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Day 237

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The Daily Wife and I were taking some stuff out to Robyn’s when we just happened upon this moonrise…I wish we had seen it a couple minutes earlier, but these worked out pretty good! (1/750, f4.5, 130mm, ISO 200, -2 stop) (1/2000, f4.5, 130mm, ISO 800, -1 stop) (1/500, f8, 300mm, ISO 400)

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Day 199: The view on the way back down…

Saturday, July 17, 2010

It was pretty spectacular on the way back down from Francis Peak, too.  I have not done anything to these photos except cropping and resizing to fit on the page. A peek at the Lake: (1/30, f4, 105mm, ISO 400, -1 stop) The same photo as wallpaper: I  haven’t had a nice moon shot in […]

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Day 89: the skies over grrff’lls

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

I went out to see the Moon rise tonight.  There was a layer of clouds in the East that would have kept me up way too late waiting for it, although there was just a sliver that came up through a gap in the cloud cover…but the expedition was not a total waste!  These were […]

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Day 59: Moonset in four parts…

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Saturday morning about 6:15am… One. (1/3, f8, 300mm, ISO 400, tripod) Two. (1/3, f8, 300mm, ISO 400, tripod) Three. (1/5, f8, 300mm, ISO 400, tripod) Four. (1/4, f8, 300mm, ISO 400, tripod) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 57, a new Moonrise…

Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Moon comes up in the afternoon right now.  This was an interesting reflection; just watch for two seconds and you will see it really is the Moon!  Click on it a couple times to see it full sized.  BACK to return! (1/200, f8, 135mm, ISO 100) Another view. (1/400, f8, 127mm, ISO 100) Wallpaper […]

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Day 291 – A little more night work…

Thursday, October 15, 2009

From the hills above Missoula tonight…be sure to click once or twice to enlarge the photos; BACK to return… (25 seconds, f5.6, 17mm, ISO 800) (25 seconds, f5.6, 17mm, ISO 800) (30 seconds, f5.6, 22mm, ISO 1600) A luck shooting star; I didn’t see this until I got back to the computer!  There is at […]

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Day 290, Day’s End

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Near Corvallis, /\/\onTana! earlier this evening… (30 seconds, f4.5, 17mm, ISO 800) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 206! Caught up at last!

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Although I still have a lot of Alaska to show…I didn’t have to resort to any cheap theatrical tricks, like reposting photos just ‘cuz I placed with them in the Fair (for this post, anyway!!!), either.  These were taken Tuesday night north of Bozeman while waiting for the International Space Station and Space Shuttle to […]

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Day 197

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The International Space Station and Space Shuttle have been visible each night.  They say you can see the shape with binoculars, but I couldn’t.  Below is the best photo I could bet with my 300mm lens. (1/125, f5.6 300mm, ISO 1600, Canon 70-300mm IS Lens) Maybe a bigger lens next time… Here is the NASA […]

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Day 194: One small step for [a] man…

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Forty years ago today Mankind reached the height of civilization on this planet: We left it.  Man walked on the Moon.  A few more missions, then a program cut short because the dollars needed to be saved were “needed” elsewhere, the “end” of the Space Race… The whole planet had been brought together for one […]

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