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198 McKenzie River Trails – John Day River Camp – Linux Install
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Hello and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Today I’m talking about a hike that I did through the Mackenzie River Trail area is a really interesting trail system and I really suggest that people go try to check out some of those natural areas especially if you know if there’s any fascinating areas that are in your nearby region. I think you should definitely check those out. You know, for a long time I’ve lived in a close proximity to the Mackenzie River and the Mackenzie River Trail system, but I’ve not really been wanting to partake in some of the natural beauty that that you can get out of going up to those trails hiking around, I think there’s biking trails there’s rafting can do there’s all sorts of natural outdoor activity that you can do that I hear is world class and until just recently I hadn’t really been up there to hike through it or check it out. There’s so many amazing amazing things up there. The way that the river is just sort of built out is beautiful, especially this time of year in late May is the the weather’s getting quite a bit warmer you can go through on a nice sort of late afternoon hike and see a couple of waterfalls see some really crystal clear blue water and a lot of beautiful green foliage in the area so really beautiful spot but but definitely a spot to check out the Mackenzie River
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I think if you look at Billy Newman under the authors section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, you cool stuff over there and wanted to jump into a couple of the things I’ve been doing through the month of July and some of the outdoor camping and travel stuff I’ve been up to was going to run down some of that in this podcast today I wanted to talk about a trip I did out toward Eastern Oregon I think like last week before last is when I was out in this area and I was trying to get some good observations in for comet neowise I’m not sure if any of you guys got to check that out while it was in its prime viewing section there I think that was why we had kind of like the new moon before it switched over to being gibbous moon or nearly full moon like it’s been the last week or so but I think was it around like the 15th through the 25th or so of July there’s some pretty good observations to be made of comet neowise and I guess after after kind of reading about it a little bit it’s not considered a great comment like Hale Bopp was or I think it was was I talkie in 1996 we haven’t had a great comment in a long time I’ve ever seen those when I was a kid though that was pretty cool like watching Hale Bopp come through for it seemed like three months or something you know that you were just kind of looking at that in the in the low corners of the northwestern and Western skies was kind of cruising across the skyline I remember that still from from like third fourth grade when it was coming through and I also remember the year before that when when like straight up in the air like straight up in the sky at night for it was only like a week or so I was a kid you know but I remember for that week you can see a real bright two tailed comet those gone through I think I can’t remember how to pronounce i think is how you talk here. I think it’s some it’s some Japanese name. Pretty sure but that was a really cool one that one I still remember really clearly I was only like, I don’t know seven or something when that like when when that comic came through but I really appreciate getting to make some observations of that one as a kid. I missed Halley’s Comet though back in what 87 I think was the last one it It came through and I probably will be the few years that you know that decade or two of age range that doesn’t get to see Halley’s Comet in their lifetime. So I think I think I was born in 88 of course so if I make it past 100 maybe I’ll see it what is it maybe like 80 something years so it’s probably not going to come back around until I think it’s like the 2017 or 2000 80s that I’d have to make it to for to see Halley’s Comet again. That’d be fun, but I don’t know maybe we’ll see our future. The future is at that time. But it was really cool to get to see comet Neo wise it was just a little below what would be the legs and feet of Ursa Major, the Big Dipper, or like the big bear as it would kind of be observed. But if you kind of look at the different part that we’re all mostly familiar with, if you kind of consider Ursa Major, the larger bear constellation that it’s structured on, if you kind of look down below the dipper is where I was able to make my observations of comet neowise. And over here in the elevation area that I’m at, in Western Oregon, it’s about 200 or 300 feet above sea level. And there’s there’s kind of a constant problem with haze. And with light pollution in this area, and I think it has to do something with
