Saturday was nice during the day here, though turned stormy in the evening. I went over to Burr Oak Woods which is only a few exits down the highway from me, and is a rather nice, peaceful area surprisingly not far off the interstate, or the main roads of Blue …

Saturday evening, after a nice day with a walk in the woods, I went and saw the Princess Mononoke IMAX release in northern Kansas City and came out to a light drizzle starting with some incredible lightning going on. Most of the actual lightning seemed to go north and south …

I've been thinking about trying for more astrophotography. In early March I drove out to the somewhat unfortunately named Blind Pony Lake, armed with my telescope, the mount that I had somehow ended up with, and a SVBONY SV305C Planetary Camera, which while not the cheapest camera, was still very …

Catching up on some of my older sets of photos and writing up posts about them.

My work has a thing every quarter where they invite remote workers into the main office for a few days. This is strictly optional if you're outside of some reasonable radius from the office …

Oh, whoops, it's been awhile. Let's finish the Open House post a week and change before my next trip to Chicago (For a Distant Worlds concert this time. It's going to be cold, and I better not break another arm when I get home). Time to pull up the location …

A friend of mine is out of town often, and asked me to feed and play with her cats while she was gone over Christmas. At the end of November, I bought a Sony a7 IV, making the plunge to full frame finally, and a few Tamron lenses that cover …

It's only been a week since my last post about Open House Weekend, and a month since that weekend, might as well write another one of these.

Woke up, grabbed some Dunkin and energy drinks a few hours before anything doing Open House, er, opened. Went by the bean and …

Earlier this year I found out about the Open House weekend done by the Chicago Architecture Center, where you get to poke around in buildings and parts of buildings where the public isn't normally allowed. I made plans to go several months ago with an architect friend of mine, but …

What, there was another interesting thing in the sky right after the aurora? Darker skies probably would have been better, but I was still recovering from the drive to Omaha the previous weekend, and was heading to Chicago in a few days for Open House weekend. My compromise was heading …

The day after photographing the aurora I decided hit up the Omaha zoo before heading home. I'd been there only once before in the middle of February, and hoped to have a nicer visit.

The highlight of the visit was randomly sitting down to see a seal and walrus show …