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Yearly Archives: 2014
Thanksgiving in Prague
A couple of great days in Prague, whose old city, castle and restaurants proved to be a delight. We stayed at the Unitas hotel, which was excellent and surprisingly inexpensive. I went light photographically with the Sony RX100 II and … Continue reading
Onion Creek hike, Moab
If you’ve hiked the popular (and excellent) Fisher Towers trail, off Highway 128 near Moab, you may have wondered where the canyons that descend steeply to the right of the trail go. The answer is that they’re tributaries of Onion … Continue reading
Winter
Scottish Highlands
The Scottish Highlands, winter … Continue reading
Lake District
A flying visit – literally – to the Lake District for a weekend exploring the backroads near Keswick and west of Ambleside. This was my first visit to England’s most celebrated national park in something like 30 years, and it … Continue reading
Striking out with the Orionids
The Orionid meteor shower last night was predicted to yield 20 or more meteors per hour. That was probably right – I must have seen about that many from the not-so-dark shore of the Boulder reservoir – but they were … Continue reading
Night in the Tetons
Cunningham Cabin, Grand Teton National Park The Cunningham Cabin north of Jackson, dating (originally) from 1885. It’s easy to imagine what a remote location this must have been back then! According to Wikipedia “the cabin was the scene of a … Continue reading
Walking with a dinosaur
For those with long memories, the introduction of the Canon 400mm f/4 DO in 2000 occasioned a lot of excitement. It was the first camera lens to use diffractive optical elements, and seemed to presage a future in which the … Continue reading
Total lunar eclipse
Total lunar eclipses aren’t nearly as rare as total Solar eclipses (the Earth is a lot larger than the Moon, and casts a much bigger shadow), but they still don’t come around all that often. After considerable planning – and … Continue reading