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Well, I mean, of course, you know, the amount of population that’s around and but also, there’s something about the air quality, or about how the air kind of flows out around here that just doesn’t ever seem to be as crisp or as dark as you can get up in the mountains. And, and really, it’s just like a stunning difference when you’re able to get out further and make some some more clear observations, you know, the the level of magnitude of stars that you’re able to reveal, just in a dark night is so much more crisp and clear. It’s just like a, it’s a total difference. So it was cool to, I think I first was able to spot just a little fuzzy bit of a second magnitude version of comet neowise while I was here in town, but I tried to make a special trip out toward Eastern Oregon out into the desert just to do some camping stuff. But what I wanted to do at the same time was make some good observations and also try and get some good photographs of comet neowise as it was coming through during its period, where you could, you could make some some good sightings of it, but it was cool. So going out to Eastern Oregon, as it got dark, a little past 1030 or so as you look to the northwest, you can really see the comet and its tail spread for a couple inches in the sky. And I was really surprised to notice how little of it you could really make out to see when you’re in an area of almost any light pollution once you’re back in town or once you’re in a lower elevation area. With some light pollution and haze around it was really difficult to make out the same way that I could out in the desert or out in the mountains. And so I thought that was pretty cool to get to get to see and get to check out over there. But yeah, it was a blast getting to do some stuff out in Eastern Oregon, I went over to the john de river area. And I was checking out that area. There’s a lot of public land out in that area. But there’s also some a lot of private land too. It’s just kind of an interesting area how it sort of broken up and it was cool to get to go out go out to the I headed out to Madras and then I took off and headed over East there until I ran into the john de River. And then I was able to use this map that I have to go through and find some of the open off or just the open roads that are you know, smaller gravel roads that are set up to kind of traverse the back country out there. So I was able to find a few of those that were open and travel around on those for a while. That was pretty cool. I was able to find some dispersed campsites and set up right along the john de River, which is really cool. It’s a beautiful area out there. It’s kind of interesting, the john de river flows through this sort of, I guess it would be I don’t know it’s kind of like Canyon land and it’s also sort of these rolling grass hills that sort of make up the landscape of, of Northern northern and northeastern Oregon. And I think Yeah, as soon as you kind of get a little bit for like a little bit north of bend is when you get out of the Great Basin area and you start to get into another kind of landscape that seems to stretch up north the Columbia River up into Washington I’ve heard that some of it’s from like really old
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deposits from the river systems and the waterways that were up there and how it were like there’s old old deposits and then an erosion that’s happened from those rivers running through the area for such a long time but but really cool to see kind of the rolling hills and then some of the carved out canyons that go through the john de river area up there when I found the campsite I was at I was pretty far away from everybody and I was really far away from any substantial town I think it was near i don’t know i don’t even know what it is there wasn’t anything there when I drove through there’s a bridge and a couple little ranch houses you know real ranches right like just a little a little a little house like a little two bedroom house and then 100 acres of cattle to deal with so it seems uh seems like another life out there I wonder how they’re dealing with you know, kind of the way the world is things are this summer but it was cool. Yeah, getting out there. Went to kind of set up my campsite and stuff have my truck going. And that was all pretty easy going. But then I waited till dark after 1030 Yeah, comment neowise was really visible up below the Big Dipper. I was pretty cool to get to see out there in Eastern Oregon really bright, really clear. You could almost make out the second tail. I have my binoculars with me. I think there’s some 10 by 40 twos. And those read really well to view it to view the comment Looks really crisp through the through the binoculars and it got really easy to spot most of the night Even just to the naked eye, it was really easy to spot it was like oh yeah, it’s right there, there’s a comment. It’s just the big Wisp in the sky. So it was really cool to get to view it, what I did is I set up my tripod, and I have my camera with me. So I set it up with a really wide angle. And then I was trying to get some photographs of it as it was, as the comment was sort of coming down to set on the landscape of the hillside, you know, as the hours went on into the night. So I think I stayed out until maybe one or two in the morning when the Big Dipper was sort of scooping down a little low onto the horizon. And then at that point, the place where the comment was dipped below the horizon and then was out of view for the rest of the evening. And I think even into the morning, I think by that time when I was photographing it, it wasn’t it wasn’t visible any longer. up in the morning sky I think they said you know first in early July, you could kind of view it around Capella, if you were able to get out early enough, say three or four in the morning. But as as the direction as it was moving, it was kind of creeping up pretty quickly, you know, day over day over day, it would kind of move a good chunk through the sky and in the direction that is moving it was moving to be more visible at the nighttime which really offered more hours of good observation time which I thought was pretty cool to wait until it was really dark enough in the northwest view of the sky probably about 1030 onward is when you’re finally able to make out those kind of finer points of light in the sky in that region. So it was really cool, set up the tripod, set up the camera, set up some manual focus to to get it kind of set sharp at night you can’t you can’t use autofocus when you’re trying to make photographs so that the night sky The stars because it just kind of seeps back and forth you have to set it to manual focus and then
