Omega Speedmaster Triple Date Reduced, on my wrist, with a new black and silver seatbelt nylon NATO, Captured with TG-7, 2025-07-26 12:08:33, 5.4mm, 1/40sec, f/2.3, ISO-800, SOOC.
I thought I ordered a 24mm NATO for a loaner Luminox watch. What arrived in today’s mail was a 18mm. I like the colorway of the band (black and silver), so I will keep it. It turns out that it fits my Speedy Triple Date reduced. So, I put it on the watch and then put the watch on my wrist.
I made the capture with the Olympus Tough TG-7 in macro mode. The flaking of the rhodium plating on the hands of my Speedy is evident. I will probably have them replaced when I next send the watch off for service. (I do not know when that might be.)
I think the colors go well with the watch. And, it gave me motivation to give the Seamaster a rest.
I never tire of the scenery on our hikes up near Spooner Summit. Captured with TG-7, 2025-07-19 09:05:25, 18mm, 1/200sec, f/4.9, ISO-160, SOOC.
I decided to post something for the day. So, I selected an image captured over the weekend on one of our daily hikes. We mostly hike the National Forest fire road near Spooner Summit these days.
I did take The Girl to Carson River Park one day last week. It was a day where I was so slammed that I did not get out early to hike. Rather than hike in town, we went out to the rive so she could get into the water and cool off from the heat, which she did.
She also brought home a tick — a white-dot. I found it and removed it yesterday, to her dismay. (She does not like me to remove them.)
We will head out to hike a little later this morning. Although the Sun will warm her (and I will carry plenty of water), the temperature is not supposed to be as warm today so it will be pleasant up near 7,300 feet.
I do not generally take selfies. I made this one for my loved ones. Captured with TG-7, 2025-07-08 10:15:14, 4.5mm, 1/200sec, f/2.8, ISO-100.
I have stated, many times, that I do not make many selfies. I know a lot of social media posters value these as documentation of having been someplace or in the middle of some event. But, I am not that kind of photographer.
Nonetheless, I make an occasional selfie for my loved ones. On the way back to the staging area, on our favorite trail near Spooner Summit, The Girl chased chipmunks and I made this self portrait.
The little Olympus Tough TG-7 has an internal program to do a macro focus stack. It works. Captured with TG-7, 2025-07-07 10:03:52, 5.4mm, 1/250sec, f/3.2, ISO-100.
The little Olympus Tough TG-7 gave me another surprise a few days ago. I knew about its capability to stack focus frames in-camera for macro photography. What I did not know is that it does it fairly well and takes only a moment.
The Girl and I were on our normal summer trail and I had the TG-7 in my hip pocket. I noticed the sun on the nut of the gate lock that keeps four-wheel traffic from the fire road.
“That might make an interesting image…”
I paused a minute, while The Girl snuffled about, and set the camera to macro focus-stacking. When I pressed the shutter release, I heard the camera take several frames in quick succession. It then flashed an image for a few seconds and returned to ready mode.
The frame is pretty darned good. I am surprised.
I wonder what other things this little camera does this well.
My Seamaster Pro 300 150th was returned from repair. A wrist check was appropriate. Captured with TG-7, 2025-07-03 09:04:13, 5.4mm, 1/640sec, f/3.2, ISO-100.
My Omega 150th Anniversary Seamaster Pro returned to me a couple of weeks ago. The bezel was “tweaked” and did not function correctly. The repair was expensive, but necessary for my mental health.
It has been on my wrist consistently since it returned, not on its titanium bracelet, but on a BluShark seatbelt nylon NATO strap. It is my favorite watch. I will probably wear it a lot.
The 150th was released in 1998 and there were 1,848 of them made available. There are lots of watch reviews out there about this particular piece. Therefore, I will not attempt a review. What I do think about the watch is that it is lighter than the standard Seamaster because of the titanium case. The wave dial is absolutely gorgeous and readily readable. The lume is generously applied and works very well. I have no issue reading the watch at night without my glasses.
Mine is running two or three seconds fast per day on my wrist. That is definitely chronometer accurate. (The watch is a chronometer.)
