December 28th 2008 Moon

Just some shots of the crescent moon and Venus. Overexposed this one to see the entire moon.

A little more "true" representation of the moon.

As close as I can get with the Nikon.

And one more for good measure! :)

Tracking Santa

Christmas Eve after Children's Service at church, getting ready to eat some dinner and logged on to NORAD's Santa Tracker. The kids loved it and wanted to watch until he got to our house !



Merry Christmas!

Wisdom

My son and I were on a day trip to a local camp and on a nature hike I saw this huge old tree. Took one shot and had to keep moving.

Weekend; 11/14/08

Devistating storms hit just about 8 miles away this Friday night. Saturday the forecast had more storms coming through but nothing too bad. It did make for some nice photos of the unsettled sky.

A little Battleship, Star Wars style and my son asked for some help. We called in satellite technology to spy on the emperial fleet. He didn't miss a shot after his satelite imagery showed up!

I threw an old odometer from my wife's mountain bike on his bike and he thought that was really neat. He maxed out at 13 mph.
A quick trip to the park made for some fun pictures and this wasn't the best picture but I loved the shot of the lightsaber flying to me.

October Tuna

The elusive tuna was finally caught. After wahoo, dolphin and sailfish, we finally got to hook up with the elusive tuna.
I thought this was a neat shot of the line glistening in the sun.



My wife fought the first catch of the day.


My son learned to prepare the baits:

And the end result was a great day of seeing lots of ocean life and 2 nice size tuna.

Drip, drip, drip...

There's a tropical storm/hurricane coming up the coast. Today at about 2 pm the first light showers began. This afternoon I decided to take some pictures just for fun and while I was out on the front porch a fairly steady rain began to fall.
I thought I'd try to capture some pictures of drops falling from the front crepe myrtle.

This wasn't the clearest shot of this drop but it was fun because there a rain drop that hit something and dispersed in the background.

After a while my trusty pal showed up on the porch and pretty much did the same as me and just hung out watching the rain...
drip, drip, drip.

Tattoine???

One evening last weekend I looked at the sunset to see what reminded me of a scene from Star Wars. It looked like there were two suns setting! I ran inside and grabbed the camera to snap a couple of photos of what I guess was an ice cloud or the like reflecting/refracting sunlight.