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Andrew Flenniken Photography

This peak is called Elephant Butte, and I do indeed love it. From a certain spot on Highway 20 in the North Cascades National Park you get this view: the angular peak of Elephant Butte above, mirrored by the angle below where the sides of the valley meet.

If you love it too, it could be yours! I've added it to the print store and it's ready to ship. Christmas is around the corner, a little art would brighten someone's holidays.

Gear: Nikon D850, Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG

Link to the photo in the print store: andrewflenniken.com/product/el

Link to the blog post: andrewflenniken.com/2024/11/25

Black and white photo. A snow covered mountain, Elephant Butte, with dark trees and rock peaking through the snow. Its peak is mirrored below by two dark tree covered hillsides intersecting at the bottom of the frame.
#Photography#BlackAndWhitePhotography#ElephantButte
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Hot off the press and probably still incorrectly white balanced (I still maintain my love-hate relationship with @darktable, I love it but sometimes I think the "calibrate with color checker" button is a trap 😆)

#WinterFieldDay with the local club, I was the only one capable of digital (mostly PSK as it turns out). Some 500 QSOs, like 1/5th of which were just me getting 102 in the literal last hour before it ended. Apologies to anyone who couldn't make it in or couldn't copy because I was flying by way too fast, hopefully I'll catch you in the summer field day!

Inside someone's spacious garage, a line of three folding tables set up side by side, each with a different radio set and a laptop, antenna and power cables running to the floor. The leftmost table has an older gentleman with a grey beard and brown hair leaning in and staring intently at the radio, while a much younger child seems to be staring at the laptop next to him. The middle table has a husband-and-wife pair staring at something unseen from this angle and looking somewhat concerned, and the far table has another older gentleman with a large blue headset on, adjusting his radio. Off to the right are two more people, one standing, one sitting, engaged in some discussion. Everyone seems buried in some sort of activity, little idle time left to go around.
The leftmost table from the first shot, with the older gentlemen holding the radio's hand microphone in his left hand and writing something in a notepad with his right. Just barely visible in the center are the two clear paddles of an iambic morse code keyer. The radio appears to be a Kenwood TS-850, lots of buttons, what space isn't filled with buttons is filled with knobs. The screen can't really be made out, except for the number 14.254.95. The child to the left is looking over his shoulder at the radio in interest, facing almost directly away from the camera.
The far right table from the first picture. This gentleman is wearing a deep blue headset that says "Pro 7" just above a label reading "KD9KMF," over top of his baseball cap that he's wearing backwards. He's holding a transmit switch in his left hand, as his right is adjusting the frequency dial on the radio. Some of the cabling coming out of the radio also has "KD9KMF" labels on it. In front of him is a miniature bluetooth keyboard, and off to his left is a monitor, mirroring what the open laptop just to its right is displaying, placed just behind a second laptop that's closed, crowded next to some handheld radio and a notebook. The screen is displaying a number of colums of illegible text and text headings, the contest logbook.
The same table as the third image, but now the cameraman is sitting in the operator seat. The second laptop, a Thinkpad T480 is open, and is running fldigi. While the exact text is illegible, with enough zooming in, it's possible to deduce that it's in BPSK-31 mode. The radio to the right is an ICOM IC-7300, now in USB-D mode, on frequency 28.120.000, the headset has been disconnected (and is nowhere to be seen) and a hand mic is in its place, a white USB cable runs from the fldigi laptop to the radio, sitting elevated on a little wire shelf, as below it are two nondescript black boxes, the lower being an MFJ power supply, and the upper being an LDJ antenna tuner. The handheld radio can now be seen to be an AnyTone AT-D878, and the large screen from before can be read - across the top is a list of contacts, the most recent one being record 45, callsign K7JHM, class 1H, section UT, on 01/27 20:28, Band 10, mode digital, country USA, operator initials JW, operator callsign W2TAZ. The bottom-right of the screen is a lost of sections under numbered headings, such as "DE," "MDC," "EPA," and "WPA" being under the "3" heading. Some are blue and some are red, showing which have been contacted before. Up in the top right is a box of statistics - 7 CW contacts, 35 phone contacts, 1 digital contact, for a total of 51 QSO points, 6 QSOs per hour pace in the last 20 minutes, 30 QSOs per hour pace across the last 60 minutes.
#AmateurRadio#HamRadio#Photography
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