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Technical and home made photography stuff!

Day 174, June 10th, part 2!

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Our first whale! Well, the first one in focus and properly exposed… * * * * * ~Curtis in Icy Straight! {!-{>

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Day 168, June 8th, part 10!

Friday, July 14, 2017

The Dailylife Wife photographing our departure down Endicott Arm in a three photo panorama. Click the photo a couple of times to see it larger.  BACK to return here!   And looking the other way… …she spies something in the distance! Why, it is that other cruise liner we saw in the post below! A […]

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Special Edition!

Sunday, July 2, 2017

The Camera Club went out last night to Belt to shoot burning steel wool…a  great time was had by all!  The steel wool was ignited and whirled around the head of Allan#1, the significant other of a Club member.  Special thanks to Alan#2 who had to leave early but left me his tripod when I […]

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Day 155

Thursday, June 22, 2017

I was waiting for our 14 day Alaskan Cruise to start and began to play around with my latest lens, the Rokinon 12mm f2.0 the Dailylife Wife got me for Christmas. While an outstanding lens for Star photos, which it the main reason I wanted it, this lens is completely manual and does not have […]

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Day 86

Sunday, March 26, 2017

A quick cellphone selfie (on a stick!) of the Dailylife Wife, Toots and me, in the Best Western parking lot in Gardiner, MT.  I have stayed there twice now on this and last year’s Great Falls Camera Club Yellowstone outings.  Pretty nice!  There are often Buffalo, Bighorn Sheep or Elk on the far shore behind […]

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Day 79

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Finally!  Back in Great Falls! Down on the River there were a bunch of Canvasback ducks. These next four all come from the same photo, but are sized, sharpened and cropped somewhat differently. The one above is even suitable for wallpaper! They are listed as uncommon in my Petersen’s Field Guide on my iPad. Certainly not […]

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Day 33

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

A fish-eyed view of Rainbow Falls and Dam, taken a week or so ago. Taken on my cellphone. ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 17

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

I was down by the River today after dropping Toots at home after her school got out, and while there wasn’t much in the way of waterfowl, I did find this herd of deer on the new industrial spur, a couple hundred feet north of the railroad crossing signals. This is a three photo panorama, […]

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Day 357

Saturday, December 24, 2016

From a week ago, when I photographed the bloody eagle! A 100% crop, I think, but it came up short in the width…only 1436×960 instead of 1440×960…I wonder where those 4 pixels went? ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 354

Friday, December 23, 2016

We went to Toots’ Christmas program.  Being bored before they came in I started to play around…they had a really nice winter background behind the risers for the kids.  A great scene with real lights! One of the favorite techniques of Friend Robyn is zooming in or out during the exposure. It can be kind […]

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