In honor of the debut of Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan’s The National Parks, America’s Best Idea on PBS, a couple images of one of the many places we still have thanks to such a system of preservation being in place. Montezuma Castle National Monument, near Camp Verde, Arizona; one of the four sites that […]
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Digiscoping with a DSLR Camera
While the benefits of intra-ocular lens replacement surgery (commonly performed to correct cataracts) are significant – astonishingly sharp color perception, 20/20 or approximate vision – one minor draw-back from it is the loss of close focus vision. In my own case, even with the fact that the lenses implanted into my eyes are flexible and […]
Photo Interlude – Sunset over Lake Erie
Sunset over Lake Erie as seen from Marblehead, Ohio. The industrial structure seen in the image is the conveyor system between the Marblehead quarry and the lake’s docks. Equipment: Canon PowerShot G10 Settings: F-stop: f/2.8 Exposure time: 1/20 sec. ISO speed: ISO-200 Exposure bias: 0
Photo Interlude: Haystack Rock
Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon. This is less than a two hour drive from our home. Anyone still wonder why we live where we do? Equipment: Canon PowerShot G10 Settings: F-stop: f/4 Exposure time: 1/250 sec. ISO speed: ISO-80