In addition to using this blog as a vehicle to share my various photo projects, I have found that some of my posts have generated interest because of the nature of the stories or because they carry a more personal tone. Unfortunately, they eventually scroll out of sight in the blog roll, and so to let me find them again, I will try and maintain an index here.
They are organized into categories, but not necessarily the same as the WordPress categories they were filed under.
- Personal Essays/Stories
- Career’s End – my first blog entry, with thoughts about how I got here
- Cows and other hazards of astrophotography
- The Color of the Moon – tuning in to the 1969 moon landing
- Retirement Inauguration – priorities reverse
- Of Nikons and Nikomats – cameras have evolved as I have aged
- Seven Years After … the “Happily Ever After Party”
- Checking the Mail – back when we lived on a rural route
- A day in the life of a covid quarantiner
- Image Metadata and Ancestor Discovery – playing detective with family portraits
- Science or Sentiment, and Science or Sentiment, Generalized
- A Night on the Playa , Part 2 – magic in the desert
- Tributes – acknowledging the people who influenced my life
- Jackie’s Last Moonrise
- Full House – a tribute to siblings
- The Silent Key – a tribute to ham radio operators everywhere
- The Wall of Books – the back story, written by my dad about his dad.
- Dad’s Dressing – a family recipe released into the wild
- Salt Flat Tracks – my first road trip
- Indirect Endowment – supporting a college student… forever!
- Anecdotal Tribute – to my uncle, Dr Robert Olson
- Confronting Challenges – my uncle’s memoir of his year in Vietnam 1970-71
- Technology Musings
- Cathode Rays and The Burn-Hole Club
- Behind Gamma’s Disguise
- Csuri Exhibit Poster
- What is my Risk? and The Fifteen Minute Rule with other covid recommendations
- An Oscar for Solitaire – the story of the award by one of the inventors
- Stonehenge and Solitaire – technologies of their day
- Projects – projects that merited a blog entry or more
- Swedish Candelabras – Swedish hygge
- When Given Cold Weather… freeze soap bubbles
- A Penrose Floor – the first of a series of posts on this project
- The Relay Clock. In 1975, I made one of telephone relays and elevator readouts.
- Salvaging Home Movies. Converted from 16mm film from the 1930s – 1960s.
- Viewmaster Reel. Depth from 2D with the help of AI.
- Timelapse projects. Here are some that I’m pleased with, but there is still much to learn.
- Travel
- Monuments at Night – a remarkable trip to Monument Valley
- Copenhagen Solstice Celebration – the Danes ring in Christmas
- The Best Dinner of my Life – world travel has its rewards
- Fifteen Minutes of Fame – our travel style gets noticed
- A Night on the Playa, Part 1 – an adventure in Death Valley