Found along the “Extraterrestrial Highway” in southern Nevada. Unfortunately they were closed when I visited, so I could not try the E.T. Jerky, but I loved the sign…
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Old train locomotives found in Tillamook, Oregon…
Safely back in the Pacific Northwest, one of the first places I visited was a park by Lake Washington. I walked out along the docks, the sun was rising behind me, and I liked the pattern my shadow and the light made in the water…
You don’t see these very often these days. An old caboose hiding in a rail yard near Bellingham, Washington…
Workers performing maintenance on the Ballard Locks near Seattle…
You never know what you will find when you wander around on back roads… Ladies and gentlemen, the World’s Largest Wheelbarrow. Found in an empty field near Mineral Wells, Texas.
Tau Zero was launched two years ago today.
First and foremost I would like to say THANK YOU to everyone who has visited my site. You have made this a great experience for me. When I launched the site I wasn’t sure I would like it – now I can’t imagine not doing it.
A few facts and figures for the last two years:
I have lived in three states (Washington, Montana, and Texas).
I have had three cameras (Nikon D60, Nikon D7000, and now I use a Nikon D800).
I have taken about 50,000 photographs.
I have driven approximately 50,000 miles on photo roadtrips. (In a straight line that would take me around the earth twice.)
139,561 hits to the website.
Visitors from at least 158 countries.
675 posts.
Where will the road go from here? Let’s find out….
I was on the top level of a parking garage trying to get some pictures of rain clouds that were rolling in. Everything seemed to be fine until I shot a few photos of one of the security cameras. That was when security arrived, told me I was not allowed to take pictures of the security cameras, and I was invited to leave the property immediately. I understand the need for security cameras but this just makes me a bit sad. Guess I need to be more careful when I am shooting in the city.
Captured a bee on final approach to the flower – you might need to click and display the full-size image to see it…
One more shot from my attempts to salvage something from a photo set that didn’t work out as I wanted it to…
Sometimes you can’t get a shot to work out how you intended – at those times I like to mess around with the photo processing software and see if I can get an interesting result. For better or worse, here it is…
Sign posted on the main street of Anatone, Washington. Someone lost their dog… 😦
In this part of the country people love to shoot at signs. Putting one on the road to the shooting range was asking for trouble…
Time to give a shout out to my faithful companion Ripley. Once again she got me out into the wilderness and back safe and sound. This image was constructed from a mosaic of six exposures and it was shot in the desert country north of Green River, Wyoming.
I have been hit with a few health issues so postings will probably slow down for at least a week. I know I made some comments recently about possibly stopping blogging, but that will not happen. Just a slowdown…
Sometimes you get an image that just doesn’t work. I was at Johnson Lake in Wyoming trying to shoot some interesting looking clouds. But shooting a panorama facing into the sun usually doesn’t work too well and I couldn’t get this one to look right. So I decided to do some messing around with my photo processing tools. The basic idea of this image is “What if I was having a pleasant day at the lake and then the sun exploded?”
I tried to come up with a scary photograph for Halloween. This works for me. You might say – “Mike! Deer are not scary!” Deer munching grass in a field? Not scary. Deer in the middle of the road? Scary! Luckily this encounter was in the afternoon and I had plenty of time to stop. If I had been on this winding mountain road in Wyoming at night with a bit of ice and snow on the road things could have gone badly for me and Bambi.
Scary!
Not scary.