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wring out your your focus ring to infinity and then just back a little bit you’ll notice this every time if you do it it’s really frustrating the dark because you can’t really always make it out and in an easy way and edit your mistake quickly. But if you go all the way to infinity and then take fixed pictures there the night sky you’re going to notice that this points of light that are the stars sort of end up a little fuzzy and it’s because all the way to infinity for whatever reason just isn’t quite in focus at infinity. So you have to go all the way up to infinity and then back it off just a little bit. And that’ll nearly ensure that most of that part of the image is in focus the whole way and it’s difficult even even if you do have an F stop that’s a little bit more tightened out say like an f4 six or something you’re still going to get a lot of that out of focus softness, if the focus ring isn’t really dialed into the right spot. So I tried to work on that a little bit and yeah, dialed in my focus was able to set it up with a reasonable ISO to get some images of the night sky and pick up some of those finer points of light and then it was able to take a series of photographs in a few different locations out there in the john day River Valley which I thought was really cool is pretty to be out there and it was a nice night really warm in the River Canyon. And really remote to like as mentioned, I think I was the only person out there for a few miles I saw another another group coming in on a like a little midsize SUV and they were going fishing out of the bend in the river a couple miles up from where I was started with my truck down a little further and camped out just on the side of the river. It was cool nice Green River up to the kind of high desert tan rim rock that runs the area around there. So it was it was a cool evening cool campsite Area School spot to check out comet neowise too. So I tried to check it out. Up Up until I don’t know what yeah 130 in the morning when I couldn’t see it anymore and then spent the night out there out in the john de river area and then the next morning got up and try to check out some of the different roads and stuff that went around.
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for beneath and around a lot and I found like way back when I was to college I added I ended up getting a laptop which was fine and it was cool as like a Windows PC but I remember when I was in college back in like oh 70809 2010 2011 I kind of changed over the course of those years but I remember when I first got there I really wanted that 13 inch black Mac Book oh yeah I guess it was just a Mac Book yeah I remember that one that they had like the white model and the black model mac book for a while he’s like 13 inch ones and I always thought they’re really sweet like I think that kind of came out right as I was getting out of high school and they were a pretty solid machine back in the day for you know, you know whatever it was for college stuff but but times times have changed times have gone on and I was on eBay and I saw one for like 60 bucks I remember them being $2,000 right like the black one was kind of the souped up one you had to pay more for and you know Apple ways it was always it was always a lot more and that was already hundreds of dollars more than probably what I was gonna end up paying you know for any kind of laptop computer I get back in college so I saw this thing pop up on on eBay and I think it was 60 bucks I could swing 60 bucks to get you know this laptop that I wanted that you know in my memory I can’t remember is to 20 $200 seemed like a screaming deal even though really it’s just time has elapsed it’s a decade later and this is obsolete antiquated computing equipment. But about this I bought this MacBook body it shipped out to me it’s a working laptop it really is nice to remember a lot of his black Mac books had this this design flower this little clip at the top of the screen would fold over you know as you’d clamshell the laptop down to close it and this little tab is sort of break the keyboard plastic that was below it This one was replaced or an older person had it and never really got into it like that but it’s super clean like it doesn’t have that little greasy wet puddle look on the on the the some What is that like the mousepad piece and like none of that like where and stuff on so it’s a super fresh computer but it was cool but difficult so project thing you know like when I got it it was running I think it was running leopard which is the the Mac operating system that it probably would have first shipped with back in like 2007 maybe is when it was around those before they switched over from power PC to or I think as they were switching over that was the last version that it was like compressed compatible between like the power PC and Intel Max is that right and then they switched over to snow leopard that was all Intel PC based stuff and so this