Photos and Projects

  While walking through the frisbee gold course across the street in the morning, we happened to see a family of Great Horned Owls, first time I had ever seen in the wild.  The parents were off a ways watching, the two young ones were very high up in the largest tree on the course.  Got several good photos below all shot with similar settings at ISO 100 and 400mm.  We did run the images through Topaz Sharpen AI using a Standard setting of 14% to sharpen them up a bit as these were all hand held photos pretty far away. Years ago at Indiana Dunes I remember reading about the Great Horned Owl in one of their exhibits.  It said that their night vision was so good that they could hunt inside the Lucas Oil Stadium with only a single candle lit in the stadium.  Unbelievable night vision! 1/500, f8, ISO 100, 400 mm 1/200, f7.1, ISO 100, 400 mm 1/320, f6.3, ISO 100, 400 mm 1/320, f6.3, ISO 100, 400 mm

  A Shining Season:  Monster Faces A Shining Season, Clip 1 A Shining Season, Clip 2 A Shining Season, Clip 3

  Supernatural Selection "That brings me to the fourth kind of attitude toward ideas, and that is that the problem is not what is possible.  That's not the problem.  The problem is what is probable, what is happening.  It is impossible that everything that is possible is happening." - Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All, p. 77. When used in certain contexts, the number 4.6 billion seems to be a rather large number.  Today, if you had $4.6 billion you would be considered an extraordinarily wealthy person.  If you lived in a city which inhabited 4.6 billion people you would almost have the entire current human population living in close proximity.  If you traveled a lot and accumulated 4.6 billion miles of frequent flier mileage you would have traveled a distance exceeding that of 20 round trips to and from our sun.  And, perhaps the dimension which most magnifies this number from a human perspective is time.  4.6 billion years seems to be a long time when compared to