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Category Archives: PAD 2009

Day 309, Leaving the Coulee…

Thursday, November 5, 2009

A couple photos as I was leaving Willow Coulee. (1/800, f4, 40mm, ISO 400, -1/3 stop exposure) (1/250, f6.3, 19mm, ISO 100, -1/3 stop exposure) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 308, Still down in the Coulee!

Monday, November 2, 2009

A study of tree silhouettes.  Be sure to click to enlarge.  (BACK to return!) (1/640, f8, 40mm, ISO 100, 1/3 stop underexposed, wallpaper sized!) (1/500, f8, 31mm, ISO 100, 1/3 stop underexposed) (1/250, f8, 35mm, ISO 100, 1/3 stop underexposed) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 307: Willow Coulee

Monday, November 2, 2009

I finally got out to Willow Coulee.  This is a fishing access East of town.  The much talked about Great Falls Coal Power Plant was to be out there…now there is to be a natural gas power plant at the same location. Anyway, it is a nice little place down on the Missouri River. This […]

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Day 306 in Missoula!

Saturday, October 31, 2009

I was in Missoula for a couple days this week, and I saw this scene from the parking lot of the Riverside Holiday Inn Express.  The streamers of sunlight had started to fade by the time I got the camera out, but it was still a nice scene.  That is the University of Montana across […]

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Day 305, the Last of the SP4449 (probably!)

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

(1/2500, f4.5, 56mm, ISO 100, wallpaper sized) (A panorama from the photo above) (1/1250, f5.6, 90mm, ISO 100, wallpaper sized) And last, the classic steam engine photo, complete with, if you look really closely, the engineer in the cab’s window! (1/600, f5.6, 135mm, ISO 100, wall papersized) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 304, more from the SP4449

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Good Halloween colors!  And the top four are wallpaper sized, too! Just click to enlarge, BACK to return! (1/800, f4.5, 75mm, ISO 100) Rolling along!  Hey, this isn’t good… (the same photo as above, uncropped) I’ve got a bad feeling about this… (1/1250, f4.5, 75mm, ISO 100) Whoooo! (1/1250, f4.5, 75mm, ISO 100) A few […]

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Day 303, 30 October 2009

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

I also chased down this short consist crossing the river. (1/60, f8, 170mm, ISO 400) (1/100, f8, 140mm, ISO 400, wallpaper sized) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 302, 29 October 2009

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Western Griebes.  They’re all the same.  First sight of a camera… “Uh oh!  The paparattzi!” (1/200, f8, 200mm, ISO 400, wallpaper sized) “Cheese it!” (1/200, f8, 200mm, ISO 400, wallpaper sized) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 301, 28 October 2009

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

A quick run down by the Missouri River yielded a few photos of waterfowl in the snow! A graceful landing.  I think this is a female cinnamon teal, because… (1/400, f8, 210mm, ISO 400, wallpaper sized!)) …it was hanging around with this cinnamon teal.  My book doesn’t show the females this dark, but the light […]

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Day 300

Friday, October 23, 2009

A morning panorama of the Front Range of the Rockies north of Rogers Pass.  Shot on a long daytrip to Missoula. (1/200, f8, 28mm, ISO 200, stitched together from six photos in MS ICE) Be sure to clck on it a couple times to see it fullsized.  BACK to return. ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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