Monthly Archives: November 2008

Garden greens and a mahogany turkey

Winter lettuce

Remember these? Now we call them dinner. The great winter gardening experiment continues to amuse and feed me. Before the first snow in mid-October, I covered the lettuce, tatsoi and pak choi bed with a low tunnel made from plastic and 9 gauge wire from the local big box hardware store. So far, the [...]

Maddox Redux

Multiple exposure
When I started out with my Nikon N80, I made some multiple exposure images that I liked. I now think of them as precursors to the remix series. Then I got my D70, which didn’t have multiple exposure capability. It was one feature I really thought I would use a lot when I bought [...]

Lensbaby Composer

Lensbaby Composer with 4x macro lens, f4 aperture
My Lensbaby Composer arrived this week. I have the original Lensbaby, the ghetto one that looks like a section of dryer hose. Despite the original’s limitations, and two-handed action, I have made some images that really pleased me. The Composer is so much easier to use, and best [...]

Highway 89 News Round-up

Sunrise Point, Bryce Canyon NP
Some folks on US 89 are already skiing, others are enjoying the last elk calls and sunny afternoons before deep winter sets in, and we have one last football weekend, a big ones for fans on either side of the Utah-BYU rivalry.
Headlines from Highway 89

Miss Montana shows off individuality at youth [...]

SparkArts

Beaver mother and kit underwater
Now here’s something you don’t see too often: a beaver mother swimming with her kit on her back. I was glad I had carried the camera on our walk from the St. Mary’s campground in Glacier National Park to the Visitors’ Center. The smoke from the 2007 fires had been awful, [...]

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