I see me..... (or is it eye see me?)

Your subject probably has to have dilated eyes for this to work.  This is certainly one of my stranger self-portraits, taken by accident earlier this fall.

Flashlight painting

It finally quit raining long enough over the Thanksgiving trip to take a few photographs.  This is one I really wanted to try.  It is a time lapse (about one minute) where I used a flashlight to "paint" the parts of the bridge that I wanted to show up in the photo.  I definitely want to do more of this, but I need a more homogeneous light source.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The drought is probably over!  After nearly four inches of rain the past two days the temperature plummeted and now we have snow.  

I snapped this photo Thanksgiving evening as we pulled into our motel (located half-way between the Thursday Thanksgiving dinner and the Friday Thanksgiving dinner).  It's not fun to drive in, but it sure sets the mood for the season!  By this morning the snow had all disappeared and sun was shining.

Zooming in on the moth wing

I'm still looking at the Virgin Tiger Moth wing.  Since I had pretty much torn him (her?) up I decided to take one last look at the wings.  The following four images show the wing at increasingly higher magnification.

If you pull off a few of the scales, this is what they look like:

Old friends 2--Barfi

Even though I am allergic to their dander, I do like cats--they are wonderful subjects for photography! This is Barfi, an old friend who lived in Sweden. RIP Barfi.

Crystal photography

One of the things I really wished I had mastered while I was still working was the ability to take decent photomicrographs of the various samples we examined.  Admittedly, it would have been difficult with the air sensitive compounds, but they generally were not terribly photogenic since the were almost nearly always partially decomposed.   I have been playing with some of the mineral samples I have sitting around to see what I can do.  This is a back lighted fragment of an unknown mineral ca. 1 mm maximum size.

I may have to try growing some "perfect" crystals.  The beauty of small crystals (natural or newly grown) is the near perfection of the morphology.

Things I always wanted to do...

I'm not sure what effect it had on my ability to visualize 3D easily, or my love of all things stereo, but like most kids I loved my View-master stereo viewer.  I hated it when parents would get me "educational" reels.  I wanted the action of superheros. One of the things I always dreamed of was starring in my own View-master movie!
  

Side-by-side above; anaglyph below.

At last!  My dream has come true!  (with thanks to "SHAZAM", in View-master B 5802)