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Wood from Big Morongo Perserve, 2007

January 9, 2010, 9:52 pm

This picture was from some logs at Big Morongo Canyon Preserve in 2007, after fires swept through the Little San Bernardino mountain area (among other places). It was super duper hot that day, and...

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Wreck at Big Morongo

January 9, 2010, 10:06 pm

This was an old wreck in Big Morongo Canyon, just soaking up the sun after 60 years of neglect. I like taking pictures of entropy and geometry and neglect. Some might think it’s cheap character,...

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I saw this at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, California. Jesse was just getting over a cold and Liam was getting badgered by me to drink water. It was only about 99F that day. I got to see...

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Remarkable Fossils in San Timoteo Canyon

September 22, 2010, 9:57 am

Robert Reynolds is helping recover an exceptionally old saber-cat and llama, horse, dear and ground sloth fossils. Press Enterprise article has a video interview with the southern California Edison...

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Legoland Panorama [wallpaper]

November 11, 2012, 3:16 am

Filed under: fun, wallpaper Tagged: California, legoland, star wars

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Legoland Panorama 2 [wallpaper]

November 11, 2012, 3:23 am

Filed under: fun, Photos, wallpaper Tagged: California, legoland, star wars

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Moonrise over Bluffs, Barstow Fossil Beds

November 9, 2014, 12:02 am

Filed under: Camping, fun, panorama, Photos Tagged: Barstow, California, Fossil beds, hdr

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[panorama] Calico Ghost Town

November 10, 2014, 9:10 am

This should span three monitors. Kids really liked visiting here.Filed under: Camping, desktop-art, fun, panorama, Photos Tagged: calico, California, desert, ghost town, gimp, hugin

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Calico Fire Wagon

November 12, 2014, 8:15 am

Here is an HDR panorama experiment. I stitched with Hugin and eported as a HDR tiff which LuminanceHDR let me play with. I settled on the Fattal operator on this one. Impressive how much the pre-gamma...

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[panorama] Calico Ghost Town Schoolhouse

November 13, 2014, 8:15 am

I’ve clearly cooked the color on this a bit. However, this is more like what you would get after (mythical) rain. The color of the sediments in the Calico hills are quite impressive, and I don’t think...

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