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Day 257

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

This is a five photo panorama of Rainbow Dam and Falls, with the trestle in the background.  They are replacing the rubber barriers they use on half of the dam.  On the left side you can see the walkway across, with little space below it.  On the right side there is a big space.  That […]

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Day 253: The strange things you see…

Sunday, September 8, 2013

I was out and about a few days ago, and I saw the strangest thing: a train of nothing but windmill blades!  This was taken down where the tracks go behind Applebee’s on River Road and 4th Avenue South. (All photos: Nikon Coolpix P7100) One of the blades is longer than two locomotives! They ran […]

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Day 238

Sunday, August 25, 2013

What Toots saw on her Motorcycle Adventure! Rainbow Falls and Dam. (All photos by Toots on her pink vetch kidizoom camera!) Downstream from Rainbow Falls. We always say it is the photographer and not the equipment, but that only goes so far.  Here are other bird photos on a better camera.  Same photographer. At the […]

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Day 215

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Here is the new bridge just before you pull into East Glacier.  That is Glacier National Park in the background.  No more narrow bridge at the bottom of the dip! (1/2000s f/4.0 ISO100 6mm (35mm eq:28mm) -2/3 stop Nikon P7100) This is getting closer to Marias Pass.  Note the freight train on the tracks ahead. […]

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Day 190

Sunday, July 7, 2013

I was driving back from Browning a week or so ago, and saw these horses between there and Cut Bank. (1/500s f/8.0 ISO100 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -2/3 stop Nikon Coolpix P7100) (1/500s f/8.0 ISO100 25.4mm (35mm eq:119mm) -2/3 stop P7100) (1/640s f/8.0 ISO100 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -2/3 stop P7100) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 123

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

I had to run up to Havre this morning to interview someone, and just past Big Sandy I found the Big New Sante Fe Railroad (Warren Buffet’s model railroad!) was still storing the intermodal shipping container cars.  We have had miles and miles of them around here since the economy had the downturn.  There were […]

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Day 71

Monday, March 11, 2013

Another photo from that frosty foggy morning.  The Rainbow Falls Trestle (resized). (1/400s f/5.0 ISO100 6mm (35mm eq:28mm) -1/3 stop Nikon P7100) Cropped and resized for wallpaper. (Same as above.) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 69

Friday, March 8, 2013

A freezing fog is always fun for photographers…not so much anyone else… (1/200s f/6.3 ISO100 28.9mm (35mm eq:135mm) -1/3 stop Nikon P7100) From frosty pods to frozen grass… (1/800s f/3.5 ISO100 9.7mm (35mm eq:45mm) -2/3 stop P7100) …and back again! (1/640s f/4.5 ISO100 20.1mm (35mm eq:94mm) -2/3 stop P7100) Reflections. (1/500s f/4.5 ISO100 20.1mm (35mm […]

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Day 65

Monday, February 25, 2013

More Sunrise! Across the Missouri River again, towards Giant Springs, Rainbow Dam and Falls, and the Railroad Trestle. (1/2000s f/5.6 ISO500 50mm -1.5 stops Canon 7D) Here it comes…almost… (1/1000s f/8.0 ISO320 85mm -2 stops Canon 7) There it is! (1/350s f/22.0 ISO320 90mm -1 stop Canon 7D) (1/8000s f/16.0 ISO320 56mm -1 stop Canon […]

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Day 64

Monday, February 25, 2013

More of the beautiful Sunrise: Looking across the Missouri at Giant Springs, Rainbow Dam and Falls, and the railroad trestle. (1/30s f/5.6 ISO1000 53mm -3 stops Canon 7D) A little closer view. (1/10s f/5.6 ISO1000 75mm -2 stops Canon 7D) And the forest North of the Rainbow Dam Road. (1/20s f/5.6 ISO1000 85mm -2.5 stops […]

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