Uploads from Teuobk

Tourmalet

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:13:20 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

My blue LeMond Tourmalet road bike, vintage 2005, on a warm January day in Denver.

Yes, some trickery was used to get it to stay upright.

Mercy #1

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:11:02 -0700

Teuobk posted a photo:

For everything, there is a time to live and a time to die. Goodbye, Mercy. You had 14 good years.

Mercy #2

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:11:01 -0700

Teuobk posted a photo:

Goodbye, Mercy. From happier times, last summer.

Eclipse

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:24:41 -0700

Teuobk posted a photo:

The 2012 solar annular eclipse, as seen from near Kayenta, Arizona. The ring in the sky is the Sun.

This is a single exposure.

Even at maximum eclipse, the Sun was far too bright to view unprotected. It was, in fact, too bright to shoot with an unfiltered camera. I tried shooting it at ISO 100, f/45, 1/8000s, but it was still so blown out that the eclipse wasn't visible. Thus, the use of a filter.

In essence, this is a 12-stop grad-ND filter, better known as a piece of welder's glass held over half of the lens aperture.

(Edit: "annular" not "annual" -- stupid auto-correct)

Sun acne

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:15:33 -0700

Teuobk posted a photo:

See the sunspot in the lower right?

This is the Sun a few minutes after the annular eclipse, as seen from near Kayenta, Arizona. I was using welder's glass for a filter, which has significant optical imperfections, so I was stopped down to f/45. At first I thought I saw dust on the sensor, but when it moved with the sun, I knew I was looking at a sunspot.

The most likely sunspot region was 1483.

Me at 30

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:04:27 -0700

Teuobk posted a photo:

Self portrait three weeks shy of my 30th birthday.

To the Hall!

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:29:10 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

The package I sent to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto: the goalie skates I used in every state and every province.

Its killing power endures

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:06:15 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

Acme Dura Dust: "Its killing power endures"

50% DDT

Found while cleaning out a garage. They haven't made this stuff since at least 1972. The can was still half full.

Horses

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:36:45 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

Four of my sister's horses at her farm in Elk River, MN.

Leading the way

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:34:20 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

My sister and one of her horses in Elk River, MN.

Horse in the woods

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:34:03 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

The woods served as a beautiful backdrop for photographing horses at my sister's farm in Elk River, MN.

Weather vane

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:27:09 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

At my sister's farm in Elk River, MN.

Country Winter

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:25:00 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

At my sister's farm in Elk River, MN.

Horse, dogs, sister

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:26:58 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

My sister with two of her dogs and one of her horses.

Strobist: Speedlite into silver umbrella camera right, on-axis fill three stops down.

Sand

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:13:42 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

On the beach near Destin, Florida.

Open space

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:12:27 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

The wide open space in the desert at Joshua Tree National Park.

The plants in the foreground are creosote bushes, also known as chaparral. They are spaced like they are because they manufacture their own herbicide, which inhibits the growth of other plants nearby. That removes competition for scarce water in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts.

Sam at Bixby Creek

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:10:49 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

Sam with the famous Bixby Creek Bridge in the background.

Along the California coast near Big Sur.

Bears!

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:10:10 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

Left to right: cub, cub, sow. Grizzlies, all of them. Range: very close.

Denali National Park, Alaska.

Yonder

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:08:55 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

In the Stony Creek drainage at Denali NP, Alaska.

Bands

nobody@flickr.com (Teuobk) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:37:15 -0800

Teuobk posted a photo:

Sand, rock, surf, water. On the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii.