An old dog’s odyssey to learn new digital tricks


Archive for July, 2008


I’ve been Explored…

Unless you hang out on Flickr very much, you may not have heard about “Explore”…

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Ka-ching!

I ran across this neat antique cash register in the back of the general store in St. Elmo, Colorado…

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Skyward

The Gateway Arch, under suitably gray skies in St. Louis, Missouri…

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Packing heat

I remember how not so many years ago, the Coast Guard was sort of the “cuddly” branch of the armed forces. How things change…

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Propellers: you know you can’t trust them

This is one of those scenes that I just had to get a picture of…

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4th of July in St. Louis — #10 of 12

My wife has very itchy feet — if a good deal comes up on airfare to a place we haven’t been before, we’re there. So this sort of thing landed us in St. Louis, Missouri on the 4th of July weekend this year…

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My ever-hungry friend

Today, another seagull picture from offshore of Victoria, BC…

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The tiniest of details…

…are what make life worth living.
Another quick macro shot, this time from St. Elmo, Colorado:

These flowers are each about 1/4″ in diameter — small enough that I almost stepped on one while we were walking back to our 4×4. I took the picture, at least in part, to remind myself to watch where [...]

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Minty fresh!

A bumblebee works its way through some slender mountain mint:

I took this picture in a park in St. Louis, Missouri. It has a slight case of “green overdose,” but I like the bokeh and am particularly happy at how crisp the bee looks.
I think I’ve finally discovered the secret of good bee photography [...]

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Yellow

Outside the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, Alaska…

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