I sat down this morning, literally, and tackled (not literally) a project that has been on my list for years, that even just laying the groundwork for has taken far too long, and I don’t consider it ‘completed’ yet, nor may I ever. But I certainly didn’t come close to it today, though I made progress and got some successes.
I’m referring to doing some natural photos
So I did go out last night and early this morning in the pursuit of Perseids, starting off just in the backyard but then deciding to go down to a small boat launch area not too far away, which I’ve used once before. The scattered thin clouds visible during the day (see previous
My friend texted me this morning asking me when the solar eclipse was, and I was about to answer, “It’s not,” since the path of totality passed across northern Europe. But then I thought to check and see if there was any portion visible from the US, and indeed there was. The irony of this being, I could see the smallest fragment from where I was, but not from where he
A small (heh!) collection of diminutive critters from the environs, the past several days.
Checking out the diamond spire gardenias one night as they had started blooming again, I saw a little knot around one leaf cluster, almost but not quite appearing as fallen leaves.
Yes, this is a reasonable illustration of scale – gardenia leaves and flowers aren’t that big, the
Went down to the waterfront the other evening around sunset, the first time in a while because we’re usually getting dinner about that time, and there was a hint of promise with scattered clouds of different types, which are good when you’re looking for colors. Instead, the sun dipped below a distant cloudbank and only the barest hint of color was produced – so
Been meaning to get to this one for a while, just never set aside the time to do it. Finally started this past week with a few days to spare, which was good, because I ended up having to re-record it after finding the screen capture software wasn’t capturing, like, the screen, instead cropping off the sides a little. So let’s take a look at using layer masks, because they’re
This is from the same night as this shot, and probably should have been posted then (or even as the month-end abstract,) but it wasn’t, so here it is because I’m not going to do much else with it. I like how confusing it is solely because the mist drops obscure the necessary details, but if you look closely, you may figure it out.
Or not. You’re looking at the tail and the hind
This is courtesy of The Girlfriend, who asked me to come out onto the deck to see something, which turned out to be in her overstuffed herb planter (that’s not a euphemism, shut up.) We were a little late to the game, and won’t be having any fresh parsley.
Those are the larvae of the eastern black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes asterius,) and this was
The rules* say they gotta fall in my/our** favor eventually, right? Because it’s getting to be about time to do so…***
The Perseids meteor shower is predicted to peak the night of August 12th and morning of the 13th, precise time about 03:00 UTC on the
Despite many warning signs, including clouds just a wee bit too thick when I was setting up the tripod only ten minutes before the event, the skies were perfectly clear when the Falcon 9 stage impacted the moon, and I was indeed shooting video as it was supposed to happen. I’m not bothering to upload it, since there isn’t a damn thing to see – as predicted in the previous post.
