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Best of astronomy

What a wonderful post: Bad Astronomy comes out with his Top Ten Astronomy images of 2006, complete with stories. I had completely missed the “Painting the Eclipse” photo, and am so glad Phil Plait has not. Wonderful. We have robots on Mars! Humans are so smart.

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Adobe CS3 beta

If you’re interested in trying out the beta of Adobe’s CS3, download the trial version and generate a CS3 key from a CS2 serial number. I haven’t had time other than download the product on my Mac and open it and the new Bridge up to see if there are any obvious differences. After the new year, when […]

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Environment Events of note Photography

A year in the life of Johnson’s Shut-Ins

One year ago, a billion gallons of water poured down a mountain, scraped away the dirt, the trees, the rocks, and any living thing in a flood of mud and debris. It landed at the entrance to Johnson’s Shut-Ins, slammed into the hill on one end of the park, swirled around taking away every last […]

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Photography

Biting the bullet: Cleaning a camera sensor

I couldn’t put it off any longer. Today was the day. Today is the day I finally clean my camera sensors. I read the instructions. Actually I read the instructions 40 or 50 times, as well as verifying such with several different online sources. After that excuse waned in usefulness, it was time to just […]

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Emptying camera

Dumping photo disc. The birthday cake my roommate got me last week. Zoe, giving me the ‘eye’. Squirrel nest and today’s first frozen rain.