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Revision History 2018
This is the 2018 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.
(2018)
- 15 December: Still digging in the archives, today we've added another 2009 photo from Montana's Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge.
- 08 December: From the archives, we've added a 2009 photo of sunrise over the Mission Mountains east of the Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge.
- 01 December: This week's addition is another from the Flint Creek Valley (MT) barn, this a close-up photo of a weathered door.
- 28 November: Something of a follow-up to our October article, this month in “A Close Encounter” I've written about a detour we made to Wyoming's Devils Tower National Monument and the couple of hours of fun photography we had there.
- 25 November: Today we added another photo of the Flint Creek Valley (MT) barn, this a B&W close-up of a glass-free window and rusting hinges.
- 23 November: Watermarked the photos on the first two pages of our 'Gravity' gallery. Several were reprocessed from the raw files.
- 17 November: A large, sunlit barn in Montana's Flint Creek Valley is the subject of today's addition. This required adding a fifth page to our 'Gravity' gallery. We'll have additional photos of this ancient barn in the coming weeks.
- 10 November: Sunlit leaves on a chokecherry bush in autumn color rustle in a light breeze. A five-second exposure allows the leaves to blur against a large, unmoving Ponderosa pine tree.
- 03 November: We've added yet another photo of Devils Tower (probably the last from our recent trip), this one showing sunlit aspens and other trees at the base of the tower.
- 31 October: This month's article, “Cussing at Custer”, describes a mid-October trip to South Dakota's Custer State Park, a long drive with a couple of interesting detours, but resulting in few (probably zero, but yet to be determined) keeper photos, thanks in part to miserable weather.
- 28 October: We did a bit of site clean-up today, removing from the host server all of the 'downloads' pages, correcting a few case issues, and other such tasks we've put off for a while.
- 27 October: This week another photo from Wyoming's Devils Tower, but something a bit different: the monument is minimized in this photo of a sunlit aspen at the base of the tower's rubble pile.
- 20 October: Today's addition is another photo from our recent visit to Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming, U.S.
- 14 October: A trip east through a corner of Wyoming and into South Dakota resulted in a few new photos including today's posting of a B&W image of Wyoming's Devils Tower. We also watermarked the four older Wyoming photos on page one of the gallery.
- 30 September: Our September article, “An Uncommon View” describes a recent visit to the Two Medicine area of Montana's Glacier National Park, and a climb above the lakes that resulted in a view, and a photograph, unlike any I'd seen before.
- 29 September: Our addition this week is a photo of a goldfinch eating berries from a chokecherry bush.
- 23 September: Last weekend's trip to the east side of Glacier National Park resulted in a photo of a spectacular sunrise lighting the mountains beyond Pray and Two Medicine Lakes.
- 09 September: We've added a photo of two bull elk in hazy morning sun in Montana's National Bison Range.
- 01 September: This week we added another photo from a recent visit to the National Bison Range in Moise, Montana. The B&W photo shows the Palouse-like hills of the range in hazy morning light. This required adding a ninth image page to our 'Around Montana' gallery.
- 30 August: Our article for August is something of a follow-up to my June, 2012 article. The new essay explains the inspiration I got from William Neill's recent book, and the resulting B&W photos I've made.
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26 August: A drive last week through Montana's National Bison Range yielded a photo of an
American black bear (Ursus americanus) feasting on serviceberry in hazy morning sun.
We also made a minor update to our photo gear page to reflect the purchase of a Canon EF 100-400mm F/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens to replace an original “series I” we'd used for over sixteen years. - 12 August: We've added a photo made last summer of a pileated woodpecker hammering a dying Ponderosa pine in search of beetle larvae.
- 25 July: This month's article, “Water Works” describes a plumbing leak in the ceiling over my print studio that wasn't quite a disaster, but it's been darned inconvenient.
- 21 July: Another B&W close-up this week, of the seedhead of Canada wild-rye (elymus canadensis).
- 07 July: We've added a black & white close-up of the seedhead of a yellow salsify (goat's beard).
