A friend brought his new motorcycle by, yielding more experimentation with low-light, ever-orange photography. I gave in this time–converted everything to B&W to keep it from looking like a high school gymnasium.

Via @KateGardiner via GigaOm.com via Cisco

Bands, bikes, beer and a parade at Chicago’s “Tour de Fat,” put on by Colorado’s New Belgium Brewing Company.

Bright moon, orange night. July 14, Chicago.

Trolling it up under a rusty rail bridge, a bright moon and ubiquitous, orange streelights.

“We have an increasing partisan divide on this,” said Stephen Saunders, president of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and a former national parks official with the Department of the Interior. “If people pay attention to how the places they know and love respond to climate change, I hope that makes people aware of what we should be doing differently.”

"Twenty three states and the District of Columbia are under heat advisories, with air temperatures well over 90 degrees F, and heat indexes above 105. This image shows the NOAA North America Model temperature at 2m above the surface (~6 feet) for July 12, 2011 at 21:00z. Credit: NOAA"

From here, it looks like Texas is reaching out to strangle the East Coast. Image via SEJ via @SkyTruth via NOAA.

Last weekend’s Frankfort Bluegrass Festival celebrated bluegrass music and culture, and organizers Steve Haberichter, Andy Goodwin and Sue Fillipp aim to make the festival an annual event.

Kayaking clips from St Marys 2011. Music from Madvillain’s “Meat Grinder (Instrumental)”