Beep - Beep (113/365)
Geococcyx californianus (Common name: Greater Roadrunner)
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Texture Tuesday (48/365)
This was the coolest building exterior I’ve ever seen. From a few days ago, on an LAX overnight, but I saw the #texturetuesday hashtag, and this photo came to mind right away. Here’s to Texture Tuesday!
You Need Friends When The Weight Of The World Is Upon You (45/365)
Pole Bird (36/365)
Long day of driving home, 6+ hours on the road, took exactly two pictures. This is one.
Ocean Beauty (35/365)
Took the opportunity to drive down Highway 1 in California. It has been closed for the past three years and has just reopened. We had coastal advisories due to high surf and sneaker waves, which created good photo opportunities.
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Alien LIfe (34/365)
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Basements & Dinosaurs (33/365)
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Dark Tower (32/365)
Walked around town six miles today. Came across this building and just knew it would clean up nice. Super happy with this shot.
Camera Info
Camera: OM-1 MarkII Lens: 12-100 F4 Focal Length: 38mm Shutter speed: 1/250 Aperture: f/11 ISO: 200 Processed: LightRoom
Rocky Hike (29/365)
A lot of sitting the past few days, made time for a short hike to get the blood moving.
Damaged But Standing Strong (27/365)
This cactus made me think about life today. Damaged, split, torn, yet standing tall. Fighting the good fight. A very good friend of mine had a stroke a few days ago. Damaged but staying strong for the recovery and life changes ahead. Don’t waste those precious days; you never know what will happen tomorrow.
Reno Rising (294/365)
A pano shot from my hotel window. Haven’t done a wide pano shot on the blog yet, wanted to see how it looks.
Hard at Work (293/365)
Bee Kind to Bees (292/365)
So, it starts like this: I’m outside grilling some halibut, and I see a beautiful hummingbird working the flowers just behind the grill. I run in, grab my camera (pro tip: always have a camera with you. ALWAYS.), and by the time I’m back out, the hummingbird has moved on, of course, I think to myself. Photographers are like hunters of the Savanah; most hunts end with a big fat, nothing-burger.
I flip the halibut (you just don’t want to over-cook halibut, trust me. It’s like 4-5 minutes a side max), and I notice all the bees working the same flowers. Mmm, I think to myself, I don’t have many bee shots, let’s try and get a few, maybe something decent will come out of it.
I soon realize the bees move very fast, and they are hard to focus on—time to change equipment. Run back in, grab the OM-1 (it has a much faster focus system), but I can’t get in tight enough now. Run back in, grab the 300mm lens. Now, remember the halibut-cooking tip from earlier? Ya, I’ve now overcooked the halibut. Great sadness.
O.K., over-cooked halibut is on the table, I have the OM-1 with the right lens for the job, and I’m struggling to capture these guys. I increase the frames-per-second capture rate and set it to silent, thinking that less noise is better. I don’t want these bees to turn their attention to me. Trying to capture these guys as they fly off, I’m going to need big shutter bursts, I’m holding the shutter button down like a mad-man.
Well, I have no idea how many shots I’ve taken because I can’t hear any shutter noise, but now I’m being yelled at to come eat. I hear murmurings that the halibut is overcooked, and I’m still trying to capture a good shot, off to eat some dry halibut.
Turns out, I took 2600+ shots, and after some brutal culling, I ended up with 50 to work on. Of those 50, I ended up with 6 keepers.
Every day, I’ve been out working with the bees, trying to capture a tiny snapshot in time of their lives. To zoom in and see something of what it looks like in their world, a completely different world than ours. I have so much respect for bees. We need bees. We are losing them at a drastic rate.
Be kind to bees.
Flower Power (291/365)
Departure (290/365)
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.
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.
Old School (90/365)
#365in2025
Round dials, baby…. from the archives today. This was the last flight for this bird, flew it to the bone-yard to be parted out and chopped up. I always feel sad about this process. This aircraft has moved hundreds of thousands of people all over the country safely and mostly on time. It was an honor to have flown its last flight.
