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Day 355: The Winter Solstice

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

A rare and always amazing occurrence last night:  a full lunar eclipse >>on<< the winter solstice.  the last one was 435 years ago according to the last I read on it…and no one has bothered to determine when the next one is yet! It starts. (1/3000, f8, 260mm, ISO 800, 11:35 MST) About half way. […]

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Day 354

Monday, December 20, 2010

Back in September, when it was sunny and >>warm<< down by the river… (1/3000, f5.6, 117mm, ISO 250, -1/2 stop) (Don’t forget the eclipse of the Moon tonight!) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 345

Saturday, December 11, 2010

One of the Scouts found this great tea kettle in the kitchen of the Church we were meeting in for the workshop. (The Dailywife’s Canon Powershot SX100 on Auto) (The Dailywife’s Canon Powershot SX100 on Auto) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 344

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Robyn got asked to help at a Girl Scout Photography Workshop for today.  I volunteered to help her.  7 Juniors wasn’t bad, but 31 Brownies???  (OK, 30 Brownies and one Daisy…) Robyn created a slide show for her iPad to show composition.  I had some of my Fair prints, too.  These were the Juniors in […]

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Day 342: More Coot!

Friday, December 10, 2010

Tum-da-dee-da-dum… (1/1000, f8, 600mm, ISO 320, -1/2 stop) Hey, is that a banana peel down there? (1/750, f8, 600mm, ISO 320, -1/2 stop) It is!  It is a banan…Bloop! (1/750, f8, 600mm, ISO 320, -1/2 stop) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 340

Friday, December 10, 2010

I was out last week playing with my Sigma 600mm Mirror lens and found this Coot. (1/750, f8, 600mm, ISO 320, -1/2 stop) I think most of the trouble with this lens not looking like it focuses very well is that it is manual focus, and the view screens in Digital SLR’s are not designed […]

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Day 339

Friday, December 10, 2010

I went out looking for the sunrise this morning.  I guess it came up, but not where I could see it!  So I went on down by the river and saw a couple of Eagles being tossed around in the wind.  Here is one of them.  The light was not very good. 0 (1/180, f8, […]

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Day 337

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Sunrise on an ice fogged morning. (1/30, f11, 135mm, ISO 200, +1/2 stop) (1/125, f11, 85mm, ISO 200, -1/2 stop) (1/80, f11, 85mm, ISO 200, -1/2 stop) (1/125, f11, 85mm, ISO 200, -1/2 stop) (1/60, f16, 125mm, ISO 200) (1/30, f16, 41mm, ISO 200) (1/180, f8, 35mm, ISO 320) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 334: HIII-YAAA!!!

Friday, November 26, 2010

Ninja Nick! He moves faster than a camera can capture… ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 333

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Dailylife Daughter #1 had the Thanksgiving Sunrise on her Facebook page; here is some of the snow we got to see for Thanksgiving Early Shopping! (Nikon Coolpix L11 on Auto) Happy Thanksgiving! ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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