A little while back some weather blew through late at night. Under the full moon, the clouds looked pretty interesting. Not all the photos, however, were terribly well composed. One in particular was the result of accidentally setting off the shutter release while still setting up the tripod.
Around 1 AM this morning I became aware that a lightning storm was passing by. Sadly, it was a fast mover; by the time I got my camera set up taking photos, it was all over. Still, a *few* interesting photos out of the process, though no good lightning shots.
Some photos from January showing a small helicopter flying along the Wasatch mountains.
Combine frigid temperatures and the right kind of ice crystals in the air, and you get the relatively rare phenomenon of “light pillars,” vertical shafts of light over bright ground lights (including car headlights).
I’ve opened a store on zazzle.com to sell posters of my photos. A good thing about zazzle is that they allow customers to select the size of the poster they want. So while the images I’ve uploaded so far (my creakingly slow rural internet connection makes this a long process, given that the images are up to 50 megabytes) are all baselined for 36X12 panoramas, you can select… pretty much whatever size you want. When I upload the photos, the system generally assumes, based on the size of the images, that I want ‘em to be 60X20 inches, so you can go at least that big.
I’m starting off with the 36X12 panoramas. If there are any photos I’ve posted that you’d really like to have, let me know.
More have been added (it takes a while for the store to update) and more will be added.
In addition to being able to select the size of the print, you can also select the quality of the paper. So, you get a range of options from this:
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Me, I’d recommend the larger sizes with the better paper. Because, you know, I’d make more off of those than the smaller versions. But whatever seems best to y’all…
Remember, it’s never too early to start shopping for Christmas! Only 2,182 shopping days until Christmas, 2018!
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From mid November, a few photos of early winter evenings:
A May, 2010, view of the Bear River near Fielding, Utah.
Looking south from Thatcher, Utah, late one night in January of 2010. To the left, the Wasatch mountains can be seen; Little Mountain in the center is shrouded in mist. The clouds are lit from below by the lights of Brigham City and Ogden.
An October, 2009, view across the marsh towards Mendon and the mountains.
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