This is the back of El Capitan taken from Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas. This image was selected for the Listening to the Land exhibition sponsored by The Texas Photographic Society. The gallery of selected images can be seen here. El Capitan was previously featured in my post, The O Bros do Guadalupe Peak. I submitted six images for the competition, which are featured below.
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Worlwide Pinhole Photography Day is “an international event created to promote and celebrate the art of pinhole photography.” Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is celebrated the fourth Sunday in April. In 2020, this is April 26. So, in the morning dark of April 26th, my wife and I set off to the Celebration Bridge on the Concho river in downtown San Angelo to capture a pinhole picture for the international event.
I wanted to try to get a shot of the Oakes Street Bridge near the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art silhouetted against the colors of the new dawn. I’d rather hoped for some nice reflections off the Concho River. You see the results above.
If you want to see the image in the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day Gallery, go to the Pinhole Day site (above), chose “Gallery” from the menu, navigate to the gallery, and search for image #316. You can scroll through all the pictures submitted so far. Submissions close on June 30, 2020.
Continue ReadingEarth Day is celebrated each year on April 22 to support environmental protectionism. In honor of fifty years of Earth Day, here are five frames.
This is a shot of Fulton Harbor taken at dawn from the grounds of the Inn at Fulton Harbor. You can see the clouds out over the Gulf of Mexico and the boats in the middle ground illuminated by artificial light.
Continue ReadingAtlanta was my last trip before the coronavirus shut everything down. I spent most of a day at the High Museum so I have a bunch of photos from the High. Here are five from in and around the High that are on the arty side.
I liked the organic flow of the tree branches contrasted against the ordered layers of bricks in the building behind. The day was overcast nd rainy. The branches glistened with water droplets. This was taken from a balcony on the side of the High opposite the main entrance. I thought it captured the mood of the day perfectly.
Continue ReadingRusty stuff has always been an attraction, photographically, for me. Here are Five Frames of Rusty.
This photo is of a rusty old steam locomotive at The Retreat at Artesian Lakes. The website for the retreat suggests that this is an inclined-cylinder Climax locomotive, model B. Apparently, there aren’t many of these around so it is a big deal. I just liked the rust and the interesting mechanism.
Continue ReadingIn May 2019, San Angelo State Park held their Silver Bluebonnet event. My wife and I participated in several of the hikes. Here are five frames.
I love the foreboding look of this shot of some trees. That’s O. C. Fisher Lake in the background. This shot was by Kathryn with processing by John.
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Are you suddenly taking your General Chemistry course online because of the coronavirus? Although I’ve mostly been posting about photography recently, I do have (MWF) worksheets for General Chemistry I and II, which are available free from this website. You will need a password, which you can request by emailing me (information below). The worksheets were developed for a flipped class, but you don’t have to flip your class in order to use them. The materials include: PDFs of all worksheets, editable files so you can customize the worksheets, and other goodies. To get to the material, you can use the main menu or these links:
To get to the worksheets (password required), click here.
For my discussion of classroom flipping, click here. This page also contains a list of materials and software.
To get a password, email me at: JohnOsterhout<at>JohnOsterhout<dot>com. Please include a URL to you at your institution so I can verify that you are a teaching professional.
Good luck with your online teaching and stay safe!
Today’s frames come from two trips to San Angelo State Park in 2018 and 2019. The state park organizes various hikes and outings which my wife and I occasionally attend.
This frame was taken on the Turkey Day Hike in November, 2018. Someone stuck this feather in the barbed wire near an opening in the fence. You can just make out the cattle guard in the lower left hand corner of the photo. My extensive research, thank you internet, has led me to conclude that the feather is from a wild turkey. There are wild turkeys in the park (I’ve seen one in my yard in town.) so this is not too surprising. If you are curious about feathers you might check out: The Feather Atlas, or Waking Up Wild.
Read moreJust outside San Angelo, Texas, is a seven thousand acre state park, San Angelo State Park. In November of 2018, the Friends of San Angelo State Park conducted a Nature Walk. I was there with my brand new Canon 100-400mm zoom. Here are Five Frames from San Angelo State Park.
Here’s what I know about butterflies: they are pretty. So I have to have help identifying bugs in general and butterflies in particular. Thanks to extensive research on Butterflies at Home, I can confidently say that this is a Gulf Fritillary. Cool, eh?
Continue ReadingI am still working through photos from my trip to Atlanta in January 2020. This batch is from the Atlanta Botanical Garden. This was my second trip to the Botanical Garden. The first was in January 2019. Someday I want to return to the Garden in the spring when the Garden will be in bloom.
I am a sucker for daffodils. I had them in my yard when I lived in New England a lifetime ago. This one was hiding in a group growing in a pot near the trail. It was a totally overcast and drizzly day so the hard light came from a hand held speedlite.
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