Here is round two of photos taken today around Calico Basin. I hope you like these as much as I did getting them! By the way, its very odd but I saw a total of zero Golden Mantled Ground Squirrels there today. Weird!
This is some seriously dry weather recently! This area of the Mojave Desert has been on a fire alert recently due to the extremely dry air and high winds, which have now gone. Gladly, no fires occurred. When I’ve returned home to Michigan, the amount of humidity always gets to me, the air seems so thick!
Just 9% humidity!
These photos were taken from the Mike O’Calllagahn – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. I used the older Nikon D3300 body and the zoom lens. The damn is open again for viewing, but with limited access. Photos never do the dam any justice as you really can’t grasp the sheer size of Hoover Dam without actually being there!
This photo has been in this space before but looked very different. What is it?
This is an ‘art’ structure that sits at the entrance to one of those big-dollar neighborhoods in Summerlin, too much money for my bank account! It’s been re-processed with iColorama, Aurora HDR and Photoscape X.
Plenty of tweaking, eh? Was it worth it? It looks a bit Outer Space-ish…
The Yaesu-Musen company began production of this rig in 1985, it’s strictly a receiver and has no transmitter section inside the casing. It has very wide reception capability which for this radio, causes it to be susceptible to intermodulation interference but it’s not so bad in my very experienced opinion.
Likely built in 1985 or soon thereafter, this old receiver is around 35 years old, yet is in 99.9% perfect condition! I owned one those many years ago and was almost blown away by its condition when I came across it on eBay about two weeks ago.
I just had to own this radio, and the price was just where it should be for its age too.
That tiny percentile that is wrong is there are two very tiny scratches on the bottom and two very tiny scratches on the left side of the front facia plate. When I say tiny, I mean tiny! Hence, for a radio this old, the darn thing is in immaculate condition. The Memory Retention Battery is dead, but that’s easily repaired.
Unfortunately, the radio no longer has the box it came in from Yaesu, nor does it have the chrome support bracket that holds the front end of the radio up for easier viewing. The wall-plug power supply is not original either, rather, it has a supply from a Gateway computer. Well, it works I guess. I’m still hunting for the chrome bracket online.
One more item, the user manual you see is not the original, this one was also purchased on eBay and has a nice cover and binding on it. It also uses 23lb paper or something like that, much thicker than usual, and was worth the price. The original manual did come in the delivery, but has seen better days! Photo time!
I’m happy to see the temperature heading back up this week, the end of October is looking better!
Here’s a random drive-by photo I took yesterday. The tall buildings in the distance are the Queens Ridge condominiums located on Rampart Boulevard. I put Liberty in too, this is a different version of her.
Yesterday I was digging through my photo archives and came across this photo of Liberty that I took on the Vegas Strip a couple or so years ago.
As I was playing with the photo in an application, I had the thought that this somehow applies to America these days. We are under attack from a deadly virus.
We are under attack by groups of people rioting for various reasons that I won’t address. We are under attack by hurricanes and tropical storms.
America is no stranger to strife these days. Add to this, we are in a presidential election year.
America, today you are not the America I grew up in. America, I fear for your survival.
These photos follow the previous post where I was waiting for my food to be delivered outside to take home. I was obviously bored, my brain runs too fast to be idled for very long!
I could do much more with my photos, everyone talks about how great Photoshop is. I find that software far too confusing for me to use, unfortunately.
If I could just sit down with someone who really understands Photoshop, then I’m sure I could pick it up pretty quickly.
Youtube videos don’t cut the mustard with me for a couple of reasons, one of which is my sincere disdain for anything Google. And that by the way is the one reason I will never use the Blogger platform again.
I swore off Google over one year ago. I guess you’ll have to deal with the way I create my photos! I’m mostly happy with them anyway.
This morning I was on a mission to the local ham radio store, I grabbed these photos along the way. It’s bright and beautiful today, but just fifty-nine or so degrees. Seventy tomorrow, and eighties by the weekend. Great!
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