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Galapagos April 20, 2010 (1 of 4): Crossing the Equator
During the night, we crossed the equator while traveling northward on our way to the westernmost islands of the Galapagos archipelago. Specifically, our destination was snorkeling off Punta Vicente...
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Galapagos April 20, 2010 (2 of 4): Zodiac Tour Of Punta Vicente Roca (Isabela...
Anchoring off Punta Cicente Roca after our long journey around Isabela Island, we were greeted with quite the geological smorgasbord of coastline. Beyond this rather stunning point of green with cave...
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Galapagos April 20, 2010 (3 of 4): Snorkeling off Punta Vicente Roca (Isabela...
Not only did we do a Zodiac tour of the coast line and cave, but we also hopped in the water for some snorkeling in the calm, almost bay-like, shallows near the shore of Punta Vicente. This particular...
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Galapagos April 20, 2010 (4 of 4): Walk On Punta Espinosa of Fernandina Island.
Of all of the excursions we took on this trip, I personally found this one to be the one that captured the essence of the Galapagos more than any other. Life was abundant, the land was harsh, and the...
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Dr. Seuss’s Pond
We spent a good chunk of saturday wandering about mid-Missouri, touring the various homes and towns of my Mother’s family. While wondering about Mom’s home town of Jamestown, Missouri, we found Cave...
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Hummingbirds, Pond Flowers and Dragonflies.
Mid-Missouri is a hummingbird destination. That is, these tiny, but incredibly energetic, birds treat mid-Missouri as a destination for breeding and, as a result, are extremely territorial in their...
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Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM Lens
Pelican (170mm, f/5.6, 1/1250th, ISO: 160) Earlier this year, we went on a trip to the Galapagos with Linblad (National Geographic) with a goal of immersing our 9 year old son, Roger, in the natural...
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Death on the Coast; Nature at its Stinkiest
What is often lost in all the nature documentaries is that every critter must die eventually. More often than not, said deaths are generally brutal. One of our favorite beaches is Bean Hollow State...
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Wet Electronics
An unremarkable, though rather pleasant, picture of the creek near my parent’s house in Missouri. What is remarkable or, at least, exceptional about this photo is that it was taken about 30 seconds...
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Walker’s Cicada: A Photo Study
“Hey, Dad! There’s a cicada emerging over there.”, Roger said. Watching the emergence of any critter that goes through a metamorphic stage is always fascinating. While Roger (and I) have raised many...
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Icy Creek Pt 1; Natural Lenses
Roger and I went for a long walk near my parent’s house in Columbia, MO. Being the end of the year, it is freezing cold and still. Ideal weather to produce ice on the ponds and creeks of the area....
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Icy Creek Pt. 2: A Physics Lesson (Newton’s Rings)
As Roger and I were walking along the frozen creek we were (duh!) throwing rocks to break ice, stomping on the ice, and generally checking out all the neat patterns that naturally occur (including the...
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Icy Creek Pt 3: Ice Fractals
While walking on the creek, Roger and I found lots of different patterns of ice on the creek. There simply wasn’t any smooth ice anywhere. Fractals, fractals, everywhere. Some were on the surface of...
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Alaska
Over the summer, we escaped for a while to Alaska via a trip put together by International Expeditions. This was our second trip with the company — our first being a week on the Amazon River (fun...
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Review; Brinno TLC200 Pro Time Lapse Camera
Clouds Faster. One nice fallout from the smartphone revolution is that cheap embedded controllers, camera sensors, and flash memory has dropped in price while the capabilities have jumped by leaps and...
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Focus Stacking: An Introduction
At left is a photo of a Belionota sumptuosa from Indonesia. Commonly known as a Tricolor Metallic Wood-boring Beetle. It isn’t a regular photo, though. It is a focus stacked image. Specifically, it is...
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