An old dog’s odyssey to learn new digital tricks



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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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?

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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 [...]

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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.

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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) [...]

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An alternative theory for the demise of the dinosaurs

They got too friendly…

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Spoiling Dinner

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

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Lotus 2 of 3

OK, I got a bit sidetracked…

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