We’ve been driving on the way up to Nova Scotia, and last night we pulled in to stay in New York City, a couple of blocks away from Times Square. I’ve always suspected it, but now I can say with certainty that I couldn’t handle living in a big city. Just being a passenger in a vehicle nearly gave me a heart attack on the way in. Everyone drives crazy, and there are pedestrians everywhere. And this was at ten ‘o clock at night.
New York!
July 1st, 2009To Canadia Again
June 29th, 2009The Canadia Blog started with a trip to Canada (hence the name) last year, and now it’s time for another. Once again, the Canadia blog gets to live up to its name. I left today with my grandparents, and this time I’m driving up to Newfoundland. We drove up to South Carolina today, with New York coming tomorrow. Unfortunately, there’s not much to talk about now, other than a long day full of driving. On the bright side, I found a DC inverter to run my laptop off the vehicle’s power, so I was able to get an awful lot of work done on my new project, FlexGallery.
The Vinopal Wedding
June 24th, 2009
Exchanging the rings
I shot my cousin Jessyca’s wedding last Saturday, and had a grand old time doing it. Weddings are always a fun affair, and coming out with potentially embarrassing photographs of family members just makes it all the more amusing. I got to shoot the wedding with a new 5D Mark II and a 24-70mm f/2.8L to play with. I put the 24-70 on the 5D, which got me some amazing wide shots, and then put a 70-200 on my 20D for longer range stuff. All said and done, both the event and the photos turned out great. Read the rest of this entry »
Of Cats and Leashes
June 14th, 2009
My cat Boo, who's made a home of my shoe box.
Today’s lesson: cats don’t like leashes. Or at least that’s what I’ve found trying to leash-train mine. When we moved to a new house, I was a little worried about Boo (an occasionally outdoor cat) wandering off and getting lost in the new neighborhood. So I decided to leash train him. Unfortunately, Boo didn’t take too well to my idea.
Robinson Preserve Again
June 13th, 2009
I found this little guy sitting on a tree on the way out
I got to make another trip to Robinson Preserve a couple of days ago, this time with a friend specifically to go photographing. I only shot with my 70-200 f/4 this time, and it turned out surprisingly well, for the short focal length. Hopefully next time, though, I’ll have access to a 400 f/5.6 again, which will give me an awfully better view of the wildlife. In the meantime, I made do well enough at 200mm, just had to be a little bit sneaky with the assorted creatures (birds, mostly). And, of course, there was a little bit of cropping involved in post processing, but I guess that’s just the way it goes sometimes. Read the rest of this entry »
5D Mark II
June 7th, 2009
A quick portrait of my grandpa. The detail in the full-size image is unbelievable.
My grandpa got a copy of Canon’s 5D Mk II lately, and I got a chance to play around with it. It’s truly difficult to describe just how incredible this thing is. It does ISO 25,600, and does it better than my 20D does 3200. That, with 21 megapixels of resolution, incredible detail, and an utterly spectacular field of view and depth of field, just make for an unbelievable camera. I’d love to pick one up myself, but of course it’s a little cost prohibitive.
Triangles, Triangles, Everywhere (And Other News)
May 27th, 2009Output from the triangles script
For quite possibly the first time in the blog’s history, I present a non-photographic image. This is the output from my new Triangles script. It creates an image by first drawing three points, and then drawing a line from the third to the first, but going beyond it, then drawing from there to the point two points back, and so on and so forth. With the right settings, the straight lines all sort of dissolve into giant curves.
Moving the Cat
May 21st, 2009So we went about moving our cat Boo to the new house yesterday, and that turned out interestingly. We managed to get him into a cage, very much against his will, and bring him over. Now I just have to try and get him used to being here, but he seems to be getting acquainted pretty quickly.
In fact, this morning I woke up to find him missing, and assuming my dad had let him out, went into a little bit of a panic searching about the new neighborhood for him. In the end, it turned out he’d just gone back to his old hiding place, the cloth on the underside of our couch. Now he’s taken to his old habit of sitting in front of my monitors atop my desk with a vengeance. So far he’s nearly shoved just about everything on my desk off of it, and taken up my mouse wrist rest with his own rest. Now he’s finally settled down in front of one of the screens, with my keyboard, thankfully, only hanging a little bit off of the desk.
Mini-update
May 18th, 2009So yet another post without photographs: I’m sure I’ll get around to making some in the near future. I’ve taken to looking for internships lately, and have one in Sarasota that’s looking pretty potentially great, just have to hope I get in. I’ve been working on my PHP and MySQL lately, too, so I can do some work with web apps over the Summer.
We’re mostly moved into the house now, and I’m getting all nice and settled in. I’m right up by Cortez now, so I have to get used to everything towards the South, and try to stop going to places towards the North, as much as I can. Other than that, not much of anything to write about. Just trying to keep the words coming, hopefully I’ll have more to go on about next time, with some photographs to boot.
Moving
May 12th, 2009Just in case anybody ever reads this, thought I’d post a quick update. I’m home for the Summer, and I’ve been busy moving into a new house. Pretty cool place, and the kitchen and lounge are straight out of the 70’s. I’m now the proud owner of a golden clock with no border built right into a wood panel wall, adjacent to a kitchen with blue cabinets and drawers…at angles. Now I just have to go about getting everything settled in, and all will be well.