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Day 123

Monday, May 9, 2011

Spring has sprung, at least for the geese down on the River! (1/2000, f8, 400mm, ISO 640, unprocessed, just cropped and resized) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 122

Monday, May 9, 2011

From my back deck… (1/10, f5.6, 400mm, ISO 1600) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 121

Friday, May 6, 2011

The first public offering of my 400mm f5.6 L: Three male Ruddy Ducks (with the blue bills!) and five females.  This is un-edited, and un-resized.  It is just cropped around the edges a bit. (1/180, f11, 400mm, ISO 250, handheld)

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Day 120: The Vanishing Brew

Friday, May 6, 2011

Normally when beer vanishes, someone has been drinking it.  However, this does not seem to be the case here.  Our friends Robyn and Walter brought me back a case of four six-packs of the four kinds of beer bottled in Sedona, Arizona, at Oak Creek Brewing Company.  They have been sitting while I wait in […]

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Day 119: Happy Birthday to Me, to Me!

Friday, May 6, 2011

According to my julian calendar, the 29th of April is Day 119, so Happy Birthday to Me, to Me!  The Dailydaughter #1 got me a Salsa Garden.  My friend Robyn got me a really nice canvas print of one of my photos (second one down), and the Dailylife Wife got me a Canon 400mm f5.6 […]

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Day 107

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

A brief interlude… (1/250, f11, 130mm, ISO 500) Curtis, soon to be back in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 104

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Last weekend the Dailylife Wife and I took a run up to the Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge north of Great Falls. A Western Meadowlark in full song. (1/500, f9.5, 500mm, ISO 500) A Redwinged Blackbird attempting song. (1/1000, f11, 500mm, ISO 500) One for Oma… *** ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 101

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Fishing for BIG paddlefish in the Missouri? (1/750, f8, 300mm, ISO 250) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 97…a quick break from Skagway…

Monday, April 4, 2011

With apologies to Nemo… “Mine?  Mine?” (1/180, f11, 150mm, ISO 320) And dast I say it?  Dast I? (1/250, f11, 313mm, ISO 320) * * * I dast. * * * Angry Birds. (1/250, f11, 313mm, ISO 320) (This is a reference to a very popular iPad game…) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 94

Friday, April 1, 2011

These were probably taken in 1975 or 1976, with my then new Olympus OM-1.  For the sunset I think I used my Vivitar 35mm wideangle.  This is from our backyard in Whitefish, /\/\onTana! For the lightning I went down to Whitefish City Beach, and using a tripod and probably my Vivitar 85-205mm zoom telephoto, I […]

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