April 14th, Storms
The first real storms of the year moved through this afternoons and evening. Got to shoot a wall cloud and then later I caught some lightning.
Plum Blossums
Our Mexican plum trees are absolutely loaded with blooms. Now if we could just find some morels I would feel like spring was finally here.
Sun Pillar
I got to witness my first sun pillar this evening. I had to darken this shot a little bit to bring out the pillar but it was very easily seen with the naked eye.
The Hunter the Rabbit and the Dog.
The weather was so nice out today and into this evening that I decided to get out and get some star trail shots this evening.
This first shot is a 15 second exposure.
This one is the same 15 second exposure from the first shot and 12 5 minute exposures stacked and darkened so that only the brightest stars actually show up in the trails.
This final one is the same 15 second exposure as the other two shots, its also the same 12 5 minute exposures stacked, only they are lightened so that only more of the stars show up in the trails.
Snow shots.
We got a little snow this last week, enough in fact, that they closed the schools down for two days. Does this look like enough snow to make you stay home from work? Makes me wonder what we are teaching our kids. I mean really, years from now are they going to think its okay to skip out on work when a couple inches of snow falls? Probably.
Grass fire!
This swath of pasture caught fire today and headed right for home.
Here is a shot of one of the NFD water trucks doing a little mop up work.
Some more of the NFD trucks doing a little clean up work. Thanks guys!
That amount of hay is probably going to burn for days.
This pic doesn’t to the real thing justice but it was taken from the yard just as the smoke started to die down a bit.
Hooter Hill Cemetery
We made our way out to the cemetery out at Hooter Hill for a few shots this afternoon just before sunset. It was really nice light out this evening and I pulled a few decent shots, here are a couple of them…
Football Cheer
Sorry it took so long to get these up for everyone. Be sure to help yourself to any that you might like to have.
Lady Ironmen Varsity and Junior Varsity Softball
Your 2010 Lady Ironmen Junior Varsity Softball team.
Your 2010 Lady Ironmen Varsity Softball team.
2010 Ironmen Football Kickoff
Your 2010 Ironmen.
2010 Coaching Staff.
Training Staff.
2010 Senoir Class.
July 26th, Storms
Went outside for some fresh air and the storm that I shot for my project365 had blown up. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get some lightning shots. Here they are. As always click on the thumbnails to view them full size.
July 1st, Star Trails
I shot some star trails on the 1st for use as my pic of the day over at my project 365 but they ended up taking so long that I had to post another shot. Anyhow, I went ahead and stacked the shots and got them ready so here is the final comp. Its pretty kewl to click the image below to see it full size and then try to count and see how many lightning bugs you can count.
26 exposures
f4.0
1so 400
2 minutes each
Stacked with Startrails (get it here)
Family
I could not begin to tell you the last time this many of our side of the Hicks’ clan were together in the same place. Its a shame the circumstances behind it but I bet Grandma was very happy looking down on this bunch all gathered up sharing stories and comforting one another.
(As always be sure to click on the thumbnails for the larger view.)
Wildflowers
I found some crazy kewl flowers to shoot today. Too many to pick just one for my 365 and leave it at that. Anyhow, here they are. If any of you know what some of them are please leave me a comment and share the info.
Crazy looking berries, anybody care to taste one?
You Flowata Noral Girls go ahead and make your jokes. No, I didn’t pluck it.
Just a wider angle of my 365 pic for today.
Another shot of some snakeroot.
I would really like to know what these are. I don’t believe I had ever seen them before today.
Actias Luna
Dave hit me up just before smoke break this morning and told me about this big moth by the back door. Man he wasn’t kidding, I think this may be the biggest moth I’ve ever seen. I used a shot of it for my 365 but I had a few good shots to choose from so I thought I would post them up here. Make sure you click on the thumbnails below to see them full size enjoy!
Wikipedia says: Actias luna, commonly known as the Luna Moth, is a lime-green, Nearctic Saturniid moth in the subfamily Saturniinae. It has a wingspan of up to four and a half inches, which ranks it as one of the largest moths in North America.
Women are from Venus but….
who’s from the Moon, and where the hell is Mercury?
| Aperture: | f/13 |
|---|---|
| Focal Length: | 59mm |
| ISO: | 800 |
| Shutter: | 3 sec |
| Camera: | Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT |
Muddin’ at Bam’s house
I got an invite to go out to Bam and Jojo’s house and take some pics of the latest Nowata Mudders Assoc. meetup. Thanks for the invite guys it was a real good time. Here are the pics, enjoy’em!
(Click the thumbnails to get the full hi-rez version.)
12:33 03-19-2010
It was 66f at noon-thirty today, the last day of winter, and its supposed to get to a high of 32 with an extremely high chance of snow and ice tomorrow, the first day of spring. 6-12 more inches of the nastiest winter in a good long while? No thanks!
