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Day 245

Monday, August 31, 2015

After Moonrise with a finger of cloud. ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 244

Monday, August 31, 2015

Sunset over Great Falls…or it was an hour or so before…since the smoke cleared out a bit today! A rare view of the Highwood Volcano during an eruption… A mini-me earth-egg coming from the Volcano… ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 241

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Well, the smoke of a thousand forest fires blew into town today, bringing this red, red Moon with it.  I had to resize it down to 75% to get the craters sharp.  The smoke is not a sharpening enhancement. ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 239

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

A grain elevator in Fife.  You can see the sunspots pretty good here, too. ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 238

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

The smoke makes for a good way to observe the sun with your naked eye, or in this case camera, as well as illustrating the difference between lens focal lengths.  (Don’t stare at it with a telescope or binoculars…) This is 300mm, 100% crop. This is 400mm, 100% crop. And this is just another photo […]

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Day 227

Friday, August 14, 2015

Like I said, I didn’t get any photos of the Perseid Meteors.  I was taking 20 to 30 second exposures, hoping to capture a meteor, but when I looked later on the computer, I had these neat red clouds blowing through instead.  They are red from the glow of Great Falls through the smoke from […]

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Day 226

Friday, August 14, 2015

The Dailylife Daughter #1 and Toots dragged me out to see the Perseid Meteor Shower last night.  It was a bust photographing the meteors, although we did see a few!  This animation shows something else, however: 1) you really need to pre-focus your lens!; and 2) a satellite!  That is the streak moving across the star […]

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Day 223

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

The last of the Super Blue Moon photos, I think… And here is some of my equipment and a great shadow! ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 220

Sunday, August 9, 2015

A few more of the Full Moon… More with the railroad tracks… Just one in the mud puddle. And while that one is okay, I have made a few variants using the filters in Elements. Bas relief. Cutout. Paint daubs. Water color. Glass. And one from my front sidewalk of the Moon through the powerlines […]

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Day 219

Sunday, August 9, 2015

More of that Full Moon, between the sunset lit silos… *** ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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