About to start this post, I checked to see if I’d used the title “Pathetic” before, and I had, to describe my efforts in recognizing a particular holiday. What I’m referring to now, though, is the overnight “snow'” that we had Monday night/Tuesday morning I don’t care what part of the world you might live in, I doubt you could consider
Author: Al Denelsbeck
A moment of color
Just a quick shot from this morning’s frenzy, snapped in the middle of a video clip. There are two things of minor interest within, the reasons I’m posting this. The first is, this was a little before sunrise, or perhaps right at astronomical sunrise (actually, the timestamp is pretty damn close to this mark,) but well before the sun would peek through the trees. However,
Full circle?
Several days back we looked out and suddenly found mallards out there on the pond, after having them all disappear sometime in July I believe. This was noteworthy by itself, to a small degree, but there was an aspect that made us a little excited, in that, some of them might have been ‘ours.’
You see, over the summer we raised a trio of orphaned mallards and, well, no point in repeating
Almost a library now
As hinted at in some previous posts, I now have a new instructional video available – my second, I believe. This one has a simple technique to reduce the background or recording hiss from the audio within video clips, and can make your video sound much cleaner and slicker. Even better, it can be accomplished with open-source freeware that’s available for Linux, Windows, and Mac.
Estate Find XLIX (IL)
Credit for this one goes to The Girlfriend, a discovery made while she was distributing the thrice-daily ration of corn for the various critters that come to partake we now have (at least) two more:
But we’re not letting it go at that, because I have still images too.
When she came to get me, I knew the camera and long lens was still affixed to the tripod in the upstairs bathroom
A few from today
I’ve been in the middle of two video projects, trying to find the opportunities to finish them, so naturally I add a third. But I got a handful of photos today as well, so here’s what’s been happening here (except for the other things which you’ll see eventually.)
First off, I noticed something slightly odd-looking about a few of the wood ducks (Aix sponsa) this morning,
Pro tip 1
Is this going to be an ongoing thing? Don’t know yet. And bear in mind, when I say, “Pro,” I’m referring to myself here, who is decidedly not a professional, is not making any kind of scratch with this, and should not be referred to as an authority on anything…
That out of the way, here’s the tip:
If you’re planning on recording audio in your basement studio,
Oh, one more
We didn’t have enough photos for November (for an arbitrary definition of ‘enough,’) so here are a few more – I already had most of them lined up in the folder for eventual use, but then settled on this topic and added a couple – even though they’re all only variants of the same image.
We start with a frame that I fired off while pursuing the Leonids and aurora
That’ll do, November – that’ll do
So we see the month close out, and what a month it was! Well, certainly a productive one from a photography standpoint, not too shabby as we enter the cold months. I’m not even sure what the count of image uploads stands at now, since I’m writing this ahead of time, but it’s at least 145 counting the ones you’re about to see, which puts it in the top ten for all of the months
Getting short with you
The other day I was experimenting again, and dug out the old Sigma 105mm 2.8 macro lens, my main macro provider until it quit unexpectedly about 16 years ago (!), in two ways. The first was that autofocus got very balky, likely due to a stripped focus gear, though I have no idea how that happened. I did indeed do this on my own with another lens, by inadvertently leaning the focus ring against a