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Category Archives: Life at Home

Day 341

I got the Christmas lights up on the house this year…just in time for a little blizzard! (1/160, f4, 35mm, ISO 200, -1 stop) (1/125, f4, 35mm, ISO 200, -1 stop) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

Roller Derby Special!

The First Electric City Roller Girrrlz Home Bout! And on the far right: Dailylife Daughter #1: 9-1-1  Steele in Troubl! Some fast action! *** *** Setting up to block! *** A quick score… * Typical Roller Derby… …everybody keeps falling down. There’s the 9-1-1 again! There’s that scoreboard again. More action! More action! Typical Roller […]

Day 339

I took these with the Dailylife Wife’s old camera, a Canon Powershot SX100IS.  Then I played a little bit with the art filters in Photoshop Elements.  Click on the photo to enlarge it for best viewing; BACK to return! A Redhead? A Redhead! A Coot! *** ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

Day 337

A pair of Western Grebes. (1/2000, f8, 400mm, ISO 400) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

Day 336

Behold the rather ordinary looking, commonplace Coot.  But beneath that rather dull exterior lurks a dark secret, one Science is only now unraveling… (1/1000, f8, 400mm, ISO 400) Coots are proof birds are the descendants of dinosaurs! (1/1500, f5.6, 400mm, ISO 400) Look at those beady little red eyes.  And those legs!  Straight from a […]

Day 335

Okay, one more Greater Yellowlegs… (1/500, f8, 400mm, ISO 160) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

Day 334

A few more photos of the Great Yellowlegs I saw down by Giants Springs back in October. (1/750, f8, 400mm, ISO 200, -1/2 stop) (1/1000, f8, 400mm, ISO 200, -1/2 stop) (1/750, f8, 400mm, ISO 320, -1/2 stop) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

Day 333: Thanksgiving down on Barrow Road!

We started with a quick breakfast down at the DailyLife Daughter and Son-In-Law #1’s house. Nana the Dailylife Wife  and Lugnut McQueen! (All photos taken with Canon Powershot SX100IS on Auto.  Not all photos are wallpaper sized.  This one is.) Double Dailylifes! (Wallpaper sized) Dailylife Rockstar Toots! We headed home after a wonder breakfast of […]

Day 329

The Dailylife Wife and I took a run down to Giant Springs this afternoon.  It was overcast, but a lot warmer than yesterday! (1/180, f8, 40mm, ISO 320) A spider web strand in the snow… (1/2000, f4, 40mm, ISO 400) The Dailylife Wife looking over the Giant Spring. (1/180, f8, 36mm, ISO 100) I >>KNOW<< […]

Day 328

A Mourning Dove in the Barrow Backyard Wildlife Refuge. Completely unprocessed beyond cropping and resizing. (1/250, f16, 400mm, ISO 320, +1/2 stop) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>