Category Archives for Camping & Landscape-Nature Shots

Sierra Club, family camping trips and other nature trip shots.

20180913: Natural Frames Pt 2a, how to find & use natural frames.

In this framing you can see the different style of clouds

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and again the eye motion of the triangle moves the viewer to the bottom from the top & the clouds in this sample are more intense so the eye lingers longer on the clouds & lesson the distant church.

However, the eye is still driven by the triangle shape to move up or down & just for the texture of the walls doing the framing I did squat down lower to get more of them. The top framing piece now comes into play as well.

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20180826: New tiny rose bush for a tiny patio, Depth of Field lesson.

Yes, as the direct sunlight is leaving my patio, I got another small rose to replace the loss of the others.

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Rather nice that the day after transplanting it, all but one of these opened up.

Wide angle lens, close up and medium f/stop gives me the depth of field on the roses, but blurs the background plants & objects. You can see that this causes separation of the foreground & background making the roses more pronounced.

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20180821: Zenfolio V.P. selling site under construction still, but getting better.

Yes, I have to do lots of work yet, but the site is getting more user friendly.

I have finally have so much time (tourist season is over in this town for a few months) that I can work on it and get it together.

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My photography, my typography & design skills and a little bit of my creative writing skills.

Plus some times a bit of “dry humor”.

100s of photographs, mostly nature but also various places around the world.

Yes, I have a different perspective on life, don’t you?

I am also running a one man revolution to save some life from this planet as humans kill everything off.   #OccupyISS_IntSpaceStationwhen survival counts

I created the ISS in 1983, with a letter to Pres Reagan to steal from me. The USA did and now I need my Space Station to use to save some of the animals & plants & other life from this pollution doomed planet.

Wars cost money, so yes these sales help me do my thing.

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20180325: ISS PHASE 2, Spirit Drumming, The Tectonic Plate Dance.

I did a much better mix of the drumming sounds here.

With 3 mics running, I had to just kind of play with the levels, and while not the best, YES, you do get to hear MORE of the tones I play while playing with one hand.

Quite Fun for me.

20171120: Canon 16-35mm Repaired & working again! Wow, am I happy

OK, so after 3 years of hauling my broken Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 “L” II zoom lens around with me, not having the money to send it in to be repaired. I finally got inside it and found the broken wire causing the problem.

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This what I talk about in being intelligent.

It took 3 yrs of trying to find the way inside without BREAKING ANYTHING & I was patience enough to do so.

I then without a schematic looker for where a wire should have been attached.

As you can see, it was not so obvious a place.

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The first attempt to connect an extra wire to this spot did not work, the wire pictured would not solder down. So I replace it with a copper wire which did work & that little tiny extra inch of wire let me reconnect the wire inside the lens body to the circuit board.

After closing it up, I tested it and everything fired just right. 3:30am time for bed.

Next day I took it out to the street while selling & tested it more. Everything seems fine. Later that night I went and did some night shooting & so far everything is well & GOOD.

Since this is the lens that in 2014, I had a tripod fall over on a mountainside and break this lens literally in half, I assume either the solder job at the Factory Repair was bad or the wire was weaken but that fall & rolling down 100ft of mountain.

I have over $2000 invested in the lens both from buying it & then the repair of that breaking it in half. So it is nice to repair it myself & have it back in the photo kit!

Sorry I did not take more photos of the lens being opened & repaired, wee morning hours are great for working, but I don’t always remember to shoot a lot of “extra photos” on these repair jobs. I am more interested in getting the job done & get to sleep!

The Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 “L” is one of the sweetest landscape lens I have ever used.

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20170930: SOLAR WATER PURIFYING SYSTEM… FREE INSTRUCTIONS!

FEEL FREE TO PASS THIS SINGLE A4 PRINTING PAGE OF PAPER AROUND! Just right click on image & select download! Pass the link around!

This is a solar system, NO ELECTRIC, NO WATER PUMPS…

JUST PLASTIC, & BUCKETS!

45 years ago I learned this trick in DESERT Survival.

Puerto Rico can use this!

India, Africa, South America, where ever people NEED DRINKING WATER!

NO, IT is not quick, but it works for free & ONCE SET UP IT KEEPS MAKING WATER!

You do not need to SHIP IN MORE LITTLE BOTTLES…

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20170725: Time to move! Storms! Lightening!

The world is flooding and yes my front door is no better!

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Yes I am looking out of my room door. In a small courtyard, 4 walls do make a pool.

The drain system is very poor and whoops, the rain got very heavy.

At the door step! (the white object is a splash guard so I can have the door open)

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The path to the banos & sink.

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As the storm started up again in the night. The courtyard does drain and in an hour or so the water had receded.

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Both this unit was very close to having a swimming pool inside.

So yes, I have been looking around for a new place fro a few weeks and this just made QUITE OBVIOUS, I need to get out quick.

Some more Lightening shots all from my doorway!

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So yes, if you want you can hit the donation button up at the top to help me with moving costs to save my equipment, plus help me keep my own butt dry!

Creative Shooting!

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