New camera body and lens, got a few minutes to shoot with it...


Do you think the gear being made in Japan influenced it?

 

A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera

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"Well, you know, I was raised on Star Trek, and all the good ideas come from Star Trek. So I said what if we could just do it all electronically? What if I could store an image electronically, capture an image electronically, and I don't require any film at all?"

 

St. Augustine, FL

Panorama. I think you have to click on the attachment.

 

Poking around on my phone and found these I had of an old stone quarry turned into a nature preserve. It's not very big or deep, but it was fun climbing around for a few hours.

 

Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas All!

 

Another macro by my significant other ... the colors a vibrant, but the show stopper is the heart shaped mark on the bug's back:

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Not exactly a year in review but at least an abbreviated recap of recently taken shots of 2025. It suddenly struck me that it's been 50 years since 1976, a year I remember well for all the bicentennial hullabaloo. I recently gave my grandkids bicentennial quarters along with 1970s Eisenhower dollars that feature an eagle landing on the moon, earth in the sky above it on the reverse. Time has flowed as it is wont to do and I can't help but feel I didn't flow with it as I should have...

American Robin


Mute Swan

Barn Swallows

Mallard

Ring-billed Gull

Common (European) Honeybee

American Goldfinch

Sandhill Crane

House Wren
Barn Swallow​

 

first sunset of 2026

 

This new imaging technology breaks the rules of optics


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Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The approach uses multiple sensors to collect raw light patterns independently, then synchronizes them later using computation. This sidesteps long-standing physical limits that have held optical imaging back for decades. The result is wide-field, sub-micron resolution from distances that were previously impossible.

 

I finally got to teach my daughter to shoot while she was home over Christmas.

 

 

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Is that a kite?

 

Is that a kite?

Wind skating on the boat launch parking lot.

Weather for the last week:
Sunny and windy. High near 45F. Winds E at 20 to 30 mph.

 

A friend sent me these from Thailand. I am impressed with the load securment!

 

Old guy up the street is moving out. That car hasn't seen the sun in a while.

 

Old guy up the street is moving out. That car hasn't seen the sun in a while.
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I was never a Corvette guy so to speak, but I would be more than happy to drive that quad tone unit as is over many of the newer offerings from any manufacturer.

 

Yet another pic by my lovely half ... On the road from Monterrey, Mexico, to McAllen, Tx.

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Sanderlings

 

From my kids in Japan.