The Cerebral Construct

September 7, 2017

Cat Face

Araneus gemmoides. My garage. Casper, Wyoming.

September 5, 2017

Mantis

Praying Mantis. My garden. Casper, Wyoming.

August 28, 2017

Humming ... moth

White-lined Sphinx Moth. Casper, Wyoming.

August 22, 2017

Solar Eclipse 2017

Another view of the solar eclipse. Casper, Wyoming.

August 21, 2017

Totality

Totality of the 2017 Solar Eclipse. Shot from the rooftop of the Natrona County Sheriff's Office, Casper, Wyoming - the best place on the planet to view the eclipse!

May 16, 2017

Settlers' View

View of large bluff along the Oregon Trail. Casper, Wyoming.

February 6, 2017

Country Club

Country Club Beer. Formerly of St. Joeseph, Missouri.

September 6, 2016

Well Pump

Old water pump. South Pass City, Wyoming.

Where art thou?

I live in Casper, a small city of about 60,000 located in central Wyoming. You can't go much further under the radar than here, but Casper is a little gem on the high plains that's quickly evolving from a gritty oil town to a more cosmopolitan small city.

Wyoming is the ninth largest state in the Union (it's bigger than Oregon in land area at 97,820 sq miles (253,300 km²)) and is the least-populated. Mountains, buttes, lakes, plains, desert - it's all here and it's a vast, awe-inspiring place to explore.

Thanks for visiting and please leave comments!

Toys

Ever since I was a kid, I've played around with cameras. From Instamatics to Polaroids, through to my first SLR (a Minolta x700) and 2-1/4 (Mamiya C330 Pro) and now digital, it's been a fun journey with a lens by my side.

I studied political science at the University of Iowa. While there, I worked as a student photographer within the hospital's Internal Medicine Department. That was a trip documenting various procedures. I was very darkroom - focused, working with Cibachrome, b&w and infrared. I even aquired my own darkroom setup with a vintage Beseler motor-driven monster. Ah, the good ole' days!

For years, my workhorses were my Nikon FE and my Ricoh KR-5 Super - both still proudly displayed, but sadly idle.

Just bought a new camera, the Nikon D3300. Getting used to the differences between it and my old Olympus, but so far, it's a great camera!

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