And neither is this. In fact, it lost some of the lovely detail even reproducing it at this resolution. But I like it anyway.
Author: Al Denelsbeck
Just because, part seven
Just a quick one before the day closes, an image I got this morning while trying (and failing) to capture a bird in a treetop illuminated by the first orange rays of the sun. I had turned towards the sun peeking through the trees and was dodging back and forth, hoping to find something perched that I could silhouette against the light. As I moved about, the nearby holly bush caught
An open letter
This post was fostered by an exchange on Panda’s Thumb and simply needs to be said. This is an open letter to everyone who might call themselves devoutly religious, creationist, conspiracy theorist, new age or alt med supporter, paranormal or psychic believer, and so on. Or anyone that has ever used the phrase, in any form, “Science doesn’t know everything.”
It’s simple.
The days of yore, part two
Okay, so, I had this idea a couple of weeks ago, to feature an image from the summer solstice on the day of the winter solstice – kind of a callback to nicer weather, and a reflection of that little archive list on the sidebar, right? Yeah, so, first, I had to stick to digital images, since over a decade of slides in my stock are only dated by the month and year I got them developed, so no
Minor updates
While I pay no attention to the news, I’m still hearing about the impending winter storms across much of the US, and this coincides with one of the posts from two years ago in the sidebar. So, while I was doing some of the year end updates on the calendar and such, I decided to add two pages to the Tips Gallery. Should you
Changing perspective
I just find this amusing. The Girlfriend, like probably 85% of the world’s population, isn’t terribly fond of bugs, most especially not the big ones. But she’s watched me pursue numerous arthropodic subjects, and still finds fascination in the details revealed from macro work.
The net result of this is seen here, what I’m fairly certain is an Acanthocephala declivis,
This one goes to twelve
Hey, I figure I had to post something precisely at 12:12 am on 12/… aw shit.
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
But at least I waited a day just to thwart all that goofy ‘Caturday’ stuff…
The ethical responsibility of scientists
Sometimes, we humans get a cultural belief or concept stuck in our collective heads, something typically called a meme, and therefore think that this has importance solely because it’s repeated. Some sociologists have expressed the idea that this is exactly what culture is, and there’s an interesting theory that memes actually go through a process of natural selection.
Frustrations, part eight: Where is it?
There’s not going to be anything insightful hidden within this post, I’m just writing it out because I’m hoping it will be cathartic.
First things first. I’m actually pretty good about being able to find some place on a map that I’ve been to years before, based largely on the general landscape and my memory of how I’d arrived, and this even applies to little unplanned