Betty sets buds well after the first light freeze of winter. Two dozen, to be exact. But an early super freeze (in the teens Fahrenheit) caught her unaware. They’re pretty in an un-pretty sort of way. Not to worry though. This happens every year. She’ll be back in the spring. PP
Happens every year in Sturgis, SD after the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. This year, more Mustangs than you could possibly hope to see in a day. Trying to photograph a reasonable selection of gorgeous cars from among the throng was frustratingly impossible. There’s a small gallery of images from the event posted at https://photophart.com or […]
The Betty Boop rose is off to a good start in 2024. My unabashedly favorite flower subject is also the easiest one to get to. It’s in my backyard. The Betty Boop adds blossoms almost continuously all summer and well into fall. It will even add blossoms after the first and second snow storms of […]
Took me forever to get a new image album online at photophart.com Hardware problems and the nuts and bolts of daily living sucked up all the free time I was allotted. Anyhow, go to: https://photophart.com/gallery/sturgis-mustang-rally-2022/ Meager album of photos from the Sturgis Mustang Rally 2022. I started out having a lot more photos to display […]
Behold The Betty Boop Rose Prolific. Beautiful. Resilient. Tough to the point of belligerent defiance. Like most roses, she carries weapons and knows how to use them. She resides in a corner of my back yard. She bears a remarkable resemblance to the Wild Meadow Rose that grows in and around the northern Black […]
Somewhere I read that information is being amassed and recorded at a rate so prodigious that no single human could read even a single day’s record in his/her entire lifetime. This assertion seems reasonable to me. So what of the historian of the future? Humans, if they still exist, many hundreds of years from now […]
Having just added a post about the scarcity of rattlesnakes and encounters with them, I find I must amend that post. Yesterday, on a trek up the side of a hill I’ve been up hundreds of times, I happened upon two Prairie Rattlesnakes within 40 feet of one another. This particular hillside and I have […]
The natural world is still teaming with amazing life forms, though somewhat less so than it was, say, forty years ago. I’m thinking of such amazing adaptations as a simple leaf at the end of a tree branch splayed out in the sunlight, capturing the tiny blazingly fast photons hurled earthward from the violent sun, […]
After a seemingly endless winter with record snow falls a weekly occurrence, we slogged through a June of near record rain accumulation. The wildflowers of the northern Black Hills responded with an equal ferocity. First to appear in early June was a perfusion of purple blooms. Penstemon, a trumpet shaped beauty, covered the lower hillsides. […]
So you wanna see luminosity masking in operation, huh? Here’s a link to a roll-over image of mine demonstrating before and after masking, roll your mouse on to and off the image: “Waterfall Luminosity Masking Demo “ The second image has been cropped slightly so it jumps a bit on the rollover. This is an […]
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