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Yamaguchi-sensei patiently adjusts my form as I learn the basics of Kyudo, the Japanese martial art of archery. All five of my arrows shot over the course of one hour with three other students did hit the small target, though mentioning this unimportant detail underscores how little I know.
My daughter Sian came around for the evening and we started playing Rummikub. She won 3 rounds! Here we are at the start of the 3rd round. I thought my opening hand was a good one but I still lost.
My first playdate with my paintbrush markers. I had never used these markers before and was trying to get a feel for them.
I fear this will be a very long journey! :-))
A blog to indulge two greatest interests - amateur astronomy and the internet.
Comet Facts
Fact1: A comet is a conglomerate of particles bound together by ice (not necessarily H2O water ice, it could be dry ice (CO2), for example)
Fact2: When a comet approaches the sun the ice melts and releases the particles from the main body.
Fact3: The tail of a comet always points away from the sun.
As the picture below shows, there are in fact two tails, both curved, and they are 30 MILLION kilometres long. That's a lot of fine particles. The theory is that the solar wind is responsible for the blue gas and gravity alone for the larger particles.
More interesting cosmological facts will unfold at Astronomy For Beginners
Shot this on my first morning in Perth - slept quite little the night before, and had to walk like 5km to get here (and earned a blister as reward). It was also my first real test of the X100T as a landscape camera. Everything turned out great - I didn't find myself missing the wide angle field of view, and I was treated to some lovely still water and some very nice clouds :)
Technical Details:
Fuji X100T + WCL-X100
2.5 seconds, f/16, ISO 200
Haida ND 1.8
7 shot panorama
Philtranco Service Enterprises Inc 1711 & 946
Biyaheng masaya, Serbisyong subok na!
PSEI 1711
SR Daewoo Bus Cityliner BV115 Airconary
PSEI 946
*Former JAM Liner 946
SR Exfoh
Tinbie's first show at 6 months old and he won Best of Breed, beating Pipit and a special. We showed for 2 days and he came home with 3 points.
Between the show and family visiting, we have not had any time for flickr and have lots of catching up to do....
Nikon EM (1981) slowly getting the Nikon Collection filled up.
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Plows are something I haven't shot much of over the years, mostly because the snowfall in New York's Capital Region usually doesn't warrant them. January 7, 2003 was a major exception, however. With our area having been hit with two back-to-back nor'easters, something had to be done. On this day, I was out running errands when I came across a fairly normal CP Train 169 heading north out of Albany with the usual pair of NS Dash-9s for power. Being on break from college and not having much else to do, I decided to follow the train north. After jumping ahead of the train and arriving in Mechanicville, I was pleasantly surprised to find a CP plow train with this Jordan Spreader holding on the Colonie Main at CPF467. I headed up to Coons to wait for it, and had the opportunity to shoot ST Train AYMO first. Then came the dramatic moment seen here, and after that Train 169 and ST Train EDMO (4 trains at Coons in 1 hour!). I then headed up to Crescent where I caught a Guilford plow train coming off the Rotterdam Branch (a photo of which can be found in my B&M book). This was quite the catch for me at this time as I had only been doing railroad photography for a few years and wasn't yet connected to the rest of the railfan community to have even known that two plow trains would be running! So, thank God I was too young and naive to blow-off a pair of NS Dash-9s on 169!