Wednesday, December 10, 2025 →
Gas -N- Go (281/365)
2025
After the Rains, Desert Glory (280/365)
Today, after 10 hours of work, I now have a status block on the Home Page showing Current Year Posting Percentage, Current Streak, Longest Streak, Total photos on site, and Total Posts on site, and under each post. Hopefully, that inspires me not to break my streak. Inspiration comes from Florian’s superb photo blog, the best I’ve ever seen, kind of blog. If you haven’t seen it, please go gawk. 😍
Next goal will be to make a dedicated Stats Page with all sorts of data on it, should be fun!
Note: I’m not competent enough or skilled enough to do something like this on my own. Working with Hugo is way outside my comfort zone. All coding smarts to ChatGPT. I know, I know, there are a lot of LLM haters out there… I’m sorry, but this is what (for me) LLMs are for: helping me code, making my websites better. They don’t write any of my posts; that’s all me.
Road Life (279/365)
The older I get, the more I loathe hotel gyms. Glad I got them, but ugh, they can be depressing. Sometimes there just isn’t a good place to walk or hike. Come to think of it, I need to start packing a jump rope.
Life Within The Rocks (278/365)
Quick desert walk today and found these flowers among the rocks.
In The Glass (277/365)
Sometimes you get happy accidents.
Moon Shot (276/365)
Well, we’re back on the moon. After that afternoon’s handheld shot of the moon, I wanted to do more. Got the tripod out last night for this night shot. 400mm lens, 1.25x TC, MFT OM-1.
Rust (275/365)
Sun Kissed (274/365)
Here is the same shot in color.
Which do you prefer?
Blue Moon (273/365)
Just for an experiment, I put a 300mm lens on my Olympus OM-1 with a 1.4x teleconverter, walked outside, and hand-held a shot of the moon. Just crazy how well it turned out. The stabilization inside these cameras never ceases to amaze me.
A 300mm lens with a 1.4x converter is 420mm. On the Micro Four Thirds camera, the crop factor is 2x, so the 35mm-equivalent field of view is 840mm.
Berry Laden (272/365)
Silent Sunday (271/365)
Shot 20+ photos today with the iPhone and my Olympus, looking for today’s daily photo.
It’s funny, some shots you know will be alright, some shots you think will be great are just, meh. Others have hope, or you wouldn’t have even taken it, but they turn out fantastic. Today was like that. I didn’t have that much hope for this shot, but after processing, it turned out really nice.
Shot and processed entirely in the iPhone.
Morning, Desert Style (270/365)
Sun Worship (269/365)
Abstract Rabbits (268/365)
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 →
Ocean Travel (267/365)
Coffee on the Deck (266/365)
As far as overnights go, this one works…
Ramp Shadows (265/365)
Desert Sunrise (264/365)
Nosy! (263/365)
Twin Palms (262/365)
#365in2025
German Made, Hand Made, Tried and True (261/365)
(1953 to 1955) Rolleiflex 2.8C with the (1965) Schneider-Kreuznach Xenotar 80mm f/2.8 lens. Approximately 38,000 units were produced, with 8,000 to 12,000 still surviving in the wild.
#365in2025
Long Shadows on Lonely Roads (259/365)
#365in2025
Not So Mobile Homes (258/365)
Southern California Blues (257/365)
Lonely Roads (255/365)
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 →
Branch Office (254/365)
“Preflight Meeting” or “Quarterly Chirp Review” or “Early Bird Committee”. Lots of options for this one!
LUV Tower (253/365)
Simple Shadow (250/365)
Early Morning Departure (249/365)
Espresso (247/365)
Good morning, 🌻 Today, we’re brewing Ladro’s renowned dark roast “Diablo.” To honor the darkly roasted beans, we’ll use a gentle profile this morning.
We’ll start with preinfusion water at 82°C. This ensures the puck is gently saturated for a few seconds before a gradual increase in pressure to 7.8 bar. By the end of extraction, we’ll reduce the water temperature to 72°C.
At peak pressure, we start extraction and we’ll slowly reduce the pressure to 5 bar over approximately 25-35 seconds, never wanting to over-extract from these beans that are fragile from a heavy roasting process, to achieve an extraction weight of 1:2.0.
- 18g puck
- 36g espresso
Now, take a sip. Enjoy the smooth, deeply dark flavor with hints of walnut, brown sugar, and bakers chocolate.
It’s going to be a good day. ☕️