I was in Corpus Christi on a warm, beautiful, November day and I captured a few shots. Later a trip to the aircraft carrier USS Lexington was the subject of the day. It was a brilliant blue sky November, Texas day. On 15 June 1992, the ship was donated to the City of Corpus Christi […]
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Big Bend National Park photo calendar – Bigbendchat.com sponsors a member photo calendar every year about this time. It consists of 13 photos, voted on by the participants, compiled by the moderator, and sent off to the printer. This year, the Big Bend National Park photo calendar included one of my photos that is posted
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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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