The Blood Moon of 2015

I almost missed this one. 

While traveling home from a family event we noticed 

it as it was about half way into it.

However we live where mountains prevent us 

from seeing the moon until it is quite high over the horizon.

So here is when we were able to start seeing

it and as it was starting out of the complete eclipse phase.

I was having to shoot this at an incredibly high ISO

but it worked.

It was now getting enough light to drop the high ISO speed.

Sometimes I shot with a longer exposure making the eclipse

look in this sequence like it was going back and forth.

 Almost out.

Just had to play around a little and take a shot through

our pine trees.

Now there was only a small shadow remaining.

Moon totally out of the eclipse.

Fall colors coming to the mountain again

The fall colors are retuning again to our mountain

Deer Herd

While photographing 5 deer in the pasture East of

the fields I noticed other further South also,

These two headed toward the little buck 

like he were their mom.

 Then they spotted her.

 And went for a little lunch.

 The fires are making each sunset pretty red.

Marriott Center Renovation (Part 18) Images from Aug 15th and 17th, 2015

Working on the north facing screen after we had cleared the floor

and the put down tarps and boards again.

 This is the East facing board.

 Just a little size comparison, note the fellow working on the screen.

 East and North sides again.

 This is the area where the ads will go and

other possible marketing things.

  The North facing screen after they got it working 

on Monday before Education Week started.

And so with only a few minor details in relation to the job size

the renovation is complete.

Marriott Center Renovation (Part 17) Images from Aug 11th, 2015

I used my phone to get the progress of the 

flooring as it was taken up.

There was a layer of 3/4" plywood, the 2" foam board, 

then our 3/4" pressed board and finally 2 tarps.

You can see the progress as each layer is taken up 

while they were still working on the scoreboard.

We had to have it all off, floor cleaned, baskets

installed and the scoreboard raised up before 2 PM

when the basketball team was coming in to practice

on the floor.

 There are a lot of 8" x 8" small panels in each of the

 4 large screen and in numerous other areas on 

the scoreboard. It took a lot of time to install each

of them individually.

more images later.