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Revision History 2024
This is the 2024 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.
(2024)
- 14 December: We've been visited by a long-tailed weasel most of the summer, and watched as its coat changed from brown to pure white by early December. Today's addition to the site is a photo of the weasel in white. Adding this picture required adding a fourth page to our 'other mammals' gallery.
- 07 December: We've posted another photo of Jasper Lake, in the Absoroka-Beartooth Wilderness. This is a view from above the lake as we made our way down from a high ridge.
- 30 November: The early August hike in the Absoroka-Beartooth Wilderness takes us to Montana's Jasper Lake. Frequent rains made for lush greenery and wildflowers (and mosquitos).
- 23 November: Another photo of sunset light on mountains around Albino Lake in the Absoroka-Beartooth Wilderness. This picture was made about ten minutes after the previous one (see 16 Novmber below),
- 17 November: Did a bit of maintenance to our Site Map page and to the 'Photo Gear' page.
- 16 November: in our new picture we see sunset light on mountains above Albino Lake under a darkening sky in the Beartooth Wilderness in Montana. That night brought violent storms with high wind, lightning, hail, and rain.
- 09 November: Back to the hike in the Beartooths (see the entries below from 31 August to 12 October). This week's addition is a photo made from our campsite above Albino Lake in Montana.
- 02 November: We've added another photo, made on the night of 10 October, of the aurora borealis over westerns Montana's Flathead Lake.
- 26 October: Photos from our week of interesting night skies continue with a picture of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) made in the early evening of 14 October.
- 19 October: We've had interesting night sky events this month. This week's new picture shows the aurora borealis on the night of 10 October. The picture was made from the shore of Flathead Lake and includes the overly-lit pier in Polson, MT.
- 12 October: The hike in the Beartooths continues, crossing from Wyoming into Montana to Albino Lake, the subject of this week's addition.
- 05 October: This week's new photo continues our hike in the Beartooth Wilderness. The picture was made from our campsite at Becker Lake, early evening light on a rocky meadow outside our tents (inside the tents isn't interesting or pretty).
- 28 September: We've moved on to Becker Lake in the Beartooth Wilderness. Today's addition shows part of the lake and the surrounding mountains late on a blue-sky morning.
- 21 September: Our hike in the Beartooths continues (see recent postings below); today's new photo shows our approach to a river crossing on our route to Becker Lake.
- 14 September: Our last 'keeper' photo from Beauty Lake (see previous two week's updates) is this week's new picture. It shows sunset light on a mountain near our campsite along the lake's shore.
- 07 September: This week another photo of the lovely Beauty Lake in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, this one made a half-hour after sunrise. This is our first posting with a larger 'lg' image size, 800px in the longest dimension. Replaced last week's posting with a similarly-sized version.
- 31 August: We end the month with a picture made during a backpacking trip a couple of weeks ago into the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Today's new image shows Beauty Lake in mid-morning light. The photo was made from our campsite.
- 24 August: A wintry scene, two small trees on a snowy ridge under a cloudy sky near our home is this week's addition.
- 17 August: Another photo from a late-July hike into the southern end of the Jewel Basin. The picture was made after climbing a high ridge and then starting the down the other side through a series of switchbacks to Big Hawk Lake.
- 10 August: This week, from a late-July hike into the southern end of Montana's Jewel Basin, a photo of an unnamed lake along the trail to Big Hawk Lake.
- 27 July: We've added another picture from our early July hike into Montana's Jewel Basin, this of a small waterfall on the creek that provided water for our campsite. This required adding a second page to our Jewel Basin gallery.
- 20 July: A hike last week into Montana's Jewel Basin (Flathead National Forest) provided an opportunity to capture some cell phone photos of beautiful Birch Lake. Today we posted the first of several.
- 13 July: From a trip to Glacier National Park last September, today's addition shows late-day light on Howe Ridge over Lake McDonald. Adding this picture required adding another page to our already large gallery of photos from Glacier.
- 06 July: We've added a photo of a spot of sun on a foggy morning hitting exactly the right spot on a large rock in Beard's Hollow off the Washington coast.
- 29 June: An autumn, 2018 visit to Wyoming's Devils Tower resulted a small number of photos but with a surprisingly high yield of keepers. We've posted a B&W picture of the monument with a forest of trees below to provide a sense of the enormous size of the tower.
- 22 June: This week's addition is a photo of the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean at Long Beach in Washington, U.S. The image was captured in September, 2014.
- 16 June: We've added another photo from our 2019 trip to Bandon, Oregon, of offshore rocks ('sea stacks') in hazy morning light.
- 08 June: In late May an 'interesting' stormy sky appeared over our home in northwest Montana, dissipated in minutes (without rain), giving time for only a couple of phone snapshots. When processed and converted to black & white the picture turned out to be a keeper.
