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Stray Cat Theatre‘s Ron May is cross-pollinating the Phoenix theatre scene by taking the lead in Actors Theatre Phoenix‘s production of “The Agony and the Ecstacy of Steve Jobs.”

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Twitter. April Warnecke’s one of my followers… 😀

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That second one (the triple strike) just ran on Channel 3’s “Good Morning, Arizona” about 20 minutes ago.

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Rav, please don’t hurt me.

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Both. The top of the cloud was picking up some of the sunset glow, but it was pulsing brighter during the strikes, especially in the virga above the one cloud but below the higher top where can see a bit of arcus rolling toward camera right.

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Last night…

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Nice!

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The only thing I don’t like about the D3100 is that when I plug it into my Linux system via USB cable it doesn’t appear as a mounted filesystem, like the D80 does. Instead there’s some obnoxious special mechanism for accessing the device that only certain applications know how to use. So I have to pull the SD card out and use a USB card reader to transfer photos. I’m not a fan of this particular “progress”.

The D3100 is permanently stuck in PTP mode, not Mass Storage mode. It’ll appear under Linux as a camera device if you have a driver loaded.

http://ptp.sourceforge.net

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Wish I could justify it… so few shots I’d use a macro for, but I need it for those shots.

Macro lenses make for awesome portraiture.

Don’t think of it as just a macro lens. Think of it as a pretty-damned-sharp lens…

My Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro is one of my two favorite lenses.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=tamron90mmf28&w=21324824%40N00&s=int

That link’ll get you a sampling of what I do with that lens.

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Not albino. Browns and tans are pretty common around here, too:

But we also see green ones:

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I didn’t drive all the way to Montana to eat at some place I can find in New Mexico.

The only time I ever eat at chain restaurants while traveling is when I arrive at a hotel after all of the local places are closed, and I have to eat *something*.

(That said, I can recommend Doc’s Motorworks on Congress in Austin – ate their yesterday. Good food. Pleasant staff.)

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See also: http://aviationweather.gov/exp/mdl_ltg/

I refer directly to http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/radar/SW_probltg.gif on a regular basis…

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Oh I forgot I had a circular polarizer on there too.

Careful with that. I lost a lot of otherwise good shots to flares caused by daylight filters, ND filters, and polarizers before I decided to only shoot lightning bare-lensed. I still use a polarizer in daylight sometimes, but then the flares are mostly lost to the background glare.

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Looks like you popped the shutter on this one just in time to catch the return strike, minus the stepped leaders. I get that a lot with my trigger, since I have an unavoidable 55ms delay between the time the trigger detects the IR spike and the shutter actually opens.

I do occasionally get lucky, though – we get a lot of double and triple strikes, and the first pops the trigger while the rest occur while the shutter’s entirely open:

The faint single line on the right at the peak was the strike that popped the trigger. The other strike on the left just happened to occur in its entirety while the shutter was open.

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Sweet! You shooting with a trigger? (I ask because of the missing arborization…)

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