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Photos from around Tucson, ArizonaWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.comBlogger427125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427509577041976308.post-15616986188369394002013-12-30T22:52:00.002-07:002013-12-30T22:57:04.153-07:00Tucson Streetcar Poet Sculpture (aka blue head)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This is the "Poet" sculpture located at the University Medical Center (UMC) stop of Tucson's new modern electric streetcar system, slated to go into service this summer. I like it.<br />
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The Poet was created by Ben Olmstead & Simon Donovan for the Helen/Warren Streetcar stop. <br />
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The head is made up of letters of the alphabet and is illuminated from the inside with a blue light at night. Coincidentally, the UofA's Poetry Center building is just a block west of here. It's not as strong a blue color as my camera picked up when viewed by the human eye due to all the ambient light in the area from streetlights.<br />
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Track infrastructure is done. Two streetcars have been delivered so far and it is getting common to see them running down the route doing test runs. There will be a lot of test/acceptance/training runs as more cars are delivered in preparation for summer ridership. Looking forward to it!<br />
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<br />Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427509577041976308.post-18924863875952700502013-12-30T11:24:00.002-07:002013-12-30T11:28:07.614-07:00My favorite 33 photos from 2013 (with 36.5 hours to go)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I decided to make a quick pass through my 2013 photos and pick a few personal favorites to share.</div>
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This turned out to be an interesting process. I ended up with 33 images. These aren't necessarily the best images, just a few personal favorites.</div>
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I selected five images from this year's Veteran's Parade. The five combined make for an interesting and emotional sequence. </div>
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There were several large groups of High School <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Reserve_Officers'_Training_Corps">JROTC</a> students marching in the parade. I couldn't help but look at these young men and women passing by and wonder what their futures will hold, what they will do for our country, what our country will do with them, to them, and for them. It makes me both proud and concerned in a mixed bag of emotions.</div>
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The Future:</div>
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The Present:</div>
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The Past:<br />
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poster carried in the parade -- "Have a great time in heaven. You were awesome"<br />
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I'm proud of our military; less proud, at times, of what conflicts our civilians send them into.<br />
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Veterans for Peace marching in the Veteran's Day Parade.<br />
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ok, moving right along, trying not to bug anyone... I really like old fluorescent signs that have survived time, including this one at a pest control company in Tucson.<br />
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I didn't do as much birding as I hoped to during 2013. This is probably my best bird image of the year, a Great Horned Owl leaving it's perch during one of the Free Flight programs that the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum holds. I like the intent focus of the eyes, it already knows where it is going and what it is going to do. Check out the talons. BTW, you can click on any of these pictures (no, not like a porpoise) to see a larger image.<br />
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I really like the lighting of this Belly Dancer performing at this year's <a href="http://touchwind.blogspot.com/search?q=Moctoberfest">MoctoberFest</a>. Great eyes and smile!</div>
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A couple and their dog enjoying the day during <a href="http://touchwind.blogspot.com/search?q=cyclovia">Cyclovia</a>. Smiles all around!</div>
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"<a href="http://touchwind.blogspot.com/search?q=messenger">The Messenger</a>" in snow. One of my favorite sculptures in Tucson.</div>
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It is not at all unusual to see architects, landscape architects, and artists have great initial concepts and then trip all over each other in what the passerby sees. This house in downtown Tucson really blended colors nicely with the outside vegetation. This is also one of the very nice things about The Messenger sculpture above: clean lines of sight of the sculpture and all the way back to the Santa Catalina Mountains, no utility lines or street lights in the way.<br />
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If you hear someone talking about the 'blooming desert" around here, they aren't talking about the heat. Below, a night blooming cereus that blooms one night a year and looks like a dead stick much of the rest of the time. Also called "The Queen of the Night".<br />
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Not a great technical shot, and no time to retake before the subjects shifted around, but I still like it. I especially like the Corgi taking a drink out of the cup while folks enjoy violin music at one of the Armory Park PorchFest stops this year. Adults, kids, musicians, and dogs all enjoying PorchFest -- the way things should be.<br />
