Pajareo sin fronteras

It's been a little bit longer than I intended since I posted my last update, which is either because I've had too much to do lately, or because I'm a lazy bastard. Take your pick. However, I haven't been ignoring photography, and I've been doing a little more exploration around the county and trying to get a little outside my comfort zone. Still not as much photography as I'd like to be doing, but it's good to be out every once in a while anyway.  On a happy note, I just found out that I've been invited to go back to San Miguel de Allende, the city in Mexico where I volunteered for a week in February. When I asked the organization what they had in mind in terms of internship projects, their first idea was something along the lines of "go to Mexico for four weeks and take pictures". My reaction was "okay... I think I can handle that." I'll probably try to do something more than photography, but it's still a really exciting pr...

My mother recently finished a casual 6-week bike trip across the country, from the mouth of the Mississippi in New Orleans, to its source in Lake Itasca, Minnesota. She understandably didn't feel much like biking the rest of the way back to Michigan, so my dad and I drove out to pick her up. In terms of places to do scenic road trips, the northern Midwest is probably somewhere around the bottom of the list, unless you're into interminable low-lying secondary forest, boarded-up pastie shops, and roadkill. Granted, there are some scenic parts, but after an hour of driving through northern Minnesota without seeing a single sign of human habitation, and nothing to interrupt the topography but an extra-high pine tree, one starts wishing they were out of the car.  Lake Itasca is a rather large lake about 20 mile south of Bimidji, Minnesota, which has the honors of being the origin of the Mississippi River, the longest and most important river in the nation. It's also home to la...

I've put up pictures of two very unconnected, but still fun photo projects I did recently. They were both fairly new for me, and out of my comfort zone (one because I'd never done it before and the other because it was too damn early), but I think the results were good. Hope everyone enjoys! All pictures taken with an Olympus E-620 and Zuiko 9-18mm f/4-5,6, 14-42mm f/3,5-5,6, or 70-300mm f/4-5,6 lenses, except where otherwise noted. Transit of Venus I've had several interesting photography opportunities in the past week or so, some of which panned out, and some of which didn't. Attempting to shoot the full moon rising over the bay, for instance, was a miserable failure (damn clouds), while yesterday's sunrise outing was relatively successful, even though I'm still tired.  One particularly fun opportunity I had, though, was photographing the transit of Venus. I've never done solar photography before, but I figured I didn't really want to wait until 2...