- 01 June: We begin June with another photo from our 2019 trip to Bandon, Oregon. The new posting shows the off-shore rock formation called 'Cat & Kittens' a half hour after sunset.
- 25 May: A photo from a 2019 trip to coastal Bandon, Oregon, is this week's addition. Some of the pictures in our 'Oregon Coast' gallery were rearranged to accommodate the addition.
- 18 May: We've added another photo from our October, 2018 visit to South Dakota's Custer State Park, again showing aspens in fall color. Unlike the previous addition, this photo is a color rendering.
- 08 May: Replaced a photo of Cameron Falls (in Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada) with a newly processed version of the same raw file. Converted the page (page 2 of our 'Water' gallery) to .php and updated links to that page. Also updated our 'Waterton National Park' gallery with a newly-processed version of a Waterton Lake photo. Added a link to that gallery to our Galleries page. No new content.
- 04 May: Today's 'new' picture is from an October, 2018 visit to South Dakota's Custer State Park. Aspens in fall color muted by fog, rain, and light snow become a black & white study in form and texture.
- 27 April: This week we've posted another photo of the April snow on the plowed field (see last week's entry). This image highlights a tiny tree and the remains of a fence above the furrows.
- 20 April: A mid-April snow highlighted 'crop circles' made by plowing in a local field. This made for an interesting black & white photo of the snow on the furrows made by the plow.
- 13 April: We've added a close-up view of the thick bark of a Ponderosa pine tree, lit by morning sun and rendered in black & white.
- 06 April: Our addition this week is a 2008 photo of an American avocet in western Montana's Ninepipe NWR. Adding this required moving a number of photos around in our 'Other Birds' gallery and adding an eighth page to that gallery.
- 30 March: This week: sun lights the pines above a misty Madison River on a cold September morning in Yellowstone National Park.
- 23 March: We've added a photo of the 2023 'Snow' moon (February). The picture is a composite made from two exposures: one a 'correct' exposure of the moon, and another that over-exposed the moon but brought out the color in the surrounding clouds.
- 16 March: It may be warming into Spring, but today we've posted a wintry B&W picture made along the shore of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park. The photo was made in 2014.
- 09 March: The skeleton of a dead poplar tree high on a hill over the Mission Range is the subject of this week's new B&W photo.
- 02 March: We've added the fourth (and final) photo to the series we started on 10 February. Today's picture is a single-frame exposure of the subject, once again a different composition from the others.
- 24 February: This week's addition is the third of four in the series started 10 February, this picture made by assembling two horizontal frames one above the other for a more square final image.
- 17 February: We've added the second photo in the series started last week, this one of the same scene but a slightly different composition and cropping.
- 10 February: This week's new photo is a panoramic view of a row of skeleton trees along a ridge beneath a dark, colorful sky. The snow-covered field below is highlighted by hazy sun outside the frame. This is the first posting of what will be a series of this same scene. This required adding a sixth page to our 'Series' gallery. Converted pages 1, 2, and 3 of the gallery to .php and updated the 'Galleries' page with those new links.
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03 February 2024: A couple of heavy snows followed by freezing fog and rain left the plowed
fields around our NW Montana home covered with a glaze of ice. High sun above dense clouds
made that ice reflect like a mirror. The Mission Mountain Range provides a backdrop for our
new photo.
Rearranged the pictures in our 'Elk' gallery and replaced several with watermarked versions with metadata. -
27 January: We've posted a photo of aspens in fall color, the picture made in October, 2005, in
a little grotto a few miles from Slough Creek in Yellowstone National Park. We converted the page
(page 2 of the gallery), along with pages 1, 3, and 4, to .php.
Replaced all photos but the last (HOME1511_6500) in the 'Whitetail Deer' gallery with watermarked versions with metadata and purchase links (currently hidden). Ditto the top and bottom rows on page three, and several photos in our 'American Bison' (buffalo) gallery. -
20 January: A pair of Harlequin ducks on the Yellowstone River, photographed in May, 2003, is
this week's addition.
Replaced all photos but the first (YELLS0506_0337) in page two of the 'Horns and Antlers' gallery with watermarked versions with metadata and purchase links (currently hidden). Ditto the top and bottom rows on page three. - 13 January: We've added a May, 2005 photo of a bull moose in velvet, on a rainy day near Roosevelt Junction in Yellowstone National Park. Some photos in our 'Horns and Antlers' gallery have been moved around so they are displayed in proper date order.
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06 January: Our first posting of 2024 shows a 'family' of bighorn sheep on a nearly vertical
canyon wall high above the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park. The image is a scan
of a slide made in June, 2006.
Our project to reprocess some of our older film images (which may include making new scans) will continue throughout the winter months. - 01 January 2024: Updated the Revision History pages for the new year.