You don’t take a photograph, you make it. –Ansel Adams

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Okay, here are what I currently think are the best of my eclipse photos. Using a welder's mask lens gave everything a strong green tint, which was hard/impossible to completely eliminate, so I got a bit creative with the color in some of these.


I love the refraction pattern around the sun in this one.



If you look closely, you can see a tiny bit of the left tip of the sun just above the horizon in this shot.

There will probably be more tomorrow, so hope you like these!

ECLIPSE! (Cue Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain')

Pinhole Camera Results
Human Camera
Eclipse Glasses
Coolest Solar Flare EVER!
Goldeneye

Rough Landing!






Random, gratuitous landscape shot:


Chances are, this won't be the last random, gratuitous landscape shot.  You've been warned.

Woodgrain table




Friday, May 18, 2012

Textures?  You want textures?




Suggestions for improvement always welcome, in case I've never said that before!

Sunday, May 13, 2012

I took a great walk this evening.  There were lots of great photos to be had; here are a few of the ones I found.








Obviously, the yucca are looking good right now!

Texture with character

Saturday, May 12, 2012

I managed to get outside a bit and take some outdoor closeups too.

Prickly pear bud

Prickly pear on the edge!

Another bud, and something extra


 Better view of the something extra

And, just for the halibut, a dead tree on the edge of the canyon

Hope you like these, folks!

Flowers for mothers day


Here are a couple of closeups.  More to follow soon, from outside if the weather decides to cooperate!


Friday, May 11, 2012

I had some time to kill in Albuquerque around sunset today.  So, here are the best of the photos that resulted from this circumstance:


I suppose this one could count as a closeup, but I'll try to get a better closeup just for that "assignment."


Close-up of an early bird (gets the worm!)

Thursday, May 10, 2012



Close-up, then far away.  This tree has a few years on it....