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Beep - Beep (113/365)

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:29:03 -0700

Geococcyx californianus (Common name: Greater Roadrunner)

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Texture Tuesday (48/365)

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:42:29 -0700

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)

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:32:26 -0700

Pole Bird (36/365)

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:34:04 -0700

Long day of driving home, 6+ hours on the road, took exactly two pictures. This is one.

Ocean Beauty (35/365)

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:10:14 -0700

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)

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:08:01 -0700

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Basements & Dinosaurs (33/365)

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:55:53 -0700

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Dark Tower (32/365)

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:35:14 -0700

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)

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:27:34 -0700

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)

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:58:33 -0700

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.

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:18:03 -0700

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.

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:40:23 -0700

Hard at Work (293/365)

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:57:27 -0700

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.

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:36:49 -0700

Flower Power (291/365)

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:12:15 -0700

Departure (290/365)

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:25:22 -0700

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.

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:15:49 -0700

Life Within The Rocks (278/365)

Quick desert walk today and found these flowers among the rocks.

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:02:56 -0700

In The Glass (277/365)

Sometimes you get happy accidents.

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:06:47 -0700

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.

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:56:24 -0700

Rust (275/365)

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:24:41 -0700

Sun Kissed (274/365)

Here is the same shot in color.

Which do you prefer?

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:54:11 -0700

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.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:21:55 -0700

Berry Laden (272/365)

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Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:13:57 -0700

Morning, Desert Style (270/365)

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Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:13:43 -0700

Sun Worship (269/365)

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Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:06:18 -0700

Desert Sunrise (264/365)

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Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:50:04 -0700

Nosy! (263/365)

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Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:02:00 -0700

Twin Palms (262/365)

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Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:06:56 -0700

Old School (90/365)

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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.

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:42:48 -0700

Rough Ride (88/365)

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Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:51:33 -0700

Northend Slice (40/365)

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Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:06:27 -0700

Sky Blue (38/365)

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Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:32:50 -0700