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Another image from the Armory Park neighborhood PorchFest. This one reminds me of what a great night that turned into with a very hot day turning into an event-threatening rainstorm which turned out to only show up long enough to cool things off; the evening of porches and music proceeded spectacularly. Classic example of the benefits of not letting weather discourage you from attending an event, especially in Tucson.<br />
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My night blooming Echinopsis cacti really outdid itself one night. I captured this image with the patient help of a friend -- I handled the camera while she moved a light at different angles. I really like the way it turned out.<br />
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A fun shot at this year's GLOW festival, a Circus Amperian performer standing on top of a Tesla coil holding an umbrella frame with one tip igniting.<br />
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Miss Frankie Stein and James Arr of the Mission Creeps performing downtown. Always a good show with great music!<br />
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Having fun at the <a href="http://touchwind.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-cardboard-ball.html">Cardboard Ball</a>, where most everyone wore one or more pieces of cardboard. This was such a fun evening among some very creative folks in Tucson.<br />
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This is one of my favorite shots of the year. This was a quick candid shot during the Cardboard Ball and is just so strange. What's that bright light come from the left? Where do all these stairs head to? Why the barricade? What's death waiting on?<br />
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I took a number of pictures of Tucson Mayer Jonathan Rothschild at events over the year, but this is one of my favorites. He is holding his hands up in victory after having just used an angle grinder to cut the steel metal ribbon bolted across the entry at <a href="http://www.xerocraft.org/">Xerocraft's</a> Grand Opening of their new Hackerspace home. Several Xerocraft members are in the background, rightly pleased with how well their unique ribbon cutting ceremony went off. The Mayer is a good sport.<br />
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This is a small portion of a wonderful long mural in the Dunbar Springs neighborhood. I like the angle and lighting which conveys a wind blowing out of the shadows...<br />
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Performers at the second PorchFest in of the year in Tucson, this time in the Dunbar Springs neighborhood. I love these informal community neighborhood events that bring people together, out of their own neighborhoods, out of their houses, out of their backyards.<br />
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A talented harp player with a great look -- at this year's Procession of Little Angels in Armory Park.<br />
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Roaming neighborhoods to celebrate the longest night -- during the Winter Solstice @ LumiNight.<br />
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A passerby during LumiNight holding his present, a small lit candle. This photo could certainly be improved upon technically, but I still like it and what it captures for that evening of giving out small presents to strangers during the Winter Solstice.<br />
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The Festive Bike (aka The Loud Bike) which carries a 300 watt sound system and is a very popular addition to many small community events around town. Seen below with Christmas lights at night during LumiNight.<br />
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I acquired the metal sculpture created by Erik Bang during this year's BICAS silent art auction and had a tremendous amount of fun building a temporary "world" for it on my kitchen counter with sand, sky, colors, lighting angles, etc. I really like the way it came out and its was fun to be doing this in reality, not with Photoshop effects or anything. I want to do more! Moving and positioning lighting and angles on inanimate, non-blinking objects gave me a new appreciation of what my wedding/portrait photographer friends must go through with living, moving people. :-)<br />
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And of course, I have to include a few images from Tucson's signature event, the All Souls Procession. I really liked this trio's look.<br />
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as well as this trio -- simple face designs that look incredible<br />
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All Souls Procession Finale Performers, amazing as always!</div>
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<br />Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427509577041976308.post-17220522141962887302013-12-24T12:28:00.002-07:002013-12-24T13:10:48.147-07:00yep, it's like I've been away on another planet...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Metal sculpture by Erik Bang set in a world created by, and photographed by, Warren Van Nest (Dec 23, 2013) - all rights reserved.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wishing all of my blog readers a safe and happy holiday season!</span> <br />
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Wow, I haven't posted to my blog since October... bad blogger, bad. I will try to post more frequently going forward if there is interest. <br />
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The metal sculpture "5 x 10^7 Light Years Away" in my photo was created by the artist <a href="http://www.erikbang.com/">Erik Bang!!!</a> I won it in a recent silent auction fundraiser and immediately started pondering the possibilities of taking a photograph of the two creatures in their "native" habitat. <br />
