Monthly Archives: July 2008

a new flash gallery…

I’m playing around with some ways to display my photos through flash galleries. Click here or on the image below to see a small sample gallery of a few images I shot about a month ago.

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lightning captured with new DSLR…

The southwestern monsoon is underway, and last night I was able to successfully capture some lightning shots with digital. I had tried a couple of times previously, but didn’t have any luck…mostly because of storm location. I’m sure there will be some color and clarity differences between lightning on film versus being shot with digital…but [...]

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new weather station…

I finished installing my new Davis Weather Station earlier this week on Monday. I got the Vantage Pro 2 model for my birthday back in June, which measures wind direction, wind speed, outdoor/indoor temperature, humidity, pressure, and rainfall via a tipping bucket. Albuquerque isn’t known for its trees, but our backyard actually has quite a [...]

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bows and rays…

We have finally received some better moisture intrusions into the Albuquerque area, and as a result we’ve had isolated afternoon thunderstorms over the past few days.  For the most part, storms have been short-lived and unfavorably located (just a few sprinkles here at the house), but a “monsoon pattern” will hopefully take over before too [...]

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