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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Sunset at the Mission Rose Garden
(click to see a bigger version)
More experimentation! This image was created from about 11 shots of the sunset.
I could not get exactly what I wanted from one shot from any one lens. The only
thing I had that was wide enough to get the whole sunset was a fish eye.
I like my fish eye, but in this case I wanted to give more of the feeling
of standing there in the rose garden watching the sunset.
The distortion of the fish eye detracted from that too much.
The sheer scale of things caused some interesting problems. The full scale image
could be printed easily 4 and a half feet at high resolution. And as long as I
am building this kind of thing I figure why not go for full scale!?
I think I need more ram... and more hard drives.
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Red Dragon
I like dragonflies and this guy and his friends
were putting on quite a show. They were diving
down to the surface of the water and skimming
across it (hence the name I guess,) I got a few
action shots but this is my favorite!
While I was trying to identify this guy I found
many sites incorrectly identifying damsel flies
as dragonflies. The way you tell the difference
is by how they hold their wings when they are
resting. This is a dragonfly, wings perpendicular
to the body. A damselfly holds it's wings back
against it's body.
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Friday, October 7, 2005
Happy Cows
You can't really make them out at this size but there is
a heard of cows in the distance on the left side of the image.
If you are not familiar with it, the California Cheese industry
runs a cool ad campaign about their happy cows. You see,
they are much happier because they live in beautiful
rolling fields in sunny California so they make good cheese.
Those commercials always make me think of this
photo and the beautiful day I took it.
I think it's time for another vacation, then again, when isn't it?
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