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Excuse the state of the pond. It looks like it needs a good clean!
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Photo of the Day September 2020
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Back on topic.
Excuse the state of the pond. It looks like it needs a good clean!
My first job out of college involved me working in semi-remote mountain areas everyday. I had a cell phone, but once I got so far outside of town, signal dropped and it was just a brick hanging from my belt.
Earlier this year, Mrs Darmok hit a pothole and blew out a tire. She called me, and I was not able to get there, so it was at that time I taught her how to change a flat tire—go into the glovebox, and on a piece of paper, there is the phone number for roadside assistance. Tell them where you are, and they will get you on the road again! They were there and gone in 20 minutes.
The smartphone is close to meeting that objective—phone, internet, email, text, calculator, camera, camcorder, wallet, to-do, compass, GPS, and more, but you can only do so far if you still want it to fit in your pocket! That’s what those crazy folding phones are trying to solve, but the price is steep and they seem like a bit of a compromise.
oh hey look, another butterfly (technically you've already seen this one in some other photo. we did have one open today but less than an hour ago so it isn't photo ready yet).
I was in Maine last weekend and took this shot of the Milky Way from Otter Point in Acadia National Park. 8 shots untracked, but stacked for noise reduction.
Awesome result. If you don't mind, what was your setup/settings? I don't do much astro, but someday I might. Looks like you had a pretty wide lens.
Thank you
I used a Nikon D850 and Nikkor 14-24mm lens. I just had the camera set up on a tripod with a ball head, no tracking device. The camera settings were:
14 mm
f/2.8
15 seconds
ISO 1600
I stacked the 8 shots using StarryLandscapeStacker and edited in Lightroom. I used Photoshop to mask in the foreground with a shot I had used during the blue hour from the exact same spot.
Park Pampas Grass (side view)
X100T f4.5 125 ISO640 - originally viewed and shot in-camera with b&w+red treatment - processed with classic chrome
X100T f4.5 125 ISO640 - originally viewed and shot in-camera with b&w+red treatment - processed with classic chrome
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I suggest a long focal length for wasps. Evil buggers.It's wasp season...
Cheers
Hugh
Good stuff. I have that lens, but it gets very little use. Shame as it’s a beautiful bit of glass.
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Grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia asarifolia) with an ant.
Beautiful veining in the flower petals!
Beautiful veining in the flower petals!
While I was shooting Alfred the other day, all of a sudden one of the cormorants popped into view, his freshly-caught lunch in his mouth:
We released five butterflies today but they were all too eager to start their new lives. So now I am reminding you that I am still growing ombre zinnias.
This is a scanned photo of my favorite 6 young Cheetahs in Kenya in the 90s.
Sorry if you don't like spiders. Believe it or not, Mrs Darmok had me take this on our trip. She likes spiders!
