More snow pics

8 degrees; 13 1/2 inches of snow

These are the Christmas gifts that I made the two nurses I work with.

Christmas decoration that I made.

13 inches of snow and growing.

sawing, snow and cold!

Last weekend, I made a short timelapse of sawing logs. A picture was taken every 15 seconds over a period of about 55 minutes.

Sawing logs.

It could be awhile before I can do any more sawing- snow and cold temperatures are here.

4 Day Weekend

While Terry is back home visiting, I have been staying busy.

This is a time lapse camera I built for someone at the University of New Mexico who studies volcanoes. He will be using this, along with another I made, down in Chile next month to make videos of some eruptions hopefully.





Our weather here has been pretty mild. No snow in the valley..
Time for the horses to go back home. Hunting season ends Sunday.
Here are some pictures of the wood I have sawn so far. I think the saw will have paid for itself by the time the barn is built.
These are 6x6x16, 7x7x16 and 8x8x16 timbers. One 8x8x16 costs $130 at the local sawmill. The logs cost about $15 each, delivered. It takes about 15-20 minutes to saw a log.

Brandon's Basket ball game

Brandon had a basketball game last night that I was able to go see. It turned out to be a nail biter. They were down 14-2 going into the 4th quarter and came back only to lose 17-16. If you know me, I can not take pictures and watch the game at the same time. The pictures were during warm ups and the one of the videos is the jumpball to start the game. Sorry for the blurry pics.

Here are a couple of pictures taken tonight showing "star trails". These are 12-15 minutes exposures of the sky. The stars rotate around the North star.
The second was taken at dusk.

I have put some more time lapse clips on Vimeo. See them here.

BBD (Big Buck Down)

This evening Fred filled his deer tag. Here are some pics.

Winter Wonderland

This is what I woke up to this morning. We had 13 inches of snow here.

Time lapse video of moon rise

Very cold last night. Down to about 5 I think.

The sky was very clear so I went out to experiment with a new version of the time lapse board. This one works with a new camera we have. The camera is a Pentax digital SLR. This type of camera allows you to shoot long exposures, such as for night pictures. It also has a port built in that allows me to connect the controller board with no modifications to the camera.

I programmed the board to run from 11:30 PM to 4:00 AM. and mounted the camera to a tripod. The exposure time was 30 seconds and a picture was taken every 2 minutes.

To see the video full size go to vimeo.

time lapse of moon rise from fred beal on Vimeo.

Let the sawing begin!

When we arrived home from our hunting trip on Thursday this is what was in our yard.

This is the begining of an 8x8x16 timber.

The Finished Product

Hunting Trip

Fred and I woke up @ 4:00am to go hunting for elk on horseback today. We did not get anything but did see a mountain goat, a mule deer, a grouse and a lot of cattle. Fred walked in and saw a cow elk. We heard a bull bugle and tried to call him in but he wasn't interested in us. Here are some pictures from the adventure.