Most Recent VisionThis 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.
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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!!
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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.
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Took a drive yesterday up and over Ebbetts Pass and then down to Dorington to check out and shoot the Dogwoods I had heard were blooming there. They were blooming and they were beautiful. I think I missed the peak of the bloom by a couple days though. Many of the flowers had been eaten in places and had brown spots on them. I was able to find a couple of trees that looked real nice though. Spent most of my time photographing those couple of trees.
I did a lot of driving around the area. I like it. The forest in there is very nice. Lots of big Sugar Pines and Cedars. It’s always interesting walking beneath Sugar Pines. I worry that one of the huge cones will fall from two hundred feet up and knock me in the head. Those cones could do some major damage to your knoggin. 
The only problem I see living in that area is fire. If a fire comes through there you are going to loose everything. There’s no way to save your home. The houses set in the middle of the forest and they will be toast if there’s a fire. It would be cool to live in the forest like that though. At least I’d like it.
Driving across Ebbetts Pass is fun. I’d say it’s the wildest of the major passes in the Sierra. Most of the road is very narrow. They don’t even bother with a center line, the road isn’t wide enough. It sure is pretty up there. There are some amazing Junipers growing near the pass. Old, gnarled warriors that stand up against the Sierra’s fiercest storms. I want to go back there this summer and get some pictures of them. It’s a good thing I had the road to myself yesterday. Because I was constantly distracted by the Junipers.
There’s still quite a bit of snow above 8000 feet. The two lakes you drive past still had ice on them.
All in all I had a pretty good day. Got some good pictures and most importantly I got away from the house and up into the mountains for the day.
I’m going to post a little more detailed post on CalNaturePhoto later on today. I will include some pictures from the trip too.
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