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Revision History
This is the 2010 revision history of the Lumen Perfectus Web site. Probably not of general interest, but it helps us keep track of the site's growth and maintenance.
We replace the "Photo of the Day" daily; we won't log those changes here.
Use the "newest photos" link in the table of contents at left to go directly to our most recent additions.
- 04 September: This week's new photo is of a window with a lace curtain in an old log structure somewhere between Philipsburg and Georgetown Lake in southwestern Montana.
- 31 August: Our August article comes from a visit to an "Art Gala" and meeting Lee Secrest, an artist making interesting and unusual wood objects. A discussion with him led to some thoughts about making art, keeping it fresh, interesting, and different, and how the result may not be for everyone.
- 28 August: We've added a panoramic photo from Montana's Medicine Rocks State Park, near Ekalaka, in the southeast corner of the state.
- 22 August: This week we've added another picture from Terry Badlands at sunrise. This was made about 45 minutes after the photo posted last week. We've also made minor revisions to our "gear" page.
- 14 August: Our new photo is of the Terry Badlands at sunrise. Terry is a tiny town in eastern Montana; the badlands is across the Yellowstone River just north of town.
- 08 August: A June trip through eastern Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming provided thousands of images to cull, sort, and display. This week marks our first addition from that trip: a newborn bighorn sheep in the Pinnacles area of Badlands National Park in South Dakota.
- 01 August: During our May trip to Yellowstone this year we saw more Harlequin ducks than we'd ever seen before. We counted 16 in one group. Today we've added a photo of a harlequin pair photographed during that trip.
- 31 July: A friend's visit, and the process of planning a photo itinerary, led to a new article, "An Embarrassment of Riches".
- 24 July: Added a photo of Lake McDonald and the mountains beyond in Glacier National Park, made on the 100th anniversary of Glacier's designation as a park.
- 17 July: A commission to photograph a rare Mountain Lady's Slippers plant led to this posting of a closeup of one blossom.
- 11 July: Adding a photo of the June, 2010, partial lunar eclipse required adding another page to our Moon gallery. This is a .php page, which is now our standard for all new pages.
- 03 July: We've added a photo from our May trip to Yellowstone National Park showing sunset light on the hills across the Gardner River just inside the park's north entrance.
- 28 June: Watching someone photographing in blinding afternoon sunshine, and thinking about my own photography and reasons for making pictures led to a new article about documentary photography and my own definition of it.
- 26 June: Our addition this week is a photo of Flathead Lake at sunrise. We're amassing a signficant collection of photos of the lake, so we've created a new gallery for them. This consists of three pages of thumbnails; these are the first .php pages on our site. The pages have been tested with multiple browsers and no problems have been found (thanks, Dan!).
- 12 June: This week's new photo is from a late-May trip to Yellowstone National Park, and shows sunset beyond the Gallatin Range. We are in the middle of a two-week trip through eastern Montana, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming, and posting the update from near Badlands National Park in SD.
- 05 June: Added a black & white photo of the Apgar Range in Glacier National Park, made on the 100th anniversary of Glacier's designation as a park.
- 29 May: During our March trip to Freezeout Lake a side-trip was made to Montana's Ear Mountain Wildlife Management Area for a sunrise photo of the mountain. That's this week's new photo. This picture is the subject of an article we posted here on 30 April.
- 27 May: On 11 May 2010, the 100th anniversary of the creation of Glacier National Park was celebrated. Today we've added an article about visiting the park on its birthday.
- 22 May: This week we add another to our on-going series of Lake McDonald photos, this one made during a morning visit to Glacier National Park on our way to Freezeout Lake. This update was made from a hotel in Gardiner, MT. during a trip to Yellowstone N.P.
- 15 May: We've added a black & white photo of a derelict building in Bynum, MT. We passed through this tiny town in March on our way to and from Freezeout Lake.
- 08 May: Today's addition is a photo made along the Rocky Mountain Front during our March trip to Freezeout Lake. This is a sunrise image looking east across the open range.
