Typical Post Card Shot

Diamond Head, Waikiki and Surrounding Area - Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

A Year Ago...

...we'd just returned from our cruise. Here are a few photos I took on the flight the Seattle to Salt Lake City leg of the flights home. The window view flying into and out of Seattle is just amazing.


Great Salt Lake - Utah




Crop Circles From the Air




River





Mount St. Helens - Washington State



Contrails and Mount Hood - Washington State

I'm Thinking

that people aren't so close right now...in retrospect, we were probably too close...I think these are all scans from Jan 2005. When we went up in 2006, we actually looked down the hole spewing lava in the photo #4...

At the Edge of Creation - Volcan Pacaya, Guatamala City




Lava Tube Breathing Fire - Volcan Pacaya. Guatamala City




Sulfur & Steam - Volcan Pacaya, Guatamala City




Modern Day Dragon Spitting Fire - Volcan Pacaya, Guatamala City

Via the "Way Back" Machine

From June of 2006, the early days of my digital camera, what sunrise used to look like...

Volcan Pacaya - Guatamala City

Lake Atitlan -2004

I took this photo in December of 2004, when we went and stayed a few nights there for a New Year's break. This is a scanned slide. It is a version of one of over 20 photos I took in Guatemala which Guatemalan quilt artistPriscilla Bianchi used for illustration in her recent book, Caliente Quilts

Lake Atitlan - Guatemala

An Early One...

Volcán de Fuego Erupts at Sunrise - Antigua Guatemala
(Image 0032 taken 14 April 2006)

Blast From the Recent Past - Volcan Pacaya

Fired up my printers and scanners today, the first time since the big move. The Epson C80 printer isn't real happy, I must have cleaned the nozzles a dozen times, but it should be good enough to print letters, homework and such. The Canon i960 photo printer, which we use primarily for photos, seemed to work fine on the first try. Then I fired up the scanner, the Konica-Minolta DiMage Elite-5400. It made horrible grinding noises and wouldn't load the slide or the negative carrier. This has been a problem before, but it is now way out of warranty and Konica-Minolta is out of the camera and scanner business. I took it apart and could see nothing obvious wrong. Then I did a heap of research on the internet to see if I could find any reference to someone fixing this problem themselves. It was no trouble finding reference to the problem, but besides those who sent it back under warranty, solutions were so rare as to be non-existent. As I was giving up hope, I found an old forum posting and discussion, and tagged on at the end, relatively recently (Sept 06) the original poster with the problem came back to say that pressing control,shift and "i" as the scanning software loaded solves the problem. I was skeptical, since the grinding gears etc all seem to be clearly hardware problems...but try it I did...and shazaam! it cleared up the problem. Above is one of the slides I had loaded in the scanner. It is also my first scan using Photoshop CS2 vice the merely the scanner software and a little bit of Elements 2.0

Fuego Steams - Guatemala mid-Dec. 2004 

Fuego Blows Steam and Ash - Guatemala Jan 2005 

Pacaya's newest cone spits lava with Fuego, Acatenango and Agua in the background 

Looking back at the trail on the way to the top of Pacaya 8 Jan 05