Another shot from Roxborough State Park…
Archive for October, 2008
A scrub oak’s shade
A snippet of a morning hike in Roxborough State Park:
I recently bought an Olympus fisheye lens to round out my set of lenses — I can’t say you can use it all the time, but it’s turning out to be a very versatile piece of glass. Software can correct most of the distortions [...]
Henry Persse’s place
A few days back, I took a picture of an old local building (built in 1903 — it’s old by local standards, at any rate). In spite of its age, it looks relatively “fresh” — thanks in no small part to a recent bout of restoration work. Since the picture I took makes the structure [...]
Clark at work
A 15 second “available light” image of the Lowell Observatory’s Clark telescope, hard at work as members of the public take their turn at the eyepiece…
Allograpta obliqua
I don’t recall what kind of flower my little subject is on, but I really like this macro shot:
It’s a handy thing, Flickr. Based on this little guy’s coloring I thought he must be some sort of wasp — but I’ve been told it’s a hover fly (a.k.a., a flower fly). I took [...]
Prickly in Pink
I found this interesting little cactus flower at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona…
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