Nature Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University. Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:02:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 South America & Antarctica, 2025 https://www.scottbradford.us/2025/10/14/south-america-antarctica-2025/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 03:23:10 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=90843 Back in January, Melissa and I visited South America and Antarctica. It was an amazing once-in-a-lifetime trip centered around a fourteen-day cruise on the Norwegian Star. This post includes a lot of photos . . . including more penguins than you probably ever wanted to see. There was a pretty big “snafu” right at the start of the […]

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]]> Japan and Alaska, 2024 https://www.scottbradford.us/2025/09/15/japan-and-alaska-2024/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:02:05 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=89946 No, that’s not a typo in the title. Melissa and I went to Japan and Alaska all the way back in April 2024, but I just got around to sorting and processing my photos now. Sorry. It is what it is. I assume these places haven’t changed too much in the meantime! Our trip took […]

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]]> Solar Cause and Effect https://www.scottbradford.us/2024/10/12/solar-cause-and-effect/ Sat, 12 Oct 2024 04:40:43 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=88115 Cause: Effect: More Effect: Details On October 8, 2024, the Sun sent a fairly large coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. It came from a solar flare associated with the sunspot visible toward the top-right of the “Cause” photo above. I took that photo days later, after the sunspot had rotated out of alignment with […]

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]]> Support Victims of Hurricane Helene https://www.scottbradford.us/2024/10/01/support-victims-of-hurricane-helene/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:00:00 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=87728 Hurricane Helene made landfall in the the “Big Bend” region of the Florida panhandle on September 27, and continued inland through Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Rainfall from the storm’s remnants caused devastating flooding in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. The city of Asheville, North Carolina, was especially hard-hit. If you want to help […]

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]]> New England, 2022 and 2023 https://www.scottbradford.us/2024/01/23/new-england-2022-and-2023/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:10:28 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=77345 And now for some more photos from my backlog. Melissa and I made two trips to New England over the last year and a half. The first took us to Providence, Rhode Island; Lost River Gorge, New Hampshire; Mount Washington, New Hampshire; and Plymouth, Massachusetts. The second took us to various sites in Maine, including […]

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]]> Caribbean Cruises, 2023 https://www.scottbradford.us/2024/01/18/caribbean-cruises-2023/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:10:27 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=76957 I’m still working through processing a huge backlog of photos for posting to the site. These are from two Caribbean Cruises in early 2023. The first cruise was a short February getaway to the Bahamas on the Norwegian Sky out of Miami, Florida. The planned itinerary included stops in Freeport and at Norwegian’s private island, […]

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]]> Oahu, Hawaii, 2022 https://www.scottbradford.us/2023/08/26/oahu-hawaii-2022/ Sun, 27 Aug 2023 02:03:26 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=71505 Melissa and I went to the island of Oahu, Hawaii, last year . . . and I just now got around to sorting and processing the photos I took. We spent about a week driving around, seeing the sights, and having a great time. The first set of photos is a bunch of animals and scenery we saw […]

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]]> Generic Pointy Mountain https://www.scottbradford.us/2023/08/09/generic-pointy-mountain/ Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:21:44 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=70888 Imagine, if you will, a national park that has no distinguishing features. It’s a generic mountain. Its description is ephemeral, and its location is undefined. Here’s its website. Enjoy.

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]]> Sony a6600 at Natural Bridge https://www.scottbradford.us/2022/04/08/sony-a6600-at-natural-bridge/ Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=47868 I like photography. These days, like almost everybody else, I do most of my casual shooting on my phone. But for almost ten years I’ve had a Nikon D3100 DSLR (APS-C format) for more “serious” photo outings. It has been a good camera. But it was time for an upgrade, especially since I’m interested in […]

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]]> Random Photos https://www.scottbradford.us/2022/03/29/random-photos-8/ Tue, 29 Mar 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=47370 I need to make posts of my “random photos” more often. It has been almost five years since the last one, and so I’ve built up quite a backlog. Sorry. If you’re friends with me on Facebook you very well might have seen some of these before. Some are just “artistic” photos, some are cute […]

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