Eclipse

Right after I got back from my summer trip, we had the total solar eclipse. Well, it was total, about 100 miles north of where I was in Cheyenne. We had 97.5% totality of eclipse.

It was interesting. Got noticeably cooler. Probably 10-15 degrees for a short while. Was still daylight, but kind of an odd 'dim' to the light. The parking lot lights started turning on, till the eclipse began to end.

Put together a montage of photos, I shot with my small camera through a pair of eclipse glasses. While we missed out on the totality, we also missed out on the traffic! And it was pretty bumper to bumper. Going up and coming back later the same day. Looked like a parking lot on the highway.

Travellin' Man

Time for my summertime roadtrip to visit some family. And I always find a couple interesting photos to take along the way.

Had lots of interesting weather and clouds during the trip. Made a black and white out of this very interesting cloud scene.

Some heavy rainy clouds as well, as you can see from this. Looks like its just about to touch the ground. Was in and out of clouds and rain all the way.

And after you have rain, there's always some standing water. I liked how the water was reflecting the clouds, and broken up by all the rocks. That's about all I have that's interesting from this trip.

Explodio!

Independence day - which always ends in a big Fireworks show.

Same as every year, set up in the dark, shoot a bunch of pictures as the show goes on without really looking at them, hope you got something good afterwards!

And, I managed a couple!

 

The first, a nice starry multiple burst shot.

A big blue and a smaller red burst. That little one between them looks almost white. Maybe its a actual red/white/blue combo?

The last colorful burst from this July 4th. Happy Independence Day everyone!

Hot Metal

Late June means Superday. Which means a car show. So I went in search of interesting shots. The weather was good, warm, sunny, clear. And a parking lot full of cars. Which means some hard to shoot cars. Backgrounds are all bad, reflections of everything, people in the way, etc.

But hey, that's the way it goes. Here's a couple shots from the day.

The front of an old Volkswagen Beetle. Has some nice pinstriping detail.

An old T-bucket Ford hot rod. And it could be yours - it's for sale! I applied a little bit of a cartoony effect to this image.

There were a few old cars there, I picked this as my DHCBWOCHO subject. I forgot to record the exact model, but its a mid 50's Mercury. The car was light blue, so it turned out looking white in the image. A very broad chrome hood ornament.

What a difference

a few weeks makes.

After a surprise late spring snowstorm, spring/summer returned in a hurry. No surprise really.

So I took off for a early summer hike. Back to a nearby state park. Nice and green, not too hot and not many bugs. Pretty agreeable all around! Snapped an assortment of photos, here's just a couple.

A old dead tree. After I photoshopped it a bit, it's a ghost tree!

Wild Turkey! In this case, the actual bird, not the whiskey.