Picture Posts
tqa | January 18, 2010
Squall line crossing Oahu. Picture taken from ridge behind Tripler Army Medical Center. The Salt Lake-Aliamanu tuff cones are visible slightly to the left of center, just beyond the strawberry guava bushes in the foreground. The narrow entrance to Pearl Harbor appears as a small break in the coast; if you look at the full-size version (click on the picture), you can just make out the Arizona memorial at the very right edge of the shot.Oahu, Hawaii21 May, 2005HP Camera.
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tqa | January 17, 2010
Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor) in flightKailua Bay, Oahu15 March 20071/750 sec @ f/8; Pentax *istDS; 260mm focal length
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tqa | January 16, 2010
The Magic Kingdom this ain't.
Dinosaur Adventure Land entrancePensacola, Florida15 June 20081/125 sec @ f/6.7; Pentax *istDS; 18mm focal length
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tqa | January 16, 2010
Moving up
Erie Canal Lock E-2Waterford, NY19 July 20091/160 sec @ f/7.; Canon Canon EOS Xsi; Zoom Lens at 30mm focal length
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tqa | January 14, 2010
Ko'Olau Range, seen from the Hawaii Institute for Marine BiologyOahu, Hawaii17 September 20051/500 @ f/6.7; Pentax *ist DS; zoom lens at 43mm
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tqa | January 13, 2010
The bird in this picture is actually sitting on a clutch of eggs. Notice how effectively they're camouflaged among the gravel.
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)John Boyd Thatcher State Park, New York23 June 20091/500 sec @ f/9; Canon EOS Xsi; zoom lens at 135mm
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tqa | January 11, 2010
15 miles on the Erie Canal -- but not today.
Erie Canal Lock E-2Waterford, New York25 December 20071/125 sec @ f/6.7; Pentax *istDS; zoom lens at 18mm
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tqa | January 10, 2010
A misty dawn on the Hudson RiverGlenmont, New York28 December 20071/60 sec @ f/5.6; Pentax *istDS; zoom lens at 24mm
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tqa | January 9, 2010
Blue Angel SoloNaval Air Station Pensacola22 July 20081/1000 sec @ f/13; Pentax K100D
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tqa | January 8, 2010
Fore!
EPCOT Center - Spaceship Earth exteriorWalt Disney World, Florida8 April 20091/60 sec @ f/25.3; Canon Digital Rebel Xsi
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tqa | January 6, 2010
If I sayz "cheep, cheep", I can has seeds?
Grey squirrelGlenmont, NY4 Aug 20061/180 sec @ f/5.6; Pentax *ist DS
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tqa | January 5, 2010
I took this picture when I was in Paris a few years ago. It's not fantastic, but I'm hoping to improve on the shot when I'm over there a few months from now.
Gargoyles.Notre Dame, Paris, France28 December, 2006.1/180 sec @ F/8; Pentax *ist DS.
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tqa | January 4, 2010
Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas)Near Ko'Olina, Oahu, Hawaii 24 Feb 2007Pentax *ist DS with 70mm lens, 1/350 sec @ f/9.5
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tqa | January 3, 2010
This blog's not dead - really. I've just been playing dead.
Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)Pensacola, Florida5 June 2009.1/60 sec @ f/5.6, Canon Rebel XSi with 300mm lens.
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tqa | May 26, 2009
Today's quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson; the picture was taken at the Linnean Society last summer.
But these young scholars who invade our hills,Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,And travelling often in the cut he makes,Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.
BlightRalph Waldo Emerson
Herbarium specimen collected by, and from the personal collection of, Carl von Linné.Photographed at the Linnean Society of London, 29 August 2008