Boulder Creek - Day 210

Here are two pictures of Boulder Creek.  One of the great features of Boulder is that there is a bike path that runs right next to the creek the entire length of town.  It is a beautiful place to walk and bike and think.

I was trying to do some tests with exposure lengths, depth of fields, and over/under exposures.  I am not positive if these are the best pictures, but it is a judgment call.  I have some very nice dark pictures in which you can barely see the details on the trees, but the creek looks a bit better.

Circle - Day 209

The really cool thing about this picture is you can see a jogger in the background.

On the Road Again - Day 208

There is a lot of crap on an airplane window!

Guitar, On Stage - Day 207

CrabBoy and CrabGirl gave a concert along with a lot of other people for their guitar recital.  They have it at a place that has a real stage, lighting, mikes, amps, etc.  It is a real concert!  Here is CrabGirl playing Danny Boy.  The lighting was extremely difficult.  I took it with ISO1600 (yikes!) and still had to do a 1/30 shutter speed with f5.6.  I wish it was a bit more crisp....

Construction - Day 206

They are building an underground parking garage downtown.  It means that there is a very, very large hole in the ground now.

CrabBoy, With Tattoo - Day 205

The kids love to get face and body paint. CrabBoy asked the lady to paint a hydra on him.  She didn't know what a hydra was, so he explained that it was an 8-headed dragon.  She spent about 15 minutes painting this on him, which is an impressive amount of time considering how many kids were waiting in line.

Up in the air - day 204

I built a balloon package that contained two cameras.  One of the camera worked perfectly throughout the entire flight - taking pictures every 15 seconds from launch up to 90,000 feet, and back down to the ground.  There are a LOT of pictures.  Here are three of them.  The first was taken within 10 minutes of takeoff.  You can see the tennis courts.  If you look very closely between the tennis courts and the main parking lot, you can see a couple vehicles parked on the side of the parking lot/entrance.  That is us.  So, this is a self portrait from about 10,000 feet:

The next picture is from about 90,000 feet.  You can once again see the package just below mine (just barely), as well as a lot of interesting stuff on the ground:

Final picture, with lakes and clouds: