Hawaiian Sun Juce Drink

Yet another 85mm shot.

Test shot 3 85mm

A shot for depth of field and depth of focus.

2nd 85mm test shot

I picked up a work light and a day light balanced CFL from the local hardware store.

First 85mm test shot

A gift bag peaking out of the trash can cought in a ray of light from the setting sun. It was an interesting composition with shadows and light and the gift bag just punctuated the picture drawing the eyes out of the shadows to the light.

Low light 9 exposure HDR

50mm at f1.8 and iso 200.

O.k. shooting this at f1.8 was a mistake as the depth of focus is far to shallow for architectural photography. Some thing along the lines of oh, say, f11 should have been used. I might set this shot up again and do it right, but all in all the quality of the low light HDR is nice for what it illuminated, the sky was just starting to turn from black to blue and the inside of the structure was a wash with shadow and darkness.

Showing some flare.

Flowers and power

I think we as people have the unfortunate habit of looking forwards and not up. I glanced up while walking (not to my garage, would you believe?) and thought of the flowers with the power lines in the back ground and it hit me, "flower power." Snap, I took the picture.

The Hurt Locker

And yes, a shameless plug for Android :P

Shot at 50mm F4.0 iso:100 using available ambient lighting, daylight, halogen, and florescent. (White balance adjusted accordingly, the true tricky part of the shot.)

Every one has a desk, some people share them.

Carbon Arc Cutting - Air

A compact pick up truck

Nurse Tower Sector A Level 2 through 4

This is a 9 exposure HDR picture that I took on my lunch break.

The job

This shot would have been better with my 28mm prime. I should go back and take it again some time. A weekend would be perfect, with out a full job site and just the iron workers on site.

Bent plate welder

Production at work

2062 Urban Renewal

Used to be Ben's Jewelry, now it's Giant Robot. Oh how long ago it must have been when Ben with his hand painted sign shut his doors.

Arn!

Working the splice

Flux Cored Arc Welding a heavy column splice

And the rain falls..

Three words, High Dynamic Range.

Bergen in Norway is the capital of rain in the world. The yearly average is 489 days of rain. Bergen has considered setting up a system to export its rain. Bergen outsourced this problem to Trondheim about 30 years ago. Trondheim designed a watering can last year thinking that this was what Bergen wanted. It is estimated by 31322 (based on very scientific calculations) Trondheim will finally understand the question.

General John J. Pershing

Model 1890

A canon is a type of music composition in which military cannons facing the audience and pre-tuned to a specific pitch are fired off one at a time, each at a specific interval of time (which remains constant) after the previous cannon was discharged. It was used often in musical warfare, though it received little attention after the early 20th century with the invention of tanks.
Although rare, a composer will sometimes write notation for cannonballs to be loaded into the cannons before discharged, like in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. In some countries (mostly oppressive dictatorships), however, the practice of using metal cannonballs is illegal. Cannonists (person who plays the cannon) have gotten around this law, however, by loading their cannons with other objects, like huge plastic balls (which often melt) or, as with the Mongolian National Khan Orchstra, human skulls. The Catholic Church has also recently considered canonizing Mother Theresa, or shooting her out of a giant cannon to signify that

One of my favorite local houses.

The next bubble

So for the last decade, at least, we have been riding the bubbles in the economy and as is often the case, one bubble spawns another.

We have all ready seen an internet bubble in the early nineties, back then the technology was not up to the vision of the internet. Back then there were still plenty of people with access to the internet with 28.8 modems and the internet was a place filled with geeks and hackers.

Well, today we find our selves in the start of another internet bubble and this time the technology is on par with the vision and e-commerce and the like stands to be come a driving force in the future economy and yes, it is still a place filled with geeks and hackers, just now there are also Chinese spys committing acts of espionage as well.

Look at the technology that is upon us today, the net books, smart phones, cheap laptops and the ambiguous iPad and ask your self what do they all need? What is missing from the picture?

Content.

Murdoch wants to get in to the game of providing on line content through pay walls, a good idea from the brass tacks of a typical business model but one that I would say is off target  given the spirit of the internet is more akin to the GPL license.

Recently HULU had a taken issues with a third party that was offering HULU’s content with out the HULU web interface or banners. HULU is not in the business of being an aggregate content provider so they are blocking the third party application from accessing there service.

Look at all the fights that are going on in the technology industry and you will see it is about providing content and harvesting information. The Facebooks and Myspaces of the world have the right idea, but are still lacking the big picture. Provide Content.

The entertainment industry is in fits and can’t grasp the idea of providing content and not charging. Never mind that the concept is an old one that dates back to the days of radio and over the air television. If the big wigs grasped the idea that the internet is not a movie theater, a sports arena, or a play house and fall in to providing aggregate content like the old TV of yesterday then they would see success.

But then again the movie industry is full of people who foretold the demise of google for not having a strong business model with no revenue coming in and that AOL, Yahoo, Lycos, MSN and the like were on the right track.

Pictures of fish

The online album