fire
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This is my favorite:
I love the fog and the rocky beach and the driftwood. It reminds me of living in Santa Cruz, even though there’s no rocky beach nor driftwood, but there is amazing morning fog and big trees. I guess I’m trying to say that I love rivers.
Or Dr. Strangelove. Who can forget Kubrick’s classic opening sequence?
Editer
1583
Those are awesome. We were just up in Ucluelet last week. Beautiful area!
This is how I spent most of my summer.
Razgon
1585
I thought you’d be bigger.
mdowdle
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You don’t really look like a Major in that picture – more like a Drill Sargent.
(I’d rather look like a Drill Sargent, too.)
Wow, Blips, amazing pics. Put mine from my recent trip (similar types – forest shots, rocky beaches) to absolute shame.
Alan, I love the first shot of the lighthouse – just feels very… dynamic. Or something. Very exciting shot.
Have any of you read about that Lytro camera that takes the entire light field and lets you refocus after the fact? My dad got one and it’s pretty nifty, but not sure how the IQ is.
Yes. The concept is revolutionary and I think it’s probably where cameras will be going in a decade or two, when portable memory gets more tight and compact and the technology evolves, adds more resolution, and easily adoptable. The problem with it now is that the resolution isn’t great (combined with the fact that the images are much larger because you’re storing a lot more information), the cameras only just got available for the PC (previously Mac only), and the camera interface/handling is marred by its lack of, well, everything. Plus the system/software cheats essentially, processing a highlight reel of the best/most obvious focal lengths before offering it to the user (from what I understand). Right now it’s pretty much a novelty, but the advantages of the idea behind it I think will have extremely far-reaching impacts.
— Alan
Pretty much dead-on on what I’m thinking. A decade ago they did it with a room full of equipment and now they are able to do it as a consumer device which is pretty remarkable. In another decade it’ll finally be where it needs to be.
Had not heard about it choosing obvious focal lengths, when I’m at my parents I’ll try it in an area with tons of potential focus objects (like at the beach, with a pier or something).
My dad is like the polar opposite of me. He’s always liked the gadgets and being at the forefront. We bought into Betamax immediately. Had a HUGE collection of 8-tracks. I’m the other way, waiting until a technology has clearly won and trying to get a cheaply priced version that maybe does a couple of things. Not sure which is better, probably comes down to I save money and he has much more fun.
The interesting thing about this technology is it allows post-processing of one of the few areas that isn’t currently possible (as one can correct red eye, color, etc. already). However, I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve gone “man, I really blew the focus in that picture.”
Juste
1590
Absolutely nothing special about this image other than the fact that this is one of the first images I shot with my new Nikon D800. Yes, I finally got hold of one!
I like the white of the cloud and the dog. Nice shot.
Speaking of dogs, I saw these monstrosities a few months ago (there are two, practically identical twins) at the Ferry Building:
Another typical sunny Ferry Building farmers market day:
Another shot of the, uh… I dunno what kind of dog (not great with breeds… Alaskan… something. Husky? Malamute?) during the USS Iowa excursion.
— Alan
Juste
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Looks like a malamute. Man, those eyes are mesmerizing.
Reemul
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Spent a day at Abbotsbury which has a Swannery, Sub tropical gardens and Farm to visit, beautiful weather as well. So here’s a few of the better shots.
The Swannery
The Swannery by Reemul, on Flickr
The Swans
We Have Lift Off by Reemul, on Flickr
Swans in Flight by Reemul, on Flickr
This is a duck hide and duck lake, based on a system from 150 years ago where they would chase the ducks down a trap to catch them for food.
Abbotsbury Skyline by Reemul, on Flickr
View from the top of the Sub Tropical Gardens.
Chesil Beach by Reemul, on Flickr
A fly on a flower
Fly by Reemul, on Flickr
Finally a shot from the Farm.
Give us a Kiss by Reemul, on Flickr
fire
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There’s no way I can compare to your guys’ pictures. Holy moly!
Here’s a pretty view from my lab’s window this morning.
Where the hell do you work? Twin Peaks?
RichVR
1597
Well as others have said, this is not quality photography. They were all taken with my iPhone 4. But I find them interesting.
Sleeping birds at a PetSmart.
A woman who is either, not from NYC or drunk. If you know what goes on in the street you wouldn’t sit on the ground to eat. And obviously she wasn’t happy about the pics taken. This is outside Bleecker Bob’s in the Village.
She has Uma Thurman toes.
Oh hi fog. I don’t often take pics of the fog here… usually I don’t have my camera around, or it just happens so much that it doesn’t seem new-ish anymore. But it’s so dynamic and interesting at times. To find some active places to take imagery and make it fun will be a test. Hell I just did these off of my room balcony:
— Alan
Did some more work today on the summer’s photos…
— Alan
