Picture Posts
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, Hawaii
21 May, 2005
HP Camera.
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Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor) in flight
Kailua Bay, Oahu
15 March 2007
1/750 sec @ f/8; Pentax *istDS; 260mm focal length
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The Magic Kingdom this ain't.
Dinosaur Adventure Land entrance
Pensacola, Florida
15 June 2008
1/125 sec @ f/6.7; Pentax *istDS; 18mm focal length
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Moving up
Erie Canal Lock E-2
Waterford, NY
19 July 2009
1/160 sec @ f/7.; Canon Canon EOS Xsi; Zoom Lens at 30mm focal length
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Ko'Olau Range, seen from the Hawaii Institute for Marine Biology
Oahu, Hawaii
17 September 2005
1/500 @ f/6.7; Pentax *ist DS; zoom lens at 43mm
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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 York
23 June 2009
1/500 sec @ f/9; Canon EOS Xsi; zoom lens at 135mm
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15 miles on the Erie Canal -- but not today.
Erie Canal Lock E-2
Waterford, New York
25 December 2007
1/125 sec @ f/6.7; Pentax *istDS; zoom lens at 18mm
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A misty dawn on the Hudson River
Glenmont, New York
28 December 2007
1/60 sec @ f/5.6; Pentax *istDS; zoom lens at 24mm
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Blue Angel Solo
Naval Air Station Pensacola
22 July 2008
1/1000 sec @ f/13; Pentax K100D
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Fore!
EPCOT Center - Spaceship Earth exterior
Walt Disney World, Florida
8 April 2009
1/60 sec @ f/25.3; Canon Digital Rebel Xsi
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If I sayz "cheep, cheep", I can has seeds?
Grey squirrel
Glenmont, NY
4 Aug 2006
1/180 sec @ f/5.6; Pentax *ist DS
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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, France
28 December, 2006.
1/180 sec @ F/8; Pentax *ist DS.
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Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas)
Near Ko'Olina, Oahu, Hawaii 24 Feb 2007
Pentax *ist DS with 70mm lens, 1/350 sec @ f/9.5
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This blog's not dead - really. I've just been playing dead.
Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)
Pensacola, Florida
5 June 2009.
1/60 sec @ f/5.6, Canon Rebel XSi with 300mm lens.
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Today's quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson; the picture was taken at the Linnean Society last summer.
But these young scholars who invade our hills,
Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,
And travelling often in the cut he makes,
Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,
And all their botany is Latin names.
Blight
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Herbarium specimen collected by, and from the personal collection of, Carl von Linné.
Photographed at the Linnean Society of London, 29 August 2008
Portion of the personal library of Carl von Linné
Linnean Society, London