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Last night I took over my kitchen counter to create a little "home world" set using some orange sand, a cloth backdrop, and a gelled off-camera flash to the left. I really like the way the shot came out and how the colors provided contrast to make Erik's cool work stand out. As is the case with creatures from another world, proper atmosphere is everything! [click picture for larger image]<br />
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One of the challenges of sharing photos is where to share them given limited time... Personal Blog, Facebook, Smugmug, Flickr, etc, etc. Each has a <i>different</i> set and number of followers. For event photography, I find that the biggest audience of people interested in the images is on Facebook, where folks like to tag images of themselves to share with friends as well as to see and share images of events they attended. <br />
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Even a so-so quality event image that would get zero interest on my blog may get a number of comments and an even larger number of "likes" and "shares" on Facebook. It's really quite fun and fascinating to see the differences in different social media. But it is also sometimes a bit frustrating since to try to reach everyone that is following you, it may take posting an image in four or five different places, and that's not realistic.<br />
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Conversely, some of my favorite images may get little or no interest in the Facebook world due to the algorithms that Facebook uses to determine who sees what postings. The same image posted on my blog may be actually seen and be of interest to folks. What I really like about posting images on blogs is that I can tie together multiple images with text and provide more information than to which the Facebook environment lends itself. Blogs are also off the chart better for providing relevant web links and context. No perfect solution. But challenges are fun. :-)<br />
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Another difference between Facebook and Blogs is that once posted on Facebook the photo tends to quickly get "lost" over time because Facebook tends to focus on the here and now. Blog posts tend to "keep" better and are often found by folks doing Google searches on subjects, or researching a subject, place, or event.<br />
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I'm still missing Google Reader by the way, I have yet to find a reader that I've adjusted to that presents your blogs the way I like to read blogs... My visits to a number of my favorite blogs have been a bit hit or miss due to that, but I will be back to read your blogs, miss them!<br />
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Best wishes & Happy New Year!<br />
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-- WarrenWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427509577041976308.post-14520735669109211402013-10-06T08:27:00.000-07:002013-10-06T08:27:14.215-07:00Blue skies at night<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427509577041976308.post-69706944526272137842013-10-01T21:59:00.000-07:002013-10-01T21:59:31.179-07:00The Cardboard Ball<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Saturday night I attended a Cardboard Ball -- a wonderfully creative fundraiser for the <a href="http://touchwind.blogspot.com/search?q=all+souls+procession">All Souls Procession</a> workshop program organized by local artist <a href="http://myklwells.com/">Mykl Wells</a>. Attendees were encouraged to make outfits out of cardboard or other recycled materials. It was a <i>really</i> enjoyable evening with art, music, dancing, raffles, and more! Great event, Mykl!<br />
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Amazing costume, and the banjo is made of cardboard as well! The banjo brought back memories of <a href="http://touchwind.blogspot.com/2012/03/guitars-temporary-art-at-tucson.html">a great temporary exhibit of cardboard art guitars</a> that I took pictures of sometime back.</div>
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beautiful gown made of paper</div>
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yet another great Tucson event with a diverse gathering of folks of all ages having fun!</div>
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If you would like to see all of my images for the evening, go to <a href="http://touchthewind.smugmug.com/Events/Cardboard-Ball-2013">my smugmug gallery</a> and then click slideshow in the upper right of your screen for full screen images. Enjoy!Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427509577041976308.post-1764869338059543532013-09-24T20:46:00.000-07:002013-09-24T20:46:40.846-07:00GLOW! 2013 in Oracle, Arizona<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are a few of the pictures that I took last Friday night at the annual GLOW festival, a night arts festival, held in Oracle Arizona. Circus Amperean put on a great show using their Tesla coil to generate electric trails in the dark night.<br />
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Here's what you get when holding a metal umbrella frame while standing on the Tesla coil, has potential, don't you think?<br />
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It was a very pleasant night to wander the trail around the ranch looking at night art created by a lot of of different artists. I like the one below, a set of old televisions sitting outside in the desert, each displaying different videos of animals in nature. Since more and more people seem to (sadly) get their fix of reality by watching TV instead of going outside to experience it firsthand, this piece makes a nice statement.<br />
