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Revision History 2019
This is the 2019 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.
(2019)
- 12 October: Added a B&W photo of a raven made last summer in Yellowstone National Park.
- 06 October: This week we've added a photo made in 2018 of an old barn in Montana's Flint Creek Valley.
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29 September: We've added a picture made last spring of a female red-wing blackbird (Agelaius
phoeniceus) browsing the cattails on a small western Montana lake.
Our town's (Polson, MT) live Web cam has been resurrected by a downtown business. We've added a link to that to our Picture of the Day (PotD) page. - 28 September: Our new article, “Fifth First Friday,” describes our experiences as an exhibitor in Missoula's First Friday art walks.
- 14 September: Our addition this week is a photo made a couple of days ago of a sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) perched in a pine tree near our house. The bird had laser-focused on a passing bee, and remained perched for several minutes, allowing time to grab the camera, change lenses, and get a few photos.
- 08 September: From the archives we've added a photo made in 2017 of mist rising from the Madison River at sunrise in Yellowstone National Park.
- 31 August: We've added a photo of an American coot (Fulica americana) made earlier this year on a small local lake.
- 29 August: This month's article, “Our Last Picture Show,” explains why we've exhibited in our last outdoor art show.
- 24 August: From our April trip to the Oregon coast, this week we've added a photo of sunrise lighting the 'sea stacks' in Bandon, OR. This required adding a fourth page to our Oregon Coast gallery.
- 17 August: We've added a photo of a very foggy June morning at Glacier National Park's Lake McDonald.
- 10 August: This week's addition is a picture of a trumpeter swan making a spring visit to a small local lake.
- 03 August: Our addition this week is a sunset photo of Lake McDonald, made during a June visit to Glacier National Park.
- 31 July: This month's article, “Overheard at Old Faithful” tells the story of a family visit (from Ohio) during which we saw the National Bison Range and Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks.
- 13 July: We've posted another picture of Lower Yellowstone Falls and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, this one made with a longer focal length than last week's picture from the same location.
- 06 July: We've just returned from a short visit to Yellowstone National Park. Today's posting is a picture of Lower Yellowstone Falls and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
- 25 June: “Not Quite Walden” is our June article. A pair of trumpeter swans (Cygnus buccinator) has been hanging out at a small local (western Montana) lake. We've been enjoying photographing these beautiful birds on the lovely little lake.
- 22 June: This week's addition is a photo of a common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) splashing in a small local lake shortly after sunrise.
- 18 June: A complete overhaul of our 'other birds' gallery was uploaded today. We rescanned and reprocessed some older film images; watermarked all images that weren't; deleted several sub-par photos, reducing by one the number of pages in the gallery; updated all of the 'purchase a print' links to point to the .php pages. The first three gallery pages were converted from .htm to .php.
- 15 June: Another photo from Bandon, Oregon, of the setting sun beyond the sea stacks at low tide, is this week's addition.
- 08 June: Moving down the Oregon coast from last week's photo, we've added a sunset picture from Bandon, OR, from our April visit. The same picture has been added to our Sunrise/Sunset gallery.
- 02 June: This week; yet another photo of Castle Rock, this one made a few minutes after sunrise during our April visit to the Oregon coast.
- 31 May: This month's article, “A Bandon-ment,” describes a trip we made last month to the Oregon coast, repeating our visits to Castle Rock and Bandon, in much better weather than we experienced a year ago.
- 25 May: For much of this spring a pair of trumpeter swans visited a small local lake. Today's new photo of just one of the swans is from one of many sessions photographing the birds, this time in evening light.
- 18 May:We've added a photo of colorful pre-sunrise clouds near Oregon's Seal Rock.
- 11 May: This week's addition is another of Oregon's Castle Rock at sunrise.
- 08 May: A complete overhaul of our Yellowstone 'geothermals' gallery was uploaded today. We rescanned and reprocessed the film images from 2001; watermarked all images that weren't; deleted several sub-par photos, reducing by one the number of pages in the gallery; updated all of the 'purchase a print' links to point to the .php pages. We also updated the links to this page on all of the Yellowstone 'scenics' gallery pages.
- 04 May: We've just returned from a productive trip to the Oregon coast; today's posting is a wide-view of Castle Rock, a series of sea stacks we've long wanted to capture. This is the first of several photos from the trip we'll be adding over the next few weeks. This required adding a third page to our 'Oregon Coast' gallery.
- 28 April: For much of this month a pair of trumpeter swans visited a small local lake. Today's new photo is from one of many sessions photographing the birds in morning light. Unfortunately, the birds didn't stay to nest.
- 22 April: This month's article, “Nicely Icy,” tells the story of a March trip to Glacier National Park, and the nice find of a tiny ice cave along the shore of the park's Lake McDonald.
