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How to Photograph Landscapes Without Becoming a Landscape Photographer An Essay on Amateur Landscape Photography. We all know who they are. They are the Greats, the ones who write the coffee-table books, the prot�g�s of that one famous guy, the photograp...

The Park                                                                                This article should be printed in landscape orientation. Bryce Canyon National Park is an amazing place to shoot. The park itself is lies along the edge of a cliff, the p...

Photography at Fisher Towers, Utah                     This article should be printed in landscape orientation. Just to the North of Moab, Utah, lies one of the countries best scenic byways. It's known as Utah State Highway 128, running from Moab to near the ...

Photography on the Burr Trail, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Capitol Reef National Park, Utah                                                               This article should be printed in landscape orientation. It may be possible to ...

Photography in the Northern San Rafael Swell                     This article should be printed in landscape orientation. This is a guide to photography in the San Rafael Swell. Particularly, the half of the Swell North of Interstate 70. A guide to the sout...

Film (and digital) Saturation Controlling saturation is an exercise in controlling brightness and contrast. Color film, especially reversal film, responds to exposure changes by changing it's saturation. Underexpose and you get colors so rich they become very...

Slides The main benefit of slides is that you see the actual film, so you know exactly what you have (with negatives you have to guess what the colors are until you print it). 90% of my shots are on slides. Fujichrome Velvia 50 (RVP): I shoot this admirable f...

Currently I use five different color chemistries.  By way of background, I've had much experience with enzyme kinetics, which requires great control of temperatures and times, so I had an advantage over most who start color chemistry at home with being carefu...

/ JUN 04, 2016  Global Warming.  A cause of some consternation for almost everyone. Except me, maybe. You see, I'll all for it. I grew up and live in a semi-arid region, where the only plants that grow naturally are few and work hard for anything the...

/ SEP 22, 2021  I want to examine the US temperature record honestly. We've all seen the "hockey stick" plot of temperatures. Is it real? I'm a scientist, which means there is a part of me that never believes anything I'm told. I want to know for myself...

/ SEP 22, 2021 At the USHCN data store there are four measurements, or "elements," available: prcp: precipitation totals for each month tavg: the monthly average of the daily average temperatures [(Tmin+Tmax)/2] tmax: the monthly average of the dai...

/ SEP 22, 2021  Here are the stations used when calculating the contiguous US temperature trends: Station ID Lat. Long. Alt.(m) ST Name USH00011084 31.05 -87.05 25.90 AL BREWTON 3 SSE USH00012813 30.54 -87.8...

/ SEP 22, 2021  The data provided has flags you should understand. Definitions below are from the USHCN Status file.  Data Measurement Flag blank = no measurement information applicable a-i = number of days missing...

 / SEP 23, 2021  Chose the dataset you want to use. I use the raw data because as a chemist I learned to use the data I recorded, and any fiddling you want to do needs to be done in the model. I'll be comparing the data later in this series. As an e...

/ OCT 06, 2021  For our example I'm going to use Microsoft Access and the SQL language to make the create the yearly averages. This might also be very doable using a pivot table in Excel, but I don't know the intricacies of pivot table usage. In fact, p...

/ OCT 07, 2021 Copy and past the annual temperature averages from the Access query into an excel sheet. You can use a "Scatter with Straight Lines" plot to display the data.  Here is a problem: the data from before 1890 is pretty sparse, and moves aro...

/ OCT 08, 2021  There are three USHCN datasets: RAW, TOB, and FLs.52j. I'll discus what each is, and which I will use to observe the US Temperature record. RAW is the thermometer high and low recorded for each day, sent in on monthly station sheets. ...

/ OCT 09, 2021  I'll be using only the RAW datasets, the recorded thermometer readings, with no adjustments. Here they are: As you can see, there is quite a large variability at the beginning of the record, enough to throw off the slopes of the l...

/ OCT 09, 2021 Finally, we are here. Previously I've explained how to find the data, get it into a database, pull the annual data out and into Excel for graphing, and which dataset is the most reliable, and how to clean up the pre-1890 data. Time to see...

 / MAY 11, 2022  Tony Heller, at RealClimateScience.com, has put up a very nice data website, RealClimateTools.com, to help us look at thermometer data over the years. He is using the raw daily thermometer reports (Tmax, Tmin, Precipitation, and Snow (n...