Essays

Technical notes on strategy, trust, systems, and durable growth.

Welcome Home 143rd MP Battalion

Chase is greeted by Spc. Welch (Above). Michael's excitement of being greeted by a General cannot be contained! (Brigadier General Stanley R. Putnam, Commander of the Montana Army National Guard). Welcome home, 143rd, and…

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Simple Pleasures

Photo: Ricoh GRD I am challenged by the complexity of solving neat problems, and get a lot of satisfaction out of it, but some days, I love to do really simple things. Like tying flies.…

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A Different View of the Same Thing

Grotto Falls, Hyalite Backcountry. Panasonic GF1, Lumix 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6, 14mm, 1/5 sec f/22, ISO 100, on a tripod. I suffered (sic) to get this photo. So did my camera. We got soaked. It was…

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Inside the Tipi (Titanium Box Stove)

Olympus E-P1, m.Zuiko 17mm, 5 sec f/2.8. Inside the Tipi (see last post) is the little titanium box stove (size small Vortex from Titanium Goat is shown in the photo, 2.5 lbs with titanium stovepipe),…

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Creating Dimensionality from Digital Images

Olympus E-P1, m.Zuiko 14-42mm, 14mm f/3.5, 1/3200 sec. In the previous post, I talked about a lens-sensor combination's ability to create film-like dimensionality in a photograph. I should qualify it by letting you know…

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