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Lots of new “toys”.

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Steve Chapman’s (panocamera.com) Nintendo DS Camera Controller which I purchased awhile ago has been open sourced as Open Camera Control.

Palm has released the beta version of the native Plug-in Developer Kit (PDK) for the Palm Pre, though unfortunately they don’t have support for Linux yet.

I finally got around to completing the assembly of the Camera Axe I got for Christmas.

Seems like I’m constantly tinkering with site updates I added 29 new images to my galleries and Fotomoto released their API last month which I integrated with SimpleViewer.

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Asphalt, empty lots and a train without hurry or schedule

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

July has been full of projects in all shapes and sizes and a few have finally dwindled to a close, so that now I can no longer put off another post. I have long been curious about Centralia, and over the 4th I was in Pennsylvania so we took some time to satisfy my curiosity. Only a few buildings are left. Mostly it consists of empty lots and withering asphalt. The mine still burns, evidenced only by tendrils of smoke, a few residents remain and it has become a drive-through curiosity.

A sad old road.

A sad old road.

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HDR: A hate love relationship

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

As a majority of internet users are at this very moment in the process of uploading a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image to Flicker, I will assume that most of you know what they are. For those few who do not know, simply put, they are a mapping of several images of the same subject consisting of variable exposures merged together using a piece of software such as Photomatrix. This process allows your to achieve neutral exposures throughout the image and otherwise improbable/impossible images with tone mapping.
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