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Technical and home made photography stuff!

Day 238

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

The Camera Club went down to Nevada and Virginia Cities over the weekend.  The clouds cleared up Saturday night, and Toots took these photos of the Milky Way, and more… These were all then on the Canon M2, with a 22mm f2.0 lens. They were 20 to 30 second exposures, at ISO 6400. There was […]

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Day 215

Sunday, July 31, 2016

I went down to the Photography Exhibit at the Fair to help out Saturday.  Here is a three photo panorama of the Exhibit from my M2.  Click it a couple of times to enlarge it; BACK to return here! And here is one while things were being set up.  This is an 11 photo panorama […]

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Day 206

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

At the end of last week I went up to see the Dailylife Granddad and the Dailylife Sister who was down visiting him. We did a lot of talking. In the evening there were deer out.  This is one of the modern marvels of digital photography: it was pretty close to completely dark, and the […]

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Day 205

Monday, July 25, 2016

More from the Barrow Backyard.  It was warm enough to rate putting the slip ‘n slide down the hill! *** Just a small technical note:  Today’s and yesterday’s photos were taken on the M2 with a Tokina 80-200mm zoom from my old Olympus 35mm film days.  It is completely manual and no autofocus.  It does […]

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Day 198

Saturday, July 16, 2016

After a nice, if somewhat rainy, drive to Kalispell and back for Avis I decided to try my new Olympus OM to Canon EF-M lens adapter.  This adapter is a simple tube with the appropriate mounts at both ends, and leaves the lens completely manual while on the M2.  This is actually a pretty good […]

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Day 190

Monday, July 4, 2016

Out on the River this morning, playing around with the M2 and the 400mm telephoto.  Looks pretty funny.  Works pretty good! I was also trying something we saw when the Camera Club went to Yellowstone last winter.  Take a section of Fun Noodle and cut a slice down one side.  Slip it over the car […]

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Day 189

Sunday, July 3, 2016

The Dailylife Wife has some lilies down any the end of the house by the brick wall.  I borrowed a Canon 22mm from Friend Robyn for my M2.  Here is a little playing around. The first one is in the sunlight, and they came out very yellow.  They are very orange to the naked eye. […]

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Day 175

Friday, June 24, 2016

I swung down by the River after coffee this morning… Pelican. Cliff Swallow. Tree Swallow. Mourning Dove.  100% crop. These were all taken on my Canon M2 with an EF 28-135 IS lens and adapter to use it on the M2.  This is a new camera body with a late model sensor, and a lens […]

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Day 167

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

A new import to the Barrow Backyard Bird Sanctuary:  a Eurasian Collared-Dove. They are a recent arrival from the Caribbean, and closely related to the Spotted Doves we saw in Hawai’i. This is the northwestern end of their new range. Handheld with my 400mm lens, 1/1500 second, ISO 200 and f5.6.  In less than ideal […]

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Day 032, Part 2

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Toots and I went on a Camera Club photoshoot at Fritz’s Cadillac Garage. Here are my photos from there. A three photo panorama. This is a two photo panorama. Another version of the panorama, but it screwed up somebody’s leg! ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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