Photography

Coming home today from a fantastic salmon dinner at my parents place I had to pull off the road between Maple Ridge and Mission and snap some shots of the sun tumbling out of the sky. The road I pulled off next to had a cornfield in it which looked neat to my eye, but […]

A whole thread of cat pictures over on the Cellar’s quality images forum.

In my running around today I did snap a few non-sucky shots. May as well post them as it’s late already here, and I still have lots to do to get ready for tomorrow’s trip up to Clinton.

Did my first sensor cleaning this evening after getting back from a hectic evening. I was out taking some (more) moon pics when I noticed that in a couple there was a big spot on the image. I checked the lens and saw it wasn’t anything visible there, but it was pretty dark so I

Images from the concert I mentioned yesterday. All taken with a F1.7/50mm. Here’s the crowd gathered before the sun went down. Read on for more….

A while back I mentioned Orbit1 as a good site to check out on the daily photoblog run. I of course forgot to put it in my bookmarks so I haven’t visited there lately. On a note from houserdesign’s site (pointing out this way cool collage) I did a run and found not only more

Every once and a while I read something or find a link to something that really, really pisses me off. Every day I’m exposed through various websites and TV shows to politics from my neighbors to the south, the good old US of A, land of the free and home of the brave. They’re talking

As I write this I can hear Firefly in the living room admonishing Zoon and Patches for fighting directly where she’s cutting and working with fabric. Threats of “no fish for a week!”, “don’t do that!” and “claws in!” are falling of deaf, furry ears. Apparently any place that a person is working on something

Playing around with taking panoramas using a vertical format to get a really wide angle view and this is what I got sunday night. Stitched together from three images. Click for 1024 70kb larger image. [ 1/90 sec at F8, minor post-processing ]

*isteve (a regular in the pentax forums has posted a nice howto entitled the Poor mans guide to post processing. Some good tips on haze removal and noise reduction that I haven’t seen elsewhere so far.