Moon & Venus, Cator Mortis, Lizard, and A Dilemma

September 10, 2021 Timothy Price71 Comments

The moon, Venus and binary star Spica were aligned tonight. I got the Moon and Venus from the office parking lot. I never saw Spica. I believe Mercury was in the alignment, also, but it was below the horizon by the time I could see Venus.

Loki had a bad case of Cator Mortis this morning.

Spunk was worn out from keeping us safe from monsters and evil spirits during the night.

Silver was chilling. In the chilly morning temps.

Lizard at Laurie’s parent’s house.

The dilemma was that one of the motors on one our HVAC units at the office stopped working. I needed to send a photo of one fan running and the other fan not running to the maintenance person. The photo on the left was taken in regular iPhone mode, which had a shutter speed fast enough to stop the fan that was running. I used an app called Slow Shutter to take the photo on the right, which shows one fan running and the other not running. I had installed Slow Shutter in hopes of photographing lightning on my iPhone. No lightning so far, but it came in handy to solve the dilemma of showing one fan running and the other one not running.

First Full Moon of 2021

January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 Timothy Price51 Comments

The clouds were still hanging low behind the Sandias when the first full moon of 2021 rose cost to 6:00 pm tonight. Between the brightness of the full moon and the clouds, my lenses had trouble finding a sharp edge to get a sharp focus. I miss the old days when I could dial a lens to infinity and the moon would be in focus. I didn’t have to deal with finding edges in bright objects to focus on.

Mama Owl sunny side up

Uncropped photo taken from the irrigation ditch bank right under the owls just before sunset.

Cropped photo of Owls taken after sunset from the levee near the Tangle Heart tree.

Moonrise and Painted Sky

November 10, 2019 Timothy Price31 Comments

0A6A6279

0A6A6265

0A6A6271

0A6A6259

0A6A6251

Give Us Sunshine

March 23, 2016March 22, 2016 Timothy Price15 Comments

In these times of trouble… http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/3/give-us-sunshine

Views From Days Gone By

February 18, 2016February 17, 2016 Timothy Price9 Comments

P1110385 — View from our deck taken at dawn on Wednesday morning February 15, 2012. The telephone pole with the light and it and the houses behind it are long gone — we took the houses down in the summer of 2012 and I took the light pole down in 2013 after we completed an electrical upgrade.

More views of days gone by can be seen at http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/2/views-from-days-gone-by

Blood Moon Rising

September 28, 2015 Timothy Price18 Comments

Another bloody moonrise: http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/9/blood-moon-rising

Bloody Moon Shot

April 16, 2014 Timothy Price26 Comments

I woke up at 1:50 am, stumbled out of bed and checked the moon, which was bloody red. I grabbed my camera, ran outside into the sub-freezing, 20º F temperature, and took a few shots at the moon. The reflections off the filter on my lens, together with my state of being at 1:55 am produced some pretty funky photos of the full lunar eclipse in the wee hours of the morning. Earlier in the evening I had gone out and photographed the moonrise and got a decently clear closeup of the full moon.

Hot Wheels

January 17, 2014 Timothy Price6 Comments

The weather was sunny, with no wind and a high in the 50’s, so I took my cameras out for a walk around downtown. As I was crossing Central Ave. (Old Route 66) at sixth street, the guy in the blue car with big wheels started honking his horn. When I looked in his direction, he was making a gesture for me to take a photo, so I grabbed a quick shot as the light turned green, just before he drove off up Central. He looked pretty happy that I got the shot. The second photo is a little “abstract reflectionism” on Gold Ave. And then I got a “drive-by” photo of the moonrise over the Sandias as I was turning onto Coors Rd. on my way home.

Moon on the Rise

January 26, 2013 Timothy Price16 Comments

I went out to get the moonrise this afternoon. The clouds covered the moon when it first came over the mountain, but then as it rose behind the clouds it afforded nice photo ops. The geese and cranes are still hanging around, and the crows were thick at times, which reminded me of the movie “The Birds.”