Fall is here!

From yesterday's Church Hike...

I took some wonderful shots of our pastor and her sons/husband, but don't feel comfortable posting them here without her permission.  I actually took shots of people that I'm proud of!

Airshow

Flew to Wendover, UT (on western border w/ Nevada) for an airshow...

The lighting wasn't the best, but these aren't too bad...

P-40 and P-51

It was fun flying over the Bonneville Salt Flats.  Afterwards walked up to the casinos on the NV side of the town.  There is a line across the road designating which state you are in!

Playing around w/ Panorama Stitching

So I decided to try to stitch together some panoramic shots.  I didn't bring the tripod, so had to hold camera real steady as I moved across the horizon.  Here are the results:

16 Sep 12

Wow...I guess the American Avocet's get their winter coloring pretty early!

Link

Oops, meant to put the link to a few more photos...

Yellowstone Sep 12

Yellowstone

It's pretty smoky up there due to the fires...this is taken looking east at the Tetons. I'm at 12.5k and still in the smoke:

Hiked up to top of Mt Washburn in Yellowstone (10,232 ft).  This is looking SE, towards Yellowstone Lake.  My car is parked on the other side of the second hill.

It was cold at night...

I stayed in one of the tipis (no fire)

Bison and thermals

Flying home

26 Aug:  T his week I hosted Nikon Cafe's Collective Shoot...no prizes, just a theme to allow us to get our ideas flowing.  My theme was "what's in your glass"

1 Sep:  I heard this guy pounding away at one of my trees.  Should be a Hairy Woodpecker.

We had some spectacular storms come through today.  This was one of them...