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Sad news…

Saturday, September 20, 2014

The father of our Friend Robyn passed away.  He lived a full life, and I know her family will miss him enormously.  He was always a gentleman in my few dealings with him, and he freely let me drool on his Indian Chief and BMW R75/5. Bob and his wife, from Robyn’s blog: R.I.P. ~Curtis in […]

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Northern Lights?

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Well, they were a bust around here last night, but looked pretty good a lot farther North.  The buzz is they will/could be be good tonight.  We’ll see.   ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Northern Lights Tonight!

Friday, September 12, 2014

The Northern Lights are predicted to be good tonight and tomorrow night If anyone is planning on shooting the Northern Lights tonight you should go outside NOW (in the daylight) with your camera and widest angle lens. Pick something as far away as you can (the Highwood Mountains would be good from here!) and focus […]

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Day 231: 15 minutes ago…

Saturday, September 6, 2014

I took this photo in our front yard about 15 minutes ago.  I cropped it to 1440×960.  The image is full sized.  I didn’t do anything else to it.  I love this lens. (1/1500s f/5.6 ISO320 300mm (70-300mm L)Canon 7D) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 220: A brief interlude, part 2

Thursday, August 28, 2014

After that great Milky Way session, what happens but the Northern Lights came out tonight. (A three photo panorama!) (Click to enlarge; BACK to return!) Another three photo panorama. The Dailylife Daughter #1 and I went out to Bootlegger Trail to view them.  We had a good time.  There were a few other cars doing […]

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Day 219: A brief interlude….

Monday, August 25, 2014

I went out star gazing tonight… 30 Second Exposures…high ISO’s…the first two have meteor trails.  The third one has an airplane trail. (30s f/4.0 ISO6400 17mm Canon 7D) (30s f/4.0 ISO5000 23mm Canon 7D) A photo from the Dailylife Wife’s camera…she has the fisheye lens.  I just get to borrow it! (30s f/0.0 ISO6400 9.00 […]

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Day 216: Another guest posting!

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Toots’ rainy day contribution! Sunflowers in the Rain, by Toots (Nikon Coolpix P7100) ~Curtis, in slightly damp /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 215: A guest posting!

Saturday, August 23, 2014

A brief interlude on a rainy day: Lugnut, Toots and I went a photographing down by the River today! Trestle in the Rain 1, by Lugnut (Nikon Coolpix P7100) Trestle in the Rain 2, by Lugnut (Nikon Coolpix P7100) ~Curtis, in slightly damp /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 211: A Brief Break…

Sunday, August 17, 2014

A brief break from our cruise.  I went out last night (16 Aug 14) to watch the Moonrise of the third quarter Moon.  My usual spot near Fife was full of farm trucks (Hmmmf.  Harvest.  Go figure. {!-{P ) so I went a little father down the road and set up on the edge of […]

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Day 205

Thursday, July 24, 2014

A few random Sunrise photos from this morning! (1/60s f/8.0 ISO200 6mm (35mm eq:28mm) -3 stops Nikon Coolpix P7100) BTW, all of the colors are from the in-camera exposure.  If anything I toned a few down! (1/250s f/5.6 ISO100 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -1.3 stops P7100) (1/800s f/7.1 ISO100 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -2.7 stops P7100) (1/1000s […]

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