Tag Archives: Las Vegas

Good Clip Art Goes A Long Way

Posted on December 18, 2019 by thomasfarley01

While searching my paper files and folders I came across this graphic I did in the mid-1990’s. I had gone to Def Con II the previous summer and I was getting ready to go again. Dark Tangent called for poster … Continue reading →

Posted in art, Uncategorized | Tagged black and white design, clip art, def con, def con III, design, graphic arts, hacking, Las Vegas | Leave a comment

Doing What An iPhone Could Never Do

Posted on December 1, 2019 by thomasfarley01

I got a Canon Vixia camcorder a while back, hoping to produce videos with it instead of my iPhone. My phone produces high resolution video but it is of course limited in what it can do. This morning I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Uncategorized, video | Tagged canon vixia, helicopter, iPhone camera, iPhone limitations, Las Vegas, Nevada, Red Rock Canyon, video, zoom lens | Leave a comment

Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area

Posted on October 22, 2019 by thomasfarley01

Took a walk at Red Rock today, just west of Las Vegas, only ten miles from where I live. Below: looking north to iron stained hills at dusk Below: looking south to a limestone outcropping with Yucca Below: desert wash

Posted in Photography, Uncategorized | Tagged fall day, hiking, Las Vegas, Nevada, red rock, Red Rock Canyon, red rock canyon national conservation area, walking | 1 Comment

Las Vegas to Oakland From The Air

Posted on September 10, 2019 by thomasfarley01

Photos taken through a plane window on the way from Oakland to Las Vegas and back. No Photoshop adjustment save for one picture. That adjustment _did_ make the photo look better. Active Cargill Salt Ponds, San Francisco Bay near Newark. … Continue reading →

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That Was Intense!

Posted on January 11, 2019 by thomasfarley01

“An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.” From the movie Repo Man. This morning I had Mohs surgery to remove a basal cell carcinoma from underneath my left … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged basal cell carcinoma, BCC, cancer, Dr. Susun Michaels, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Skin and Cancer Clinics, skin cancer | Leave a comment

My Prospecting Life in Two Definitions

Posted on July 4, 2018 by thomasfarley01

These two definitions are going in my book. They come from a door stop of a title, A Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms, published in 1968 by the U.S. Department of the Interior. It’s 1,269 pages and it … Continue reading →

Posted in rocks and lapidary, Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized | Tagged a dictionary of mining mineral and related terms, Amber Unicorn books, Australian, dictionary, fossick, fossicker, Las Vegas, terms | Leave a comment

First Attempt at Photographing a Fluorescent Specimen

Posted on January 30, 2018 by thomasfarley01

I’ve taken an interest in fluorescent rocks. This is my first attempt at photographing such a specimen. It’s a piece of petrified wood I found at Blue Diamond Nursery in Las Vegas, better known as Cactus Joes. (external link). The … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Uncategorized | Tagged Blue Diamond Nursery, Cactus Joes, EXIF, fluorescence, Las Vegas, minerals, night time photography, Nursery, petrified wood, Photography, rocks | 1 Comment