David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Power went out again. PSE&G says it could be a week or more before everyone has power restored. I’ve moved back into my RV (White Ram). I should have enough diesel and propane for several days. I also have about 40 gallons of water. Before I retired, the Safeway stores in PA closed and I bought a lot of food for an emergency. Looks like I will get to use it.
Hurricane Sandy Getting Closer
When I woke up this morning, only light rain and little wind. As the day progressed the rain got heavier and the wind increased. This still does not seem like a tropical storm as the temperature is only in the mid 50’s °F. Now that the wind is increasing, there have been several power glitches. I decided to grill this Porterhouse steak I got from Mallery’s Grazin Meats before the power goes out. Once the power goes out, no idea how long it will be before power will be restored. I have everything in the RV (water, food, fuel) ready for a few days.
The power just went off at 5 PM.
Doe Resting in My Backyard.
At this time of the year, the local deer know to stay within 400 feet of a house to be safe from hunting.
Image taken with a Nikon D2xs and 80-400 mm VR lens (ISO 400, 400 mm, f/7.1, 1/200 sec).
The Quiet Before the Storm.
I am home in NJ after 3 weeks on the road, including a week in New Mexico with the Nikonians on ANPAT 12 and 40 days at sea on the M/V Explorer for the fall 2012 Semeseter at Sea Voyage. I got home just in time to experience Hurricane Sandy. So far, only clouds. The strange thing about this storm is that is is cold out, not tropical temperatures. This becomes the problem where we will get a lot of rain as the hurricane hits the cold front and stalls in place.
Before the storm, I am trying to backup all the images from the Semester at Sea voyage and the ANPAT 12 road trip. Some how during these two trips I took over 100K images. My main Drobo server (8 x 2 TB drives) is flashing a yellow light. I am at 85% of the disk array capacity, and the Drobo is wanting some bigger drives.
When I got home, the RV wouldn’t start. Apparently, I left the inverter on so the battery was dead. I charged the battery last night and then moved the RV next to the house before the storm. The propane tank is 3/4 full so should provide power to the generator for some time if the power goes out. Before going on the ANPAT 12 road trip, I winterized the RV. I’m reversing this for the storm by filling the water tanks and charging the batteries. During the last storm, I didn’t have power for 3 days.
As long as I do have power, I can start to process and upload the best images from the SAS and ANPAT trips.
Jet passing the Moon.
Image taken from my backyard with a Nikon D2xs and 80-400 mm VR lens @ 400 mm (ISO 800, 1/25 sec, f/5.6). Post processed using Capture One Pro 5, Photoshop CS5, Topaz DeNoise 5. Hand-held, a bit out of focus, lots of noise reduction needed, moon blown out.
