Two Top Pine Meadow Evening

no pics today....sunny blueblue hot, light breeze from the East, desert wind....at Lunch: sat awhile at Ozone Beach...warded off the Mosquitoes with spray...Black Phoebe on Phoebe's Willow....Sandpipers, Grosbeak, Song Sparrow, Yellow Warbler, Robins, Acorn, about....report of Bobcat sighted twice by Last Chance (Back Dock and Train Wreck Break Area) and each time catching Ground Squirrel....oh...forgot...pics and clip up, from yesterday, are an illustration of the common photo problem hereabout--foreground and background are seldom of the same brightness...and the camera cant expose for both simultaneously...a curio would be why our eyes can!...the curve of our eye accounts for our perception of depth of field, the other major photogs' angst!, but I'm not sure what gives us perception of exposure, the range I mean...brb...the subject of light and dark comes under the rubric of 'dynamic range', and here a good web page about it:

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The human eye can actually perceive a greater dynamic range than is ordinarily possible with a camera.

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/dynamic-range.htm

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and here's another curio:

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"Colour vision is the faculty of the organism to distinguish lights of different spectral qualities."^[35] All organisms are restricted to a small range of electromagnetic spectrum; this varies from creature to creature, but is mainly between 400 and 700 nm^[36]. This is a rather small section of the electromagnetic spectrum, probably reflecting the submarine evolution of the organ: water blocks out all but two small windows of the EM spectrum, and there has been no evolutionary pressure among land animals to broaden this range.^[37]

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye}

^{I learned to use my peripheral vision playing basketball, and refereeing basketball--court vision. It's an arcane skill. Looking out at the scene, like Two Top Pine Meadow, I see a bit different, and my eyes will snap, unbidden, to any movement, somewhat like the reaction to a sudden noise. A tourist one evening asked me the prices of beverages, and I pointed to the sign near the ceiling, and mentioned in passing a small splash spot on it that I needed to clean. The tourist thought a moment, and payed me a compliment, "You have good acuity." And I was pleased, tourist was a retired lifeguard, and would know of such things... The Critters, I suspect, see 'peripherally' all the time, and see much better than we can imagine.}