Posted in Photo Gear, Photo Resources, Photography, Tech Stuff on Apr 29th, 2005 4,163 Comments »
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Posted in Ideas on Apr 29th, 2005 4 Comments »
Last night I went to a local school (Taft) production of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I don’t go to many of the local school plays anymore, it can be painful to sit through them feeling the anxiety of young people in front of an audience of cringing parents and relatives. In [...]
Posted in Birds on Apr 29th, 2005 29 Comments »
Woodpecker Thought to Be Extinct Is Sighted in Arkansas: “The ivory-billed woodpecker has been sighted in the swamp forests of eastern Arkansas for the first time in 60 years.” (Via NYT > Home Page.)
Posted in Places on Apr 27th, 2005 11 Comments »
My friend Martha was in Montreal and took this picture of a new Smart Car convertible and thought I’d be interested. Yep… given gas prices here, it’s amazing these things aren’t allowed.
Posted in Birds, Our Place on Apr 27th, 2005 No Comments »
Our resident lone turkey hen was back under the feeder pecking, kicking, and scratching to get her fill of seed. We think all the birds communicate because the bluejays come and toss seed out of the feeder for ground feeding birds (like the turkey), emptying the feeder rather quickly. I pulled the 1.4 extender out [...]
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Posted in Birds, Our Place on Apr 26th, 2005 2 Comments »
For the past few days there’s been a lone turkey hen wandering around our place. I shot her back feathers a week or so ago but she’s shy and hasn’t come within range often enough to get good pictures of. This morning when I looked out my office windows there she was, eating bird seed [...]
Posted in Social Software on Apr 26th, 2005 No Comments »
Adaptive Path » It’s a Whole New Internet is very much worth reading. It pulls together numerous new ideas and technologies coming of age right now on the web and gives them form and direction. (Via del.icio.us/popular/blog.)
Posted in Ideas on Apr 25th, 2005 No Comments »
MIT neuroscientists have localized the place in bird’s brains that produce songs: Bird’s brains reveal source of songs. Source: Justin Blanton This reminds me of a piece I read in The New Yorker many years ago on the work of Fernando Nottebohm, a renowned researcher into the functional evolution of bird songs, bird brain lateralization, [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places on Apr 25th, 2005 No Comments »
This photo is from Dale Allyn, an old climbing partner of mine who spends part of the year in Bangkok and part of the year at home in California. He took this outstanding photo outside BKK a few days ago and I had to post it here. Wow.
Posted in Flowers, Our Place on Apr 23rd, 2005 1 Comment »
It’s raining out so what better to do than play with new camera gear inside. This geranium, which is now exploding with color, is at the far end of our living room in front of a window. It’s quite dark here today (sort of like my old Oregon rainy days) and there is not much [...]
Posted in Macintosh on Apr 22nd, 2005 No Comments »
Henry Norr reports for Macintouch on Apple Annual Stockholder’s Meeting. It’s a good read and useful if you’re a Mac user and stockholder or not.
Posted in Flowers, Our Place on Apr 21st, 2005 5 Comments »
Decided to try a macro shot (with 100mm macro lens) on the coleus leaves under the skylight. The light was perfect but alas, the focus was a bit off. Still, for a hairy leaf I’m pleased. I wanted to get the serrated edge and the blur behind.
Posted in Birds on Apr 21st, 2005 2 Comments »
These two shots were my first attempt to use a monopod. Wow, it’s not easy and I can see why they put a wrist strap on them; pretty easy to drop the whole rig and, well, that would be very bad. I walked as close as I could to the two mallards and plopped the [...]
Posted in Birds on Apr 21st, 2005 No Comments »
The light isn’t right yet and it’s still windy so the feeder is moving but this was shot with the new 200mm f2.8 lens with 1.4x extender, on tripod with mount. As per my friend Dale’s suggestion, I turned off auto focus and I’m finding things are working much better. With a prime, single focal [...]
Posted in Photography, Places on Apr 21st, 2005 No Comments »
“Kids with Cameras is a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world. We use photography to capture the imaginations of children, to empower them, building confidence, self-esteem and hope. We share their vision and voices with the world through exhibitions, books, websites and film.” This organization [...]
Posted in Our Place, Trees on Apr 21st, 2005 No Comments »
This shot was taken with a 200mm f2.4 lens with a 1.4x teleconverter through my office window. Very nice, warm day today and every leaf bud in our zone is take this opportunity to open up. Unfortunately it was windy and it was hard to freeze this sucker but I’m impressed with what this new [...]
Posted in Social Software on Apr 20th, 2005 No Comments »
Google Catalogs lets you browse paper catalogs online. Gad, what will they think of next? Way cool. Source: Kevin Kelley’s Cool Tools
Posted in Ideas on Apr 20th, 2005 No Comments »
Test Reprieve Keeps Top Teacher on Job: “A former diesel dealer who helped a school create a diesel mechanics program almost lost his job because he hadn’t passed a standardized test.” This is not just an ETS problem (the folks who make this test, the SAT, and others) but a cultural problem and not just [...]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software on Apr 19th, 2005 No Comments »
Bookcrossing.com is a great idea for spreading books around. How it works: 1. Read a good book 2. Register it at Bookcrossing.com (along with your journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book 3. Release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a [...]
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