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Sat - April 16, 2005

A long time ago in 1988 I went to Africa...

I have been setting up my new office/darkroom during the past couple of rainy weeks. The newest part of my system is a new printer I purchased; an Epson R1800. The printer is quite remarkable. What I am able to print out in a matter of minutes would have taken me hours a few years ago. I dug out my old Nikon scanner, purchased new software to run it in OSX and started scanning and printing old stuff. I am amazed at the quality that a Macintosh G4 PowerBook, a Nikon LS-2000 scanner and the Epson R1800 printer can produce. The prints on par to the very best prints I was able to produce in a profession lab costing a couple of hundred thousand dollars. The prints are beautiful and the prints are guaranteed by Epson to last 80 to 100 years! Total cost of my current digital darkroom would be less than Six Grand total! I have been rummaging through my collection of photographs for something scan and test on the printer. I nearly forgot about the Africa trip. I am posting this photo because it was shot with Nikon F3 a Nikkor 300 2.8 manual focus lens. The Nikon scanner with new software copied the slide with all of detail and richness of the original transparency. The 13X19 print I made from the scan is beautiful. Click on "READ MORE" to see the entire photograph of the cheetah.

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Tue - April 12, 2005

Spring Sunset Mt Hood

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Thu - April 7, 2005

Early morning, Gorge style

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Mon - April 4, 2005

Early Spring,

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Sun - March 20, 2005

the Syncline, first Mountain Bike ride of the Season .......

OK, the Syncline is a good first ride for me, up the main trail to the top and down little Moab to Maui's and home.... Peter's young, he been riding all winter long, he has progressed over the last couple of years into a good rider. I can't really fault Bruce riding, he has been riding a couple of times a week since returning from Baja and in Baja He did ride a lot.

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Tue - March 8, 2005

Of dirt and bikes....

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Tue - March 1, 2005

We're home, back in Underwood....

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Mon - February 21, 2005

Just another day,

We have arrived at the Old Mill with blue sky and no threat of rain only to wake the next morning to a muddy quagmire.... The hiway through the small towns north from San Quintin resemble dirt road because of all of the mud that the vehicles track onto the hiway from the side roads.... The road only becomes clean after everything dries out and a wind storm blows the dirt off of the road.

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Thu - February 17, 2005

leaving Los Barrrilies in a couple of days,

The weather is very nice, blue skies with the high temps in the 80s and the low at night in the high 50s.... NO WIND, just a very light north breeze to keep humidity down and bugs away.... We did a couple of motorcycle rides into the hills, short rides, enough to burn off a little energy.

...The gray days should be over by now and the days are getting warmer, warm enough to work outside on the yard work and maybe a short mountain bike ride up the syncline.

...This year Wayne and Sharon have no windsurfing equipment so I will have keep some gear out in case it does blow.... The trailer is easy, I just raise the leveling jacks, unhook the water and power, empty the holding tanks and fill the water tank.... It is a very tight fit for the two dirt bikes along with two mountain bikes, riding gear, tools, windsurfing gear, and still have room for Kody's bed.

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Sun - February 13, 2005

The day after the rain, a few pictures, dirt bike ride.

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Fri - February 11, 2005

ESTA LLOVIENDO!!!!!!

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Tue - February 8, 2005

Must be truly Blessed....it rained again.

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Mon - February 7, 2005

More Dirt....

Forward to fall of 2003; Andy has out grown her TTR-125, she gets a new Honda CFR-23o, a full size play bike made for shorter intermediate riders.... The only chance Andy has to ride on her new bike was once in Moab and again in the fall then a couple of time the following spring 2004 in Moab.... At first I am riding with Jerry and leaving Andy behind because she hasn't the "time on bike" to ride with "the guys".... Andy rode it all except the narrow trail there she and Jerry pushed the bike over the hard part.

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