Museum of Osteology

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This afternoon Margaret took us to Skeletons: Museum of Osteology in Orlando, near to the Orlando Eye and surprisingly with free parking!

The somewhat expensive entrance fee was justified by the huge range of skeletons on display – and the huge skeletons for some animals! Very informative displays too, comparing different animals … here’s a pile of bones for you to view:

Cheetah
Cheetah
Komodo Dragon
Baboon
Chimpanzee
Male / Female Gorilla skulls
Male Gorilla
Tapir and friends
Domestic Cat
African Lion
African Lion
African Lion claws
Elephant, Hippopotamus
Giraffe
Hippopotamus
Elephant
American Alligator
Manatee and calf
Goat

Photographing the Sun

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In preparation for next month I tried a bit of Sun photography this morning. A filter is essential both to get reasonable photos and to protect the camera; but a lens filter for my Nikon is more than $100!

Instead I found a very inexpensive (<$20) cardboard filter attachment, and tried it out this morning. I think I need some more practice with exposure settings as there’s no detail in the Sun – but the results are much better than with no filter.

Here’s the attachment, and a no zoom photo without and with the filter:

More interesting, some zoomed in images through the filter; the first image shows how the camera struggles to focus with this filter:

 

I did also try a “welding glass” as a filter but it’s pretty useless, making the Sun green!

 

Raccoon in a tree!

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I noticed movement in one of the trees behind our home last night; with my high zoom Nikon camera I could see a raccoon!

After these photos through a window, I quietly went outside to get better pictures – and I was watched every step I took!