A large part of the fun, and frustration, of astro photography is that you can rarely see what you’re making images of. If you’re shooting pictures of birds, or buildings, you see them in the viewfinder, do all the composition things, exposures, focusing, etc. With astro photography, what you’re taking pictures of might not even …
Amazing what you come across when doing a bit of cleanup, the intention of which is to toss out things you haven’t needed, or thought of, for a long time. This is even more so when it comes to cleaning photo files. Below is just one example. A couple years ago I wrote about the …
Winter along Lake Erie is always interesting and a fun time for birders. The hard-core types are out there in sub-zero temperatures trying to identify various species of gulls, or, earnestly searching for Snowy Owls. This winter, however, has been victim to climate change. It’s mid-February and we have less than four percent of the …
It’s most often the small things in life that get birders excited. A small increase in temperatures, say from 28 degrees in the morning to 50 degrees by noon. Or, the rare visit by one of the nation’s smaller owls, say, the Northern Saw-whet owl. Such was the serendipitous intersection of these two phenomena, recently, …
Our planet had a brief visitor the past couple months who promises to be back in about 50,000 years. if you missed this green guy, stay tuned. I figured I might not make it for another multi-thousand centuries so I better try for a selfie. Well, the selfie part didn’t work, however, in spite of …
Witt’s End 