I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.
Okanagan Okanogan 
Great Sundogs, and great Sundog pictures!
Question: Is your camera set up to give you “raw” files?
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Yes, but i don’t know a lot about them. Why? You have a great tip? Perhaps for managing overexposures?
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We photographers are always looking for ways to preserve* what our eyes see, and raw files help. Don’t want to get too technical here, but the jpegs that our cameras “cook” for us “on the fly” are (to extend the food metaphor perhaps too far) really only a “serving suggestion”!
*I’ve never liked the “capture” or “shoot” terminology…it’s more agreeable to think of the digital sensor “absorbing” information for us to make good use of…possibly much later.
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Thanks, Clyde.
I’m going to give it a try with those raw files. I’ve been saving them for a rainy day.
Maybe a sunny day is more like it.
I’ll let you know what happens.
I’m getting pretty tired of the jpeg view of ‘reality’ myself.
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No tips, Harold. I know nothing about raw files. Just want to say that the sundogs are beautiful…and playful too.
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Sure is a nice pup, isn’t it!
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