tqa | January 18, 2010
Squall line crossing Oahu. Picture taken from ridge behind Tripler Army Medical Center. The Salt Lake-Aliamanu tuff cones are visible slightly to the left of center, just beyond the strawberry guava bushes in the foreground. The narrow entrance to Pearl Harbor appears as a small break in the coast; if you look at the full-size version (click on the picture), you can just make out the Arizona memorial at the very right edge of the shot.Oahu, Hawaii21 May, 2005HP Camera.
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tqa | January 17, 2010
Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor) in flightKailua Bay, Oahu15 March 20071/750 sec @ f/8; Pentax *istDS; 260mm focal length
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tqa | January 16, 2010
The Magic Kingdom this ain't.
Dinosaur Adventure Land entrancePensacola, Florida15 June 20081/125 sec @ f/6.7; Pentax *istDS; 18mm focal length
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tqa | January 16, 2010
Moving up
Erie Canal Lock E-2Waterford, NY19 July 20091/160 sec @ f/7.; Canon Canon EOS Xsi; Zoom Lens at 30mm focal length
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tqa | January 14, 2010
Ko'Olau Range, seen from the Hawaii Institute for Marine BiologyOahu, Hawaii17 September 20051/500 @ f/6.7; Pentax *ist DS; zoom lens at 43mm
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tqa | January 13, 2010
The bird in this picture is actually sitting on a clutch of eggs. Notice how effectively they're camouflaged among the gravel.
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)John Boyd Thatcher State Park, New York23 June 20091/500 sec @ f/9; Canon EOS Xsi; zoom lens at 135mm
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tqa | January 12, 2010
When lava flows through forested areas, you sometimes find holes like this:
Tree MoldHawai'i Volcanoes National Park4 November 20061/180 @f/6.7; Pentax *ist DS; zoom lens at 18mm
When the lava hits trees, it begins to cool and harden almost immediately. The trees burn, but this can take a while, even in the middle of a lava flow. The end result is seen in the picture above - a tree shaped hole, known as a tree mold, that preserves the shape and occasionally even the surface texture of the tree.
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tqa | January 12, 2010
It's been a long time since I've responded to an Uncommon Descent post, and I'm starting to remember why. There's one that went up over there the other day on the fossil record that's really almost mind numbing - starting with the title, which is "Why Not Accept the Fossil Record at Face Value Instead of Imposing a Theory on it?"
Here's what seems to be the main argument:
Hereâs a simple example â extinction estimates. Darwinists will say that 99.99% of species that have ever lived have gone extinct. Well, thatâs actually a bunch of B.S. There are roughly 250,000 species that have been…
tqa | January 11, 2010
15 miles on the Erie Canal -- but not today.
Erie Canal Lock E-2Waterford, New York25 December 20071/125 sec @ f/6.7; Pentax *istDS; zoom lens at 18mm
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tqa | January 11, 2010
As you might have seen, there's a fitness challenge going on here at ScienceBlogs. A few years ago, when I first started blogging here, my non-participation in any fitness-related activity would have been a safe bet. But that was then.
Over the last couple of years, I've come to realize that the numbers coming off the blood pressure cuff were not actually figments of the doctor's crazed imagination. I've also started to recognize that the number "2" should not be appearing in my weight twice, and it probably shouldn't be the first digit in the number. I've finally acknowledged, in other…
tqa | January 11, 2010
The big paleontological news of last week was the announcement that fossil footprints have been discovered that predate - by about 20 million years - the previous contender for the earliest fossil evidence of tetrapods. Naturally, this announcement led almost immediately to a new round of "learning anything new about evolution means that Darwinism is totally wrong" claims from the Creationists.
Their complaints don't impress me much. There's very little difference between the Discovery Institute's "if there were tetrapod footprints 20 million years before Tiktaalik, how can something…
tqa | January 10, 2010
A misty dawn on the Hudson RiverGlenmont, New York28 December 20071/60 sec @ f/5.6; Pentax *istDS; zoom lens at 24mm
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tqa | January 9, 2010
Blue Angel SoloNaval Air Station Pensacola22 July 20081/1000 sec @ f/13; Pentax K100D
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tqa | January 8, 2010
Fore!
EPCOT Center - Spaceship Earth exteriorWalt Disney World, Florida8 April 20091/60 sec @ f/25.3; Canon Digital Rebel Xsi
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tqa | January 7, 2010
Waikiki Beach and Honolulu, as seen from Diamond Head.Unknown date, probably 2003 or 2004. HP Camera.
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tqa | January 6, 2010
If I sayz "cheep, cheep", I can has seeds?
Grey squirrelGlenmont, NY4 Aug 20061/180 sec @ f/5.6; Pentax *ist DS
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tqa | January 5, 2010
I took this picture when I was in Paris a few years ago. It's not fantastic, but I'm hoping to improve on the shot when I'm over there a few months from now.
Gargoyles.Notre Dame, Paris, France28 December, 2006.1/180 sec @ F/8; Pentax *ist DS.
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tqa | January 4, 2010
Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas)Near Ko'Olina, Oahu, Hawaii 24 Feb 2007Pentax *ist DS with 70mm lens, 1/350 sec @ f/9.5
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tqa | January 4, 2010
Jonathan Turley posted a YouTube clip of an alarming swimming pool:
He can't imagine how a lifeguard would get to a victim in that pool. Speaking as a full-time lifeguard, I can't either. But that's not actually the thing that worries me the most about a situation like that.
If, hypothetically, I were a guard at that pool I'd be more worried about maintaining a line of sight to a victim than about getting through the water. And even that is less concerning than the issue of recognition - I honestly don't see how a lifeguard could reasonably be expected to recognize a drowning in progress…
tqa | January 3, 2010
This blog's not dead - really. I've just been playing dead.
Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)Pensacola, Florida5 June 2009.1/60 sec @ f/5.6, Canon Rebel XSi with 300mm lens.
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