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Karen Medley always goes all out with a completely new and large art piece. Her art for this year was about plastic food and GMOs. If you click on the picture to see a larger image, you will see bananas and fruit, lines of the building made out of plastic bottle caps, everything painted fluorescent colors and lit by black light. A striking piece as usual!<br />
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On one exterior wall of a ranch building was "Bag It", a really beautiful piece made out of plastic bags from various businesses and back lit. Click on the picture and you may recognize a few logos.<br />
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Just passing through... simple and really, really nice piece</div>
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A number of different musicians performed over the weekend, including this one that I really enjoyed, Black Skillet Review(?) with Mitzi Cowell & Sabra Faulk.<br />
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I entered this year's All Souls Procession Photo Contest and thought I'd share my entries here. Each entrant could submit up to 4 photos for consideration. The photos were judged by Mary Virginia Swanson with awards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place plus honorable mention. The top 20 photos are going to be hung at <a href="http://delectables.com/">Delectables restaurant</a> for a show running October 5th through November 8th. <br />
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This year there were 43 photographers entering a total of 161 photos, dare I say some stiff competition with many excellent photographers and images! I didn't make the top 20, but that's cool, I learned a number of useful things by participating and can't wait to see all the images submitted. :-)<br />
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One of the fun challenges was that the contest was encouraging "outside the box" interpretations of passing, transformation, renewal, and rebirth. So rather than going for my traditional favorite pictures taken during the All Souls Procession, I found myself digging for more unusual images -- a really good exercise.<br />
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I've posted the 4 photos I submitted in order of my personal preference. My favorite of the set is the image of the woman and child above. <br />
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The photo below is from last year's Procession of Little Angels. Who's carrying who? Who's watching over who?<br />
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This photo is of a woman watching last year's Procession from the sidewalk as the Procession neared the finale grounds. She's on oxygen and yet dressed up very nicely for the event. </div>
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And finally, this image of two people at the start of last year's procession. Both with very different face paint and appearances than one traditionally sees at the event. I like their unusual appearance and how their eyes are fixated in different directions.<br />
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I took all of the above pictures last November under "run & gun" circumstances typical at the <a href="http://www.allsoulsprocession.org/">All Souls Procession</a> -- low light and either I'm in motion or my subject is in motion while I'm trying to capture an image, a lot of one-shot opportunities. That's one of the fun challenges of photographing moving events. Another fun thing with the All Souls Procession is that everyone sees something different during it, including photographers. There are some subjects that it seems everyone gets, and then a handful of unique people or shots that you didn't even see during the evening.<br />
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I enjoyed entering the contest and learned a few new tricks by doing so that should serve me well with future photographs.<br />
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If you are in the Tucson area and want to see some great images, drop on by <a href="http://delectables.com/">Delectables</a> and grab a bite to eat while you're there. On October 5th from 6pm - 10pm at Delectables on 4th Ave, there will be an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/424647157646704/">opening show</a> of this year's submitted photos (open invitation). On this night you will not only be able to see the selected 20 prints that will be hung in Delectables, but also a slide show of all 161 entries in this year's contest. Bound to be some great images and a good time! Drop on by if you have a chance.<br />
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Kathleen Dreier (an excellent Tucson photographer from <a href="http://esensphotography.com/">Esens Photography</a>) did a great job of organizing this year's All Souls Procession Photo contest.<br />
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This year's Procession is coming up November 3rd. Remember, this is far more than just some kind of parade, it is a time of remembrance, reflection, mourning, and celebration. <br />
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The All Souls Procession is organized by a non-profit (<a href="http://www.manymouths.org/">Many Mouths One Stomach</a>) which depends on the people of our community (you & me) to contribute donations each year to pull it off. Personally, I feel that the All Souls Procession is not only special to our community, but that it is very healthy for our community as well. It pulls people from different walks of life together. It brings young and old together. It brings people downtown who may not have even realized that we have an increasingly nice downtown. Healthy.<br />
