Captain Nemo's log

Eagle attacks photo

thecaptainnemo — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:04:19 +0000

While browsing one of my favourite gadget sites – gizmodo, I saw this photo of a man being attacked by a golden eagle.

: Eagle attacks

I thought wow what an amazing picture I wonder who took it? Clicking on the links provided did no good though as nowhere did I find the original photographer credited with a link. I did notice a small copyright on the bottom right corner of the image for V.Zaikin so I searched around and found this blog> © Photo by V. Zaikin which I belive is the photographers blog. It’s in Russian but don’t let that stop you, you can always use google’s language tools to translate it. The pictures are really wonderful. I noticed from looking at them that the eagle is a trained hunting eagle not a wild bird. Still don’t know why it attacked the cameraman though.

African Wedding

thecaptainnemo — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:45:33 +0000

So right after Thanksgiving, I was lucky enough to have been asked to be the photographer for a co-worker of mine. It was a great deal of fun. The wedding had elements that reminded me of where I grew up in Malawi and Lesotho but since they’re originally from Sierra Leone it was a new and unique experience for me. Now I just have a ton of pictures to finish sorting and editing.

The happy couple

Stats

thecaptainnemo — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:59:09 +0000

Today I was browsing through the statistics for my blog and since I find in interesting to see the things people are searching for when the wind up here I thought I’d share a few, so here’s the most common search terms that showed up:

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Happy Turkey Day

thecaptainnemo — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:24:57 +0000

Happy Turkey day

I’m trying to get over a cold, so most likely I’ll just hang out at home today, hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.

Just dig it

thecaptainnemo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:37:22 +0000

I made my way up to cave city to Join S&P excavations and help out at the dig in California caverns again. We had a good turn out, thirteen people showed up and while we only pulled 233 buckets of dirt out of the cave, they were removed completely (no stockpiling at the dump site for later) and an entirely new section of track was added, extending the range of digging even further into the cave. I had to chuckle when I heard one of the tours going by, someone exclaimed about the plastic skull sitting at the entrance to the dig, “is it real?” The guide answered with a straight face, “Yes, of course it’s real” then added “real plastic” as they moved off along the trail.

We had a good day of digging followed by a good dinner at good friends buffet, what more could you ask for.

New Track!

Paul pulls the cart to get new gear installed

Buckets, Lots of Buckets

Marin Headlands

thecaptainnemo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:31:29 +0000

Golden Gate viewed from the headlands

Weekend before last, Nick asked if I was interested in going to take some pictures (He just got a new canon 7d) I said sure and since he was also getting a lens from someone in the bay area we decided to head to San Francisco. Nick wanted to shoot some pictures of the Golden Gate and since I’d always wanted to walk out to the light house on the North point we agreed to visit the Marin headlands, then head into the city for a few night shots.

We got a bit of a late start and then had to wait a bit to pick up the lens but we still had plenty of beautiful daylight left when we got to the Marin headlands. I even managed to get some wildlife shots as there were deer, several small birds and a hawk. I approached the hawk stealthily only to spot a little girl standing directly under it!I then proceeded to walk up to it for some close ups.

Hawk ready for his close up

We finally headed out to the lighthouse only to find we had just made it in time. They were closing up for the day and wouldn’t be allowing more people out across the bridge. We got several pictures then headed into the city for some dinner at fishermans warf and then some night time photography.

Lighthouse

Another view of the light house

First off we enjoyed the sunset during dinner, We were dissapointed to see the minimal lighting on the Golden gate so instead we took pictures of the bay bridge.

Sunset from fishermans warf

Bay Bridge with San Francisco Belle lit up in front

Happy Halloween

thecaptainnemo — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:47:40 +0000

Happy Halloween

Greenville Halloween and Cider pressing

thecaptainnemo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:59:44 +0000

My bike along the Garden Hiway

It’s been a busy month already. I went to a haunted house with Tom and Karole, Tom showed me his wonderful new laser vortex and his laser lit jack-o-lantern. I rode my motorcycle along the garden hi-way and last weekend rode all the way up to Greenville. There I visited with James, Emily and Michael. We drove down to Indian Falls and did some apple squeezing at the Dawn House. It was a long ride but well worth it. I had a great time and enjoyed some wonderful scenery on the way.

Tom s Laser Jack-o-lantern!

Scenery along the way to Greenville

Picking apples for pressing

New Calendar designs

thecaptainnemo — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:25:10 +0000

I’ve completed my new 2009 calendar designs check them out,

and let me know what you think.

Caves of Mexico and Texas

California Wildlife

California Scenery

MLG Caving

Florida

Sacramento Reptile Expo

thecaptainnemo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:20:09 +0000

beautifully colored snakes at the reptile expo

This last weekend I joined Tom, Karole and Rolf for a trip downtown to check out the reptile expo. Lots of neat reptiles to see, I had fun photographing the chameleons as usual and we got to play with an emperor scorpion under a blacklight to observe how it glowed. Scorpions have a florescent compound in their outer shell/cuticle and they’re nocturnal hunters which makes a blacklight a perfect tool for scorpion hunting. Anyway we had a good time and later Ric joined Tom, Karole and I for a delicious mexican dinner.

emperor scorpion

Same scorpion under blacklight