Photo Fun

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Lady Pilot

[This post is obsolete. The new gallery software was too temperamental and I’ve taken it offline and restored the old, reliable, gallery.]

With the help of a robotic script and all too much fiddling, I’ve copied all 750 or so the Ups & Downs photos into the new Photos section.

Why bother with this upgrade?

Mainly because I now have more publishing flexibility, including the ability to publish albums within albums. So, for instance, I moved the Return of Pickleweed Red and Fast Boats albums into the 2007 Photos: December album.

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More Rain!

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Rain Forecast

I hope the plants and the frogs and the ducks and all mud-loving things are enjoying themselves. ;-)

Thwack! The Blue Heron Hunts

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

We saw a Great Blue Heron hunting on the far side of the Great Meadow, so I took my Nikon D200 with its new 18-200mm lens and walked across the field to take pictures. As I approached, the heron took flight, and I snapped away as the bird flew toward me.

Blue Heron in Flight

When I walked back to the Pickleweed picnic area, Bruce pointed out that the heron had landed near the road. I decided to try to get some more pictures and sneaked over to the far side of the road, keeping my distance in the shade of some trees.

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Return of Pickleweed Red

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Free from the Box!

Wednesday brought early morning rain, but by 10:30 the rain clouds had moved on, leaving a gray sky with occasional patches of blue.

It was a good day to fly: not much wind, relatively warm and I had Baylands mostly to myself for the morning. Mike Bigby came by for a while and flew his HyperFlea. Not what I’d call a crowd.

Four batteries later, I decided to walk around the park while my charger did its stuff. Midway around the circuit, I heard honking and looked around. It was Gary in his olive truck, entering the park.

“Are they still planning to release Pickleweed Red?” I asked.

He said yes, at 1 p.m. In about 45 minutes.

“I’m finishing my walk,” I told him. “See you in about 15 minutes.”

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Fetchomatic 3000 Recall

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Swainson’s Hawk

On Saturday, flyers discovered a Swainson’s Hawk trapped in a tangle of monofilament in the Baylands Giant Yuke.

One wing was wrapped tight to its body.

During the past few months, people have tried multiple times to rescue planes from this tree. Some of the attempts were successful. Many were not.

Those efforts left a nasty spiderweb of monofilament snaking through the tree.

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