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

Filed under the categories: Montana, Rudyard

I’ve always thought that when old trucks go to die, their final drivers seem to park them in a spot that will be perfect for photography some day. That’s kind of them.

This truck was found when we were leaving the dinosaur dig in northern Montana. Sometimes it pays to get off the main road and drive around these tiny old towns like Rudyard. Small, out-of-the-way towns are always fun to drive through, but I try to get off the main street and do random zig-zagging looking for nicely composed scenes… old trucks… you know, the sorts of things that are just sitting around waiting for a photo.

Also, you may notice a new feature go live today (or soon) at some point on the site here. It’s called the Meebo Bar, and I think you’ll like it! The best feature, to me, is the ability to drag a picture and very easily share it. I think you know that I invite you all to share these works freely with your friends, and this should make it easy and fun.

Filed under the categories: Montana, Rudyard, Travel

I am headed back to Montana tomorrow for a week. I’ll actually be in both Montana and Wyoming in Yellowstone National Park. I think it’s my 5th or 6th trip there! I’m really looking forward to it… This will be my first trip with the D3X, so I look forward to rediscovering some old favorites with the new camera. Also, since it’s Yellowstone, the weather patterns are always unique and unexpected.

This shot is from the northern part of Montana, up where the fields go on forever. These nice crop rows are the ones that get caught in your eyes when you are driving by at super-sonic speeds…but you can still make out single rows like frames in an old movie.

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

You know, I was just realizing that I spent a nice part of last summer digging up dinosaurs with Jack Horner in the badlands of Montana, and I’ve hardly posted any photos!

Well, now we are starting to get a “bit” closer to the dinosaurs… Here we are, descending down through the sandstones of time into the belly of the beast. Just a few more feet down, and we are getting into the cretaceous. Getting from the top to the bottom is a little treacherous, but I find it helps to follow a smart paleontologist when trying to figure out the best way to traverse the mudstones.

Not too far from here, I picked up a hadrosaur vertebrae, which I now keep here on my desk at home, among a panoply of other 90 million year old dinosaur fossils that I was lucky enough to find.

Filed under the categories: Montana, Nikon D2XS, Rudyard, Travel

Outside of Rudyard, Montana, I found this old grain silo that was still standing tall against the elements. There was a newer silo just down the tracks, but I thought this one had a bit more personality. The newer one was kind of predictable and boring, so where’s the fun in that? I walked around it a few times and looked at the clouds until I feel like I found a pretty good vantage for capturing the silo in its element.

Filed under the categories: LucisArt, Montana, Nikon D2XS, Rudyard, Travel

See that tiny storm on the left? See those tipis there on the right? That’s where I slept all night through the storm!

So, a word of warning… you may not want to travel with me. I come up with good ideas like sleeping in a tipi in the middle of the stormy season in Montana like this. There are a lot more good ideas where that one came from. At least I can promise it will always be an adventure… and you won’t get much sleep!

By the way, this is not a traditional HDR photo… I used LucisArt 6.0… working on a new tutorial for it!

Filed under the categories: LucisArt, Montana, Nikon D2XS, Rudyard, Travel

I hope you have a great 2009! Here is a nice little one to get the new year started in fit and proper form!

I took this when I unexpectedly ended up spending a sunset alone. I was supposed to take an ATV over to another bluff to meet a bunch of paleontologists with whom I had spent the day unearthing a Hadrosaur from some Cretaceous mudstone formation. My forearms had never been so tired in my life after holding that hammer and pick for what seemed like endless hours of nerve-wracking excavation! After getting hopelessly lost on my ATV and having some mechanical troubles, I ended up near the border of Canada. Luckily, I had my camera equipment, so I slipped on my iPod and set up for the right moment.

Yesterday I updated my HDR Tutorial, and you might have noticed a shot from Lightroom with the five originals from this below the New York Times Square photo (which is a good one for the New Year!). Anyway, I thought I would share it because sometimes the other photographers that come here like to see the originals before they have been run through my algorithms… [edit: actually, looking at it closer, it is a "slightly" different perspective...taken about 20 seconds earlier... but, well, you get the idea... just picture it shifted over about 3 feet!]

Filed under the categories: Montana, Rudyard, Travel

I was barely able to squeeze off this final shot before my battery died. Going by farm after farm throughout northern Montana, I kept looking for the perfect barn and the right kinda clouds over golden fields of wheat. And then, once I finally found it, I looked at the power left on the Nikon and it was scary-low! I held my breath and ran out into the field, hoping to hear that satisfying little click!

After I was back in the car, I clicked the preview button to see what I had shot, and it did not even come up… then I spent the next few hours wondering if this one even made it to the old memory card!

Filed under the categories: Montana, Rudyard, Travel

It must gave been a five hour drive from one end of Montana to another. After just a bit, you get mesmerized by the wheat fields.

Driving along, I always start to play games with the clouds and the objects on the horizon. This might sound strange, but I do enjoy seeing them in Euclidean geometric formations… so much so, that I had to jump out of the car to capture this.

Filed under the categories: Montana, Rudyard, Travel

After an accident on an ATV, I was stuck on this road for a long time while waiting to for rescue.  Luckily, the camera and tripod were uninjured and the time I was waiting for happened to be sunset.  There are worse things in life than this!

Filed under the categories: Montana, Rudyard, Travel

It was an amazing week out with Jack Horner and his crew. We could not have been any more remote! Out deep in the wheat fields of Montana, we were met every morning with amazing sunrises and the evenings had these surreal sunsets.

I’ll post more about the dinosaur dig, what we discovered, and all sorts of things in coming months… it was quite a trip and Jack was every bit the hero my son envisioned!

Filed under the categories: LA, Montana, Rudyard, Travel