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The Saturn V Rocket is a magnificent piece of engineering. I drove to nearby Rocket Park this morning just to get out and stretch my legs. The Rocket Park is located beside the main entrance to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Inside the massive enclosure is a Saturn V rocket, the vehicle that allowed NASA to […]
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The lemon tree in my yard has started its annual offering of ripened lemons. I have an Improved Meyer Lemon Tree that is prolific. The tree can produce up to four hundred lemons in a good year. This year is a bumper crop and there is only so much lemonade one can drink. I give
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Learning how to use the new camera, I decided to try some ambient low light photos at high ISO. I wanted to gauge the Nikon D7000 High ISO Performance Pretty decent results considering handheld under tungsten lighting. I used Adobe LR 3.5 to post process a 16 MP Raw file. Although this is a very
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I picked up a new camera this week and planned a trip to Brazoria NWR to run it through its paces. The lighting was dull, and the drought has all but eliminated the freshwater ponds that have attracted in past, so many birds. Still it was great to get out and I did manage to
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I drove out of the neighborhood to get away from the trees and get a better view of the Wings over Houston action at Ellington Field. Yesterday and today the annual Wings over Houston Airshow was performed with great weather and a fun show. I never actually went to the show, I just take photos nearby
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To make banana bread I harvested a pile of bananas from my backyard trees and had to do something with them before they spoiled. So banana breads fill the kitchen with their fragrance. My trees are the Orinoco variety. Orinoco is the most common banana grown all along the Gulf Coast. Orinocos reliably produces medium-sized fruits.
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