We hiked from the staging area at the top of Ash Canyon Trail down to Hobart Reservoir. The Girl played in the water a little. I came away with a couple of nice captures. Captured with TG-7, 2025-06-24 12:20:46, 4.5mm, 1/800sec, f/2.8, ISO-100.
A couple of weeks ago The Girl and I drove up Ash Canyon Trail for our daily outing. We hiked down to Hobart Reservoir just because I have not done that before and I wondered how the fishing might be.
It is a bit of a hump to get back up to the staging area, but readily doable. I wonder if there is a better place to park and hike in. I would try my hand a fishing the lake.
While walking The Girl one evening, I paused for this grab shot. Captured with X100VI, 2025-05-21 20:21:50, 23mm, 1/30sec, f/8, ISO-640, SOOC.
We have taken to a short walk about dusk most evenings. The little loop is about a half-mile long and gives The Girl an opportunity to purge a little energy and mark her usual spots along the path.
I usually carry a camera because I like this time of the day and often the light offers something. It did a few nights ago.
Sera and I did our short walk along our loop near the house this evening. We were treated to a lovely sunset. Captured with TG-7, 2025-07-03 19:35:54, 6.37mm, 1/80sec, f/2.5, ISO-100, light editing in Photolab 7.
I think I am recovering from an intense weekend for Field Day 2025. I have in mind to write an AAR for that outing as there were some strong lessons to be learned. We will see if I can get it done.
My log remains to be processed. I started on it before we returned home. Now I need to set aside time to finish it.
The Girl and I walked late this evening, just after sunset. It is cooling nicely in the evening here in Carson City and I love it. On our walk, we were treated to a lovely sunset.
One the way back down the Ash Canyon Trail, I paused to make this image of Washoe Lake. Captured with TG-7, 2025-06-24 13:26:36, 5.79mm, 1/160sec, f/9, ISO-100.
The Pudding has a lot of interesting topics that are presented in such a unique fashion. It is worth a look.
I am working on my Linux computer again. The instructions for installing R are found here.
I found another (old) set of instructions that include R-Studio here.
I do not recall if I wrote about it, but I am working with an install of Linux Mint. It is used by a number of amateur radio operators whom I trust and Jason, KM4ACK, uses it as the base for his ham radio software distribution.
One of the issues I am faced with is migrating a long list of Evernote notes into my Linux system. Evernote has abandoned development for the Linux OS, so another software is going to be necessary. It might be Obsidian. I found a thread on migrating to Obsidian from Evernote here.
Another set of directions is found on the Obsidian website, here.
I have a copy of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights produced by National Center for Constitutional Studies. It is pocket sized and very well produced. It is recommended.
I added a contact page to my weblog using Contact Form 7.
I added a plugin to add data from the EXIF files in a digital image to add data to my photograph captions using EXIF Caption and EXIF Details.
Grayl makes excellent water filtration systems for hikers. They also make a pack system that looks interesting. This is serendipitous given I just wrote about my milsurp patrol pack.
This is a test frame using the new Adobe Labs Indigo camera app. I did some light post-processing in PhotoLab7. Captured with iPhone 13 Pro Max, 2025-06-24 07:17:31, 5.7mm, 1/30sec, f/1.5, ISO-100.
My last iPhone upgrade was from an iPhone 11 Pro Max (I think, and iPhone 11 for sure) to the iPhone 13 Pro Max. I have not upgraded to the latest and greatest, and probably will not. That is a topic for another essay.
I also have tried any number of camera apps in my iPhones over the years. I was just reading through a recent email from DPReview about Adobe Lab’s new camera app, Indigo. I have not wanted to give up completely on the iPhone camera, but the quality of output is generally unsatisfactory. So, I decided to give the new Indigo app a chance.
The result of my first shot is the example above. It is a grab shot of my coffee mug, dust, residue, and all. I did a little post processing in PhotoLab7 to slightly improve the aesthetic.
From what I see, Indigo has promise. I will be doing more testing and grab some of the RAW images that it produces for post processing and review.
I do not care for Adobe’s change to a subscription model. For that reason, I eschew most of the their products. It does not matter to me whether they are the standard or not. I have alternatives that serve my needs. Indigo might be the exception to my rule.
