Wow, it’s the end of July already – I’d be really annoyed if I was still back in school. Well, that goes without saying, since I should have been on summer break all through July, but what I meant was, I’d be really annoyed that summer break was already half over. As you may derive from that, I was never terribly fond of school, information that may either surprise
Category: Photography
Rare conditions
First off, I haven’t really determined where all my time is going, but I have at least three posts, maybe more, of photos to get to and they keep shifting farther back. The Illustrious Mr Bugg, at least, is going to wonder what the hell’s wrong with me. They’re coming, they’re coming… but not until after this.
Last night we got a fierce set of thunderstorms, the kind
Overwhelmed? Thank Hütenverschnippi
We almost forgot that today is the birthday of Wamleigh Hütenverschnippi, a name we should all know much better than we do, since this is the person responsible for cameras looking they way that they do today.
Hütenverschnippi was an early photographer, back when great big bellowy cameras and glass plate negatives were in use, and while he was pretty accomplished at this, he had a hard time being
Tip Jar 30: Inspiration
Let’s face it: We all have to deal with stagnation every once in a while (some of us more than others) – chasing the same subjects, using the same approach, locked into a particular style. Now, don’t get me wrong: Having a distinct style (one that’s appealing, mind you) and being known for producing certain results can be a huge benefit,
Maintain the lead
In a previous post (don’t I say that a lot? Livin’ in the past, livin’ in the past) I mentioned that the tag, ‘Carolina anole’ was the most prevalent on the ol’ bloggachomps here, and since we just recently had a post about the runner-up, ‘Chinese mantis,’ we now have to feature more anoles just to prevent slipping from first place. This is how I justify
Doesn’t mean we like it
So, the pond has been bouncing up and down rather dramatically the first big rain that we had following the drastic draining filled it entirely back up again to the previous level, quite impressive considering how far down it extends, not depth-wise, but laterally south – it was a hell of a rain.
Let’s have some mants
Even more of the backlog of photos that I have, trying to clear them out as I add still more to the stack.
On two non-successive night, I found a few mantids, which is about as many as I saw in total last year. Okay, there were probably more for last year, but not a lot – this location isn’t as liked by the mantids as the old place, as evidenced by ‘Chinese mantis’ being the
Let’s have some plants
I have a small collection of plant images from around the Estates, so we’re finally getting to those now, before we have more critters.
I mentioned previously about the new hibiscus (Malvaceae) plant, and so we’ll concentrate on the part that everyone thinks about when they think ‘hibiscus,’ except for Hawai’i and hula dancers and all that stuff.
These
Tip Jar 29: Sunrises and sunsets
A perennial favorite, yet most often snagged only as someone notices them and not as much planned for, so let’s do a little planning.
Know your times. There are a million ways to know when sunrise and sunset are going to occur, but there are two primary things to consider. The first is, any source that doesn’t calculate your actual position (i.e., know where you are)
Well, shit
I’m a little late reporting this, but I can’t really find any negative affect on you regarding it, so I’m not going to feel too bad. Not about that, anyway.
Last week we got a long period of rain that apparently dumped a lot more water on us than we’d thought, because the next morning, the edge of the pond where we do all the critter feeding, what we call the Apron, looked