Fun City Shots

This was me noticing some soil grabbed from our forest happened to interestingly have seeds which were planted about 1/8th mile away. I noticed the birds were going to town after planting and it looks like they took the Teff and moved it as the wind blows in the opposite direction. The Teff was coated for easier metering in planting; here you can see its bright blue-green color in the soil.

Food! Here are some examples of my daily meals as cooked or prepared by me.

Salmon, roasted brussel sprouts, hummus and some black olives for garnish

Potatoes, kale, tomatoes, peppers, eggs and some steak

A sandwich to throw in a cooler for land-work days

The macroscopic sandwich. Be warned: flash-photography of mayo and horseradish can be quite unappetizing!

Examples of various zoom lenses

Talking to a friend, he was asking what my zooms looked like in comparison to each other. I did not have a good visual reference myself. See below for some photos of people doing a photo shoot themselves. They are about 400' below me and about one-and-a-half blocks away.

600mm via a Tamron 150-600mm G2 lens

850mm via a Tamron 150-600mm G2 lens with a Kenko 1.4x TELEPlus HD Pro DGX teleconverter

The next two shots are via my Bausch and Lomb (now Bushnell) Discoverer spotting scope. The manual says the scope should be roughly a 1000mm-4000mm lens on a 35mm camera. Note, the spotting scope is not nearly as high quality of optics so you can see how much fuzzier it is and it is much more difficult to focus. Further, these are metered at roughly f/22-f/44 versus a maximum of f/8 for the Tamron even with the teleconverter.

I think this was without the teleconverter so a max of about 1000-4000mm.

I think this was with the teleconverter so a max of about 2000-8000mm.