All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Photography Tech Tip: Minolta/Sony solution against hot pixels, stuck pixels
Solution against hot pixels, stuck pixels.
I noticed this tonight on a photo shoot while doing very long exposures at night.
Once a month, when switching off, the SLR camera will shoot a black image (not even opening the shutter) and look for stuck pixels to update the “dead pixel map” of the camera. The switching off appears slower when this happens (the red light will blink a little longer), but after this step the problem is automatically corrected.
If you want to correct it by yourself, the only thing that you have to do is to change the date in the camera menu, move it forward at least further than the next 1st day of the next month, switch off the camera (let it do its little game of red light), switch it on again, shoot one picture, go to the menu and change the date back, then switch off the camera.
After this, your Sony camera updated its hot pixel mapping and knows where to expect them. It will automatically remove them from the picture and just interpolate values from the neighboring pixels. Instead of having an ugly white spot, you’ll get a microscopic and all-but-invisible loss of resolution (one-pixel resolution loss out of 6 to 20 million is still acceptable, isn’t it?)
It works with all Sony SLR cameras (and older Minolta or Konica/Minolta cameras). To be kept somewhere in the back of our memory.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
320 Second Exposure
Long Exposures at Nigh taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens. The temp was about 50 DegF and it was a very clear sky. Location is on the New State Fish Hatchery road located on FMR 255, Southern tip of Lake Sam Rayburn.
Exposure: 320
Aperture: f/9.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400
465 Second Exposure
Long Exposures at Nigh taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens. The temp was about 50 DegF and it was a very clear sky. Location is on the New State Fish Hatchery road located on FMR 255, Southern tip of Lake Sam Rayburn.
Exposure: 465
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200
837 Second Exposure
Long Exposures at Nigh taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens. The temp was about 50 DegF and it was a very clear sky. Location is on the New State Fish Hatchery road located on FMR 255, Southern tip of Lake Sam Rayburn.
Exposure: 837
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200
15 Minute 1 Second Exposure
Long Exposures at Nigh taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens. The temp was about 50 DegF and it was a very clear sky. Location is on the New State Fish Hatchery road located on FMR 255, Southern tip of Lake Sam Rayburn.
Exposure: 901
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Golden Morning
Taken in OFallon Illinois. It was about 12 DegF that morning.
If i would have not said where this photo was taken, one could assume that it is anywhere in the world. The snow gives it a desolate look. The sun glowing off the snow looks like it could be in the tundra or some other location like that.
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 40 mm
ISO Speed: 200
DSC07301: Resin 1.3
I happened to look up and i saw all the pine resin on a spot where the limb had been cut. I thought that i looked very interesting and i happened to have my camera with the 70-300mm lens on it. I placed it in Macro mode and that is what i got. It has some great Bokeh and Depth of Field.
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Rose 3.3
Taken with the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro Lens. Late evening photography. More of my Great Grandmothers Roses.
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 280 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Rose 3.1
Taken with the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro Lens. Late evening photography. More of my Great Grandmothers Roses.
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 400
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