H2

Another Hummer photo from the same visit:

Hummers

A few days ago, for some unknown reason, we were visited by a variety of hummingbirds all day. Previously, I'd see one for a few miutes every week or so. No idea what convinced them to come by in those numbers that day. One or two have been back a few times since, but nothing like the other day.

UC Berkeley Extension X405 Digital Photography Fundamentals

Assignment 02: Take lots of photos

Posting all the pictures in a Picasa album is easier than copying things back and forth on usb memory sticks (mainly because I just discovered that I need to upgrade to a much bigger one ...). Here's a link to the album, unfined and unfiltered:

Assignment_02

Resized Bottle

Turn out the lights ...

Assignment 03: Over/under exposures

Assignment_03

Assignment 04: Randomness

Assignment_04

Pano of Pier 48

Assembled from 3 images using Photoshop CS2:

Pano of South Beach Marina breakwater

Assembled from 2 images in Photoshop CS2:

Artist links and other misc

Whitney Hubbs
Noah Wilson
Paul Wackers
Richard Prince
Jeff Koons

Tourist Club

Lulu publishing

Supplies:
Discount Builders' Supply
www.logangraphic.com/products/boardmounted

Before the spill ...

Some low-res views of the Bay Bridge from before the Cosco Busan incident. Not sure how it would look now ...

I hope some of those containers are carrying Bondo ...

Hanjin Shipping's Cosco Busan waiting for repairs in San Francisco Bay on Nov 8th:

Captain Crunch

Hanjin Shipping's Cosco Busan waiting for repairs in San Francisco Bay on Nov 8th, a day after the cargo ship hit the Bay Bridge en route from Oakland to South Korea: Story at SFGate

Artist links and other misc

Whitney Hubbs
Noah Wilson
Paul Wackers
Richard Prince
Jeff Koons

Tourist Club

Lulu publishing

Pano of South Beach Marina breakwater

Assembled from 2 images in Photoshop CS2:

Pano of Pier 48

Assembled from 3 images using Photoshop CS2:

Misc class stuff

Supplies: Discount Builders' Supply; www.logangraphic.com/products/boardmounted

"Before you begin the next assignment read pp575-581 and p115"

Assignment 04

Album: Assignment 04

Assignment_04

Assignment 03

Over/under exposures:

Assignment_03

A few random photos from Singapore

Album: Singapore

Singapore_07101x

Grafitti in Singapore ?!?!

I was quite surpirsed to see graffiti in Singapore:

but it turns out that it's part of a youth center skate park, that I think is setup by the city. Maybe somebody got official permission to do this graffiti? But what happens if somebody else comes along and tags it?

Big Bird Redux

A slightly better image of the Airbus A-380:

On a wing and a prayer

SF Fleet Week Airshow

Album: SF Fleet Week 2007, 10/05/2007

SF Fleet Week Airshow, Friday 10/5/2007

Album: SF Fleet Week 2007, 10/06/2007

SF Fleet Week Airshow, Saturday 10/06/2007

More San Francisco Fleet Week backstage

Album: SF Fleet Week 2007, 10/06/2007

SF Fleet Week Airshow, Saturday 10/06/2007

What's in a name?

I don't know much about marketing, but it seems like not being able to decide on which name to use for your new waterfront (actually, canal-front) condo development is probably NOT going to help pull you out of the housing slump, especially when the choices are bad and worse ;-)

Big Bird

Airbus A380 setting up for a pass during the Fleet Week airshow:

Super-jumbo or super-dumbo?

It's Fleet Week in San Francisco, and we have a nice view "backstage" - out where the planes regroup and make some of their turns setting up for another stunt. I noticed a few planes from the early part of the airshow go by today while working at home this afternoon, so I was keeping an eye and an ear out for the Blue Angels and had my camera out just in case it got interesting. I noticed a fairly large plane coming around, and initially thought it was a cargo plane. Then I got a better look:

An Airbus A380 (MSN 009) is in town for a "fitting" at SFO as part of a "function and reliability" flight tour. It's in town for several days, and did a few passes in today's airshow. I managed to capture a few shots as it was setting up for it's first pass. Unfortunately, nothing to provide scale, but it's definitely big and seemed relatively quiet (at least at low speed). Of course, the interesting questions will be how it performs in actual service, and if it ever becomes commercially viable or becomes another Concorde.

Here are a few more photos "backstage" of the A380 and the Blue Angels' performance in today's show:

SF Fleet Week Airshow, Friday 10/5/2007

Turn out the lights ...

Resized bottle ...

Assignment 02

Posting all the pictures in a Picasa album is easier than copying things back and forth on usb memory sticks (mainly because I just discovered that I need to upgrade to a much bigger one ...). Here's a link to the album, unfined and unfiltered:

Assignment_02

Test post for UNEX X405

Keck Observatory at Sunset, from Hapuna Beach State Park, Big Island, Hawaii





(Yes, it's very blue. My white balance setting was on "Indoor" - mostly not my fault - and I've tried to fix it a little. Fortunately, I have the RAW file so with a little practice on working with RAW files, I hope to be able to fixup the colors reasonably well.)

Big Island

Keck Observatory at Sunset: from Hapuna Beach State Park, Big Island, Hawaii

Seoul

Album: Seoul

Seoul_07090x

London

Album: London

London Eye, UK Parliament, Big Ben, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Millenium Bridge, St. Peter's Cathedral, St. Pancras Railway Station, etc.

London - January 2007

Sunrise

There's some heavy cloud cover this morning in San Francisco, and smoke and haze from the Moonlight Fire in Plumas county (and probably also from the fire in Henry W. Coe State Park), making for some nice colors during the sunrise:

Natural Bridges State Beach

Album: Birds at Natural Bridges SB, Santa Cruz, CA:

Natural Bridges

Strawberries

Swanton Berry Farm grows some of the best strawberries anywhere. Organic berries, union labor, pick your own if you like. They also have blackberries, olallieberries, and assorted other produce.
Swanton Berry Farm

More photos of the Lunar Eclipse

Progression of the eclipse on August 28, 2007:

2:00am PDT:

2:31am PDT:

2:48am PDT:

2:51am PDT:

Lunar Eclipse

Moon during the full eclipse on August 28, 2007 (with σ Aquarii):

From Lunar_Eclipse...

Beware the Pirates of Gerlach!

Album: Burning Pirate 2007, Black Rock Desert, Nevada

Burning_Pirate_2007

More info about Burning Pirate at: Burning Pirate

Such a cute kitty!

Album: Sebastian, Los Gatos (but there's only one Sebastian!), CA

Sebastian