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When I was taking the dogs out last night, I noticed that we had a visitor.  A bat had decided to hang out on the front porch.  I’m guessing he was resting before going to work eating the insects in the area.  I called K, let the dogs do their thing and came back in […]

So K’s possums got a big brother recently:
The whole family.  Note the little sores on the small one?  That’s where their whiskers are coming in.
Here’s the biggest one by himself.  He needs a bit more enrichment, so he gets to hang out with us on occassion.
I didn’t quite capture the possum tongue, […]

K is taking care of some baby possums for the next week.  They are about 16 grams (1/2 oz) each.  Obligatory pictures included…
     
   

Okay, I’ve made some updates to my Yellowstone pictures
Changelog:

I’ve added my favorites (which had been stuck in another directory and didn’t get in the first release)
I’ve cleaned up the brightness on the first 8 shots (the camera had set itself to an exposure compensation of -0.7 for some reason)
I’ve fixed the gallery problem that etselec […]

When we came back from Yellowstone this year, I had about 1,800 pictures to go through.  I’ve finally selected the best 200 or so.  Some of them need a bit of cleanup in terms of brightness and in a few cases, getting rid of a mark that was on the back of a lens which […]

Last year, I mentioned High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography, where you combine multiple pictures taken at different exposures to create a single picture where all of image is properly exposed. I didn’t do much with it at the time because, a) it’s not really possible when you shoot slide film, and b) there didn’t […]

Sorry I’ve been absent for a bit. I got sick the Sunday before we left on vacation and didn’t even start feeling better until Thursday morning. The we headed out to Yellowstone for two weeks on Saturday.
The vacation was great, although yesterday’s trip home was a nightmare. We got diverted from our […]

K and I are going through the preparations for our trip out to Yellowstone and I was looking into the photography setup. I headed over to B&H, found the circular polarizer for the lens of my new digital camera, then went over to the film section. For a number of reasons, I still […]

I was taking the dogs out last night and saw a periodical cicada emerging from it’s nymph stage. Kind of cool - definitely an interesting picture:

Now I wonder if I have to worry about my fruit trees :-/

Not a whole lot going on this weekend. A little shopping, a little work around the house, etc. Saturday, Bryn’s husband, Adam, came by and took a look at some trees that were worrying me. Having a master arborist tell you that, while they are dying, they won’t come down immediately […]