A collection of carved tropical birds that used to belong to my grandparents. The tucan is from Aruba, the large parrot on the left only says "DC" on the bottom, the red and green parrots also are from Aruba, the yellow one is from Bonaire.

This is a creepy, but nicely rendered, chalk art piece of Medusa's snake-covered head. I found it drwan on the sidewalk at the corner of 15th and K Streets in midtown Sacramento.

The multicolored neon "ART" sign on the MARRS building at 20th and J Streets in Sacramento.

A carefully piled grouping of art and photography supplies. This was created for use in a "searching" or "find the differences" type of game.

Light trails from vehicles and signs along Interstate 80, heavily adjusted in Adobe Lightroom to enhance the artistic effect.

Light trails from vehicles and signs along Interstate 80, heavily adjusted in Adobe Lightroom to enhance the artistic effect.

Light trails from vehicles and signs along Interstate 80, heavily adjusted in Adobe Lightroom to enhance the artistic effect.

This is what the California State Capitol Building looked like on New Year's Eve 2014. The state Christmas tree, with it's beautiful star tree-topper is on the right.

This was taken with my very special Christmas present, a new Nikon D5300 camera with kit 18-55mm and 55-300mm lenses. I also have learned how to stack images in Photoshop, and this image is a stacked collection of 5 images in total. These were taken at ISO 2000 with the telephoto lens at at f/10 @ 1/20 sec; f/4.5 @ 1/160 sec, 1/80 sec, 1/40 sec, and 1/25 sec to give a variety of exposures for the stacked result.

Thank you to all who have answered the call of duty and served, or continue to serve, in the military. Regardless of political agenda, you deserve this honor for doing that which is largely unthinkable to the rest of us, so that we can continue to live our lives as we do. Whether you served on the front lines or in some back office, whether you nursed someone back to health or killed someone on the battlefield, you have offered your life for your country and your fellow countrymen (and women), and you are worthy of our profound thanks. Today we honor you and take this moment to thank you, because there is little else we can do to repay the debt we owe to all those who serve. — Willscrlt, 11 Nov. 2014

Photograph of the "Blood Moon" during the 14/15th of April lunar eclipse. The Moon was located in the constellation Virgo, and the bright star next to the Moon is Spica.

Fortunately, the sky was clear at this time, though high clouds had occluded the view before and shortly after this. These two photos were taken at 1:04 and 1:06 AM, and the peak was around 12:45 AM, so you can see a little white reappearing at the bottom of the Moon as it starts to move out of the Earth's shadow.

I took this photo in a park near my home, and the automatic irrigation sprinklers turned on as I was taking the last photo. I got a little soaked, but I managed to keep the camera mostly dry.

This was taken with my Olympus FE-4000 point-and-shoot digital camera using a tripod and the night mode setting. I wish the camera would accommodate a telephoto lens so I could have gotten a closer view. The viewfinder didn't show me anything until I pressed the shutter button to snap the picture. I had to use my cell phone camera placed atop the camera to orient it in the right direction, and then take multiple photos with the Olympus, making minor corrections in alignment after each shot, to get the Moon and Spica centered in the frame.

Photograph of the "Blood Moon" during the 14/15th of April lunar eclipse. The Moon was located in the constellation Virgo, and the bright star next to the Moon is Spica.

Fortunately, the sky was clear at this time, though high clouds had occluded the view before and shortly after this. These two photos were taken at 1:04 and 1:06 AM, and the peak was around 12:45 AM, so you can see a little white reappearing at the bottom of the Moon as it starts to move out of the Earth's shadow.

I took this photo in a park near my home, and the automatic irrigation sprinklers turned on as I was taking the last photo. I got a little soaked, but I managed to keep the camera mostly dry.

This was taken with my Olympus FE-4000 point-and-shoot digital camera using a tripod and the night mode setting. I wish the camera would accommodate a telephoto lens so I could have gotten a closer view. The viewfinder didn't show me anything until I pressed the shutter button to snap the picture. I had to use my cell phone camera placed atop the camera to orient it in the right direction, and then take multiple photos with the Olympus, making minor corrections in alignment after each shot, to get the Moon and Spica centered in the frame.

Happy St. Patrick's Day / Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh

This is my own take on a hand-drawn Leprechaun's Hat with a black band and golden buckle. It includes the Gaelic phrase for "Happy St. Patrick's Day" under the hat, and there is light shading all around the hat to make an overall circular shape to the design.

This obviously is more of a U.S.-centric St. Patrick's Day motif than a traditional Irish one. After all, the color associated with St. Patrick is blue, not green. And, leprechauns traditionally wear cocked-hats (like a tricorne) or possibly derbies. However, here in the U.S. our wee folk seem to dress in green and prefer this style of hat. :-)

ART 320, 2013-12-03, Project 6b, Split Complementary Colors (YO-Y-B), “American Bison Landscape”

ART 320, 2013-12-03, Project 6a, Tertiary Colors (YO-G-V), “Bison, Stream, and Mountains Landscape”

ART 320, 2013-11-16, Project 5b, Complementary Colors, “Tasty Cake”

ART 320, 2013-11-13, Project 5a, Complementary Colors, Flowing, Continuation, “Striped Goldfish”

ART 320, 2013-11-05, Project 4a, Symmetrical Balance, Monochromatic, “Dualité pacifique(Peaceful Duality)” in acrylic

This is the finished painting done in acrylic paint on Bristol board. You also may view my original digital design I used as a template to draw the outlines for the painting.

ART 320, 2013-11-05, Project 4a, Symmetrical Balance, Monochromatic, “Dualité pacifique(Peaceful Duality)” in digital media.

This is the preliminary digital drawing I did prior to painting. You also may view the finished acrylic painting that I based on this drawing.

ART 320, 2013-11-04, Project 4b, Asymmetrical Balance, Complementary Colors, “Twilight at HarbourTown Lighthouse, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina”

ART 320, 2013-11-03, “Six-Pointed Triangle Stars in Blues—Digital Sketch”

ART 320, 2013-11-03, “Six-Pointed Triangle Stars in Red-Violets—Digital Sketch”

ART 320, 2013-11-03, “Six-Pointed Triangle Stars in Yellow-Greens—Digital Sketch”