About norconkm

I'm a person. I live in Grand Rapids, MI and work as an Electrical Engineer. My hobbies at the time of this writing are kayaking, skiing, archery, photography and maybe biking. As this is my personal blog, my hobbies are likely the primary topics about which you will be reading.

Cathedral Peak

[singlepic id=1860 w=480 float=left] Cathedral Peak in Yosemite National Park, looking away from the lake. Oh, and a dead tree in the foreground. It would have been cool to hike around the lake and get a shot of the peak with the lake in the background. It would also have… Continue reading

Tenaya Lake

[singlepic id=1858 w=480 float=left] Tenaya Lake in Yosemite National Park – not quite as beautiful as Crater Lake or as the Cathedral Lakes we were en route to, but still worth a stop along the way. Picture taken with Canon 60D, EF-S 10-22mm lens @ 10mm, 1/250 sec, f/16, ISO… Continue reading

Yosemite Sunset

[singlepic id=1856 w=480 float=left] Sunset in Yosemite National Park – similar to one I posted long ago, but the a wider angle showing the trees.  That said, I’m not completely fond of the look that the foreground trees took on in this HDR rendition, but the HDR was a must… Continue reading

Wine

[singlepic id=1854 h=480 float=left] Wine… barrels and barrels of wine.  Taken at Benzinger Winery in Sonoma Valley.  I like it mostly for the nice symmetrical pattern, of course, since that’s really the complete content of the picture. Pictures taken with Canon 60D, EF-S 18-135mm lens @ 26mm, 0.6 sec shutter,… Continue reading

Golden Gate Bridge

[singlepic id=1853 w=480 float=left] The server is misbehaving, so I have to post from my backups.  And, since my backups aren’t cataloged I can’t really do edits, and without edits a lot of the Rhine tour pictures are very, very dull thanks to the haze that day.  So, instead you… Continue reading

Pfalzgrafenstein Castle

[singlepic id=1852 w=480 float=left] I was going to concoct some version of “Islands in a Stream” to go with this picture, but I’m tired.  The Pfalzgrafenstein Castle situated in the middle of the Rhine. Picture taken with Sony a6000, SEL18200 lens @ 20mm, 1/125 sec shutter, f/8.0, ISO 100