  I think the end magnification is close to 600mm.

At any rate, I watched the mountain and the clock thinking I might drive on up there for the Alpen Glow – and finally decided that the hour drive up and the hour drive back just wasn’t worth the 5 to 7 minutes of light I’d have to shoot with.

That’s all you get folks, a quick burst of color, and it’s all gone.

 

I’ve got a shot from the top of the mountain that I was going to link to – but alas – I never got to putting that series of images up there.

Soon…

Hopefully not too wishful of thinking.

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