Gone to See America 2006 Driving Tour. Day 6: Mineral Hot Springs State Park, Wyoming.
While driving across Wyoming, I saw the sign for the “World’s Largest Mineral Hot Spring” painted in large white letters on a hillside. I decided to stop at the state park for a visit. Images taken with a Nikon D200 camera and 18-70 mm kit lens. All of the images have been reprocessed with current software (Topaz JPG to Raw and Capture One Pro).
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A couple of Fawns got on the wrong side of the electric fence.
Daily Electric Energy Used (45.5 kWh) from Sense and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (62.5 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Starting to get warmer and a bit less sun for a net surplus of 17 kWh.
Gone to see Europe. Semester at Sea. Fall 2012 Semester Voyage on the MV Explorer. Day 08: At Sea, North Atlantic Ocean.
The early dawn sky was full of pink jet contrails when I got out on deck. The contrails would be from all of the red-eye flights crossing the Atlantic ocean from North America to Europe. A sign we were getting close to the end of our first leg at sea. As the sun came up, the contrails changed from pink to yellow.
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Gone to See North America Road Trip. Day 09: Alaska Marine Highway on the MV Columbia (Ketchikan, Wrangell, Wrangell Narrows, Petersburg).
Overnight we transitioned into Alaska waters. A little bit of rain for those sleeping on deck. Our first stop was in Ketchikan, where there were already three giant cruise ships. Some passengers got off at this point. The next stop was in Wrangell. I bought a $7 garnet crystal. Apparently, the owner of the mine near the town gave it to the boy and girl scouts so they could earn money selling the crystals to tourists. We then passed through the Wrangell Narrows Channel, a narrow passage with about 60 channel markers. The final stop for the evening was Petersburg, before continuing on overnight.
Early Morning, Tents on the Solarium Deck. Image taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 14-24 mm f/2.8 lens. (David J Mathre)
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Harvey, my outdoor rabbit posing for some portraits. Images taken with a Nikon D300 camera and 80-400 mm VR lens. It was getting late and the amount of light was going down, so I was pushing the ISO higher. Images reprocessed with the new standalone Topaz Denoise AI program to remove the background noise. In the past I mainly used the NIK Define filter to reduce the noise level in high ISO images. For troublesome noisey images (especially jpg images) I would use a previous version of the Topaz Denoise filter.
Harvey the Rabbit. Image taken with a Nikon D300 camera and 80-400 mm VR lens (ISO 1600, 400 mm, f/5.6, 1/60 sec). (David J Mathre)Harvey the Rabbit. Image taken with a Nikon D300 camera and 80-400 mm VR lens (ISO 2800, 280 mm, f/8, 1/250 sec). (David J Mathre)
