May 27, 2024

One of my very first photos in 1964

with the iconic Instamatic seems appropriate today. My older brother took me to the 1964 World's Fair, stopping in Washington DC and visiting Arlington and John F. Kennedy's temporary grave site. Only eight of those photos surviving today, sadly. See them here: https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/PHOTOS-BACK-TO-THE-1960S/FIRST-PHOTOS-1964-WORLDS-FAIR

May 22, 2024

Another guardian of the Rosemary

May 17, 2024

Inspired by CaliforniaPeggy's beautiful colors

I did a garden crawl this morning and built a quick slideshow. With the exception of Loquats and Carambola the photos were taken today. Things should be a little further along but we are having a longer than normal dry season. Hope you enjoy.

Slideshow: https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/GARDEN-EDIBLES

Teaser photo

May 12, 2024

Perfect, just perfect

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April 27, 2024

Very windy and the large birds love soaring

Sandhill Crane at 3000' I'm sure, 1200mm cropped heavily

April 24, 2024

Hawk at Sunset

One of their favorite haunts, atop an 80ft Norfolk Island Pine, ~50yds away, 1200mm

April 23, 2024

A real President visited today

Not the best photos, hazy light from directly overhead, but I got her from 2.68nm

April 10, 2024

Seeing the unseen

I was quite bored with my eclipse photos of the sun with a bite out, so I envisioned seeing the unseen. What if we could see the little world passing before the sun? I took my all time favorite moon photo, dimmed it as though lit from earthshine, sized it to fit the arc from the eclipse, inserted it into the arc and produced a quick slideshow encompassing 1:20pm to 4:16pm in roughly 15 min increments.

View the slide show here: https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/2024-Tampa-Eclipse

Here is a teaser photo:

April 8, 2024

with 1200mm and slightly cropped 3 of 338 from the eastern side

How it started


Max at 58%


and how it all ended

April 5, 2024

3,200-megapixel digital camera is ready for its cosmic photoshoot

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera is the size of a small car—and the biggest digital camera ever built for astronomy.

The world’s largest digital camera is officially ready to begin filming “the greatest movie of all time,” according to its makers. This morning, engineers and scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory announced the completion of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera, a roughly 6,610-pound, car-sized tool designed to capture new information about the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Following a two-decade construction process, the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera will now travel to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory located 8,900-feet atop Chile’s Cerro Pachón. Once attached to the facility’s Simonyi Survey Telescope later this year, its dual five-foot and three-foot-wide lenses will aim skyward for a 10-year-long survey of the solar system, the Milky Way galaxy, and beyond.

https://www.popsci.com/science/largest-digital-camera/