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If you would like to support the All Souls Procession, support the Tucson community, <a href="http://www.allsoulsprocession.org/donate">here is information on how you can make your tax-deductable gift</a>. <br />
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It seems to be ribbon cutting season (see previous post). On September 7th, I was able to visit <a href="http://www.xerocraft.org/">Xerocraft's</a> grand re-opening of their new hackerspace in part of the old Steinfeld warehouse in Tucson. Tucson mayor Jonathan Rothschild was on hand for the ribbon cutting -- fitting for a hackerspace, they made the ribbon out of metal and gave the major a face shield, apron, and angle grinder to do the ribbon cutting. Nice!<br />
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The crowd enjoyed the ribbon cutting method, the organizers were visually pleased with how well this unique ceremony went, and Mayor Rothschild seemed to enjoy the uniqueness of it himself. I'm sure he cuts a lot of ribbons as Mayor, but none like this before!<br />
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Mayor Rothschild standing victorious. Who knows, maybe more red tape should be addressed with an angle grinder? :-)<br />
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<a href="http://www.xerocraft.org/">Xerocraft</a>, by the way, is a cool non-profit that provides access to workspace, tools, 3D printers, laser cutters, etc. From their website: "The concept of a Hackerspace is a general workshop with resources to take on any project from simple electrical repair to complex electronic design and prototyping to machining gears, casting odd pieces, creating innovative costumes, building art pieces, exploring esoteric arts, and teaching cutting edge technologies."<br />
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I plan to take some instruction and use some of their facilities in the future when I get some time. A very healthy concept, this hackerspace. Check out their website.Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427509577041976308.post-48358166042441035042013-09-07T00:00:00.000-07:002013-09-07T00:16:55.567-07:00Tucson Modern Electric Streetcar Maintenance Facility Tour Photos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was able to take some time off work this afternoon to attend the dedication ceremony and open house for Tucson's new Sun Link Operations and Maintenance Center (aka Electric Streetcar Maintenance & Storage Facility). I was also able to get my first look at the first of eight modern streetcars to arrive in Tucson (above). This is another major milestone for the new electric streetcar project which has been underway for some time.</div>
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There was a good turnout of folks in attendance for the ceremony and probably rare opportunity to see the maintenance facility located a block west of 4th Ave.</div>
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Here we see a potential future streetcar rider arriving by one of the older transportation methods still used in Tucson:<br />
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Our local representatives associated with the project showed that they could still take a 'ribbon in front of the public and enjoy it!</div>
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Below we are looking at the entrances to the three maintenance bays, with the very first streetcar to be delivered parked in front of bay #3.</div>
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It's an impressive building and appeared very well planned out and constructed. Makes sense if you are needing to service very heavy equipment that runs on rails.<br />
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Inside looking at left to right maintenance bays 3, 2, and 1.</div>
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(above & below) photos of maintenance bay #1 which is a service pit -- a street car can roll in here and then be worked on from below by maintenance staff in an incredibly well lit area under the streetcar.</div>
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track on heavy support pillars for the well-lit pit in maintenance bay #1</div>
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There appeared to be eight of these 10 ton jacks that could be rolled around for maintenance needs in bays #2, #3. They were pretty impressive lifts. Makes the computer server lifts used in computer datacenters look wimpy, wimpy, wimpy. :-)<br />
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One thing that may surprise my international readers, but this is unusual for the U.S. These streetcars are actually being made in the U.S. by a Portland Oregon company and you're looking at the fifth streetcar to me made by them (Portland just recently got the first 4 production cars). Before that, if I remember what I read sometime back correctly, you'd have to go back something like 60 years to find a U.S. made streetcar.<br />
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It's finally getting close to that point where the rubber (or lack thereof) meets the road for this project. We're always fixated on all the new overhead power being installed along the route, here you can see the bottom part of what it take to stay current in this business.</div>
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Streetcar #2 should arrive in October if it remains on schedule (the revised delivery schedule following early production delay issues). I think they are less than a year away for the new system going into service for passengers and regular schedules. While there continue to be differences of opinion about this project, it is great to see a voter approved, funded project actually being completed. So far everything appears (to me) to be being constructed very well. Only time will tell the full story of this project. Since it is obviously happening, I think it best to hope for its success and successful impacts to our city.<br />
