Category: Nature & Wildlife
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My Answer To “What’s Wrong With This Picture”
Background Several days ago, I showed a photograph and asked: “What’s Wrong With This Picture”. Here is more information. Nancy took this overview a minute later. These pictures were taken in March 2016 while we were on a trip to Antarctica. The mountains (and snow) in the first picture should have told you, “We’re not…
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Two More Eclipse Questions
While we are on the subject of astronomy, I’d like to share just a bit more about eclipses. Here are my questions (those who follow us on Facebook may have already seen these questions. Try not to blurt out the answer before your friends have had a chance to think about it): Question 1: If…
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A Nighttime Solar Eclipse?
When I tried to print our second 26″ by 36″ canvas copy of “Eclipse Over Long Pine Key”, the colors were as shown below. I thought one of the ink cartridges must be empty, or the printer had a clogged nozzle or something. I pulled out the roll of canvas, performed a cleaning, and did…
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What’s Wrong With This Picture?
This barely retouched picture (not even cropped – only overcoming camera sensor limitations), which Nancy took a while back (at my request), shows something that most people never see. Another good question might be, “What aspect of this photograph gives the best clue about where it was taken?” There may be more than one correct…
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Answers To Your Butterfly Questions
Jaret Daniels is one of the butterfly experts at the University of Florida. He’s the one we’ve helped (along with the Miami Blue Chapter of the North American Butterfly Association (NABA)) on rare butterfly surveys in southern Florida and the upper keys. Jaret is also responsible for some of the photos and the distribution of…