December 1, 2008 by brian.

Around dusk on Sunday, I happened to look up to see two bright lights in the sky.  They weren’t moving and it was too early for other stars so I guess they were planets.  Venus is usually one of them but I heard nothing about any other planet in the evening sky.

When I went out tonight, I saw not only the two planets, but a crescent moon as well.  This was too tempting an opportunity to pass up so I went inside to get my camera and tripod.  Some of the photographs were okay.  I put them on a web page here:

You can read more about this event here.

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June 8, 2008 by brian.

On Wednesday May 28, 2008 I went to an early morning photography session at the Denver Zoo. The zoo had offered this type of session previously but I was unable to attend any of the weekend ones since I work until 7 AM. I think there were some offered during the week, but I had previous engagements and couldn’t attend those. This time, things worked out so that I was able to go.

I walked through the front gates at the zoo just at 7 AM and gathered with the group around Predator Ridge. The session was limited to 25 photographers and I think that’s how many were there. Dave Parsons, staff photographer at the zoo, met us there and gave a brief overview of the event. We were free to roam the grounds, and if we were interested, around 8:15 some animals would be brought out in the Wildlife Theater for photographic opportunities.

With the zoo opening at 9 AM, this meant that the usual crowds would be absent. This allowed us to use our tripods without getting in the way of any other visitors.

I think I managed to capture a few keepers. Click here to view the web photo gallery.

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April 8, 2007 by brian.

My photographs are now available for purchase from Shutterfly.com. I started with only a couple of galleries, but more will soon be posted. For now, this is where I will post links to them. Please make sure you Preview your prints as some of the full frame photographs will leave a bit of a white filler around the edges to fill the paper. You’ll understand what I mean when you see the Preview of the photograph.

The first galleries contain photographs from Kenosha Pass captured with two different cameras. Each camera has a different megapixel rating which determines how large a photograph may be printed.

Here are the links: Kenosha Gallery 1 Kenosha Gallery 2
The password for either gallery is ‘kenosha’, but keep that to yourself.

Let me know if there are any particular photographs you’d like to see on my Shutterfly site.

A gallery for some of my Maine photographs is also available: Maine
The password is ‘maine’.

… as well as one from Hawaii: Hawaii
The password is ‘hawaii’.

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January 15, 2007 by brian.

Here are some wallpapers I made that you can download and use on your desktop. Click on one of the images to get to the full size photograph. In that view, right-click and Save Image As (or whatever you have to do to get it on your PC) and save it in a folder so you know where it is. You might be able to Set Image as Background during the right click, but that won’t save it to your PC where you’ll be able to find it. This first batch are all 1024 X 768 in size.

This next bunch are the same photographs except they will work for those of you that have wide screens. The resolution for this group is 1280 X 800.

Let me know if there are any others you’d like to see available for download.

2007-05-14 - I’ve moved these to my Image Scenes site.  There are also a few new ones there.

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December 30, 2006 by brian.

This may be a little late, but only slightly. On December 15, 2006, Courtney graduated from Colorado State University. We went up to Fort Collins to have dinner before the graduation ceremony. On Saturday, we had a party at the house where about 40 people or so showed up. You may view some of the photographs here. You may also download and view a slideshow here: 2006-csu_graduation_and_party.pdf.

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