- 20 April: We've added another photo of ice along the shore of Glacier National Park's Lake McDonald. This required adding a ninth(!) page to the ice/snow gallery. We'll do a clean-up project on this gallery to remove some sub-par pictures and watermark those that aren't. Real Soon.
- 16 April: A complete overhaul of our Yellowstone 'scenics' gallery was uploaded today. We rescanned and reprocessed all of the film images from 2001-2006; watermarked all images that weren't; deleted several sub-par photos, reducing by one the number of pages in the gallery; updated all of the 'purchase a print' links to point to the .php pages.
- 13 April: We've added another photo of ice along the shore of Glacier National Park's Lake McDonald.
- 06 April: This week we've added a photo of a small ice cave on the shore of Lake McDonald. The picture was made last weekend when we spent a day in Glacier National Park, where it's still very much winter. To make room for this we removed a sub-par photo from the Ice gallery.
- 30 March: Added a photo from last April's trip to Bandon Beach on the Oregon coast.
- 29 March: Our new article, “Host With The Most,” describes the benefits of dumping the Web/email hosting service we've used for many years, replacing them and our domain name registrar with a new (to us) company.
- 23 March: We've added a photo of a tiny crab spider on a serviceberry blossom, made in early morning sun in May, 2007. We deleted a photo of a yellow bear caterpillar made years ago with a point-and-shoot camera. We also fixed a number of outdated links on our Gear page.
- 16 March: This week's addition is a photo of common yarrow poking out of a couple of feet of snow.
- 13 March: Deleted several ancient articles, updated a couple to .php and fixed numerous outdated links in those articles. Converted our Glacier Workshop (2004) images page to .php. No new content.
- 09 March: Today's addition is a photo made yesterday of Canada geese (Branta canadensis) landing in a patch of open water on western Montana's Flathead Lake.
- 02 March: This week we've added a 2007 photo (one of our first with a DSLR) of a pair of ring-billed gulls on the shore of western Montana's Flathead Lake. This picture replaces one of a yellow-headed blackbird we decided to remove from the site.
- 26 Febuary: This month's article, “Isn't It Wonderful?,” is an off-topic description of building and installing a Pi-hole, “A black hole for Internet advertisements,” on our network.
- 20 February: We've overhauled our large gallery of Glacier National Park scenic photos. Several older (sub-par) pictures have been removed, most of the film images have been rescanned and reprocessed (sometimes with a very different result), and all of the photos are now watermarked.
- 16 February: We've added a photo from 2009, of a black meadowhawk dragonfly in Montana's Ninepipe NWR. We also 'converted' the Bugs gallery's first page to .php.
- 09 February: Another photo from 2008, this made on Avalanche Lake in Glacier National Park. While the picture of a pair of sunlit stumps reflecting in the lake is a bit abstract, we placed in in our 'Water' gallery as it contains some similar work.
- 02 February: Similar to last week's addition, but photographed two years later, this 2004 picture from Glacier National Park's Swiftcurrent Lake shows Grinnell Point and Mt. Wilbur lit by a rising September sun.
- 28 January: Our first article of the year, “Versatility,” was inspired by a reader comment to a posting on a popular photographic blog. The comment led me to consider the wide range of subject matter and 'style' in my body of work, and whether or not versatility is a drawback.
- 26 January: Today's addition is a photo from September, 2002, of sunrise on Mt. Wilber across Glacier National Park's Swiftcurrent Lake. The slide was 'discovered' as we work our way through updating and watermarking the pictures in our Glacier gallery.
- 20 January: We've completed an overhaul of our Glacier - Lake McDonald gallery. The pages were changed to .php, all of the pictures in this gallery have been watermarked and the 'purchase a print' links updated to the .php page. All of the early pictures from slide film were reprocessed, in some cases resulting in a very different look. Changing the pages to .php required updating some links in the Glacier gallery, the Site Map page, and the Galleries page. We also added links to our MORA national park gallery, which had somehow been missed. All of this resulted in a pretty large update affecting nearly 20 pages.
- 19 January: This week's addition is a photo of Wyoming's Devils Tower, from our visit there in October, 2018.
- 12 January: Today's 'new' photo is of western Montana's Flathead Lake, looking across Polson Bay toward 'The Narrows' with the Swan Range in the distance. The photo was made in April, 2007, making it one of our first with a DSLR.
- 08 January: We've completed an overhaul of our 'Palouse (Washington)' gallery. All of the pictures in this gallery have been watermarked and the 'purchase a print' links updated to the .php page. This also required a minor update to our 'Abstract' gallery. All of the pictures were reprocessed, but there is no new content.
- 05 January: Continuing where we left off in 2018 with additions from our archives, today's 'new' photo is from a May, 2012, visit to eastern Washington's Palouse region. We also overhauled of the rest of the Palouse gallery; all of the pictures in this gallery have been watermarked and the 'purchase a print' links updated to the .php page.
- 01 January 2019: Updated the Revision History pages for the new year.