WHAT'S NEW: 2011-2012 Updates and Additions
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Both newly created photo/story pages and updates will appear here as I post them, and for the past 1-2 years. New means newly added imagery, never before seen--no matter when the photo was taken. Updated means either a re-scanned and improved older image, a major revision to a narrative story, or a different replacement photo that better illustrates an existing story.
SKYPIX NEWS:
Feb. 2011: Debut of the newest and 16th SkyPix gallery room: All Hail, which is (you guessed it!): all hail, all the time. Hail-related shots that had been scattered elsewhere in SkyPix (and not fitting too well in their categories) now appear here, while I begin adding a few pages devoted to hail photos taken in 2010.
Aug. 2010: After a busy summer with other projects, 2010 storm images finally are flowing in, intermingled here and there with a few stragglers from last winter and 2009. Also re-scanned damage slides from Hurricane Andrew in advance of its 18th anniversary. Shooting with a new 21 MP DSLR began this May.
Mar. 2010: Adding many images from the past winter's multiple ice and snow events to the Okie Winters gallery, along with a few late arrivals from the 2009 supercell season, in advance of the late-arriving 2010 storm intercept runs.
Feb. 2009: Uploading imagery from late 2008 into early this year in advance of the 2009 storm observing season.
June 2008: Back from storm intercept vacation, I've begun to process the best and/or most interesting of this year's imagery, in loose chronological order. Old slides from the 1993 Missouri floods have been rescanned and are online now, and soon, I'll further enrich Floods with some shots taken the morning the water rose 3 feet/hour in Story City IA earlier this month.
January 2008: Combined flood imagery from Water Works into Floods (formerly Missouri Floods '93), and added newer flood photos. This is to variegate the flood gallery, which was the smallest and least visited SkyPix set. I also hope to redo the many years-old scans of the slides from the '93 Missouri floods soon to improve their online image quality.
November 2006: A growing collection of such imagery compelled a new and 15th gallery room: Fog & Mist.
April 2006: Made the "big switch" from 35 mm slide equipment to shooting with a high resolution, pro-grade, digital SLR. All new images dated from that month on will originate digitally, though I will continue to rescan film slides from March 2006 and before (and add a few that never before have been displayed) as time permits.
2004: NEW SIMPLE ADDRESS! skypix.ws [Don't change your bookmarks. Using this address will just reroute you to the existing SkyPix home page. I did this so that you and I can give folks an easy address to remember.]
January 2004: Began adding "GPS" links to many SkyPix image pages, beneath the location text. Each "GPS" link will show you a public-domain, USGS satellite image (courtesy MS TerraServer) at 2 meter resolution, covering the spot where I shot the photo, giving its specific GPS coordinates and showing the direction of view. I plan to do this for every image, both recent and in the more distant past, where I can accurately and precisely reconstruct my position. Unlike most outdoor photographers, I see no compelling reason to "keep secret" my shooting places -- just the opposite, in fact; I want to share the information! As of this writing I am the only nature photographer freely publishing exact GPS points for most of my images. If one isn't linked, either
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