Dabob Bay

Fall

2011-11-07T17:16:00.000-08:00

Summer

2011-10-14T20:27:00.001-07:00

Winter

2011-04-03T08:07:00.000-07:00

2010

2011-02-20T13:55:00.000-08:00

View to the Bay

2010-12-04T10:05:00.000-08:00

1980 in early spring

2010 in late summer

Across the Great Divide

2010-05-26T18:23:00.000-07:00

Washington to Iowa 5/14 to 5/16 via Yellowstone
& Michigan to Washington 9/25 to 9/28 via Badlands

Paella

2010-05-02T07:46:00.000-07:00

Yakuat

2009-08-04T22:25:00.000-07:00

The mountains in the distance were ~10,000 ft

The mountains in the distance were ~18000 feet.
This particular day it was a matter trying to figure out were there monsters back there or not.

Depth of Field

2008-12-15T07:59:00.000-08:00

I thought this result was dramatic. I shot at 2.8 and discovering
little or nothing was in focus I went back and shot at F11,
but liked the 2.8 shot better anyway.

F2.8

F11

Foggy

2008-08-21T07:47:00.000-07:00

I had to wade into the fog to get pictures on the Washington coast - the fog didn't lift over the 3 day visit

Scene setting on the K100D

2008-06-15T10:45:00.000-07:00

I noticed a "pet" setting on the camera. I use mostly the manual settings and the priority adaptive settings but have ignored other features. I typically use a fixed ISO but I set the ISO to range over 200-800 and used the scene function setting "pet".

From Dabob

The result, in this case, were images shot wide-open at maximum speed with continuous auto-focus and ISO 200. I believe this helped capture the Cedar Waxwings in a pleasant exposure. My own settings would have not engaged the continuous auto- focus and given up speed for depth and used ISO 400.

Downy Woodpecker

2008-04-11T08:33:00.000-07:00

Female from RAW *istD

Male from JPEG K100Dsuper

I used the same lens (50-135 2.8), but differences in the cameras & lighting resulted in varying detail. The images are not the matched pair I was thinking of when I had the opportunity to shoot.

Shake Reduction

2008-01-03T09:57:00.000-08:00

The camera reviews discussing Pentax shake reduction encouraged me to purchase a K100D even though my *istD was providing excellent images. Other improvements mentioned the jpeg quality achieved by the K100D. The surprise is how dramatic the difference is on my 80-320 zoom. The hand held results continue to amaze me. The reviewers tend to talk about a one or two stop difference but this analysis seems mis-directed. The effect is not so much in available aperture but in compensation for shaky hands! What's more the the internal jpeg processing helps the overall effect to make my previous work with raw files look misguided.

New lens

2007-10-03T13:32:00.000-07:00

The color of images on the web often disappoints after previewing in Photoshop or iphoto. I recently snapped some fall colors with a new 50-135 F2.8 lens. The setting on the K100D was "bright" - I usually stay away from high saturated or over sharp settings, but this seemed to work well, giving a cheerful web result.

Dabob Bay

2007-05-14T09:38:00.000-07:00

The slide show of Dabob now include some images from May 5th, a cool gray weekend at the cabin. The apple blossums were cheerful inspite of the overcast skies.

Backyard photography

2007-03-17T08:51:00.000-07:00

I have a bayonet mount that threads into the front of my 50mm F1.4 lens. Reversing the lens makes for a good macro effect. I re-discover the mount in my camera bag every few years and try my patience - composing & focusing at about three inches from the subject.

From yard

Book & Brew

2007-01-15T08:24:00.000-08:00

The Places in Between - Rory Stewart
Wet, cold feet & dysentery. I'd drop these two travel features. Skip winter while your'e at it and wait for the turmoil to subside. Actually, please run that itinerary by me again. I always wanted to visit Crieff, my family roots are there and it's beautiful from what I hear, but I think I'll go with a flight connection to Scotland and rent a car and otherwise pass on Afghanistan this year.

Dabob Bay

2006-12-30T20:00:00.000-08:00

We visited the bay on the 29th to check out the windstorm damage. The Leyland Cypress near the cabin is blown over, but otherwise things are okay. The view was bright on the ferry, gray and rainy on the drive, but it brightened up again at Dabob. The creek has blasted a straight path past the Bath's. I have posted a slide show of the outing with some other pictures of visits to the bay.

Book & Brew

2006-12-22T08:30:00.000-08:00

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides received top honors as Book-of -the-Year at the December Book & Brew gathering Wednesday. Our bookclub has the most wonderful web site possible, visited somewhat regularly by almost half of our nine members. Apparently a quintessential core in this group actually read their email, reviewed the data on our website, and voted five strong for Middlesex, although truth be told, the whole group is monolithic in it's opinion and would have voted likewise if they could read the one sentence request in their various in-baskets.

