Katie
Katie
28 January 2012 | Copyright © 2012 Gary Allman
Woods Fork – Busiek State Forest and Wildlife Area
Woods Fork - Busiek State Forest and Wildlife Area
06 January 2012 | Copyright © 2012 Gary Allman
Gary and Ginger stop for a drink and snack on the way back to the Tower trailhead – Piney Creek Wilderness
01 January 2012 | Copyright © 2012 Gary Allman
James River, Springfield, near the Crighton access point.
Ginger and Lanie near the Crighton access point on the James River
Gary Fishing. James River, Springfield, Missouri. All I caught was leaves.
13 November 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Look out tower at the Piney Creek Wilderness Tower trail head
Cooking lunch at Piney Creek, Piney Creek Wilderness, Missouri
Trail back to the Tower trail head at Piney Creek Wilderness, Missouri
11 November 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Sunset at Bucksaw, Harry S Truman Lake, Missouri
The wind blew hard and unpredictably most of the evening, making sitting round the campfire hazardous at times, but the sparks made up for the absence of fireworks.
Sitting round the campfire on Guy Fawkes night
Bucksaw campsite in the moonlight
05 November 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Dead tree, Bucksaw, Harry S Truman Lake, Missouri
White Pelicans on Harry S Truman Lake at Bucksaw
Camping at Bucksaw Campground, Harry S Truman Lake, Missouri
05 November 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Autumn color on the road to the South trail head at Busiek State Forest and Wildlife Area
When we arrived home the fall color was just as impressive
01 November 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Fall color at Busiek State Forest and Wildlife Area, Missouri
Gary and Ginger stopped for lunch on Woods Fork, Busiek State Forest and Wildlife Area
Woods Fork Crossing
01 November 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Fall color at Busiek State Forest and Wildlife Area, Missouri
The the colour of the trees on the trail by the Carter Cemetery were breathtaking.
Woods Fork crossing, Busiek State Forest and Wildlife Area
Fall color at Busiek State Forest and Wildlife Area, Missouri
01 November 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Railroad Bridge over the James River at the Springfield Nature Center
This morning we took our kayaks out on James River – just a 15 minute drive from home.
Ginger kayaking on the James River, Springfield Missouri
Relaxing in the Kayak after lunch at Lake Springfield, Missouri
31 October 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
McDonald’s, I’m good ‘n cold and I have two egg McMuffins!
This picture also appears in my 365 Days of 2011 blog.
29 August 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Kite flying on Old Hunstanton Beach
Waiting for the weather and tide
Multicoloured layered cliffs at Hunstanton, Norfolk, UK
The play of light in the sky and the humps of the the eroded sandstone boulders which were arranged in lines pointing out to sea, was wonderful. I made a couple of attempts to capture it, and this is the one I like best. The green of the seaweed was a great bonus. It really was that vivid. Even though it was accurate, I had to take the saturation down just a tad as it was looking unreal.
The picture was taken looking West from the beach at Hunstanton, where there are some wonderful layered and coloured cliffs. While setting up and taking this picture I knew there was a chance of the sun breaking through and lighting up the cliffs behind me. But after a seemingly interminable wait, we gave up. Sure enough later on the sun shone through but I wasn’t in a position to get the shot.
Sun burst over the Wash
08 July 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Guile Point leading Marks. Lindisfarne, UK
You can also see Bamburgh Castle on the horizon.
An attempt to get a picture of Lindisfarne Castle and use a wall to frame the castle and obscure an ugly lamp post on the quay.
Lindisfarne Castle
07 July 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Oil refinery at Grangemouth seen from Culross
It’s about time I posted a picture that didn’t include lots of green in it.
29 June 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Dunmore hill and Melville monument
Taken on our Comrie hike, looking North towards the granite obelisk on Dunmore hill which commemorates Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
There was a tad too much water vapour in the atmosphere for a really clear picture, but I liked the way the light was playing on the field and trees.
The 18mm – 105mm kit lens that came with the camera is very good – though as I shot this at 50mm I could have used my prime lens and got an even sharper image. Checking the image in detail I was very surprised to find that details of the obelisk can be seen.
29 June 2011 | Comrie | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Looking North along Glen Lednock – Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland
Looking North from the road while on our Glen Lednock hike.
Gary seen in a ditch getting ready to take a picture - Photograph by Ginger
29 June 2011 | Glen Lednock | Comrie | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Pastures and derelict buildings – Dumyat, Stirling, Scotland
Keith, Gary and Ginger on Dumyat, Stirling, Scotland
28 June 2011 | Dumyat, Stirling, Scotland | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Scottish hills
We’ve been hiking in Scotland. Taken from Dumyat, Stirling.
28 June 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Floor 4 – Tate Modern
I liked the lighting. The original upload of this picture looked a bit wishy washy in most browsers. I’ve since fixed it – read on for more details.
Browser colour issues
Unfortunately the popular browsers don’t support the colour profiles embedded in most image files. This means that pictures viewed on the Internet are not always presented the way the photographer intended, which is an absolute travesty and a personal peeve. IE and Google Chrome are among the worst offenders. It is particularly bad when products like Google Picasa which purport to be photographic tools complete with editors ignore the embedded colour profile information.
Recently I’ve been using a Nikon Adobe RGB colour space for my pictures as it provides for a higher dynamic range – which I need to make the best of my pictures as I’m using a 14 bit camera. However as described above most browsers fail to display the pictures properly. To get around this I’ve converted the jpeg images to the standard sRGB colour space used by default by the popular browsers. Of course this shouldn’t be necessary, but there you go.
The best browser I’ve found so far for viewing pictures is Firefox with a colour profile add-on.
You can check your browser’s compliance on this site: http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter
The Firefox profile add-on can be found here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/907358/
There is a lot more information available on this issue, search for ‘browser color profile support’ and lose a few hours reading all about it.
21 June 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Sunflower Seeds at the Tate Modern – Ai Weiwei
You can read more about the original piece here: Sunflower Seeds – Ai Weiwei.
A close up of some of the Sunflower Seeds
21 June 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
Little Sac River, near Willard, Missouri
Little Sac River, near Willard, Missouri
18 April 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
More fun in the workshop
This is another picture from my 365 Days of 2011 project, taken while I was working on building a “batch-loaded, inverted down-draft gassifier” wood stove out of old tin cans. Building the stove kept me occupied for a couple of hours. The reasons for trying this are (1) it’s fun, (2) carrying a traditional stove and fuel adds around 2-3 lb to my backpack. A stove like this should weigh around 4 oz, is smaller than my backpacking stove, and (3) did I mention it’s fun? Anything involving power tools and fire has to be. In the picture I’m lining up the outer casing before drilling the air inlet holes.
Postscript: the stove worked, but not efficiently enough for my liking, the burner inset wasn’t deep enough and it wasn’t tall enough to draw properly. Watching the jets of wood gas burning is fascinating. A Mark II stove followed which works a lot better and I’m toying with modifications to that design for the Mark III.
05 April 2011 | Copyright © 2011 Gary Allman
