Monday, July 14, 2008

Thunder storm!



This is what most of the storm looked like to us. I had the camera out for about 30 minutes or so. There are a couple of Sequential shots of the actual bolt... growing... traveling... I don't know what else to call it. You'll see!

oh yeah, we're taking pictures through our rain streaked front window so the pix are not crystal clear.



1st Frame - This is what the camera caught I think before it tried to adjust to the blinding light. Pretty cool, just the bolt as it first came out...



2nd Frame - This is after the camera adjusted a little, still darker than it appeared to the naked eye.



3rd Frame - This is just about what Cheris and I saw while we were watching... I'm pretty sure that bolt hit the road in front of our house... about 50 feet away. It seems to be on this side of their trees. Don't miss the little bit that shoots out to the right and then heads straight for the ground... i'm pretty sure it tagged out mail box. Because the plastic bucket that had all the rocks in it to steady the mailbox was all busted out on one side the next day.



1st Frame - This one is cool. The path it travels makes no sense, but sometimes it seems to backtrack.



2nd Frame - You can tell the majority of the energy went up off that first little cluster then to the right.



3rd Frame - Now the bottom spot isn't as bright as the upper part, like the energy ball moved.



4th Frame - Now the bottom spot is completely gone!



5th Frame - A second branch comes off..



6th Frame - That one splits a couple of times...



7th Frame - Then that branch disappears, just before the whole thing disappeared.



This is what all those frames look like combines... This is what Cheris and I saw with the naked eye... but I remember it being MUCH brighter!

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Death of a comedian...

...and I'm not sad about it!

Whore-hey Carleeeeeeeen (i'm not sure why but the name George always makes me think in Spanish).

George Carlin died recently. You may remember him from... well, maybe Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure circa (scratch that, I hate that word) that came out about 1990. Funny movie, but he was severely censored from his usual potty-mouth. The reason why I'm not too sad about his death is because he wasn't a very good guy. When they played the little tribute thing about him on CNN (flipping through channels) he didn't say one good thing about the U.S. Now, I understand the hippie and neo-hippie movements - sorry, "liberal" and "progressive" (*while wagging finger* says, "No name calling" with a heavy dose of sarcasm) but to make a living off of publicly bashing on the U.S. is not cool in my books. Again, I know it's the cool thing right now, but GROW UP!

That's it, another one bites the dust, and I'm not sad.

The End.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Hammock

A recent photo I did for myself... just wanted a new background so I took the best of these two pictures





And created this one... yeah, I added a few thing. How does the beard look?