- 01 July: This week's photo, shot yesterday, shows a small decaying shed surrounded by a lush green meadow, the result of abundant spring rain here in western Montana.
- 30 June:This month's article, “Yes, MAM” tells the story of completing a large print job for the Missoula Art Museum (MAM), of photographs made by a student of Salish and Kootenai College.
- 23 June: Our addition this week is a photo made at Glacier National Park's Two Medicine Lake. About two hours past totality of a lunar eclipse, on 8 October, 2014, the moon, partially hidden by clouds, lights the sky, mountains, and lake.
- We've added what's surely the last photo we'll add from our April trip to the Oregon coast, this one made during a brief sunny break in the near-constant rain.
- 02 June: We've added another picture from our April trip to the Oregon coast. This is another of Elephant Rock in Bandon, OR, with the setting sun lighting the interior of the rock's 'arch.'
- 29 May: I recently replaced my long-time favorite computer mouse (Apple's Mighty Mouse) with a trackball. May's article, “To The Point,” explains how and why.
- 26 May: It's been a long time since we added a photo of wildlife. Today we remedy that with a new picture of a uinta ground squirrel portrait (close-up) made in Montana's Glacier National Park.
- 19 May: We've added a black & white photo made a few days ago in Glacier National Park, of the setting sun lighting the mountains reflected in Lake McDonald.
- 06 May: This week's addition is another photo of rocks on the beach in Bandon, Oregon. Some of the spires here are truly alien-looking.
- 29 April: This month's article, “A Bandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here,” tells the story of a wet and windy trip to Bandon, on the southern coast of Oregon (U.S.).
- 28 April: This week's addition is another stormy sunset photo from Bandon, Oregon. The picture of Elephant rock and its “arch” was made about twenty minutes after sunset.
- 21 April: We've posted another photo from this month's trip to Oregon's southern coast. It's a picture of the sun setting between Elephant and Coquille Rocks on a stormy evening in Bandon.
- 15 April: We've just returned from a trip to Oregon's southern coast, dodging stormy weather to photograph rocks and sea stacks around the Bandon area. Today's new photo is the first posted from that trip.
- 07 April: This week we've added a photo of a crumbling barn and rusting tractor found along the road in southwestern South Dakota.
- 01 April: We've reworked the four photos in our Wind Cave National Park (South Dakota, U.S.) gallery. All have been reprocessed with an improved result, and all have been watermarked (which improves nothing but seems to provide some protection from illegal copying). No fooling.
- 31 March: We've added a photo of west-central Michigan's Hillview Lake, made during an October trip in 2008.
- 28 March: This month's article, “Sign Shop,” explains how and why we're printing signs for political rallies and marches.
- 26 March: We've reworked our“Scenic Michigan” gallery. All of the photos have been watermarked, the links to the buy-a-print pages have been updated (pointing to the .php pages), and a photo of an old barn has been moved to the “Gravity” gallery where it should have been all along.
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24 March: We've added a photo from Cannon Beach, Oregon (U.S), from a trip we made there last winter. This
required adding a second page to the Oregon Coast gallery. We will return to the coast in April and hope to
add to this gallery.
We also removed access to our “wallpaper” (Downloads) pages, as the images posted there have become obsolete in today's monitor size and resolution landscape. - 17 March: A scan of a film image from a 2000 trip to Svalbard, Norway, is this week's addtion. It's as close to sunset as it gets at that latitude in late July, the low sun lighting dramatic clouds at the end of a stormy day. We added a second page to the Svalbard gallery to accommodate this picture.
- 10 March: We've added a photo from Cannon Beach, Oregon (U.S), from a trip we made there last winter.
- 07 March: A new scan and processing of an 1978 slide replaces an older scan of the same photo of sunrise in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina, U.S. Ditto a new scan of a 2001 sunrise in Yellowstone National Park. We resorted the entire Sunrise/Sunset gallery images in chronological order, which required adding a seventh page to that gallery.
- 03 March: A mini-irruption of common redpolls (Acanthis flammea) resulted in this week's new photo of the bespoke bird in a snowy Ponderosa pine.
