I’m no fanboy, but I gotta say: the iPhone 15 Pro is pretty darn slick. I had a blast hammering away at the Northern Lights with it while my trusty Canon equipment was dutifully cranking out time lapse photos. Here’s a dump of my favorites, no captions required.
Continue readingOkay, I’m awake. First batch of aurora photos
Okay, when I was younger I stayed out all night quite frequently. In fact, I worked overnights for seven and a half years. I’m no dummy. I know what it’s like to stay out late. But now that I’m all growed up and have a real job and family, I don’t get to do it so much. So I’m a little crushed by staying out past 4am this morning. But it was WORTH IT.
My feed, like yours, probably blew up with Northern Lights photos last night and today. Fantastic. Recently I’ve dreaded that, because my photos haven’t been among them. This time, however, I was able to get out with my best friend and get some shots of my own! So let’s go…
Continue readingThey’re real, and they’re spectacular
Yes, the predictions for the Northern Lights came true. No, we didn’t have cloud cover for once. Yes, I got out there with my gear. No, I am not going to process and post any photos at 4am. Stay tuned!
A collector’s delight: Music & More
It should be obvious that I’m a music and movie fan, and a fan of physical media specifically. I could rant for an hour on the virtue of owning a physical copy of the music or film you enjoy vs. having to rent it in perpetuity from some greedy pinhead who can make your beloved favorites vanish in an instant or pepper them with ads for products you’ll swear not to buy out of sheer annoyance.
Well, there’s a new shop for people like you – people like us – Music & More, located on Lockheed Drive in south Bismarck.
Continue readingHappy Eclipse Day! Oh, wait…
I made this meme a long time ago out of frustration during an potential Northern Lights photography opportunity. It still applies! I’m getting plenty of mileage out of this one simple meme, proving that it was spot-on.
I had originally planned to take my family to the National Museum of the Air Force for this event, since it’ll pass right overhead, giving us a two-fer. I had to cancel those plans due to Bidenomics, but we did visit the Strategic Air Command museum this weekend instead. The weather at Wright-Patterson was a roll of the dice anyway, and everywhere along the path of totality is going to be packed with people, so we really aren’t too bummed about missing out.
I am old enough to have caught the total solar eclipse in 1979, when I was a young lad growing up in western Montana. We didn’t do anything special with protective gogs or anything like that, but we watched it get dark. Pretty cool.
There’s always 2044! I told my kids they may have to dig me out of the nursing home or the dirt for us to catch the next one, but I’m going to do my best to be able to ride motorcycle there. Or maybe even longboard…
Sunny Gray day, part two
I mentioned previously how we took a short jaunt to the Gray House in Sims, and I showed how the brick face on one side is falling away in the fashion of many other parts of the home. This post is an homage to the detail and workmanship of this fine home.
Continue readingSunny Gray day, part one
A while back I had the opportunity to take a nice road trip with my mom, and I used it to introduce her to a photographic feature I’ve visited many times: the Gray house in Sims, a ghost town southwest of New Salem.
Continue readingFinally spotted one in the wild
I was driving on the east end of town the other day when I spotted something very bright, very blue, and very uh-oh along the road. Naturally I had to pull in and take a closer look – not just because I’m curious, but also because I’ve never seen one of these in person. It’s only been in memes or that sort of thing until now.
BSOD means Blue Screen Of Death, and it’s a sure sign that something is amiss with your Windows computer. I don’t know why these have such an allure…maybe it’s the idea of such a public fail, maybe its schadenfreude, maybe it’s relief that it’s not me…who knows. In any case, I can check this off the Bucket List if it was ever there, because now I’ve seen a very large, very public BSOD.
Makes a guy want to come to town more often, see what other spectacular sights await…
(No) time for me to fly
I gotta say, this has been a bleak winter for photography. It’s been a bleak winter for life. But Spring is right around the corner, I’ve got a new mountain bike on order, and I’m feeling optimistic.
Today I received the $280 Drone RemoteID module required to keep the federal government off my back so I can fly according to their new and more restrictive regulations, so that’s a good thing. I’m itching to roam around with my cameras some more, although thanks to Bidenflation I’ve got about enough travel budget to make it to the end of my road and back.
It’s been far too long since I last posted on the ol ‘Blog, but I’m not done blogging just yet. With an absolutely atrocious period behind us it’s time to think positive and start chasing more photos! That is, if I can still remember how to have fun again…
Foggy Farm
I’ve driven past this farm multiple times, since it’s not too far from my place. I finally found the right conditions to photograph it.
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