- 30 April: Our recent trip to Freezeout Lake and the exploring we did while there led to this update: an article about making a sunrise photo at Ear Mountain, on the Rocky Mountain Front.
- 24 April: This week's addition shows hundreds of snow geese launching from Freezeout Lake.
- 18 April: We've added the first new photo from a March trip to Freezeout Lake, near Choteau, MT. This is a picture of winter-beaten cattails backlit by a golden sunrise.
- 10 April: We added the fourth picture to the sequence started 14 February. This image was made several minutes after the previous picture in the series.
- 03 April: Winter is winding down; this week we offer what's probably the last of the ice photos of the year, a picture of a large, diamond-like chunk of ice lit by early morning sun.
- 31 March: We have a new article relating the story of creating a portfolio of our work for a selection committee, which resulted in getting a nice commission. The article offers some tips for anyone creating their first portfolio.
- 28 March: We added a third picture to the sequence started 14 February. This image was made six minutes after the previous photo in the sequence, shortly after the sun rose above the Mission Mountains.
- 20 March: Early morning sun lights broken ice piled by wind onto the shore of NW Montana's Flathead Lake. The side lighting creates shadow and color highlighting the strong form and texture of the ice. Our new photo is suggestive of a pile of glass shards.
- 15 March: This week's addition is a picture of some of the same grass shown in last week's photo, and was made on the same day at about the same time. However, it is shot from the backlit, rather than the sun-lit, side.
- 06 March: Our new photo this week is a closeup of sunlit grass in Montana's Freezeout Lake Wildlife Management Area.
- 27 February: Winter has been warm and dry, with several very cold but brief spells. This week we added a photo of an "ice mosaic" in Flathead Lake, created by repeated freeze/thaw cycles.
- 20 February: We added the second picture in the sequence started last week. This image is about an hour after the first in the sequence and was made just as the sun rose above the Mission Mountains.
- 14 February: The first of a series of photos was added to a new page in the "Series" gallery. This gallery hosts image pairs, with the two members of the pair having been taken in different seasons or conditions. However, this new page will contain a sequence of five images, taken as the sun rose over NW Montana's Mission Mountains on a September morning. We'll be adding the remaining images of the sequence as time permits.
- 06 February: We have a new article this week, about seeing the iconic landscape locations a little differently. Also, we have reprocessed the first five pictures on in the Abstract/Graphic gallery, which included making new scans of the first four. This was done as part of an effort to clean up our slide files, and will likely continue for some time.
- 30 January: The rental boats in Apgar, on Lake McDonald's shore in Glacier National Park, have always held some fascination for us. The colors of the boats, the way they are arranged on the dock at the end of the day (whether by design or happenstance), and their reflections allow infinite compositions and experiments. This week's new picture is an example.
- 23 January: This is often a month in which the valleys of northwest Montana suffer frequent inversions, where high pressure pushes cold air down into the valleys. This creates "inversional" fog, which can remain in place for days. Our addition this week shows a classic valley inversion over the ice of Flathead Lake, with the Mission Mountains beyond.
- 17 January: This week's photo was made shortly before sunrise, two days before the September 2009 new moon. The image shows the sliver of moon, Venus, and the silhouttes of Ponderosa pines.
- 10 January: Added a photo of local grasses in fall color. Replaced the last four jpegs on the Closeup 2 page with borderless versions, and added purchase links. Revised the " older ... newer" caption for page navigation, and the CSS that styles this. This required updates to all multi-page galleries.
- 05 January: We've posted a new article about photographing at the fringes of the day, the seasons, the weather. "Magic Hour" stuff. Some minor updates were made to some of the CSS pages.
- 02 January: The new year's first posting is a photo of sunrise on the Rocky Mountain Front beyond icy Freezeout Lake near Choteau, Montana. This required adding a second page of thumbnails to the Freezeout Lake Landscapes gallery. We also added three photos to the directory of page-top images (numbers 26, 27, and 28), and added some just-for-fun statistics to the 2009 Revsion History page.
- 01 January 2010: Updated the Revision History pages for the new year.