http://www.ke6lbm.com from Bill De Witt Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:36:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en     I recently read that the in the continental United States, farthest one can get from a road is about 20 miles. (I'll fact check later today about it). In California, it can be very difficult to see any stars, so much so that many people grow up with out seeing ... http://www.ke6lbm.com/2008/08/26/the-stars-do-come-out/ One year ago, I bought my current camera, a Canon 40D. Today, it's replacement is announced, the Canon EOS 50D Why is this a big deal? Because Canon bumped their schedule by 18 months. For the past few years the XXD line was a new camera every 18 months, and I felt secure in ... http://www.ke6lbm.com/2008/08/25/canon-eos-50d/   At Lake Powell, I decided to experiment with several panoramic photos. Here are a select few:     Wahweap Marina on the afternoon we arrived. A decent sized thunderstorm had just passed us by, leaving the rainbow in the middle center of the photo in the distance.         San Juan River with the Rising Moon.       Hole in ... http://www.ke6lbm.com/2008/08/23/lake-powell-panoramas/ A fellow Cal Poly Pomona student, Kimberly Rhodes, won the silver medal in skeet shooting at the Beijing Olympics. Kimberly Rhode takes silver in skeet shooting - Los Angeles Times I've met her a few times, mostly on shooting trips organized by the Cal Poly Pomona IME department and related clubs. She's ... http://www.ke6lbm.com/2008/08/14/go-kim/   With so many people in town, all the family had to get together.  So for those of you who could not attend, here's a photo of us all! Many had just arrived in town the day before, from such strange and far off places as Washington State, Virginia, Italy, and ... http://www.ke6lbm.com/2008/08/04/family-get-togther/ Just to clear the decks, other people have photos from the Sierra Trip. Professor Phil Rosenkrantz David Hodgeman Ladyhiker http://www.ke6lbm.com/2008/08/03/more-sierra-photos/ I'm  giving a little bit of thought to start selling photos online for a profit (hopefully). Several sites offer such services, such as Smugmug, Zenfolio, and Exposure Manager. Those three are the ones I'm looking at. Smugmug seems the most full featured, but the pro set up is 150 a year ... http://www.ke6lbm.com/2008/08/03/selling-photos-online/ My Annoying Cousin graciously offered to take my camera down to Canon's Irvine facility, where they preform free sensor cleanings. She went dropped it off on Friday forenoon, and because they were busy, left to pick it up later. Unfortunatly, that extended until it was too late to pick up, and ... http://www.ke6lbm.com/2008/08/03/annoyed-with-the-annoying/ We're planning on going out to Lake Powell at the end of next week. So far, we've got the boat back together, with the fuel tank repaired and back in the boat. We had the Wellcraft down to Long Beach today, and it started up just fine, and planned off ... http://www.ke6lbm.com/2008/08/02/prepping-for-lake-powell/ For everyone outside of the Greater LA area, we experienced an earthquake at about 11:40am. A nice, gentle rolling 5.8 magnitude quake out in Diamond Bar area. I thought it was larger, but farther away when I felt it. It went on a relatively long time for an earthquake here, ... http://www.ke6lbm.com/2008/07/29/earthquake/