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Back on July 20th, I attended my first Tucson Roller Derby bout. It was pretty cool -- serious competition. The Tucson <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Furious-Truckstop-Waitresses/201228133238255">Furious Truckstop Waitresses (FTW)</a> played Phoenix's <a href="http://azrollerderby.com/the-surly-gurlies/">Surly Girlies</a>. Then Tucson's VICE team had a bout with Phoenix's <a href="http://azrollerderby.com/bad-news-beaters/">Bad News Beaters</a>.</div>
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I enjoyed the challenge of trying to take some pictures of the action -- actually pretty challenging since the well-lit to the human eye arena was actually pretty dim to my flash-less camera, especially for capturing action shots. Most of these photos were taken at ISO 6400. Besides liking the competition itself, I like the challenge of taking photos under these conditions so I plan to return to enjoy a few bouts and work on my photo technique challenges as well -- good times.<br />
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The Tucson Roller Derby has a great venue in a warehouse just across from the Tucson International Airport. They had food trucks outside and good seating inside. For more information on the Tucson Roller Derby, check out their <a href="http://www.tucsonrollerderby.com/">website</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TucsonRollerDerby">Facebook</a> page. Definitely worth checking out a bout sometime for a nice change of pace. Here's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wtmcMofIw3A">great promo video from Youtube</a>.<br />
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The night blooming Echinopsis cactus (Easter Lily cactus) on my back patio really outdid itself last night. About a week ago it had started expanding 12 stalks (above) which had been stalled for about two weeks.<br />
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Last night at about 6:30 PM it was clear that all twelve were primed and ready to bloom that night:<br />
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I checked on them at about 10:00 PM and found 12 fresh Echinopsis flowers, very nice! </div>
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Each stem is about 8 inches long from the base to the top of the flower.</div>
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A friend and I went down to PorchFest Armory Park Sunday evening and really enjoyed it. This was the first (of hopefully many) PorchFest events here. <br />
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Nineteen musical acts played on 12 neighborhood porches. Residents offered up their porches to musicians and folks just walked/biked between houses, perhaps stopping at a food truck or ice cream vendor along the way. It was a really nice evening, great people, great music, and great weather since a summer monsoon rain had cooled the temperature down just before things got started and provided refreshing breezes throughout the evening. I'm definitely looking forward to the next one. <br />
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The home of KXCI Community Radio, also one of the performance venues of the night.</div>
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Here are a few recent photos of progress in modifying the Warren Avenue / Speedway underpass to accommodate Tucson's new modern streetcar line. This was one of three pre-existing pedestrian tunnels under Speedway Blvd on the University of Arizona campus. Once completed, the streetcar will run on the right side above, with an adjacent pedestrian sidewalk.</div>
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Looking down from Speedway on south exit of Warren Avenue underpass</div>
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The underpass is shown at the beginning of the following video simulation. Note that the simulation shows a bicyclist riding through the underpass -- my understanding is that they have recently decided to make this stretch a "dismount and walk" for bicyclists.<br />
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I didn't intend to do any sole searching on my way into the office this morning, but nevertheless came up with these one-liners behind a Fraternity house on the UofA campus. It kind of depicts the old days of the telephone party lines running over twisted pair, don't you think? <br />
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I imagine their parents might see these and say: "You know, shoes don't grow on trees". <br />
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How did I spot these? Well, it's allergy season in Tucson and while trying to stifle a sneeze I tilted my head back and... A Shoe! A Shoe!Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427509577041976308.post-59996259265130374842013-04-21T21:36:00.000-07:002013-04-21T21:36:04.222-07:00another blooming night on the patio...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I was out on my patio tonight and for the first time ever was able to watch my Easter Lily Cactus go from closed bud to full bloom in a little over an hour, way cool! Obviously I had to take a night picture of it to share. My blog readers may recall some daytime photos I took of it <a href="http://touchwind.blogspot.com/search?q=easter+lily">blooming in July, 2012</a>.</div>
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Here are a few pictures from <a href="http://www.cycloviatucson.org/">Cyclovia</a> in downtown Tucson / South Tucson. Cyclovia is a fun, free, all ages, all community event where about 5 miles of streets were closed off for the day, absent of cars and open to bicyclist, skateboarders, and walkers. There are two Cyclovia community events in Tucson this year, the second one will be held on April 28th. Well worth attending for a short bike ride or walk among your greater Tucson neighbors,</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Departure"<br />Great Horned Owl @ Free Flight @ ASDM, Tucson, AZ (4/4/2013)</td></tr>
