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Revision History 2017
This is the 2017 revision history of the Lumen Perfectus Web site. Probably not of general interest, but it helps us keep track of the site's growth and maintenance.
We replace the "Photo of the Day" daily; we won't log those changes here.
Use the "newest photos" link in the table of contents at left to go directly to our most recent additions.
- 21 October: Pine trees in the western U.S. are being killed by the millions by several types of boring beetles because winters are no longer cold enough for long enough to kill them. This week's photo shows a pileated woodpecker extracting beetle larva from a dying Ponderosa pine on our property in western Montana.
- 14 October: Another photo from last month's trip to Yellowstone, a common merganser on the Yellowstone River, with autumn color reflecting in the water around her.
- 07 October: We've added a photo of sunrise-lit mist over the Madison River, made a week ago in Yellowstone National Park.
- 01 October: Back to the archives for today's addition: another photo from an October, 2008 visit to west-central Michigan.
- 24 September: “The Lost Summer”, tells the story of wildfires and smoke making the kind of photography I like to do a little too challenging.
- 23 September: Cooler weather and recent rains have (finally!) damped our epic fire season. Today's addition shows a still smoke hazy Mission Mountain Range reflected in a small pond in the Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge (near Charlo, Montana).
- 16 September: We're digging through our archives and this week added a photo of brilliant fall color in west-central Michigan's 'Little John Flooding', made during an October, 2008 visit. This required rearranging some newer Michigan photos to make room, and replacing the second MI gallery html page with php code.
- 09 September: A large pile of Ponderosa pine cones makes an interesting close-up subject. This week's addition is a black & white photo of that pile, with one cone rendered in color.
- 31 August: This month's article, “Partially Eclipsed”, describes our attempt to view and photograph the 2017 total solar eclipse from our partial eclipse vantage point.
- 26 August: Continuing the addition of older work, as we've been for August, today we've added a photo made during a 2015 visit to Montana's Bannack ghost town (a MT state park).
- 19 August: We replaced an older (2012) photo of four muskrats on an icy creek with a slightly different (and better) version.
- 12 August: Our hot, dry, and smokey (from wildfires) weather continues, so we're posting another photo of winter snow and rime. It makes us feel a bit cooler.
- 05 August: After a couple of weeks “off” to accommodate two outdoor shows, this week we've posted a scan of a slide made during a July, 2000, trip to Norway's Svalbard archipelago. The photo shows a small iceberg in glorious sunlight, a not-so-common occurance during that trip. This photo replaces a sub-par picture of ice on a shelf fungus.
- 27 July: Our July article, “Standing on the Edge of Forever”, describes a short June trip to Montana's Glacier National Park that resulted in an exciting morning shoot and two “keeper” photos.
- 08 July: Today we've posted a photo, made at sunset, of Wild Goose Island in St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park. This picture was made the evening before the photo posted last week.
- 02 July: This week's new photo was made last week, of sunrise light on the mountains west of Glacier National Park's St. Mary Lake.
- 29 June: This month's article, “Beautiful Bitterroot”, was inspired by a gorgeous bloom of bitterroot in Montana's National Bison Range.
- 24 June: We've added another photo of a bitterroot blossom, from a recent visit to Montana's National Bison Range.
- 17 June: Our state flower, the bitterroot, put on a spectacular display this month in Montana's National Bison Range. Over a couple of days we made a number of photos; this week's addition shows one of the flowers in strong morning side-light.
- 10 June: This week's addition is a photo made a week ago of the Lewis Range of mountains along the eastern border of Glacier National park. This sunrise image includes a foreground meadow of wildflowers.
- 04 June: The weather's warming here, so we've posted a winter photo of a large, crumbling barn near Lonepine, Montana. We've photographed this barn a number of times; this is the first made with a wide-angle lens.
- 31 May: Our May article, “The Accidental Upgrade” describes how I ended up upgrading to a new camera body.
- 27 May: This week's addtion is the first posting of a photo from our new Canon EOS 5D Mark IV; the picture of Polson Bay on western Montana's Flathead Lake was made from high above the lake, about 20 minutes after sunset. The picture required adding a fourth page to our Flathead Lake gallery.
- 20 May: Today we added a photo, scanned from a May, 2002, slide, of a pair of Barrow's goldeneye ducks on Lewis Lake in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.
- 14 May: A new photo of a white-tailed deer required adding a second page for our Deer gallery.
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Today is the 16th anniversary of our registration of the lumen-perfectus.com domain.
We've udpated the 'gear' page to reflect the addition of a Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, which replaces the Mk III we've had for a little over four years. - 06 May: We've added another grizzly bear and cub photo from a slide scan of a photo made in Yellowstone National Park in October, 2004. We removed a photo of a dolphin photographed in Johnstone Straight, B.C., Canada.
- 29 April: This week's new photo is a close-up of patterns in the wet sand at Cannon Beach, Oregon, U.S.
- 27 April: Our April article, “No Ship, Sherlock” explains why we no longer ship prints.
- 23 April: We replaced an old (and bad!) photo of winter in Yellowstone's Lamar Valley with a scan of a slide from 2004 of sunset lighting the canyon above the Gardner River (also in Yellowstone) at the end of a stormy day. We also cleaned up the code on that Yellowstone gallery page (#2) and removed the link to our deleted Links page.
