photography

Photos aplenty

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For anyone who hasn’t poked around my site much, please do take the time to check out my Photos page. I add only select stuff to it pretty regularly (and the latest ones are displayed at the top to save you having to scroll anywhere to see if there’s anything new), so check back early … Read more

Stop motion is cool

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As I’d written about back in earlier days of isolation, I’m trying out making some stop motion videos. It’s been a while since I took a crack at another one, in part because I wasn’t able to come up with more than a handful of ideas lo these many months, and in part because I … Read more

Monarch emergence time lapse

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My wife decided to try out her time lapse video option on a couple of monarch emergences today. It’s cool to watch it happen anyway, but in the time lapse you get a better view of watching the wings–super compressed and wrinkled at first–gradually straighten out to full size, pumped up (we think) from the … Read more

Pic pleasure

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I don’t often get photos of the sun(set) or moon that I’m ever happy with–they never look as gorgeous as what I’m seeing, and in the case of the moon usually just end up looking like bright blobs–but this one from yesterday worked out really well. I’ve added the full size of it to my … Read more

Monarchs are imminent

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Somewhere between about 8-15 days, the monarch chrysalis goes from green to blue to finally clear, like in the photo here. That stage means they’re going to emerge as full-on butterflies within a few hours. So cool.

Monarchs are cool

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Off and on for a couple of years, we’ve raised monarch butterflies from eggs to first flight. It’s really cool to see. There’s something satisfying and heartwarming about seeing a monarch that you raised from a tiny egg finally crawl out of its chrysalis, dry out its wings and fly away. We just got some … Read more

Fun with photos

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A couple of Christmases back I received a little set of photo lenses that clip onto my cell phone, and while I haven’t used them a ton–a fisheye lens, while cool in its own wonky way, isn’t an everyday kind of photo accessory for me–a recent rainy day offered a great opportunity to give the … Read more