Iced Rig and a Frozen Smoker
Wildbeggar got caught by the icestorm yesterday, he sent me these pics.
Everyone is my friend until they prove otherwise.
Wildbeggar got caught by the icestorm yesterday, he sent me these pics.
I took this ages ago with a weak-ass four or five mpx camera, but I still like it for the memories. I need to take a trip back with the Cannon and Sony cams. Click on the thumb for the larger version, there are tons of better pictures out there – for one thing I had the camera on close up shooting by mistake, but this one’s mine so I like it best.
* note that for some reason I remembered this as “Snohomish” falls, my wife corrected me however when she saw the mistake, she’s the better half of my brain.
From across the parking lot this bird looks black, but if you zoom in to see him atop the lamp post then you see he’s multi-hued, speckled, and has a two toned beak. I’m not an ornithologist, and do not have a clue what type of bird this is, so if you know drop a comment please. As with almost all pics posted here you can click on the image to see a larger, more detailed version. I never upload the full 10.1 megapixel versions however since they are bandwidth killers.
A couple of notes about the Canon while I’m talking about pictures. The first thing is that my camera has had a bent flash card memory pin since the second day I had it. This resulted from getting a “Bad Flash Card” error and multiple attempts to reseat it without my glasses. I eventually got the error to go away and I pried the bent pin away from shorting another pin with a big-ass magnifying glass and a rather stiff darning needle. Since then it’s functioned fine, but today I again got the error.
This caused quite a panic since repairing the slot means shipping the camera off, and having a new flash slot receptacle put in at a cost that’s close enough to that of a new camera body. Who knows if they wouldn’t get something else hosed since they have to disassemble the whole camera to replace the card slot receptacle? Shortly after the error however I was pleased to see a low battery warning, and after recharge the flash slot error went away. It makes me wonder if the original error that encouraged me to clumsily bend the pin in the first place wasn’t just a low battery showing up first as a flash card error.
The second thing about Cannons is that you really need to experiment with some of the non-auto settings, you aren’t really practicing the fine art of photography if you don’t. If the thick manual scares you, then there’s a pocket guide that tells you how to fiddle those settings concisely.
Update: This is an amazing video of Starlings settling for the night in Otmoor, I recommend full screen viewing.
My wife can make her toes into a fist like you can your hand, they are amazingly long and flexible – so this year I got her the appropiate socks.
Jango dropped by for a visit tonight, he’s Santa’s ugliest reindeer
This is the last full moon of 2008, you can seen it now through the 15th or so when it starts to wane. One other note on this photo, if you click on the thumb to see the full enlarged size you will note two abberations in the lower left quadrant, that’s not something on the lens, it’s a couple of tree branch tips.