Barn Owl take 2

Take 2 on the Barn Owl. This image shows the bird spreading its wings before flying off on a wonderful demonstration during Raptor Free Flight at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. This exposure was with my Canon A75 with the lens zoomed to 16mm focal length. The exposure was 1/250 seconds at f/8.

Barn Owl

During a visit to the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum west of Tucson on February 26 of this year, we watched this wonderful bird do its thing during the Raptor Free Flight. This image was taken with my Canon A75 with the lens zoomed to 16mm. The exposure was 1/100 seconds at f/8.

Bird in tree

This image was taken on May 18 while scouting for birds around the McKale Center on the UofA campus in an early test drive of my new camera and 70-300mm zoom lens. The lens was set to 300mm focal length and the exposure was 1/1500 second at f/5.6, ISO 400.

Iridescent cloud

This is an image of an iridescent cloud. Notice the varied colors above and below the saturated Sun. Exposure details not available at the moment (I'm away from home and can't read the exif data in the image with anything I have running under Linux - I figured the Gimp would be able to, but can't find it....)

Garage

 
A view of the parking garage. I'll let you guess which car is mine. This image was taken with my 24mm lens on my 20D, the exposure was 1/80 seconds at f/1.8, ISO 1600. 

Driving

 

I set the camera on the dash and took an exposure while driving down the freeway. Signs, cars, streetlights all blur out. This image was taken with my 20D using my 24mm lens. The exposure was 15 seconds at f/11, ISO 100. 

Butterfly

 

I found a wealth of butterflies near the fountain west of Old Main on the UofA campus. This image was taken with my 70-300mm zoom on my 20D at a focal length of 190mm in macro mode. This exposure was 1/200 seconds at f/8, ISO 400. 

Pusch Peak

 

This image was taken on October 23 just before sunset from the Linda Vista Trail west of Pusch Peak. This is the backside of Pusch Peak which from Tucson is a very distictive pyramid shaped mountain on the extreme west end of the Catalina Mountains north of town. This image was taken with my 24mm lens attached to my 20D. The exposure was 1/250 seconds at f/11, ISO 800. 

Girl with Doves

 

This sculpture is located near the Main Library on the University of Arizona Campus. This image was converted to black and white after some stretching of the dark image in Picasa. This image was taken with a 24mm lens attached to my 20D, the exposure was 10 seconds at f/11, ISO 100. 

U.S.S. Arizona ships bell

 

One of the bells from the U.S.S. Arizona, sunk on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, hangs in the tower at the University of Arizona's Student Union Memorial building. This image was taken with the 18-55mm kit lens on my Canon 20D at 55mm focal length. The exposure was 4 seconds at f/16, ISO 100. The image was taken on May 21st of this year. 

Campus Sunset

 

Sunset Thursday afternoon on the UofA Campus. This was taken with my 24mm lens on my 20D, exposure was 1/2500 sec at f/1.8, ISO 400.
 

McKale Shadows

 

Palm tree shadows on the side of McKale Center at the University of Arizona on September 14. Image converted to B&W in Picasa. This image was taken with my 18-55mm kit lens set to 37mm. The exposure was 1/200 sec at f/16, ISO 400. 

Tubas

 

The Pride of Arizona Marching Band of the University of Arizona has 250 of the most dedicated student performers in the country. On game day (last Saturday morning), they had a last rehersal and run through. I'm proud to be the parent of one of the Pride, currently led by Professor Jay Rees. This image was taken with my 70-300mm zoom lens on my 20D set to 133mm focal length. The exposure was 1/2500 sec at f/5.6, ISO 400. 

Wilbur

 

This is an image of the University of Arizona's mascot, Wilbur the Wildcat from Saturdays football game. This image was taken with my 70-300mm Sigma zoom st to 190mm focal length. The exposure was
1/2000 sec at f/5, ISO 1600. 

See the endzone

 

I went to the University of Arizona - Stanford Football game on Saturday afternoon and of course, took my camera. Wildcat Syndric Steptoe (#1) has just caught a short pass and evaded the diving Cardinal player on the left and it making a turn to try and get into the endzone on this play. This exposure was made with a Sigma 70-300mm zoom on my 20D with the focal length set to 108mm. The exposure was 1/2500 sec at f/4, ISO 1600. 

Sundog

 

One good thing about clouds in the sky are the various types of phenomena you can see in the sky, from rainbows to arcs and haloes. In this case, a sundog (also called a Parhelia) appears, captured left of the Sun in this image taken on October 14 with a 24mm lens on my 20D. The exposure was 1/1600 sec at f/8, ISO 100. 

Stretch

 

The first baseman (first basewoman?) on our coed team called "Bashers" stretches to catch an offline throw from our shortstop. This image was taken on October 11 with the 24mm lens on my 20D. The exposure was 1/100 sec at f/2.8, ISO 1600. 

Monument Valley Pan

 

This is a panorama assembled from images taken with my old Fuji Finepix 2650 at Monument Valley on July 28, 2004. 

Domes and Satellites

 

Domes and Satellites. This image was taken in the early evening of October 5 and shows from left to right, the domes of the Spacewatch 36 inch, the Steward Observatory 90 inch and Kitt Peak 4 meter telescopes. You can see a satellite just above the 4 meter dome and you can also see Mike, our observer at the 36 inch in the "pulpit" at the top of the dome checking out the weather. This images was taken with a 24mm lens on my 20D. The exposure was 30 sec at f/1.8, ISO 1600. 

