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Day 95, Part 2

Monday, April 5, 2010

This is Part 2.  To read them in order go to Part 1, post below.  As always, click to enlarge, BACK to return! I’m not so sure about this hill thing… It isn’t in the manual… I’ll go with Plan 3a: Just like the stairs, the un-tea kettle part goes first.  Back ‘er down slowly. […]

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Day 95, Part 1

Monday, April 5, 2010

Easter continued…don’t forget, click to enlarge, BACK to return! After the Saturday brunch we had the egg hunt. I was sure I saw one around here somewhere… There it is! There’s another! . . . . . . . Down we go. I’ll get it… !!! Every year it is the same thing: pick up […]

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Day 94: Happy Easter!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

An early Easter Brunch…on Saturday…too many of the group are working Sunday… I am so ready for this: just give me a menu! Aarrgghhh!  No menus at Golden Corral? This’ll do. Yes, I know what silverware is…what’s your point? Here, Nana, you can have my fork.  It’s still clean… You should try some of this […]

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Day 93

Saturday, April 3, 2010

A comparison of effectively the same photo in black and white and in color. * (On the left: 1/2000, f8, 28mm, ISO 400, polarizing filter) (On the right: 1/3000, f8, 38mm, ISO 400, polarizing filter) Be sure to click on them to enlarge them.  BACK to return! Last year’s leaves as wallpaper! (1/350, f5.6, 135mm, […]

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Day 92: 99 years old

Saturday, April 3, 2010

This tunnel is 99 years old this year.  Maybe we should get a party together next year, balloons, cakes, steam engines… (1/90, f16, 35mm, ISO 400, black and white in the camera, polarizing filter) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 91

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Old school…black and white digital… (1/1000, f8, 17mm, ISO 200, Red filter in software on the camera, Polarizing filter) (1/350, f8, 17mm, ISO 200, Red filter in software on the camera, Polarizing filter) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 90

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Robyn clued me in on a railroad tunnel not too far out of town.  I have been going all around it for years, but never took the side road out to where it is. Back towards Great Falls… (1/180, f8, 17mm, ISO 100, Polarizing filter) (1/359, f8, 32mm, ISO 200, Polarizing filter) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! […]

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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 88

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

A panorama from Rainbow Falls to Crooked Falls, sans water.  On the far shore near the right side you can see the new construction for the new powerhouse. (Four photos from the Nikon Coolpix L11 stitched together in MS ICE) Click to enlarge, BACK to return! ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 87

Sunday, March 28, 2010

I didn’t get up in time for the sunrise today, but I went for a drive anyhow.  I found this nice shot of Great Falls from back up at the foot of the Highwood Mountains near, of all things, Highwood! Great Falls is on the horizon right of the center, where the two white water […]

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