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October 31, 2009: I think I'm all caught up now. Did the wind river trip report, although it's short, and another fog page for all of autumns fog outings. Check out these here and here. Also the recent images page is updated, I'm going to work on the links page here in a bit because I noticed some people have my link on their site.
Almost went to squaw creek this morning, but I'm going to save the gas money for when more birds come. I'd imagine the first trip down there will be here within the next two weeks. Too bad the sun is going to rise earlier starting tomorrow because of daylight savings, that means we have to get up earlier to get down there before sunrise. Dang it, I was going to do downtown and try to line up the full moon with the skyline again and now I'm realizing I'd have to skip out on that extra hour of sleep that "falling back" usually brings.
October 24, 2009: "Busy" morning. Due to 3" of rain that fell in the area this past week there was crazy fog potential...of course (you guessed it) it didn't happen. I ended up at Platte river state park again shooting star trails to start off, met up with Chris Allington down there. I really need to get a time interval beeper thing for star trails, I always have random exposure times, 2 to 5 minutes, there were a few that overexposed and when processing in layers you choose "lighten" and it lightens the whole sky. Thats why the image below is mostly blue, though it could be worse... an orange light pollution color.
While doing the star trails we got a chance to observe some more Orionid activity. In about 80 minutes we observed 19 meteors, and 17 were Orionids. Chris even captured one at 120sec, iso 800 lol. Kind of excited for the leonids now, I just hope it's clear, and warm.
Once it got closer to sunrise we headed up to the observation tower, looked like there was a thin fog in the valleys to the south, but never got thick. The 'ponds' were steaming like crazy across the river (of course my shots of that are all soft) later we tried to drive right up to them, but there are a few closed roads that prevented that. Once it gets closer to sunrise we see the fall colors back to the west, it looked pretty cool.
Then when the sun rose, due to the inversion it was distorted and just like the steam shots, these were too soft as well. Later we went hunting for steamnadoes with no luck.
October 19, 2009: The Orionids peak on Wednesday night, but skies will be cloudy here for the next week, so I decided to head out and do a little observing session. Not sure why but I brought my camera, even though I knew activity would be very minimal. The predicted peak is something like 10 ZHR, so nothing crazy. Watched the eastern sky for 45 minutes and saw 5 meteors. Only 3 were Orionids, but one was a very nice long streaking one that left a brief trail. I guess that's all I'm going to see of the Orionids this year! oh well I got three lol. Only one month until the leonid storm! or half storm, whatever. Now I'd drive 500 miles to get under clear skies to see that one.
Also, I've now been operating this site for a year! here's to many more. Started on October 18, 2008.
October 13, 2009: Got a page up for the August 30th fog outing, still going to put up at least two more pages, but hey this is a start. Check out the fogbows here.
October 11, 2009: Added an account of the record snow event here. Put 4 new images up there. Next will be adding the fog which should be up this week, then maybe a little page for the wind river backpacking trip. Also the Recent Images page has the link to the snow page.
October 10, 2009: This is the biggest snow in Omahas history to happen this early in October. It's only snowed earlier 3 times since 1949, area's northwest of the metro picked up over 7". I measured around 4" at my house early this morning. I went out in hopes of some fall colored trees with a blanket of snow on them, didn't really work out too well. There aren't a lot of trees that turn color in Omaha anyway, plus it's a little early for the peak in colors. I still went out for some "cool" ops at Platte River state park.
 
Yeah, I've been working on a few fog images. I'll try to get them all done here very soon. I just went through them all again and didn't realize that I had so many of them.
October 2, 2009: I've been working on some web design stuff, partly photo gallery coding and stuff, probably going to eventually stop using pbase.com for the gallery and have all my images in a photo gallery/prints section and will have prints sold through paypal, so you don't have to mail a check or any of that crap. It will probably be a while though, because I'm having trouble figuring out how to get user input sent to my email, which would be the only way I could develop this type of system. Anway, here is a sample portfolio of mine, probably will add this to the recent images page at some point.
I'm going to work on the fog images tomorrow. Hopefully have them up too. I've realized after this month after I got back from the mountains, that I'm not really a mountain photographer, or at least not with a group or something, I don't why, but I really don't like most of the images from that trip. Probably because I'm so used to shooting in good light in Omaha (often I won't even shoot unless it's great lighting). Could be that I took too many images in normal light and I fell overwhelmed with them all, and that I am SOO much more selective in images that I call "worthy" of posting on here. Not sure how I'll do that account now, might just do a little mini gallery of 5 to 10 images or so. Most of the "Mountain photographers" I know would come out with just a few good images anyway.
Sunday morning could be the best fog outing yet, perfect for the moon and REALLY cold, mid 30's. Hopefully that will yield those shots I've been looking for. After that, looks like a little two week break in the action, then October 18th is the Orionid meteor shower, and fall colors will peak right around that time as well. So that's what I'm up to, my work is cutting my hours, which sucks, but I'll use that time to the the site caught up and develop some new stuff.
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