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Category: Photos of Interest
Well, it is not the traditional flower, but it happens to be what is blooming right now. The crocuses and daffodils are pretty much spent; the lilies and allium haven't blossomed yet. These are blossoms on a claretcup cactus (Echinocereus...
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Category: Photos of Interest
We had little squall clouds today, such that there was interesting light and shadow in the yard. This made for a nice opportunity to photograph the nectarine tree blossoms. Emotionally uplifting, I would say. The only problem is that we...
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Category: Armchair Musings
James Gunn, the director for the movie Slither, seems to be enthralled by creepy crawly things. He also has a blog-like website, on which he posted Evolution Fucked Your Shit Up: The World's 50 Freakiest Animals. (HT: Interesting Pile.) The...
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Category: Photos of Interest
Thanks to a tip from a reader, for this one. A photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) made glass negatives in the early 1900's that could be used to create color images. He did this by inventing a camera that...
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Category: Photos of Interest
Visiting with Kevin, went hiking in Soledad Canyon. The light was crazy, alterating between awful for photography, and interesting, but always challenging. When it stopped snowing and the wind wasn't blowing me around, I was able to get some decent...
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Category: Photos of Interest
From Shorpy (Always Something Wonderful), this is a photo of the Christmas tree at the home of Wilbur and Orville Wright, in the year 1900....
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Category: Armchair Musings
This is a high-resolution photo of Pearl Harbor (click to enlarge). When I saw that it had been posted to the NASA Earth Observatory, I wondered -- momentarily -- why they would post a photo of Pearl Harbor. Then I...
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Category: Photos of Interest
While we have a cold, dreary rain here: a photo of brighter, hotter times: This is from September 2007. It is a desert spiny lizard (Sceloporus magister) on a desert willow (Chilopsis linearis) with some desert marigolds (Baileya multiradiata) in...
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Category: Photos of Interest
It's not photoshopped, and it really was for the Windows 7 launch. The picture was taken in Sietes, Spain, which had been decorated for an advertisement for the event. In point of fact, the people of Sietes are not a...
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Category: Chatter
In general, I try to be respectful of cultural groups, even ones that are rather aberrant. Somehow, though, I find it exceedingly difficult to muster any sympathy or respect for Scientology. By now, you probably have heard that Scientologists were...
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