Running a homestead/farm involves quite a bit of work. So does writing a blog. I've been struggling as of late to find a happy medium and also include time to write software for my clients who pay the

Big shout out and thanks to @powellx5 for the awesome turtle. She ran a Steembay auction a couple weeks ago that I won, and it finally arrived. I thought I would do this short unboxing video to capture

This is my Smith & Wesson Bodyguard .380 'pocket' pistol. This was the second in a series of subjects I used one day when I was learning to use external flashes and colored filters with my DSLR camera.

Hello friends and fellow steemians, I hope you are all ready for the latest crazy and fun contest? This week’s theme is directed a little more at the men, but I am sure the ladies will also have a lot

This is my EDC, a Glock 17. I took this one day when I was learning to use external flashes and colored filters with my DSLR camera. The backdrop was actually a couple pieces of black poster board. Everything

What a pleasant surprise! I've been here on Steemit for a little over one month and I already have 100 followers. Okay, so some of them may be bots, but I'm still excited. Do you have any idea how long

Hello again everyone! I apologize for this announcement post being a couple of days late. We have a mobile hotspot and it can be unreliable or seem to run out of data before the month ends. So now, about

I managed to get out this morning and capture an image of the lunar eclipse. These silos are just down the street from the homestead and I thought they'd make a great backdrop for a photo. Being a 30 second

This shot was taken from the second floor balcony of my friend's house one morning. I love shooting through the trees during sunrise/sunset. The images always come out pretty cool looking. Click image

Driving back from photographing some fireworks in San Antonio one evening, I accidentally triggered my camera. This was the resulting four second exposure. A friend was driving and I was just looking through

Last month I posted an article called Vertical Aquaponics Problems Solved. As of this morning it is my hightst paying post to date, so I figured it was about time for an update on how things are going.

I have a weed problem in my Back to Eden Orchard. I mean a really big weed problem. I thought the whole Back to Eden method was supposed to reduce weeds? It serves me right, however. I mean I've literally

I honestly don't remember when I seeded this tray of bunching onion. When I looked at it in the grow room this morning, however, I decided it was time to transplant. Click image to view full size. I decided

This post contains a DTube video. Click image below to view. I'm trying to say good buy to YouTube so here is my first DTube video. It shows how I plant my sunflower and pea shoots. As promised in the

Okay, I've just spent about two hours trying to upload a DTube video without success. I'm using an iMac and Safari, but something always seems to fail. I also tried using Firefox, but couldn't even get

Click image to view my SmugMug gallery. Category#landscapephotography CameraNikon D200 Lens70-300 mm f/4-5.6 ExposureISO 800, 70 mm, f/16, 1/250 sec LocationGuadalupe River State Park - Spring Branch,

Click image to see my SmugMug gallery. Category#cityscapephotography CameraNikon D200 Lens18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 ExposureISO 100, 18 mm, f/11, 60 sec LocationSeawall Boulevard - Galveston, TX

Click image for full size view. Category#foodphotography CameraNikon D200 Lens18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 ExposureISO 1600, 50mm, f/4.5, 1/160 sec LocationBayou Vista, TX

Click image to view my SmugMug gallery. Category#animalphotography CameraNikon D200 Lens70-200 mm f/2.8 Exposure100 ISO, 200 mm, f/2.8, 1/640 s LocationMaine Wildlife Park - Gray, Maine

Well, well, will you look at that? Despite several days of hard freeze conditions around here that wreaked all sorts of havoc, I have some late season sugar snap peas that just emerged. Nature never ceases