Brett Peters's Photos

An Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis, on a tree in my backyard.

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Every year, Williamsburg's Grand Illumination weekend draws one of the biggest crowds of the year. The festivites kick off with a parade, where this picture was taken.

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Every year, Williamsburg's Grand Illumination weekend draws one of the biggest crowds of the year. The festivites kick off with a parade, where this picture was taken.

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Colorful cast of characters at my feeders: American Goldfinch, White-Breasted Nuthatch, House Finch.

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Chirstmas Tree in Colonial Williamsburg after the tree-lighting ceremony on Christmas Eve, 2006.

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Error messages spawned by I/O errors on Tsiolkovsky, Merrystar's Toughbook W2. Looks like the hard drive is going to go. Error messages spawned by I/O errors on Tsiolkovsky, Merrystar's Toughbook W2. Looks like the hard drive is going to go.

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Every year, Williamsburg's Grand Illumination weekend draws one of the biggest crowds of the year. The festivites kick off with a parade, where this picture was taken.

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Every year, Williamsburg's Grand Illumination weekend draws one of the biggest crowds of the year. The festivites kick off with a parade, where this picture was taken.

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Every year, Williamsburg's Grand Illumination weekend draws one of the biggest crowds of the year. The festivites culminate in a fireworks display in downtown Williamsburg. Three launch areas are set up, but the optimal viewing areas are really, really crowded, so we camped out by the bookstore where we could see two of them clearly. The weather was cold (in the 40s) and rain began to fall about 45 minutes before the fireworks started, so it wasn't optimal fireworks weather. The rain kept it short, too (about 20 minutes long, if that.) This was my son's first fireworks show, however, and he could. not. stop. talking about it. So all in all it was a pretty good night. (This was my first time using the Canon A95's "Fireworks" setting, which really needs a tripod to work well. So most of these pictures, while interesting, are not very accurate representations of fireworks. Chalk them up as experiments for a novice photographer?)

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Every year, Williamsburg's Grand Illumination weekend draws one of the biggest crowds of the year. The festivites culminate in a fireworks display in downtown Williamsburg. Three launch areas are set up, but the optimal viewing areas are really, really crowded, so we camped out by the bookstore where we could see two of them clearly. The weather was cold (in the 40s) and rain began to fall about 45 minutes before the fireworks started, so it wasn't optimal fireworks weather. The rain kept it short, too (about 20 minutes long, if that.) This was my son's first fireworks show, however, and he could. not. stop. talking about it. So all in all it was a pretty good night. (This was my first time using the Canon A95's "Fireworks" setting, which really needs a tripod to work well. So most of these pictures, while interesting, are not very accurate representations of fireworks. Chalk them up as experiments for a novice photographer?)

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The W&M girls a capella singing group Reveille performs at the Williamsburg Farmer's Market. (Ambient temperature was about 30 degrees when this was taken. They were still in tune.)

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Screenshot of the new tv.yahoo.com listings page in Safari. I am seriously displeased.

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Screenshot of the new tv.yahoo.com home page in Safari. Nice redesign of the site, guys. I am seriously displeased.

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