computer was capable of it was Intel based and what I did is I had to I wiped it and then set it up again with what is it like mac os 10.7 which I think it went from like 10 four to 10 seven that was the like os 10 lion is the thing I was learning about the the Mac stuff is that they kind of they kind of obsolete themselves after so many versions right like I think I can’t run mountain lion that’s why I didn’t end up installing it and I can’t run Mavericks which is you know why didn’t end up installing it’s kind of interesting I didn’t realize that at first but but yeah I guess it’s set up so that it’s supposed to go up to lie and then stay there and you know really in most ways I like to have it with me today it works it works fine with lying on it but but the other fun thing was you know it says it’s kind of like a project computer to do some stuff I really never worked with with Unix the way that I need to or well really with Linux the way that I need to and so I was trying to think well what if I do like a dual boot where you get everything working with Mac OS 10 lion and then I installed some software to do a dual boot and then I set up a distribution of Linux Mint, which is like a Linux distro there’s like a boon to that’s a really big kind of consumer popular one there’s this other one Linux Mint and I installed that with the program is the file manager Program Manager window manager it’s cinnamon right i think that’s there’s a few there’s a few different ones like Debian there’s cinnamon maybe I’m all twist I think Debbie and psycho distro I don’t know anything about open source or Linux
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it’s way above me in most ways really but but yeah kind of for fun and to be to be up to a fun little project Yeah, install Linux Mint on this old laptop and it really screams through you know runs a lot like Windows seven or something like that, it seems like pretty comparable and that way you know it’s all free and just kind of cool i was i was messing around with the Unix terminal in Linux in Linux Mint. And it’s kinda interesting like seeing some of the differences between like the Unix terminal work that you can do in Linux versus like what you can do on the Mac and I was kind of noticing like the package installer system like it was called like apt get where you can you can just type like a PT dash get and then like space like you know the name of some program and the command line terminal. And it’s like a package install ready to go out on the internet. It’ll find the package where it is on it. Boom, git repository, I don’t know, I don’t know how any of this stuff works. And then it pulls that down and installs the package on your computer, all within the command line all from like typing a couple of things. I was just kind of a fun, sort of like power user thing that I was trying to get into. I’ve also been trying to get into using nano, which is, like, it’s, it’s a word processor built into terminal. I know you guys are really excited about this one Oh, word processor built in the terminal. Say what Billy, it’s a word processor that was built in the terminal way back. Like when Unix was a file manager operating system where you know, you have like a big hard disk, you had to make a document and put it in a file. And then and then kind of search for access that file later. And you have it contain the records or contain the information. I think like Stephen King wrote a bunch of books. In his word processor, you’re just on like a super old system, das computer, mainframe computer, something like that. Whatever, you know, what a run Unix, a Unix operating system, just a command line screen back in the 80s, or whatever it was when you had a personal computer finally. But yeah, the it’s like a full screen app, it’s got a black strip or black background. It’s just like the Notes app, basically. But you do everything on the keyboard. And you kind of save files out. But I’ve been trying to do that as like a distraction removal system, you know, you kind of you pop into you pop into Unix, you do some new stuff on the keyboard on the command line, there’s no visuals or like stuff that’s popping up or getting in your way. And I just got up in an interesting way to do a little bit of work stuff but but I’m trying to like go through and I journal a little bit. Like I write down like handwritten stuff, I write down a few things about like a photo or something that I’m working on. Or one of these little ideas I’m trying to sort and draft in them. I get it out there a little bit. But then like while I’m at work, I’ll, I’ll throw open the laptop. Oh, and I’ll pop in the nano. And then I’ll like end up writing to text document. Like I’ll draft it a little bit on the paper and then I’ll write it out. I’ll type it up in nano. And then I get the text document you know, on the operating system and I put that or throw it out to wherever I want to it’s probably silly and unnecessary but it’s kind of a fun, a fun way to make use of Unix for for something for a few days. So kind of cool stuff. But yeah, messing around with some Unix. So Linux, some old Mac books. Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo comm a few new things up there some stuff on the homepage, some good links to other other outbound sources. some links to books and links to some podcasts. Like this blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy noon in a photo.com. Thanks for listening to this episode and the back
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198 McKenzie River Trails – John Day River Camp – Linux Install