OoooH We have been busy!

 Yes, I and WE are still alive - just barely - and now moving too. Not too far, just a few blocks away BUT into a seemingly bigger place. It's been hell. A few problems thanks to the sellers BUT we are in general: HaPPy. Not exactly really content with the mess we were left with but in due time we WiLL be happy with the place, and have a lot of plans in our near future to spruce up the place! Everyone deserves a decent place to live and grow to love, and WE are hoping we are finished searching for that dream.

So, I'm still using my new phone, the Bison GT2 manufactured by UMIDIGI and it IS marvelous! As long as I don't zoom in, the image is fabulous at any of the phone cameras' six resolutions, of which the highest at 64mp gives me a filesize of 9280x6944 while the lowest resolution of 9mp is 4096x2304 is still sharp also, as long as there's NO zooming of course!

The total resolutions are the two mentioned above, along with 10mp/4800x2160, 16mp/4608x3456, 48mp/9216x5184 and 48mp/8000x6000. Very impressive and I am very pleased with the results!

Here's a cropped version of a pix of tonight and still as nice as can be expected. The below image was snapped in the highest 64mp mode, and cropped about 40%. Just click/tap to see this image in its entirety!

My Frozen Upper Niagara Moonscape

Another Day has come and gone. Did you know it's been 1195 days since the pandemic began? What I cannot believe is they're saying covid will be around for a loooong time, and will be so common it'll be treated just like the flu. Covid19 is not a flu!!

Went out again today to freeze a little bit more. With the blowing wind, the windchill is down to the low-20s but the temperatures has been like this for many weeks! It's not the coldest I've been out in chilly weather, and probably will not be the last. I am just glad the cameras aren't affected too much by the cold!

This scene is the icy upper Niagara River of western New York again! In previous years, just about ALL of the river is frozen. This is the first Winter I've seen less than half of the river iced over. 

Doesn't this lower portion look like a moonscape?

 

 

 

 

 

Just love the upper Niagara River in the Winter!

It was a Dark and Stormy Sky

... and it was also very cold with strong winds blowing right off the upper Niagara River. But to see the clouds and the little of the setting sun that was visible, was well worth it. 

Unedited and uncropped and straight from my A50 and to your eyes!!

Tonight's Sunset on the Upper Niagara

You should have been here....   

The sunset and the clouds were almost perfect tonight on the upper Niagara River. It's been quite a few days since I've taken my camera with me to see the sunset since I've been working almost nonstop reviewing and archiving image files, though this exciting work has been going on for well over a decade now. I just love being parked in front of a monitor for so many endless hours each day!!

Who wouldn't enjoy such a golden cloudy sunset like this?

The last few weeks have seen empty skies above a setting sun, and I don't even use my camera when the skies are clear like that. Tonight however, was not the same as previous evenings, and I totally enjoyed it, except of course, for the 1,205 flying insects that were buzzing in and out of my camera view, and around and on me! Yesterday, as was the case during the last few times we went out for the sunset, the wind was blowing quite nicely, save for blowing insects onto our clothes and into our faces! The tiny dark spots visible in some of the pictures are the insects flying around with a model release in their little paws......

Nicest sunset in these parts in many days!!

Here's a few images snapped with my S5 of tonight's sunset. These pictures were not edited at all.

Enjoy these golden moments, and leave a few words if you really DO enjoy them!! Remember, you can click on these to see them in a bigger size!

Sheila loves these cloudy fiery sunsets as much as I do!
But she's smart enough to bring a camera when I don't!

Leaving soon after this moment, but not before
we saw the golden light backlighting some
wisps of cloud high up. Soooo lovely!

 I think the upper Niagara River has some very nice sunsets often. There are, of course, many occasions when WE enjoy some quite fiery sunsets. Here's one sample from years ago while I was still new to the area. This is posted at my site at redbubble and will take you to another website. 

click here to fototaker's older image of Fire on the upper Niagara