An old (film) dog's odyssey to learn new (digital) tricks


Archive for September, 2008


Looking up, looking down

A few days ago I showed you the outside of the Desert View Watchtower. Now I’ll take you inside with this little diptych I put together:

The watchtower has 4 floors in it — and the middle two have holes conveniently cut in the middle of them, so you can get a [...]

Squidlike

Yeah, it’s a lame name — but I think it fits:

This is an image of some interesting little seed heads that I took at The Arboretum at Flagstaff in Flagstaff, Arizona.
For what it’s worth, I really like the bokeh, too. What do you think?

All along the watchtower…

We recently had the good fortune to make our way back to the Grand Canyon after some years’ absence. Here’s the first in about a dozen pictures I took there that I’m happy with:

This is the Desert View watchtower at sundown.
The 70 foot tall tower was built in 1932 by the Fred Harvey [...]

Taking a break

A damselfly takes a little breather in St. Louis:

I like how the bokeh turned out in this, but obviously still have to work on my depth of field — his tail is far less sharp than I’d like it to be.

Photogs (triptych)

I thought I’d try my hand at a triptych, and this situation just made it easy for me:

A few weeks back, I went to the Rocky Mountain Balloon Festival, just to see what kind of pictures I could get. I was lucky that the first day of the festival (“Press Day,” a Friday) [...]

Heading out

A little twilight action in San Diego Bay…

An alternative theory for the demise of the dinosaurs

They got too friendly…

Spoiling Dinner

A peek in the front window of a candy store in Estes Park, Colorado…

Lotus 2 of 3

OK, I got a bit sidetracked…

Zig-zag

A quiet spot for reflection