Canon SX10is View of the Lilian Anderson Arboretum

In this post  I mentioned taking an early morning walk in the forest.

I did not mention where or when I may post on it.

Here is where I went for a walk. 

 

 The Lilian Anderson Arboretum is owned and maintained by Kalamazoo College

  

Walking past the sign and entering the Arboretum

At the end of the main entrance path is the Batts Pavilion.

 

I often walk around by the weather station to the pavilion when I am there near sunrise. 

 OH, Blogger is up top its b.............. again. I tried to put this in the caption, but it cuts it off. It also cuts it off here.

 This visit I walked from the entrance on the main path to the pavilion which scared the deer 

That are usually there.  I wonder is WP any better than Blooger.  Seems Google keeps messing with stuff. 

 

Without even attempting to caption any more images this post. My experience tells me 

Once Blogger goes nuts it stays that way. 

I I kept the ISO at 80 when I saw these deer and got a Lomography kind of image.

Lomography promotes taking photos that can but do not need to be perfect.  At one time light leaks were a popular effect, then blurred, And always interesting in focus nicely done images. 

 

Now Blogger will not center images.
 

 

So the images do not get messed-up by blogger I will continue at the end.

I walked through the forest and the sun rose and more light was available so I got some images of interesting trees.

 

The last image is one of our favorite spots for bird watching.  In spring and summer the trees  shown are filled with birds of all kinds.  Later in summer they are filled with Gold Finches.

This is the path as I am exiting the Arboretum going to the main path.

 

I like that the Arboretum adjoins the Main Street Park in Oshtemo.  This park is behind the township building and has a nice hiking area with many paths, some of which are minimally maintained making it not so crowded as many larger paths.

  

Preview looked ok, so hopefully the real post will be fine. 

Using Filters on the Canon SX10is

 

Typecast, not images, sent from the typewriter.  Wouldn't it be neat if we could send images other than those typing kind from a typewriter?  NO, that would make it something other than a typewriter.

Polarizing filter, slightly more blue sky

No polarizing filter

No filter shows more reflection from the leaves

Polarizing filter reduces reflection from the leaves and may brighten the roses a bit

Yellow with custom white balance

Blue.  I forgot my lens hood is for a 36mm lens and the native focal distance on the SX10 is 28mm (35mm equivalent)

Green did not work very good, red was worse,  I knew in color I'd get the filter color.

Blue with custom white balance.  I wonder is the sensor blue sensitive since correcting WB caused over exposure of the cloud edge towards the sun.

Unfiltered sky

 Red and green did not do much with custom white balance so I did not post them. I need to try some other white balance adjustments to see if they can be made work on color images.  

 

First CHDK image showing my ultrasloppy desk.  

I did some early morning typing and minor repairs before the typecast

I like typing outside.  I often go to a park or type on the table on our deck if I don't type very early.  Very early does not happen in MI after September when the sun does not rise until 0630.  Now it is more like 0740.

Time is relative. Here I am at the far end of the Eastern time zone so we are nearly an hour behind sunrise from where I lived in PA and about 1 1/2 behind when I was on Cape Cod.  VA was not much different than PA, and FL was about the same and got about the same amount of sun year round with sunrise hardly ever much earlier than 0530 summer or 0630 in winter. 

The Webster needed a newer ribbon so I stole it from the other Webster along with the spring that fits in front of the vibrator.

I reattached the torsion spring for the paper tray, replace the broken front spring, and installed a better ribbon.  Then I typed 2 pages of nonsensical random thoughts while listening to one of my Zenith Trans-Oceanic radios.  The ZTO requires a separate typecast/

I also enjoyed some Presbyterian tobacco in my E.A. Carey pipe, could also spawn another typecast.
 

Believe it or not the temperature is 72 degrees F since I got up at 0400.  This is like summer. 

Macros and Monochrome and Moonshine

Macros

 

 

 

 

 When you want to imitate Ansel Adams, use Monochrome

Needless to say...I am NOT as good, or ever will be anywhere near as good, as Ansel Adams; even using my view camera.

A few more Macros

Flight of the Buzzard. I saw this Buzzard soaring and zoomed in on it.

The caption under the buzzard is NOT a link. I did not choose 'make a link' Google does it on its own.  I removed and reinserted the image and caption several times.

 So far, I think comments work on this blog. I do know I cannot comment on many blogs due to some kind of bug in Blogger.

 

MOONSHINE

Moon. SX10- fully optically and digitally zoomed to 80X

Jupiter above the moon.  This was only visible one morning.

Not too bad for an old digital camera. The fuzzy looking crescent is not distortion or out of focus, it is craters.

Here is one I did not expect.  Planets in focus.  I happened to trigger the shutter not knowing anything was within the frame.  Jupiter is barely visible at the bottom, Mars iin the middle of 2 smaller stars or planets and a tiny planet or star near the upper right corner.

Moon images with this camera are very challenging as the SX 10 auto focus likes to cycle from near to infinity to near to infinity and will not stay at infinity.  At least with a little work moon images are possible. I do not know if the self timer will work as focus keeps cycling.  My Kodak P850 will stay at infinity, but I do not recall if I was ever able to get any images of the moon. I may give the SX10 a try next full moon after messing with CHDK.

Such great weather, I typed outside on the tailgate of my overly loaded pickup truck.

 

Wish I had a star filter that will fit the SX10.  There will be some filters arriving soon, but I forget if I ordered a star.

BTW Canon likes to hide the fact that 52mm filters fit the camera.  My suspicion is that the early Canon autofocus will not work properly with a lens filter as the SX10 has quite odd AF compared to all the other early digicams I used.   AF is where I hope CHDK will help.