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I had the day off work on Thursday and spent part of the day out at the <a href="http://www.desertmuseum.org/">Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum</a> (ASDM) where I took this series of Great Horned Owl pictures during their <a href="http://www.desertmuseum.org/visit/rff_index.php">Raptor Free Flight</a> demonstration. During the cooler months of the year, twice a day, they put on a very impressive flight demonstration of a number of larger desert birds. Check out the talons above!</div>
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It's really nice to be able to see these birds close up as they land for food from their trainers, then take off and soar high overhead. On this particular morning, the demonstration included Ravens, a Prairie Falcon, Great Horned Owl, and a Red Tailed Hawk.<br />
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<br />Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427509577041976308.post-30916243176248744342013-04-04T22:51:00.000-07:002013-04-04T22:51:18.994-07:00growing fireworks<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">hula hoops at MoctoberFest, Tucson, AZ (3/30/2013)</td></tr>
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Here are a few pictures I took at <a href="http://moctoberfest.com/">MoctoberFest</a> on Saturday. MoctoberFest is a fun <a href="http://www.allsoulsprocession.org/">All Souls Procession</a> benefit and spring carnival held at the <a href="http://www.mercadosanagustin.com/">Mercado San Agustin</a> in Tucson. Above, belly dance performance by <a href="http://www.skirtfulloffire.com/blog/">Skirt Full of Fire</a>.</div>
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Mamaxe put on a great show of West African dancing to the beat of Planet Djembe.</div>
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... and offered the chance for folks to get up a learn a few moves</div>
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The Mamaxe dancers (front) with <a href="http://www.planetdjembe.com/">Planet Djembe</a> drummers (West African music and dance)</div>
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In addition to their evening performance, members of the <a href="http://www.flightschoolacrobatics.com/">Flight School</a> acrobatics group put on an amazing demonstration out in the courtyard of the Mercado.<br />
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The propane tank at the top of the stack above was part of a cool, make that warm, large flame that would periodically go off during the evening lighting up the entire performance area. Pretty neat!<br />
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Circus Electric was there with their very large as well as this small Van de Graf generator to light up the night. <a href="http://touchwind.blogspot.com/2012/04/tucson-moctoberfest-2012-pictures.html">My blog entry/photos from last year's MoctoberFest</a> has some pictures of their large Van De Graf generator performance.<br />
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It's always fun to try to take night pictures of led hula-hoops. It works better with a steady camera support, but still fun to take.<br />
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Main music stage to the left, and aerial silks hanging in the breeze awaiting silk artists later in the evening.<br />
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igniting a hula hoop for a fire dance</div>
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Since my still photos don't do any justice to the sound and motion of the festival, here is a short collection of quick video clips taken with my phone of fire dancing by the always great <a href="http://orbitalevolution.com/">Orbital Evolution Hula Hoop Troupe</a>, the large Van de Graf generator with Circus Electric. Perhaps this event would be better shot in video?</div>
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MoctoberFest 2013 was a great way to kick back and enjoy a beautiful spring day in Tucson -- gotta love Tucson and the performing arts community of Tucson!</div>
<br />Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427509577041976308.post-54977503118870916082013-03-23T20:37:00.001-07:002013-03-23T20:37:40.755-07:00Tucson Thrift Shop<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427509577041976308.post-78707200317683418442013-03-20T22:15:00.005-07:002013-03-21T19:54:12.960-07:00Playing with shadows<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Playing around with light and shadows a little tonight.</div>
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I passed by this beautiful orange house this morning. I really like the cacti window planter and orange / green contrast. Fantastic landscape design to pull the house in like this!<br />
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[<i>Links: If you like dogs and want a chuckle, check out this 2008 YouTube video of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PcL6-mjRNk">an automatic ball throwing machine for a dog</a>. This guy built a pretty impressive machine and its a kick to watch his dog retrieving balls to place in the machine for the next toss.</i>]Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427509577041976308.post-19806297601980252242013-03-08T07:18:00.000-07:002013-03-08T07:18:00.849-07:00glass in contrast<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427509577041976308.post-78555840524846878772013-03-03T14:53:00.001-07:002013-03-03T14:53:54.238-07:00Tree-Ring Lab Tour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had the privilege of taking a two hour tour of the <a href="http://ltrr.arizona.edu/">Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research</a> Saturday during an open house of their new building on the University of Arizona campus. I have to say I was very impressed with both the tour of their research areas and the new building itself. </div>
