I had intended on going out to take photos of the eclipse, but instead found myself enthralled with the total view of the night sky. This, my friends, is why you move out to the country.
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Here’s the Eclipse, nearly full.
Every once in awhile, some pompous City of Buffalo resident makes a quip demeaning the work of hundreds, if not thousands of dedicated volunteers who spend countless hours working to improve Buffalo. Today, that remark was reiterated by a commenter and occasional contributor to Buffalo Rising, “Gabe”. In his response to Figmo’s “Let’s Get An…
We had to schedule a day to get out and see some foliage, and the weather was perfect today at Letchworth State Park!
No matter how many times I read this, I can’t make up my mind whether it’s really cool or really dumb. I’m torn, because I think the idea of building an instrument to play the next few notes of a piece while that piece is being played is a neat idea. I think the idea…
As a long time computer geek, I often think about where computing is headed in the future, both near and far. Since a large part of my day job is adapting technology for the average person’s needs, I’m also acutely aware of the issues that hold it back. It’s one of the reasons that’s driven…
For the past few years I’m hemmed and hawed about entering some photos in the Fair’s photography competition. This year I saw the Fair advertise a “digital camera shootout”. You were to show up at a designated date and time, they would assign you a category, then you would have two hours to shoot as…
The Starry Night photo is very, very nice! That would make a nice large framed and matted print.
Derek, wonderful pictures.
I lived in Holland as a kid (Hi!) and remember more than a few starry nights when the only light was from the Fisher Price factory on the other hill. Your pictures were much better than any I ever took back then!
I saw you commenting in my brother Paul’s blog, and couldn’t resist responding to a fellow Dutchman ;>
Oh – congratulations on the new expectant arrival.
Joe