Wunderground News

One good photo out of 221 bad. Most of the others were just black sky. This one suprised me! Taken Sunday Morning at 12:30am CST.

Seoul in the late afternoon.

Finch and Cardinal in the snow.

Another in the endless variations of light and clouds in Yosemite Valley during winter. This shot presented itself only after standing in driving rain for 3 hours looking at near white-out cloud overage. Finally late in the afternoon the clouds parted just enough to shoot about 25 exposures and that was it!! 25 decent exposures is all I got out of a total of 4 hours standing at Tunnel View in the freezing rain.

The rains have gone, and now the slow process of melting all that snow has begun. Spring time in Yosemite.

This was the last shot I took underneath this storm before the precipitation came and we had to book it out of there. The quality of the light was simply aweseome, in the true sense of the word. The colors were not altered in this picture at all. This was taken while storm chasing with Silver Lining Tours.

I was covering the fire action at the Day fire in Castaic CA, and had this fire tonado form from the heat and wind from the fire right in front of me!...Fire is now 27,500 acres+ and now has been burning for 10 days. Sept 13,2006 ©Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily news©

Sunset in the Pacific over Nicaragua with a storm brewing.

Our Coyote was guarding a Caribou carcass and as the other Coyote came up behind him he immediately went into this defensive/possesive posture!

Taken just South of Fairbanks during a period of high sunspot activity while it was -30F. When through 4 batteries - caught this picture during the early morning hours. If you like this picture, take a look at the others I have posted here, or, visit my web site. www.northpolegallery.com

Mt Baker Cabin. 20-30min timed exposure, 20'f. Photo taken at Snowline Community in Glacier, WA. 11-06, w/Nikkor 18-55mm lense f 5.6/ ISO 400/Aperture Priority/ See more at http://www.myspace.com/texasteaanthebigd

There are bush fires all around our home in the beautiful Upper Murray we are heading home a few days earlier than we had planned. This though was a magic last day on the coast!

You can see the whole halo effect around the sun. It was -10^F and just a little cold out this morning. Apparently, the conditions were right for parhelia.

volcanic sunset

HOMER SPIT, Alaska - this was one of those moments when I was focused on the bird in the middle when another eagle decided to add itself to the photo!

We had a blast on the Homer Spit this last weekend during the annual

One of my favorite abandoned buildings, and old cotton gin, painted gold by the rising sun.

Mt. Moran reflected in Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton National Park.

Wow--what a beautiful sunrise I captured at Portland Headlight yesterday!

An early fall windstorm hit southern Lake Michigan today. Wind gusts as high as 50 mph with more expected tomorrow. Went up to St. Joe Michigan and shot those lighthouses and will try our lighthouse tomorrow if I get the chance. Enjoy the sunset

Southern Maine had its first big snowstorm of the season yesterday and this morning, so I headed out to my personal obsession: Portland Headlight, to capture another season.

After a long week of storms, large waves and hardly winds, today the waves reached the 7-8 meters of height. On the Lighthouse of Mouro the large waves struck all day. With sun or without him; other times rain or cloudy.I remained 3 or 4 hours carrying out photos. WIND information: www.windguru.com *********** HISTORY/Caption: The island mouro lighthouse... This Lighthouse entered operation February 15, 1860.Its silhouette recalls to a lighthouse of English rock.Until 1921 they inhabited in it 2 lighthouse keepers that on numerous occasions incommunicado several days by the temporary remained.In 1865 one of the torreros lost the life after to be dragged by one of the strong waves that whip it.In 1920 it withdrew the lamp of a wick, substituting it for a destellador of naked flame with burner, besides a viewpoint of drum. It does some years that the Lighthouse was beheaded by Coasts, passing to the category of beacon. The last incident of certain importance happened in February of 1996 when the system of lighting remained destroyed by a temporary one, remaining dull several days by the impossibility of agreeing to him. The Island of Mouro, declared reserves marine, is a habitual place of I dive. The waves that whip it in days of temporary they are used to surpassing the height of the lighthouse. Their light is situated to 38,7 m. above sea level.

This is my oldest hen. She has learned to outsmart my dog who herds my free ranging hens into the coop in the evening. She just rolls over and plays dead. Ruby tries to nudge her to move but she won't budge. I usually have to go pick up the hen now and put her away. Ruby has never hurt out hens.