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  • 2012 Annular Eclipse

    The Wife and I made our way to Overlook Park in White Rock to watch the Annular eclipse.

    The sky above White Rock was heavy with clouds as the eclipse began but we were lucky that sun poked through during totality.

    This man’s setup: a bird watching monocular projecting the sun onto a white background. Cardboard helped to shade the the image.

    The Sunspotter!

    Welding masks make for great filters.

    One of two homemade telescopes. This one projected the biggest image and was the crowd favorite.

    The second of two homemade telescopes. One looked through an eyepice at the sun.

    A homemade pinhole projector made from taping two poster tubes together.

    This woman used her binoculars to project the sun’s image onto a white piece of foamboard.

    A clever idea: making a solar filter from glass blackened by a candle.

    Totality!

    Totally? Totally!

    Good times.

  • Los Alamos Kite Festival

    Ten photos from the first day of the Los Alamos Kite Festival.

  • My pictures are all up this place

    Back in August, a friend Facebooked me to let me know that there was a call for community photographers to submit photos for an exhibit called “Los Conchas Fire,” put on by the Los Alamos Historical Society. I submitted seven pictures and three were selected to be displayed.

    Me, standing next to my three photos in the exhibit.

    The exhibit started on December 5th and runs through February.

    The wife is proud; the cat not so much.

    Just being selected has been cool. But today I found out that one of my pictures showed up in print:

    How's this for a shot in the arm? My picture is used to promote the exhibit in the Santa Fe New Mexican weekly event round up called "Pasatiempo".

    KICK ASS!

    Tonight there was supposed to be a special viewing and panel discussion on the effects of the fire but it was postponed because of snow. Regardless, I’m pretty happy. Below are the three pics that were chosen.

    View of the Las Conchas Fire from Pajarito Ski resort outside of Los Alamos, NM.
    The Las Conchas Fire seen from NM state road 4 near Bandelier National Monument.
    The most visible portion of the fire was from Barranca Mesa.

     

     

     

     

  • Oh wait, it’s only 19 degrees outside

    One of the many joys of moving to Los Alamos, NM: Snow! I donned the snow pants and snow boots to walk around the block and take pics before it all melted away.

    It's not a snowpocalypse but I don't plan on driving down our street today unless absolutely necessary.
    Trees in a canyon near our house are covered in snow.
    Snow accumulates on the pine needles of a ponderosa pine.
    The Cat watching me with envious eyes as I wade around in the snow.
    We've accumulated three to four inches of snow since Friday.

     

     

     

  • First snow of the season

    The first real snow of the season hit this past Saturday. It wasn’t much but it was pretty.

    The cat's first snow. He was not amused.
    Snowflake catcher.
    The lone sunflower in our backyard doesn't look like it's going to survive much longer.
    I've always like the aluminum trashcans with lids.
    The fence was a popular place for snowflakes to gather.
    The fence was a popular place for snowflakes to gather.
    I can't wait for more snow.