- 24 February: This week's new photo is another 'creative blur' of aspen trees in a January snow storm. This black & white image has the feel of graphite on paper.
- 21 Febuary: Our February article, “New Old Pictures, Redux”, a follow-up to one posted in December, 2016, describes our recent project to rescan, process, catalog, and post sunrise and sunset images from our large collection of 35mm slides dating back to 1973.
- 17 February: We've added a photo of an October sunrise in Yellowstone National Park. The photo is a scanned slide from 2005. We also corrected all of the 'buy now' links on the sunrise/sunset gallery pages.
- 16 February: We cleaned up some of the copy on our 'gear' page, but added nothing new. We also updated our 'about' page, mainly removing the strike-through of the 'prints for sale' copy. We're going to try again to ship prints, hoping for a better result than in the past.
- 11 February: We've replaced a panoramic photo of Yellowstone's Swan Lake Flats, made on film in October, 2005, with one made from new scans and processing (Photoshop CC 2018, 19.1) of the original five slides. The image appears on our Scenic Yellowstone gallery and in a March, 2011 article on our site.
- 10 February: Today we added another photo of last month's eclipsed full blue moon. We also moved a pair of articles, “Pano-Vison Part 1” and “Pano-Vison Part 2” into the articles directory, replaced images in Part 1 with watermarked versions, and fixed some broken links in the articles.
- 03 February: The eclipse of the January full, blue moon happened three days ago, and a momentary break in the clouds allowed us to make a few photos. Today's posting is one of those. This required adding another page (4) to our moon photos gallery.
- 02 February: We have (finally!) completed the refresh of our 'Sunrise/Sunset' gallery. Some sub-par photos have been removed, some of the remaining pictures have been rearranged in the page order, all pages have been converted to .php, and all of the pictures are now watermarked. As a few of these pictures also appear in other galleries, some pages outside the sunrise/sunset gallery have been revised.
- 29 January: Continuing our efforts to update scans of older film photos and create watermarked jpegs for lumen-perfectus.com, today we revised two more in our 'Sunrise/Sunset' gallery, one of a 1973 slide of sunrise in Bar Harbor, Maine, the other of a 1975 slide of sunrise in Great Smokey Mountain National Park in North Carolina. We also added a panorama of a sunset in western Montana's Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge.
- 28 January: Today's 'new' photo is a from a 2001 sunrise over the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park. Along with this we revised another half-dozen older photos with new scans of those slides, watermarked them, and converted another page in our Sunrise/Sunset gallery to .php.
- 23 January: Looking to break out of the winter doldrums we experimented with 'creative' blurs. Our first article for 2018, “Get Fuzzy”, explains.
- 20 January: It's been a cold, snowy winter so far, and the 'backyard birds' have taken advantage of our feeders. Today's new photo is of a Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) on a snowy day. These large, aggressive, noisy birds mob our suet feeders.
- 18 January: A new scan/processing of an old (1980) slide replaces an older scan of the same photo of sunrise on the Maine (U.S.) coast. We also replaced an older picture of a spectacular October sunset in Yellowstone with a new scan of the original 2004 slide.
- 16 January: we replaced a photo of morning mist in Ohio's Salt Fork State Park with a new scan and processing) of the original 2001 slide, and did the same with another photo of sunrise in the same park on the same morning.
- 14 January: A misty sunrise over northeast Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley is this week's “new” photo. This is a new scan of a slide made in June, 1973, making it perhaps the oldest image on our site. Because our photos are posted in chronological order we had to rearrange the pictures in our Sunrise/Sunset gallery. We converted some of the pages to .php. The rest will follow as we get to them.
- 06 January: Our first photo of 2018 is a 'creative blur' of aspen trees in a January snow storm.
- 02 January: On all revision history pages, replaced a section of html code with a .php file reference, and moved the code to a .php file. This will make end-of-year updates to these pages quick and easy.
- 01 January 2018: Updated the Revision History pages for the new year. Re-wrote older revision history pages (2001 through 2007) as .php, cleaned up the code for consistency, updated the URL in the 'year' drop-down javascript. Mostly a time-waster since nobody looks at these pages.