Lunar Eclipse 2008

Taken about an hour ago.

More shots on my Flickr page.

A Dog's Life

Our new* puppy Madison. This shot was taken about a half-hour ago.

This is my entry for this week's Photo Hunt Challenge: "Unexciting"

* New being a relative term - we got her in December. She's about 4 months old now.

More Princeton Fog

A couple of more shots of fog over Princeton Battlefield State Park:

Top - a wider view showing the fog layer over the entire southern field.
Bottom - from the Bob Ross "we don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents" file, a cool out-of-focus shot. I was parked across the road from the southern field, and every time I tried to shoot this group of teenagers emerging from the fog, a car would drive by and throw off the auto-focus. Eventually, they made it to the road and I gave up, but I like the way this turned out.

Princeton Fog

As I was driving through Princeton, NJ on my way home a couple of Fridays ago, I snapped this shot of Princeton Battlefield State Park. After raining most of the day, the skies finally cleared and the temperatures fell - prompting fog to rise up in open fields.
I had already driven past a few of those fields, but this one was too good to pass up.

First Flakes

As it began to snow this morning, I was treated to a rare sight - dozens of perfect little six-point-star snowflakes on the ledge outside my window at work. I grabbed my camera, put it Macro Mode, opened the window, and started shooting.
I only got a couple of shots before the warm air from inside melted all the flakes, leaving a surface of water drops that immediately melted any subsequent flakes the moment they landed!
Thankfully, I did get the one good shot you see above.

Cliff Fence detail

This is a detail of the cable and fence seen in my previous post of the protective cliff fence behind the Watchung, NJ Municipal Building.

It's getting it's own post so I can enter it into this week's Photo Hunt challenge: "Unnatural."

Chained Cliff

While driving through Watchung, NJ for work last week, I spotted this interesting sight - the cliff-face behind the Municipal Building, entirely ensconced in fencing and cables. While I understand the need to shield the public from falling rocks (and the ice, which seemed to be causing much of the falling debris as it melted), the method seemed extreme. Good photo op, though...