The rhyme held true this week; still no rain. Dreams of Spring Wildflowers are beginning to fade.
Monthly Archives: November 2008
free education
The McDowell Sonoran Conservany (MSC) conducts public hikes every Saturday and Sunday. Typically, one hike is educational (thus shorter) and the other is more exercise oriented. Today’s was educational covering the history of Brown’s Ranch. Hike leader, Len Marcisz, spoke of some very colorful characters! Along on the hike was MSC Steward Alice Dimetra (above). She gave a lesson on two yuccas and how every bit of it was put to use by the native peoples of the past.
outreach
A shot of the MSC outreach table at the Fountain Festival of Arts and Crafts. It’s one of the largest shows of the year but unfortunately, they put all the non-profits at the very end of a side street so we didn’t get a lot of traffic this morning.
Gateway
MSC Stewards and volunteers gather to hear about and see the progress on the Gateway access to the Preserve.
Below we’re given an explanation of the Rammed Earth process used in the building of the trailhead structure.
life is good
Cloe continues to take really good care of her brother Cleo.
(I’ve missed a couple of photo days due to re-organizing my digital darkroom)
desert hikes
When most people think about a desert, they don’t picture the scene you see above. But this is the very special Sonoran Desert which (in our area) is very lush even in winter. I can never get enough of it!
playing in photoshop
I think Yucca threads are really cool so I’m always trying to capture a good shot of them. A little drama was added using Photoshop.
share the trails
Hiking in the Brown’s Ranch area of the Preserve yesterday afternoon, a photographer friend spots a Tarantula. He suggests I put Chris in the photo too. So I did 🙂
panorama card stock
Red River Paper recently introduced a panorama sized card that uses a standard number 10 business envelope. The paper is 60lb Premium Matte paper which renders both color and black and white very well. Above are some cards I just printed. None of the photos are actually panoramas but have been cropped to fit. Cropping can be a fun exercise since it makes a completely new photo!
DIG
DIG is the acronym for the Digital Imaging Group. We meet the first Tuesday of every month at the Mustang Library on 90th Street (Scottsdale). Today we had a demo on the new features of Photoshop CS4 including the Extended version.