My faithful reader might remember that in August of 2009 I posted my Three Rules. These rules apply all the time, of course tempered by common sense. At the time I alluded to there being a fourth rule being considered. I am pleased to announce that after much testing and verifying that there is now [more]
As my faithful reader knows I decided to sell some prints of my images to raise money for charity. I did this with much trepidation but decided that the chance of adding to the Common Good was more important than any discomfort I felt with selling the photos. I had a few internal arguments: What [more]
As my faithful reader knows I have decided to give the majority of my holiday gift budget to charity this year. I also want to provide a way for my faithful readers to get involved. I have chosen images (some may say photos) and have decided to place them up for sale on my site. [more]
Well followers it is almost Free Loot day for me. Some of you may not be familiar with the Free Loot Holiday, it is a tradition in our house. It is an amalgam of the various winter gift giving holidays, Christmas, Chanukah, Festivus, Winter Solstice, Kwanza, and any others I missed. The true reason for [more]
As my loyal follower will know I have been slowly out growing the performance of my trusty Canon XTi camera. It is not a bad camera it just has some limitations that I have started butting up against. The items that have been hampering me have been slow focus, slow shooting pace, noisy ISO, and [more]
My work requires that I travel quite often and with lots of electronics, no I am not a professional photographer I just play one on the Internet. Just for reference my airport security checkpoint process typically takes four bins to get everything separated as needed. I have found that it is possible to travel with [more]
So I was watching the Mars Science Laboratory Lander (@MarsCuriosity) land and I thought about some of the discussions that had occurred during the NASA Social meeting to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Cape Canaveral. We had people from the launch teams join us for some discussions. One of the comments that @NASA_Caley made resonated [more]
So my faithful followers may have noticed that recently there has been a large amount of NASA and space related content from me. Some people think that this is new, in reality it has been an interest of mine for most of my life. One of the earliest experiences I can recall is watching the [more]
Hello faithful readers. Sorry for radio silence, been hoping around the country too much for work. I think I have failed the 366 project as I have missed many days. On happier news, I am at the NASA Kennedy 50th anniversary social event. So in the coming days there will be many more comments and [more]
I was experimenting looking for different subjects. I found this vent. I wanted to experiment with the various shades of the vent. I think that it came out pretty well, as it is the original colors. Date Taken: 2012-04-03 20:07:07 Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi Exposure Time: 0.005s (1/200) Aperture: f/13 ISO: 100 Focal [more]