just a test to see if it’s working

This is a fun little quiz that will tell you which famous photographer you are.
Here is the link
http://www.youthink.com/quiz.asp?action=take&quiz_id=164

I’m Ansel Adams. Imagine that. I knew it was going to say that half way through the quiz

Let us know who you are.

Yep, that’s what it is today. 86 outside right now, there’s a nice breeze from the south and a few puffy clouds trying to build over the Sierra. No complaints from this boy.

I just went downtown to get a bite of lunch, and on the way back I drove down Brockman Ln. It’s really ashame that the wind tore up the iris the way it did. There are more flowers out there this year then there has been in the last three years. But they’re all beat up. It really bums me out. This could have been a great wild iris year in Bishop. Maybe it will be up in the Bridgeport area.

I just finished a new article for CalNaturePhoto. It’s about copy protecting digital images and what could possibly be done to keep them from getting lifted from web sites. You can check it out here; **Copy Protection for Images, An Idea**

Last night I was flipping channels on the TV and as I came to RFD-TV I saw a familiar site, the corals at the Tri-County Fairgrounds. They were interviewing someone about mules. Imagine that, mules? in Bishop? Well I kept watching to see what the show was about. It was about training mules and donkeys. At the end of the show a commercial came on about how important it was to be in Bishop California over Memorial Day Weekend for Mule Days. Pretty cool.
I think it was two years ago that they filmed Mule Days for RFD-TV. I remember it being on last year.
I guess we can start the count down. In seven days the first events will take place. I bet that there are campers outside of the fairgrounds already. I think that the last few years they have let them into the fairgrounds on Sunday. I know that by Monday this town will start filling up with cowboys, cowgirls and mules!!
Well Shit Howdee, Welcome to Bishop!!

I just got a link to a great resource for identifying plants, fossils, animals, and many other things. The site is CalPhotos. It’s ran by Cal State Berkeley. It contains thousands of photos of plants, animals, fossils, fungi, habitats, and much more. By far the biggest collection is the plants and animals collection. There are over 70,000 images in the plants-annuals/perennial collection itself. The whole collection can be searched using an advanced search that let’s you define your search in many different ways.

I was looking for my unidentified flower from the last post on there. I now know that the flower is a violet. So I chose plants-annuals/perennial for the type of photo and then chose viola for the scientific name and 544 images came up. I went through the first 12 pages or so and came up with two possibilities for the flower. I will go through the more picture later and see if anything else looks close.

Thanks to John Wall on the CalPhoto Group for pointing me to this site.