I posted videos from our gig at The District Coffeehouse this past weekend.
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXTHwSz3YB4&list=PL00TGbpVJwQXxUEnbhuqu2IBOT0-Y6mlG
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Black Hole Sun
It was an amazing experience to view the Great American Solar Eclipse, and I will not forget it any time soon. In fact, I enjoyed it so much, I may try to travel to the midwest for the 2024 eclipse.
I'm still not super great at photographing the sun, but here are some of the best shots I got during the eclipse, from Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Enjoy!
This is a composite video of still images.
I took roughly an image every two minutes, with more taken during totality. There are a couple of small jumps where I missed a couple of minutes. Also, there are a couple of brightness changes where I changed the exposure on the camera - totality in particular is much dimmer than the exposed sun, and so the brightness changes significantly for that. Actually, the whole video is more exposed than I would have liked - I'm still getting used to photographing the sun.
A lot of my images were more exposed than I would have liked. However, one advantage of overexposing during totality is that I was able to capture a little hint of detail in the darkness of the moon. The face of the moon is lit by light reflected off the Earth, and you can barely make out some detail in this image. I have included a picture of the moon, rotated to the same orientation as the moon in my image, so you can compare and see if you can detect any of the details.
During totality, the sun is dimmed to the point that stars can be seen. The star to the left of the eclipse here is Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo.
Just after totality, as the sun begins to peek back out from behind the moon. If my exposure had been lower, I might have been able to capture "Bailey's Beads," but I was too enthralled by seeing it live.
There was a cluster of distinct sun spots near the center of the sun on the day of the eclipse. Here you can see a close up view of them, with the moon having just moved away enough to expose them again.
Here is another view of the sunspots, at a lower magnification, after the eclipse had ended.
I'm still not super great at photographing the sun, but here are some of the best shots I got during the eclipse, from Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Enjoy!
This is a composite video of still images.
I took roughly an image every two minutes, with more taken during totality. There are a couple of small jumps where I missed a couple of minutes. Also, there are a couple of brightness changes where I changed the exposure on the camera - totality in particular is much dimmer than the exposed sun, and so the brightness changes significantly for that. Actually, the whole video is more exposed than I would have liked - I'm still getting used to photographing the sun.
A lot of my images were more exposed than I would have liked. However, one advantage of overexposing during totality is that I was able to capture a little hint of detail in the darkness of the moon. The face of the moon is lit by light reflected off the Earth, and you can barely make out some detail in this image. I have included a picture of the moon, rotated to the same orientation as the moon in my image, so you can compare and see if you can detect any of the details.
During totality, the sun is dimmed to the point that stars can be seen. The star to the left of the eclipse here is Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo.
Just after totality, as the sun begins to peek back out from behind the moon. If my exposure had been lower, I might have been able to capture "Bailey's Beads," but I was too enthralled by seeing it live.
There was a cluster of distinct sun spots near the center of the sun on the day of the eclipse. Here you can see a close up view of them, with the moon having just moved away enough to expose them again.
Here is another view of the sunspots, at a lower magnification, after the eclipse had ended.
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Slow Boat to China
Ashlee has been studying Mandarin in high school the past two years, and this summer she had the opportunity to go on a two week "summer camp" with the University of Idaho's Confucius Institute.
She's been home for about a week now, but it took me a little while to put together a post.
So, here are some pictures from her adventure:
First meal in China:
Traditional tea:
At the Great Wall:
Street vendor food:
Fried scorpions!?!
People in China are not used to seeing non-Asian people. Ashlee says that people were always taking pictures of them, asking to take selfies with them, or trying to discreetly take selfies with them. This woman out of the blue gave one of the girls her baby so that she could take a picture of the girl holding him:
At the Shaolin Monastery:
Kung Fu demonstration:
A night cruise on the Pearl River:
At the Southern China University of Technology, the group's host in China:
It looks like a really amazing trip. Ashlee was exhausted when she got home, but she had a lot of fun.
She's been home for about a week now, but it took me a little while to put together a post.
So, here are some pictures from her adventure:
People in China are not used to seeing non-Asian people. Ashlee says that people were always taking pictures of them, asking to take selfies with them, or trying to discreetly take selfies with them. This woman out of the blue gave one of the girls her baby so that she could take a picture of the girl holding him:
At the Shaolin Monastery:
A night cruise on the Pearl River:
At the Southern China University of Technology, the group's host in China:
It looks like a really amazing trip. Ashlee was exhausted when she got home, but she had a lot of fun.
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Show Me Show Me Show Me
We were asked to play at Awakenings Coffee House again, to open for Nick and Luke (Nick and Luke's Facebook page). We had to pull things together pretty quickly, so we included a lot of material we had done before, but we did get some new songs in there.
The band keeps morphing and changing faces every time we play - this time we have added Peter Kerrick on Bass, but we're down to just a trio for this outing. Lots of fun, and Nick and Luke were really good!
With or Without You - U2
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Just What I Needed - The Cars
Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
Where is My Mind? - The Pixies
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding? - Elvis Costello
Freefalling - Tom Petty
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
The band keeps morphing and changing faces every time we play - this time we have added Peter Kerrick on Bass, but we're down to just a trio for this outing. Lots of fun, and Nick and Luke were really good!
With or Without You - U2
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Just What I Needed - The Cars
Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
Where is My Mind? - The Pixies
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding? - Elvis Costello
Freefalling - Tom Petty
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
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