Which is not to say we don't acrimoniously bicker over what's a chick book, it's just that we all have great taste in books.

Middlesex was competing against:
The Good German - Kanon
Whistling Season - Doig
All Quiet on the Orient Express - Mills
Thank You for Smoking - Buckley
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Collapse - Diamond
Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Sharpes Tiger - Cornwell

Maritime brew received top honors in a similar "read the instructions and then vote if you remember to" scenerio.

Formula One

2006-12-19T17:43:00.000-08:00

My first Grand Prix & first place for Jochen Rindt (above). Apparently, the 1970 Dutch GP was Clay Regazzoni's first GP, managing fourth. The GP event left a colorful memory. I was given a ticket to the race by Raymond Mays, courtesy of an introduction by Jim Elwes, after a friendly chat on the train. I just had to see the circus and it was a great day - and then Piers Courage crashed. Grand Prix was not so grand.

I still follow GP racing on TV some 36 yrs on. Clay died in a road accident Monday. I enjoyed his racing. I have a memory of meeting his cousin George. He told me about Clay's road car, modified to allow him to drive after his injuries. I remember Clay as a star in the circus.

Camp Discovery on Dabob Bay

2006-12-13T12:56:00.000-08:00

In 1978 Chris Bath authored a lovely booklet on Camp Discovery. Having enjoyed visits there since 1976, it's wonderful to have the history in hand. The current owners, my family and friends, have chosen to maintain the property as found and so the feel of the place, illuminated by Chris, has many touchstones in the pages. From the native Tarboo to the Navy's torpedos and the tribute to the privilege of the beautiful view, I thank Chris for her writing. Some of the content of the booklet is posted at toandos.org

Rialto Beach

2006-12-11T12:15:00.000-08:00

Scans of images of Rialto Beach, Olympic National Park between 1983 & 2002. A DOT webcam is directed at neighboring 1st beach

Book & Brew

2006-12-05T11:23:00.000-08:00

Book & Brew has lined up choices through next March and I'll have to read the Good German shortly. For now I've been reading Dona Leon's Venice based mysteries and I enjoy the setting and her lead character Commissario Brunetti. I read over 60 Georges Simenon Inspector Maigret mysteries years ago. I like the similarities of plodding around a wonderful city and dropping into the bistros and eateries. I really wish I could fine a few more Maigrets.

Photography

2006-12-04T13:03:00.000-08:00

My brand loyalty to Pentax, derived from 6 familiar old lenses, brought me to buying an *istD body over three years ago. The sensor format meant I gave up 1.5x of wide angle view so I bought a 16-45 lens last June. The camera was used initially to capture the high school sports of my son. My 50 1.4 was right for basketball and my 80-310 (with the wide ISO range of the *istD) was good for lacrosse. Several thousand shots into the DSLR world, I was very happy to have digital photography & web sites to share the fun. My friend is sharing his images this week with a K10D from Baja and although the tools do the same thing I find myself once again thinking about more camera stuff.

Formula One

2006-12-04T08:56:00.000-08:00

The series started in 1950 and I've logged results & friends picks since 1970.

Results still linked:

2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000

Chilko Lake

2006-12-03T09:45:00.000-08:00

Tsylos Provincial Park

Korcula

2006-12-02T07:46:00.000-08:00

Korcula

Book & Brew

2006-12-02T07:08:00.000-08:00

2007

Mar	The March	Doctorow	o	o	o
Feb	The Cruise of the Snark	London	o	o	o
Jan	The Places in Between	Stewart	o	o	o

2006

Dec	The Good German	Kanon	o	Columbia City Ale House 12/20	o
Nov	The Last Expedition	Liebowitz &	manley	Feirabend 11/15	good
Oct	Middlesex	Eugenides	crocus	Elysian Pioneer Sq 10/24	good
Sep	Middlesex	Eugenides	object	Stellar Pizza & Ale Georgetown 9/26	good
Aug	Whistling Season	Doig	snirt	Newcastle Golf Club 8/23	not
Jul	All Quiet on the Orient Express	Mills	paint	Mercer Island Roanoke Inn 7/19	cool
Jun	Thank You for Smoking	Buckley	patch	Belle Pastry Main St Bellevue 6/7	waycool
May	Great Gatsby	Fitzgerald	old sport	Pike's Place 5/17	good
Apr	Collapse	Diamond	cool	Lost Causeway Renton 4/19	not
Mar	Collapse	Diamond	deforested	Brouwer Freemont 3/15	pricey
Feb	Tale of Two Cities	Dickens	cool	Norm's Alehouse Freemont 2/15	good
Jan	Sharpes Tiger	Cornwell	dull	Elysian Brewpub 1/11	cool