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Some (manual focus) bird photos @ 400mm, f/5.6, 1/640s: Grackles: Like @collinsmark, I tried to show the iridescent feathers...

... Continued from previous post. Nebraska bird pics, part 3. Figure 18. Blue jay on a birdbath (Cyanocitta cristata). Figure 19...

Yesterday I walked to Powsin Botanical Garden, to seing blossom rhododendron's collection. It's one from largest collection of...

A snag with Exbury Gardens is that it is popular in good weather so there are many people there, but I don't like to include random...

Isn't that simply because it's oil for using on teak, not oil from teak?

Apple tree shot out a side window of my house four days ago. This tree has given 90 to 100 lbs of apples every year for several years...

Back at Exbury Gardens, UK, today. Fewer rhododendrons this time, as most have now finished flowering, but still a beautiful place...

I don't know what was intended, but in 1974 I was trying out things in IBM mainframe assembly language and didn't like having to wait...

In my first job with IBM, as a vacation student in 1973, I had some free time and I worked out how to use overpunching on the IBM 029...

Racing green. He was actually driving off slowly as I took this, it sounded nowhere near as pretty as it looked! Would have been...

Early electronic calculators and microcomputers: Apple I computers in "original condition" are apparently scarce enough that...

More rhododendrons today, this time at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, near Romsey, Hampshire, UK. (All taken with my Panasonic Lumix TZ200...

Some analysis of the Artemis pictures The second part (starting 6:10) takes multiple versions of the Earth eclipse images to make an...

My Panasonic Lumix TZ200 ("travel zoom" camera, compact with up to 15x optical zoom) is very convenient to carry around and has a...

We visited Exbury Gardens (in Hampshire, UK) a couple of days ago. It's an amazing sight all year round, but in rhododendron and azalea...