husky gets the milk bone
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
at Pages Books on Queen W.
Posts Tagged ‘photo’
giveaway: windshare turbine picture
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Decided to give away my favourite picture of the WindShare/Toronto Hydro wind turbine under an open licence.
Here are the file details:
File size : 719263 bytes File date : 2003:02:23 16:25:10 Camera make : NIKON Camera model : E2500 Date/Time : 2003:02:23 16:25:10 Resolution : 1200 x 1600 Flash used : No (auto) Focal length : 8.9mm (35mm equivalent: 58mm) Exposure time: 0.0007 s (1/1451) Aperture : f/3.4 ISO equiv. : 100 Whitebalance : Auto Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : program (auto) Jpeg process : Progressive GPS Latitude : N 43d 37m 54.98s GPS Longitude: W 79d 25m 32.4876s Comment : WindShare / Toronto Hydro wind turbine Comment : Exhibition Place, Toronto Comment : taken on opening day, 23 Feb 2003 Comment : licensed Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons by the Comment : creator, Stewart C. Russell / scruss.com - 23 March 2008
It’s also on flickr and Wikimedia Commons.
the land camera
Friday, June 15th, 2007
RB67, 127mm @ f/3.8, expired Polaroid 664, 1/125s
My first attempt with the RB67 and Polaroid back. With the metering prism and the handgrip, the RB67 weighs over 4kg, so it’s not something you want to wave about.
Something’s a bit weird with my film. Every picture I take has the top left corner missing:
Is the developer dry? Am I pulling the film through the rollers too slowly? Too fast? I dunno.
a pleasing light on the millennium biltmore
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
orange
Friday, June 1st, 2007
massed roadworks lights on Roncesvalles
the Henry’s tax
Monday, May 28th, 2007Erie Shores Wind Farm
Monday, May 21st, 2007
We stayed over in St Thomas the other night, and on the way back came through Erie Shores Wind Farm. I spent a lot of time working on the layout design for this project, but up until now I’ve never seen it built. Sure, I saw some holes in the ground, but nothing higher. Here’s my gallery of mediocre photos: Erie Shores Wind Farm (and man, I must clean my D70’s sensor).
There’s clearly good local acceptance of the project. The beach washrooms have been repainted with a mural that includes a wind turbine, Bayham’s building an interpretive centre, and in downtown Port Burwell, there were cars with Support Wind Energy stickers. It made me happy.
pigs!
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007Kunekune are very cute. Quite stubby.
(and this boar snoozing amongst the apples is a picture of contentment.)
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 02007
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
My Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 02007 gallery for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.I made an f/90 pinhole lens for the D70 today. Results are not bad. True pinhole freaks will decry the fact that I could just sight through the SLR viewfinder, so all of the images are uncropped.
I also took a roll on my Zero 2000 120 rollfilm pinhole camera. I have to take the film into Toronto Image Works to see the results.
Man, but do pinhole lenses resolve the grot on your DSLR sensor!
at the earth day parade
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007It’s a lovely day for it …
(image links to photo gallery)
Bluffer’s Park notes
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Sights: water, bluffs, rock, birds, blue sky.
Sounds: water, redwing blackbirds, grackles, geese, falling limestone.
Smells: the lighting of BBQs.
it was ever thus
Saturday, April 7th, 2007
(via Karen)
Vaughan Wind Turbine
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
A modified AOC 15/50 wind turbine at a Honda dealership in Vaughan, ON. If you click through the link, you should be able to get to the full-sized image.
bunny car
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Lindt Gold Bunny ad car outside the downtown Hilton yesterday.
a pox on nonstandard USB cables and those who would create them
Monday, March 19th, 2007I’m trying to get all the bits of my Sony Cybershot P100 kit together, and I can’t find the dad-blamed USB cable. It’s a weird connector, and two reputable camera dealers have cried ixnay on the vailabilityay. So I have to find it.
I have already turned the house over looking for it. Yes, I know that the recipient could just use a card reader, but it wouldn’t be so good.
Gah! Things! They’ll get you in the end.
Costco Photo Centre, part II
Friday, January 5th, 2007So I got the photos back today. The service is pretty quick; I sent the order at 16:45, and had a ready-for-collection confirmation at 10:41 the next day. After braving the lines at Costco (no fun), I had a look at them.
The prints are pretty good; colour’s bright, everything’s sharp, and there’s no obvious digital artefacts. But I got a bunch of dupes (maybe those failed uploads didn’t really fail at all). If I needed pictures again in a hurry and cheaply, I might go for Costco, as long as it wasn’t for anything really important.
I’ll still thinking about a networkable photo-printer, though. CompuSmart had a demo HP Photosmart 8450 for cheap, but it had no cables or PSU, so was pretty useless.
Costco Photo Centre: cheap, but stupid
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007So I’ve got the holiday photos, and want to print them for those that like that. I’d used Future Shop in the past, but Costco is offering such cheap prints, I thought I’d give them a try.
Probably a mistake:
- Their drag and drop uploader is an ActiveX control that only works under IE on Windows. Use any other browser, and you get presented with an old-school HTML form. For 94 pictures, that would get dull quickly.
- The uploader transmits several images at once. It seems that if any of the uploads should fail, all the files uploading at that time also fail. Uploading a few at a time doesn’t seem to help much; around one in ten files will fail randomly.
- While the uploader does warn you when an upload fails, it’s up to you to remember which files haven’t worked. Clicking Retry just takes you back to the uploader, and since it’s an embedded applet, there’s no browser history to take you back to note your failed uploads.
- The albums store files in the order uploaded, and can’t be changed.
- Long file names get truncated, and then get uselessly used as the title on the back.
Still, I’ll let you know how it all went when I get the prints in a couple of days.
bunny
Tuesday, May 4th, 2004
We found a baby bunny by the side of the road. He seems a bit stunned, but otherwise okay.
Zoë has veterinarian training, so she’s looking after him.
He fits in the palm of your hand, and is unbearably cute.
Here’s a better picture (thumbnail links to larger image):
Both pictures by Dave.