Did a set along State Street in the early morning hours, hoping to test my twilight strategy.  Despite having a fairly dark sky I could have still begun eariler.  However, the things I wanted to have happen did happen.  I did not get the heavy lens flare like when I was shooting at night.
   This shot is one I liked quite a bit, but need to shoot again.  The HDR brings out the detail inside the store.  By this point in my ride the sun had just about risen, so I faked the sky by using the sky from the darkest of the images. 

   Dawn over the city of Madison as seen from the edge of Lake Monona.  This is an other HDR shot consisting of 3 images: -3, -1, +1 f-stops.  There were two things I wanted to see.  First, if I could capture better clouds and stars at twilight.  Two, would the images wash out less in twilight.  By the time I took these shots it was past twilight.  However I did capture some stars and the clouds.  The wash out from street light is mitigated by the light from the sky.

   An other view of the Kobold's Cave.  The monitors visible are (left to right) Pluvius (laptop), experimental Foxconn computer (unnamed), White Dragon (old Debian system), Black Dragon (Ubuntu 10.04), Red Dragon (DSL 4.4), and the Blue Dragon's twin monitors.

   I took a few more pictures of the Kobold's Cave today.  Since my last set of pictures, I've moved some things around and added more lighting.  I had two monitors stored at the far side of the room which I moved into under utilized space in my main area.  Then there was the trick to getting a picture on all of them.  The Black Dragon is a trusty machine, and I used it the last time I took pictures—so I knew that worked.  The Red Dragon has I/O problems and won't run reliable.  Try as I might I was never able to get an operating system onto the hard drive.  I was hoping I could boot via USB, but no such luck.  None of my Ubuntu live CDs would boot either.  So I decided to go simple and got Damn Small Linux to boot and run.  I don't know the last time the White Dragon had been powered on, but it also came up without issue. 
   A few days ago I installed the rest of my LED reel lighting.  It can be seen illuminating the shelves on the far wall.  In this picture they are turned all the way up which is not how they are typically run—the lights are too bright to normally keep on high.  Note there are no clamp lights running so no colored compact florescent bulbs are on.  With the red LED rope, the two LED arm lamps and the LED reel lights I found I do not need the additional light from the CFL.  This lowers energy consumption and (naturally) heating caused by lighting.
   The red rope light (66 feet) draw 48 watts, the two LED bulbs and under cabinet strip (at full-power) draw 24 watts, and the LED reel (at full-power) draws 20 watts for a total draw of 72 watts.  However, I usually have the lights dimmed some, so the power draw is actually about 60 watts.  All the CFL together draw 113 watts, so the LED solution is much more efficient.

   Stained glass window.

   Amber in the Union Pacific dome diner # 8003 at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay.  I was never a fan of late 50ies early 60ies decour like that used in this car, but Amber loved it.  The view traveling across country while taking in a meal in this car must have been really nice.

   Cockpit of the early 20th century.