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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 237

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Smokey sunrise in Fife, /\/\onTana! ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 234

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

More on that Cedar Waxwing infestation… Down he goes! Huh. “Was it something I said?” ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 233

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

More on that Cedar Waxwing infestation… Two? Two! * ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 232

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

More on that Cedar Waxwing infestation… A female. A young Robin. More Waxwing! * ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 231

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

More on that Cedar Waxwing infestation… A female… * ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 230

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Last night the Dailylife Wife came to show me the nice Cedar Waxwing photo she had taken in the Mountain Ash tree by the deck.  The birds had infested it!  Here are a few of mine…probably more to come… * * ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 228

Friday, August 14, 2015

While the Dailylife Daughter #2 was here last week, we prevailed upon Friend Bekka for a family photo session. L to R: Me, DD#2, the Dailylife Wife (bottom), Lugnut (top), DD#1, Toots, ‘Stache, Lugwrench. Just the girls now! And Nana and Lugnut! Nice job Bekka! ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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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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