感恩节有计划吗？

我知道这是老美的东西，可我们的读者遍布世界各地。大家有什么好玩的计划吗？

每日一瞥——日落冰川国家公园

这个周末我开开心心地做了两天照片。这一张几个小时前刚刚处理完，勾起了对冰川国家公园的许多美好回忆。我记得那里一直都很冷，即使在屋里也是凉飕飕的——真是一段奇怪的记忆……平常我都不怕冷，只要偶尔能暖和暖和就行。

Filed under the categories: Glacier Natl Park, Montana, Travel

Google+ 首创How-to系统

这个系统可以帮你的朋友进入邀请序列！可能还尚须完善，不过所有的系统都是如此。通过Google的视频节目我认识了很多朋友，希望很快能见到你！:)

[提醒：一旦受到邀请，收到邮件可能需要些时间。谁让Google+正在抑制加入人数。]

1) 已经有Google+了?来帮忙吧！直接跳到 step 3!

2) 浏览 StuckInCustoms Facebook页面，看看那里有无邀请线程可以使用，然后在上面添加你的邮箱地址（别写墙上哈）。

3)收到邀请后点击接受，然后返回StuckInCustoms Facebook页面 ，然后转发邀请，就说：“我有10-15 (记不清了)个Google+ 邀请名额，把你的邮箱留在下方，我加你进来！”

4) 邀请朋友，创建新圈子，添加可入邮箱地址。

5) 与圈内好友分享更新或照片，系统会询问你是否想发邮件给非Google+用户。点击yes，他们也会收到邮件邀请！

对了，如果想在Google+找我，这是我的My Google页面。

Google+ 小贴士

- 找视频节目贴士？请参考此线程。

- 这里有一张Google+摄影师名单

- 这是摄影师名单第二部分

每日一瞥——蒙大拿路漫漫

我的车起了火，然后瘫在了这条路上。当然，摄影装备都带在身上。有谁自驾游不照一堆照片？！反正我不知道。没准儿哪里起火呢，时刻准备着！

沿路向前再开几天，就出现了这幅景象……前一段时间我已经发布了这张，再发一次，以防有人错过……

Filed under the categories: Montana, Nikon D3X, Rudyard, Travel

对不起，此内容只适用于English。

Filed under the categories: Montana, Travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone

Less than a week until the big PhotoWalk!

Coming up this Sunday is the PhotoWalk here in Austin! It’s a family-friendly event, so feel free to bring your kids and this sort of thing. We’re just walking together in one big group through the streets of Austin, having a good old time.

See Event Details on Plancast here. It’s totally free, and you don’t need a SXSW badge to attend. I’m looking forward to it!

EG Conference – About a Month Away

So, today’s photo is Jack Horner, the famous paleontologist (dinosaur-guy). He’s also speaking at the EG Conference in Monterey with me. The tickets are a little pricey (about $4,000 per person), and I think there are some remaining on the conference website.

Daily Photo – Jack Horner De-choppering

This is another picture from that mysterious ranch in Montana that I hint at from time to time. The only way to get there is a 3 to 4 hour horse ride or to take a private helicopter over the Rockies… it descends into a secret green valley… something right out of Galt’s Gulch.

Every few days, new guests arrive and depart. And, on this day, the chopper brought in the great Jack Horner. He’s one of those guys that’s awesome and doesn’t even try to be. He just is. Later that night, he gave a talk in front of everyone about some of his new discoveries in the world of dinosaurs. It turns out that Triceratops and Torosaurus are the same dinosaur! Cool. He had shown me research a year earlier at his underground (literally) lab in Montana that rests underneath the dinosaur museum. He had huge computer screens showing the bone histology, and how it changes as the dinosaurs age. Very interesting stuff.

Filed under the categories: Montana, Nikon D3S, Travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone

新的電腦包包！

This is one of my favorite Christmas presents!  For the full scoop, see my Mark Nason Bags review here on the site…  My wife got this for me here on Zappos.com — it’s kind of expensive, but you can check out the pros and cons for yourself on the review page.

這是我最喜歡的聖誕禮物之一！如果你想仔細了解一下，可以看看我寫的Mark Nason包包的站內簡評……我妻子在 Zappos.com 上給我買的這個包——說實話有點貴，不過你也可以點review page進去看看喜歡和不喜歡這個包包的人的理由都是什麼。

發幾張包包的照片，我在簡評裡應該也PO了六七張包包的圖片。

每日快照：農場上空的直升機

當直升機放下另外一組遊客，正在起飛的時候，我飛奔進田野拍攝了這張照片。光線和角度都非常完美，出於好奇，我就想試試看能不能抓拍到直升機螺旋槳靜止的樣子。我還真做到了！算是一個很成功的實驗……畢竟我做的實驗太多都失敗了……不過這個還是很成功的。

還有就是，很明顯啦，這是一個RAW處理出來的HDR照片。

Filed under the categories: Montana, Travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone

Filed under the categories: Montana, Travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone

Filed under the categories: Montana, Nikon D3S, Wyoming, Yellowstone

对不起，此内容只适用于English。

Filed under the categories: Montana, Nikon D3S, Wyoming, Yellowstone

对不起，此内容只适用于English。

Filed under the categories: Montana, Nikon D3S, Travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone

Filed under the categories: Montana, Rudyard

Taking photos of Rainbows

I’ve taken a few of these in my life… mostly out of luck! But, I wondered about your experiences with rainbows. Do you get many photos? What is your favorite lens to use to capture the whole thing? In the one below, I used a Nikon 14-24 on a full frame body (the D3X).

Daily Photo – The Rainbow After the Storm

In the afternoons in Montana, sometimes a summer storm would come rolling through the Rockies. I think everyone loves a good storm, mostly because it changes the mood. An unexpected mood change always adds a bit of spice to the day, don’t you think? And, since these afternoon storms come and go, the sun comes back out again, giving us the opportunity for rainbow shots.

All that’s missing from this one is a unicorn. This is one reason I am excited about genetic engineering. I think that some odd-ball researcher is going to make a real unicorn one day… and everyone (well, MOST everyone) will love it. Hey future-unicorn-genetic-engineer, please contact me after you successfully bring one of these to term so I can take the first photo. That would be very cool.

Filed under the categories: Montana, Nikon D3X, Travel, Yellowstone

Tripod as an Easel

I recently swtiched to some Really Right Stuff tripod legs. They are awesome! I have them linked up on the HDR Camera Equipment page.

So, there are plusses and minuses to carrying around a tripod. Here is a “plus” that not many people think about.

Whenever you are carrying around the tripod, it takes a bit of effort and forethought to set up a shot. You need to positing it in a special place, at a certain height, and at a particular angle. I compare it to Renoir or Monet taking their time to set up their easel and canvas in the perfect spot. It makes a big difference if you walk 10 steps closer to the target area or 10 steps further from the target area. There is an extra consideration photographers have to use because of the lens that is on board, but it’s still a similar process. So, as much as I lament the extra hassle of a tripod, I do like that it requires me to go through a thoughtful process of setting up the shot.

Daily Photo – The Storm Hitting the Barn

It was about 3 in the afternoon and things were getting over-the-top warm. You know that feeling when the weather gets so uncomfortably warm that you expect something to happen soon? This feeling washed over me about 30 minutes before these violent clouds form to sweep over the Rocky Mountains towards the barn.

The tripod was nearby, so I grabbed it to go outside and set up the easel.

Filed under the categories: Montana, Nikon D3X, Travel, Yellowstone