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At first glance, the exterior of the Tree-Ring Lab building appears to have vertical metal slats shading the windows. Closer inspection reveals an elaborate structure of hanging columns suspended by chains and swaying slightly in the breeze. [click on any picture for larger image]<br />
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The building design is kind of a highly abstract tree house: a round "trunk" first floor/lobby, upper offices/lab floors that extend out past the trunk, swaying columns outside the upper levels representing branches or leaves moving with the wind, and support beams forking like branches. <br />
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Short of an actual tree house, it is a very fitting modern structure to house an organization whose focus is on analyzing samples from trees.<br />
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The Lab has never had its own dedicated building on campus until now. A 9 million dollar private donation made the new building possible. Prior to that it was just, well, a pipe dream. *smile*<br />
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I'll definitely have to revisit the building on a windy day to take a video of the building in motion. Here is a closer view looking down from a window.<br />
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The cylindrical interior lights over the stairwells are a nice touch.</div>
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Wood slats line the interior of the round 1st floor lobby. I've seen several night pictures of the exterior of the building which look really nice with interior lights lighting these strips of wood. The dark strip is a long tree-ring chronology with various historic events marking the appropriate annual growth rings on the strip.<br />
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The field of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrochronology">dendrochronology</a> was created by University of Arizona Professor Andrew E. Douglass who established the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research in 1937. He used the unique patterns of annual tree ring growth to date when ancient cliff dwellings were constructed in the southwest.<br />
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The floor of the lobby has a number of large, really old, tree slices inlaid into the floor (petrified wood).<br />
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During the tour, a number of researchers described their work. It was fascinating to hear how much information about the past can be determined by tree-ring analysis of various sorts: dating wood objects, studying drought history, determining original location of wood sources for constructed object found far from the source of wood, studying droughts, climate change, atmospheric conditions, volcanic eruptions, and even insect cycles. The list goes on and on.<br />
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I was struck by how much enthusiasm all of the presenters had for their field of research -- it's great to see people genuinely excited about and liking their work!<br />
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The wood section below shows 200 years of rings on either side of "0": 200 BC to 200 AD. </div>
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Below is the full radius from a single tree (closeup section above) that dates from -1231 BC to 1562 AD. Longer chronologies are created by matching the unique growth ring patterns for other trees in the same region together, creating an overlap that lets the chronology be extended further in time.<br />
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The section of tree below is from the world's oldest known tree, 4000 years of rings! Each of those small yellow triangles on the wood mark a century.<br />
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Science and research aside, the tree sections, ring patterns, and assorted cracks make for some pretty fascinating art.<br />
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The north side of the new building is the only side without the hanging cylinders. I didn't notice it at the time I took the picture, but the beams not only represent abstract branches, they also seem to represent the cracking of tree slices (see cracks in previous photo).<br />
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There was also a coring demonstration which showed how they extract a small cylinder of wood without damaging a living tree. The extracted cylinder of wood has all the rings and can be studied much like a full slice of tree, but with much less impact, less storage, etc.<br />
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I'd like to thank everyone at the Tree-Ring Lab for putting on a really outstanding open house -- I was quite impressed and enjoyed it greatly. I think it would be great if they could be the focus of the annual Faculty Science Community Lecture series sometime.<br />
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[Links: for a quick overview of tree-ring science, check out the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrochronology">dendrochronology</a> page over on wikipedia. The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research <a href="http://ltrr.arizona.edu/">website</a>.]Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190691177954483912noreply@blogger.com1