Finally getting back to the beach pics – would have been nice to have them up within the last month to drive the numbers up a little, but I was lazy. And really, you’re going to see a little too much of the same thing here, because it wasn’t the most productive of days photographically and the conditions were fairly narrow, but still better than the featureless
Author: Al Denelsbeck
Set that alarm
Coming up on October 6th at roughly 08:15 UTC (which translates to 4:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time,) the crescent moon will occult Jupiter – for once, a nice target for an occultation, since it’s a planet and, at decent magnification, has both a shape and detail. Note that this is for North America and may not occur (or be hidden below the horizon) for many
September sidles out
Waiting until everyone’s attention was on the couple fighting over by the guacamole, September slips quietly out the door, but not before leaving a couple of abstracts on the gift table. Hey, why is it that on birthdays you open all the gifts in front of everyone, but for weddings you do it in the privacy of your own home? It’s completely ruined the fun of gag gifts…
Anyway, it’s
Tip Jar 37: Macro options
While macro photography can be fun and fascinating, it does require at least a little specialized equipment. Dedicated macro lenses tend to be quite expensive, and while they remain the best way to tackle the genre, there are other options. But first, let’s see why they’re usually the best option.
Full range of focus. Macro lenses can usually focus from 15cm, give or
Getting to it
Trying to get back into things now, after a beach trip this weekend – not the best time for it, but the opportunities weren’t coming up earlier. After a ridiculously hot summer, autumn weather came in abruptly, and Saturday was perpetual overcast and a little chilly, so scenic options were extremely limited and it wasn’t a good time to get in the water. Sunday
In and out of a jam in 30 minutes
I have something coming up that may need the camcorder, and wanted to charge the batteries, but on getting out the charger, I could hear something rattling around inside, never a good sign. Nonetheless, I tried plugging it in and nada – no response. I don’t have a backup charger for those batteries (I know, right? Stupid,) so if I wanted those batteries charged inside of the
Yeah, “playing”
I was about to title this post, “Just playing,” because it was a quick effort to get a few clear closeups of a jagged ambush bug (Genus Phymata,) but considering the number of frames that I shot trying to get these, it hardly counts as foolin’ around. It was also intended as a lead-in to a further bit of news, but that hasn’t been done yet, so here we are.
Too cool, part 55: What are the odds?
Once again courtesy of Astronomy Picture of the Day, a few days back, we have a wicked conjunction:
first off, pretty decent image of sunspots, clearly taken with a solar filter. Getting the timing and focus down to capture the International Space Station so
Universally celebrated
Too many of the holidays that are featured here are rather narrow in scope, or appeal, or culture photography-related, or specific to the US (like we need any more reasons to be self-absorbed,) or even, dare I say it, almost resembling contrived excuses to put up handy content. Today, however, is a holiday that we all can celebrate, and indeed, have probably celebrated
Been so, so long
I had a few wood duck photos to feature, a teaser until I get the video clips together, and I was thinking it’d be a nice change because we hadn’t had wood ducks for a while. So, exhausting researcher that I am, I looked for the last appearance of “wood duck” on the blog.
Which was yesterday,