Greetings! Golly, it's been a month since I've posted here. That's too long. I've had things I wanted to post, but for some reason I didn't have the juice to do it ( Read more... )

This is a master list of photo collections and trip reports from various trips.
Some posts are locked as friends only for various reasons.

They are listed roughly from oldest (Oklahoma 2004ish?) to Newest.

There's a lot here, but enjoy!

I've put some of my favourites here at top - the rest are all behind the cut at the bottom.

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Was going to go to an airsoft match today, but at about 3am I woke up in pain thinking I was having a kidney stone. Didn't sleep much, and after a few hours, I determined I probably WASN'T having a kidney stone, but might have an unhappy internal infection ( Read more... )

I wrote that last post for a rural exploration community article, so I left out some of the extraneous stuff from Tinian and Saipan. I also threw in some things from our last dive here on Guam at the end.


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Some of you might remember my previous posts from the island of Saipan earlier this year. They can be found here and hereWe recently took a trip back to Saipan and then on to the nearby island of Tinian from which the US operated the busiest airfield of WWII and launched the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. Due to a much smaller ( Read more... )

twapa has a complete birding trip report that can be found here on her journal!

Now, I used to do thumbnails - but photobucket makes it a PITA to make clickable thumbs that actually link to the image, so I'm going to post full size behind a cut and assume everyone has the bandwidth if they want to see lotsa pictures. X D


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Heading off for the weekend. Gonna visit the loading pit and assembly area for Fat Man and Little Boy, look for more war relics, and try to photograph Bigfoot (Micronesia Megapode) and the (Tinian) Monarch!

Back in 4 days!

Went around to a few spots today. Unfortunately, I only had low-res versions of the old photographs displayed on my phone to work from, so they're not exact, but... still a fun exercise!


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Saw this picture from 1947 in the newspaper and decided I wanted to go out and photograph it today and do a side-by-side.

Japanese artillery emplacement at Gun Beach, 1947 and 2012! Click to enlarge.


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So, for a while now I've been toying with the idea of throwing together a cosplay outfit. Whether just for fancy dress or going to cons, I've immediately hit on the costume I want to create, specifically this character:


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