Moonlit dome

Moonlit dome. This is the Spacewatch 1.8-m dome in moonlight with some moonlit clouds and stars in the background. This image was taken on the evening of October 7 with my 20D and 24mm lens. The exposure was 20 seconds at f/1.8, ISO 1600. 

Sunrise

Sunrise. The view shortly after sunrise from Kitt Peak. The McMath Solar Telescope, on the right, starts its day of observing the sun. This image was taken on the morning of October 8. The image was taken with a 24mm lens on my 20D, exposure was 1/1000 sec at f/11, ISO 200. 

Antares gone Supernova?

Antares gone Supernova? Not this time - Antares was washed out in the glare just about half a degree north of the center of the Moon as the crescent Moon passed just south of the brightest star in Scorpius whose stinger rises just below the faint glow of the Milky Way on the left side of ths image. The Moon is washed out in this image which was taken with a 24mm lens on my 20D. The bright "star" on the right side is Venus in the fading twilight and the greenish glow just left of center is a reflection of or lens flare from the overexposed Moon. There were plenty of pesky moonlit clouds all over the sky at the time of this image, taken on the evening of October 7. The exposure was 30 seconds at f/1.8, ISO 400. 

Moonlit Milky Way

Moonlit Milky Way. Ths image was from the evening of October 7. The crescent Moon was setting in the west, lighting up the domes and clouds while the Milky Way in Sagittarius shines through in spite of the moonlight. This image was taken with my 24mm lens on my 20D. The exposure was 20 sec at f/1.8, ISO 1600. 

ISS over Kitt Peak

ISS over Kitt Peak. This image is of the International Space Station (ISS) as it passed over Kitt Peak the morning of October 5. This image is with my 20D using a 24mm lens. The exposure was 30 sec at f/1.8, ISO 1600. I'd left the camera outside taking some pictures and in high humidity, you can see a bit of fogging on the bottom of the image - oops. 

View from Baldy Saddle

After a long strenuous hike with heavy backpacks up the Old Baldy trail up the northwestern face of Mount Wrightson in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson, we turned the last of the 32 switchbacks that this trail makes up a narrow canyon just below Baldy Saddle north of Mt. Wrightson and finally found the old familiar saddle. This is the view east not too far from where we camped that night. In the distance, not easily seen in this image, but easily seen in the binoculars my friend Frank is holding, was a small fire in the distant mountains. Little did we know at the time, though we both recognized the large amount of fuel and dead trees along the trail and the fire danger, but just two and a half months later the Florida Fire burned through the Santa Ritas north of and around Mt. Wrightson, almost certainly burning much of the area we hiked through and camped in - almost certainly this area was burned (check out some of my early photos in this blog, particularly the images from August 15 and 16. In the night-time double stroke lightning shot from August 15, Mt. Wrightson's summit is just left of the left bolt and Baldy Saddle is the saddle just left of Wrightson, the first dip in the long ridgeline north (left in this image) which is covered by orange specks of fire hotspots. This image was taken on April 21 of this year with my Canon A75, the lens was set to 5mm and the exposure was 1/640 sec at f/4.6.

36 inch, Spacewatch

I took this picture of the Spacewatch 36 inch telescope on March 12 this year with my Canon A75. I set the lens to 5mm focal length and attached the wide angle converter. The expsoure was 15 seconds at f/2.8. This picture shows the oldest telescope on Kitt Peak. It's not the 36 inch (the white tubed telescope) which is the 2nd old telescope on Kitt Peak - the oldest is the brass colored Alvin Clark and sons refractor on top of the 36 inch. The 36 inch telescope is used to survey for asteroids and was the first telescope used to survey regularly for asteroids using an electronic detector starting in 1984 - pioneering the way all the major surveys find asteroids today. Check out the Spacewatch website to learn more about the old girl adn the rest of the project.

B&W Lamp

Sticking with the silhouette theme for one last day, I found this old style lamp on the UofA campus on June 1st this year. This image was taken with my 20D using the 18-55mm kit lens at 18mm focal length. The exposure was 1/200 sec at f/16, ISO 100. I placed the Sun directly behind the lamp housing in order to make it appear to glow while blocking the glare of the sun.

Arcs and halos

I saw these arcs and halos around the Sun on March 2. The halo is pretty common given the right type of clouds, but the Upper Tangential Arc is a little more rare (the arc heading right off the top of the halo). This image was taken with my Canon A75 with wide angle adaptor, the lens was set to 5mm and the adaptor would have made that about 3.3mm. THe exposure was 1/1600 sec at f/5.

Wind mill

While on the subject of silhouettes and shadows, here is an image of a wind mill near Karchner Caverns taken on February 13 this year. The exposure was with my A75 at 5mm focal length, exposure was 1/800 sec at f/2.8.

Photographers shadow

While taking pictures of the setting sun on May 9, I turned around and noticed my shadow on the wall of the building, so I took a picture of it. This image is with my A75. The focal length was 16mm and the exposure was 1/400 sec at f/5.6.