Crab Boy - Day 304

I love that the kids just totally ignore me when I grab the camera and start taking pictures.  The autofocus on this lens sucks.  It is very slow and I don't think that it does a very good job.  But it was a cheap lens that gets me an f-stop of 1.8, which is extremely nice.  This was taken without a flash, at night.  I find that just amazing.

Light Fixture - day 303

A Golden Eagle? - Day 302

Today I thought to myself - I really should take my 70-200 zoom lens.  I should just put it on my camera and confine myself to ONLY taking zoom pictures today.  But then I said, nah, I never need my zoom lens, so I just won't bother.  So, as we were driving today, first thing we saw were two golden eagles sunning them selves.  Both had their wings spread, but one had them very spread apart.  I stopped the car and kicked myself for not bringing the zoom lens.  By the time I got the camera out and walked to the bridge, the eagle that had its wings spread out a lot had closed up shop.  This was the best shot that I could get.  I will put the original and the cropped versions.

Self Portait - Day 301

This was supposed to be a picture of our new wood stove, but the lens focused on me instead, so the stove turned out blurry.  I took a bunch of other pictures with the stove in focus and me blurry, but I am vain (he he).  The pictures with the in focus stove were boring.  This was at least somewhat interesting.

Another Dragonfly - Day 300

I tried something different today.  I did the "watercolor" filter in Photoshop, just to see what it does.  Take a look at a close up of this picture.  I think that it is pretty cool.  Not that I would do this everyday, but it is my first time playing with photoshop....  so you have to pretend that I am a little kid.  Oooo... so cool!  As a side note, I made this picture my background on my desktop computer at work and it looks fantastic extra large.

More Antarctic Stuff - Day 299

Here is more stuff that has to be shipped to the Antarctic.  You can see battery boxes and batteries and crates and stuff.  A lot of stuff is going!  The "Do Not Freeze" boxes are going to be filled with batteries, which are all in the boxes to the lower right.  We don't want them to freeze because they will significantly drain the batteries.  When the people who are deploying the system get down there, the batteries will be warm and fully charged, so they can test the system.  The solar panels will be hooked up to the batteries almost immediately, so they can be charged as they lose capacity due to getting cold.  Fun stuff!

 

Sunset - Day 298

I took a bunch of pictures, but none of them really turned out great.  This is probably the best one of the night.