A Slice of Tifster

Penny's Roses

Okay, I’m a little late getting this blogged, sorry. For Valentine’s Day I surprised Penny with 15 beautiful roses delivered to her work and then we went out and had steak for dinner.

15 is just a good start
to a life with all my heart.
Forever is where my plans lay
if you let me have my way.

–Love, Paul

Wish us a Happy Anniversary

Penny and I have been together for one year. We celebrated our anniversary with a fancy dinner and night out. We’re wonderfully happy and loving our time together. This week, we’re officially moving in together to share her apartment.

Dad at Home Again #2

Penny and I drove up to Fort Worth on Saturday and we had a nice visit with Dad at the house. Everything went well and he was in good spirits. I happened to have all my camera gear with me and managed to get this really nice picture of him. –Paul

I love you Penny –Paul

Lunar Eclipse of Aug 28, 2007

Far from my best picture of the moon, but this is what I got from this morning’s Lunar eclipse. I wimped out and didn’t bring the telescope. I was just using my 300mm lens and a normal tripod. One thing I learned (and should have already known) is that you can’t take time exposures of the moon on a stationary tripod. It took me a while to figure out why every single one of them was blurry. When I was processing them, it finally occurred to me that the same streaks I was seeing on stars was going to happen on the moon. I had once before learned that even a few seconds is visible as a short streak, but conveniently forgotten this when taking these shots of the moon. See, normally the moon is bright and you take pictures with about 1/100th of a second shutter speed. That speed is fine on a tripod. During the eclipe though, the moon gets like 1000x darker, requiring a wide-open lens or a several second shutter speed. Thus my problem.

Heads Up!

This was taken at a restaurant here in Austin. Click through to read the description if you can’t tell what you’re looking at. –Paul

Mom and Dad

I think this picture of Mom and Dad came out great! I have other pictures from the day as well, but they’re not nearly as good, so I haven’t done anything with them yet.

–Paul