Month: June 2014

On photographing waterfalls

June 11, 2014 Photography, Waterfalls No comments

One may notice that my pictures of photographing waterfalls are often tight shots of part of the waterfall.  There are two components to this choice – practical and the aesthetic.

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Baraga, Bond and Back

June 11, 2014 Baraga Summer '14, Photography, Waterfalls No comments , , ,

And up and leaving from Baraga.  There isn’t too much to say about this other than that I stopped by Bond Falls on the way back home.

I got into Bond Falls at about 10am.  Fortunately, the mosquitos weren’t out and ravenous as they were the previous afternoon.  However, the sun was shining on much of the falls creating some very large dynamic ranges on the scene making it very difficult to photograph… and so I continued home.  That’s about it.

Need to update my library and post some of the photographs from the trip.

Waterfalls of Baraga County

June 10, 2014 Baraga Summer '14, Photography, Waterfalls No comments , , ,

The day started out with a search for some insect repellant.  This has been a very buggy season – lots and lots of mosquitoes.  Started at the local mini-department store, but they were completely sold out.  After a bit of an excursion, found that there was only about a dozen cans of Deet based in the local gas station camping section and another dozen cans of permethrin at the local sporting goods – thats it in town and likely the county.

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A trip to Baraga county

June 9, 2014 Baraga Summer '14 No comments , , ,

The weather is finally right for a trip up to the upper peninsula – enough foliage on the trees, not too late in the season for the falls to go a bit dry… its time for drive.

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Fun with dc(1) – counting zeros in factorials

June 3, 2014 Code No comments ,

Recently I stumbled across a question of “write a program to calculate the number of trailing zeros in n!” For example, 5! = 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 = 120. Thus, the number to get out of the program is 1. 10! is 3628800, and should get the result of 2.
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