Skip to content

Category Archives: Technical Stuff

Technical and home made photography stuff!

Day 267

Monday, September 29, 2014

The last view.  While this looks like it should be before the two previous posts, it was actually taken eight minutes after the ones below.  We were just starting to go around an island when I took the ones below, with a wide angle lens.  This one was with a telephoto lens after we passed […]

Also filed in Alaskan Cruise 2014!, Landscapes, On the Road, PAD 2014, Photography, Weather | | Comments (0)

Day 259

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Those chunks of ice floating below the glacier are some of what we saw fall in previous posts. Before the glacier calves, you hear a loud booming, a few seconds before the ice falls.  I recall this was called “white thunder”.  It is the ice cracking prior to the fall.  You have a couple of […]

Also filed in Alaskan Cruise 2014!, Landscapes, On the Road, PAD 2014, Photography, Weather | | Comments (0)

Day 243: Anchorage (Hope), part 2

Friday, September 19, 2014

(A couple of new photos at the bottom!  And one in the middle!) After the Potters Marsh we drove on to Hope.  It is about 40 miles, at the end of one of the roads out of Anchorage to the South West. It was still pretty cloudy, although there wasn’t much rain with it. (Dailylife […]

Also filed in Alaskan Cruise 2014!, Family, Flowers, Food, Landscapes, On the Road, PAD 2014, Photography, Railroads, Sunsets, Weather | | Comments (1)

Northern Lights?

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Well, they were a bust around here last night, but looked pretty good a lot farther North.  The buzz is they will/could be be good tonight.  We’ll see.   ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

Also filed in Astronomy, Great Falls Camera Club, Life at Home, PAD 2014, Photography | | Comments (0)

Northern Lights Tonight!

Friday, September 12, 2014

The Northern Lights are predicted to be good tonight and tomorrow night If anyone is planning on shooting the Northern Lights tonight you should go outside NOW (in the daylight) with your camera and widest angle lens. Pick something as far away as you can (the Highwood Mountains would be good from here!) and focus […]

Also filed in Astronomy, Great Falls Camera Club, Life at Home, PAD 2014, Photography | | Comments (0)

Day 219: A brief interlude….

Monday, August 25, 2014

I went out star gazing tonight… 30 Second Exposures…high ISO’s…the first two have meteor trails.  The third one has an airplane trail. (30s f/4.0 ISO6400 17mm Canon 7D) (30s f/4.0 ISO5000 23mm Canon 7D) A photo from the Dailylife Wife’s camera…she has the fisheye lens.  I just get to borrow it! (30s f/0.0 ISO6400 9.00 […]

Also filed in Astronomy, Landscapes, Life at Home, PAD 2014, Photography | | Comments (0)

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

You might have notice that in some of the panoramas the buildings tilt to the side some on some of the end photos.  That is an artifact of the panorama process that Adobe Elements uses.   ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

Also filed in Administration Blog Stuff, PAD 2014, Photography | | Comments (0)

Day 201

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Columbine from the Dailylife Wife’s flower garden. (1/502s f/2.2 ISO40 4.8mm (35mm eq:31mm) Galaxy s5) A different view of one. (1/542s f/2.2 ISO40 4.8mm (35mm eq:31mm) s5) Yeah, I could have gotten better/closer/more detailed photos with my Canon 100mm Macro…but these were taken with a cellphone…no wonder digital camera sales are sliding! The Official Gardener-ette: […]

Also filed in Family, Flowers, Life at Home, PAD 2014, Photography | | Comments (0)

Day 195

Sunday, July 13, 2014

This is the sunrise yesterday, following the Super Moon.  It was pretty bright… (1/8000s f/8.0 ISO320 214mm -3 stops Canon 7D) An early Robin enjoying the sunrise, too. (1/750s f/6.7 ISO320 300mm -1/2 stop 7D) One of those artsy, out-of-focus-foreground photographs. (1/125s f/16.0 ISO320 277mm 7D) Two pelicans. (1/1500s f/8.0 ISO320 300mm -1.5 stops 7D) […]

Also filed in Astronomy, Landscapes, Life at Home, PAD 2014, Photography, Sunrises, Wildlife | | Comments (0)

Day 194

Sunday, July 13, 2014

A selection of the Super Moon rising last night. Fife in the setting sun. The sky has some haze thanks to Canadian forrst fires.  Hence some of the orange on the Moon. (1/60s f/8.0 ISO200 79mm -1/2 stop Canon 7D) A Super Moon is when the Moon is closest to the Earth when it is […]

Also filed in Astronomy, Landscapes, Life at Home, PAD 2014, Photography, Sunsets, Weather | | Comments (0)