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Technical and home made photography stuff!

A Moonrise Special!

Thursday, December 19, 2013

It was cold (really cold!) and the sky was clear.  I was able to catch the Moonrise over the Highwoods.  Note the lack of clarity: the cold sky, especially by the horizon, is unsettled air and not particularly good to photograph through.  The bottom is just cut off by the skyline. A few minutes later […]

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Day 338: A little moonlight (18 November)

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

We went to the Smith Family Luau tonight.  It was wonderful.  This isn’t it.  After being cloudy all day, the skies clear tonight and the (almost) full Moon was out. (1.5s f/4.0 ISO2500 12mm Canon 7D) (1s f/4.0 ISO1250 24mm 7D) Kapa’a by night. (2s f/4.5 ISO5000 22mm 7D) (1s f/4.0 ISO800 24mm 7D) Those […]

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Day 333: 14 November

Friday, November 15, 2013

Thursday night I took a night photography workshop from Kauai Adventure Photography Workshops!  I had hoped to get one of those fantastic Milky Way over the Ocean shots, but it was not to be…cloudy.  There were only a few of us, and we practiced some nice sunset photos, then light painting and long exposure.  Here […]

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Day 282

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Back to Lugnut and the Railroad shortly. This is where we stayed, the Anaheim Residence Inn Maingate, or something like that.  It was within walking distance to Disneyland, but since all you do there is walk anyway, we got bus passes.  It was sure nice, once you have dragged yourself back to the Disney Gate […]

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Day 246

Friday, August 24, 2012

A bunch of us went out after the Glacier trip to shoot photos of old cars.  I decided I had not used my pinhole lens in a while and this was a good opportunity to dig it out! Friend Robyn’s version,with a real lens, you know, with glass and stuff! (1 second, ISO 100) (1.5 seconds, […]

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Day 216

Friday, July 27, 2012

Miscellaneous shots from the backyard and house.  The venerable Canon Powershot SX100IS is being retired… Wide angle: 28mm Telephoto: 200mm A flower from the back yard. A flower from inside the house. And the newest member of the Barrow Camera Collection is: A Nikon Coolpix P7100.  It was a tough choice between this and the […]

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3D Civil War Photos!

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Pretty neat!  From the Library of Congress.   Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Note: How >>Not<< to Photograph Whales...

Sunday, June 10, 2012

…or other things from a small boat!   I think I mentioned somewhere that I missed a lot of good photos on Cap’t Andy’s Cruise.  It wasn’t their fault!  I took too much lens (my 400mm).  When the boat is bouncing up and down two or three feet it is really hard to keep that […]

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Day 315: Something a little different!

Friday, November 4, 2011

I got an itch to try something different today, so I added the oldest known lens to one of the most advanced cameras made!  (Okay, okay, so a Canon 7D is a year or so old; it is a heck of a lot more advanced than one of my Argus C3’s!)  I made a pinhole […]

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