- 15 April: We replaced a photo of a grizzly bear sow and cub in Yellowstone National Park with a new scan of the original 2004 slide. We added a “new” photo of a solo grizzly in Yellowstone, also from a 2004 slide.
- 08 April: A stormy sunset on Bird Rocks at Cannon Beach, Oregon, is today's new photo. A couple of walkers on the beach provide scale, showing the massive size of the rocks. This is likely the last picture we'll post from our trip there in February.
- 05 April: We replaced two photos from Priest Lake, in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest, with new scans of the original 1996 slides. At the same time we replaced newer photos from Priest Lake and Stanley, Idaho and the Washington coast with watermarked versions of the same DSLR files.
- 03 April: Yet another shipping failure has led us to remove from our site the 'purchase a print' links associated with our pictures. Prints are no longer available. If you find a photo on our site you can't live without, feel free to contact us. Perhaps we can work out some kind of shipping arrangement.
- 01 April: This week's 'new' photo is one made at Freezeout Lake WMA, near Choteau, MT, back in 2009. It's a favorite, and has been a good seller in shows and galleries, but was somehow omitted from the site. That's now fixed. We also completely rebuilt the Freezeout Lake Birds gallery, adding copyright watermarks and purchase links to the photos.
- 28 March: Today we replaced a photo of Tolliver Falls, in Maryland's Swallow Falls State Park, with a new scan of the original 2001 slide.
- 26 March: A February trip to Cannon Beach, Oregon (U.S.) is detailed in our March article, “Daffodils in February”.
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25 March: During last month's trip to Cannon Beach, Oregon, a herring gull returned several times to perch on our
hotel room's balcony roof. This week's new photo is a portrait of that bird made during a few minutes of bright sunlight.
We also replaced a couple of photos in our Yellowstone Scenics gallery with new scans of the original 2006 slides. - 18 March: Another photo from our February trip to Cannon Beach, Oregon. This shows iconic Haystack and The Needles during a break in the daily rain.
- 13 March: Updated our digital photographic services guide.
- 11 March: Continuing our additions from last month's trip to Orgeon's Cannon Beach, this week's photo was made from Ecola State Park, looking south along the coast on a blustery, rainy day.
- 04 March: This week's addition is another photo from Orgeon's Cannon Beach, this one made half an hour before sunset during a brief break in the rain.
- 27 February: Today we posted our February article, “Playing the Cards You're Dealt”, which explains how we print greeting cards to (partially) solve a printer problem.
- 25 February: We've posted a photo, made earlier this week on the Oregon coast, to a new gallery created for pictures from this new (to us) region. The photo shows sea stacks on Cannon Beach during a brief sunny break from the February rain.
- 17 February: Today we've added a black-and-white photo from a 2015 shoot in Arlee, Montana, of an old cabin in evening sun. This is a very colorful old shack; it was a challenge to make the conversion to B&W while retaining the highlights, shadows and tonal qualities of the building and the hazy background mountains.
- 11 February: This week we've added another photo of the freezing-fog rime, this one made as the fog rolled in again and the good light faded. We also replaced a photo of a caribou in Denali National Park with a new scan of the original 1998 Ektachrome slide.
- 05 February: Time for something summery: today we added an older photo, a close-up of very green ferns in Glacier National Park. Added a javascript that creates a floating “back to top of page” button to this (revision history) page.
- 04 February: revised our “gear”, “about”, “help”, “viewing information”, and “articles index” pages. To those we added a javascript that creates a floating “back to top of page” button. We removed several obsolete links on the gear page and made minor revisions to that page's content (but added no new photo equipment). Finally, we completely re-wrote the content of the help and viewing information pages. They'd become obsolete.
- 31 January: We killed off our “links” page, something that should have been done long ago. All links have been removed, the page now offering an explanation. Over time we will remove the links from our table-of-contents (at the left of most pages).
- 28 January: To our Ice and Snow gallery we've added another photo of rime-coated trees, this made on a partly sunny day, and showing a well-worn deer trail in the deep snow. We also edited the gallery.css stylesheet, adding code to offset horizontal thumbnails that appear next to verticals.
- 27 January: Our first article of the year, “Send in the Clouds”, describes ornery weather conditions making it a challenge to get the envisioned photos of hoar frost in good winter light.
- 22 January: Today we replaced our Denali gallery's three pictures with new scans from those original 1998 Ektachrome slides. We added “Purchase a print” links to each image. Because these are relatively grainy photos, only small prints are available; to accommodate that we created a new “small print” .php page.
- 21 January: A week of dense January fog and sub-zero temperatures left heavy layers of rime on everything, including the Ponderosa pine branch and cone in this week's new photo. An eighth page was added to our Ice and Snow gallery to accommodate this picture.
- 14 January: See last week's note. Today we've added another bighorn sheep photo from Glacier's Two Medicine area.
- 07 January: A group of bighorn sheep ewes and lambs invaded our campsite in the Two Medicine area of Glacier National Park in September last year. Today's new photo is an in-your-face portrait of an adult ewe.
- 06 January: replaced a May, 2006 photo of an American white pelican, in the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park, with a scan of a different slide (of the same pelican).
- 03 January: replaced a photo of a foggy sunrise in Yellowstone National Park with a new scan of the same May, 2003 slide.
- 01 January 2017: Updated the Revision History pages for the new year.