Posts Tagged ‘Summer!’
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
A whale we saw with her cub in Witless Bay
Today we got up and went out for a little trip to a park, where we walked through some woods and down to the coast. There were ruins at the bottom of an old, old town that apparently got washed away in some great storm. There were foundations left for an awful lot of buildings, and they tended to be very small (think around 10′ x 8′ for an entire house). Generally all that was left was basically a rectangular frame of stone, but in some cases there would be a little bit of a chimney left over.
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Tags: Canadia, Puffins, Summer!
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
George the Groundhog
Okay, so I’m definitely dedicating today’s post to my new friend George, the groundhog. Yesterday I mentioned running into a groundhog by a bridge, and today we went back to see if he was still there. He was definitely still hanging around the same place, so I’m guessing he probably lives in the concrete dividers nearby. We fed him some wheat-thins, and he got just wonderfully close to us. Didn’t get to pet him, but got pretty close. George is a pretty cool critter, altogether. He’s even nearly vegan (apparently they occasionally eat “some insects”). Well, he does wear fur, but I guess I can let him slide on that one.
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Tags: Fundy, Groundhog, Summer!, Tide, Woodchuck
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Sunday, 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.
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Tags: Boo, Cat, Harness, Leash, Shoe Box, Summer!
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Saturday, 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. (more…)
Tags: Birds, Bugs, Hotter Than The Sun, photography, Robinson Preserve, Summer!
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Sunday, 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.
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Tags: 5D Mark II, Grandparents, photography, Review, Summer!, Video
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Output 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.
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Tags: Programming, Summer!, Triangles, X Files
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
So 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.
Tags: Boo, Cat, Moving, Summer!
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
So 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.
Tags: Cortez, Development, MySQL, PHP, Programming, Scripting, Summer!
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Just 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.
Tags: House, Moving, Summer!
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
School is finally over, all my exams done, and it’s time for Summer. I’m sure soon I’ll have all kinds of wonderful exploits to put up on the Interwebs (I’m definitely trying to figure out how I can attach a strobe safely to a water bottle rocket), but for now I’m just relaxing and enjoying being home. It’s amazingly comforting just to be able to watch TV and see the usual local commercials again, instead of the weird crap they have in Orlando (creepy asian guy screaming about appliances? I’ll take Bay News 9 any day). Now to go enjoy not having to wake up for school in the morning…
Tags: Hap, home, Summer!
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