Ryan on June 4th, 2006

Ok, this is pretty cool. The GorillaPod tripod will wrap around pretty much anything and hold your camera up. Sure, I probably wouldn’t put a full-sized camera on it, but the Joby website mentions a SLR and Pro version.

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Ryan on June 4th, 2006

In 1998 Frederic Bonn and Zoe Deleu found a few photographs on a street in Paris. The photographs were scanned and put online starting what would become a growing collection that as of today contains 572 images of nameless subjects.

Ryan on June 3rd, 2006

I’ve lived in Houston for a little over 5 years and just heard about this park a few weeks ago. It’s near to the Memorial Park area, and is probably part of the same system. Odd feeling walking through the woods and hearing Houston traffic.

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Ryan on May 27th, 2006

With digital taking over film and major manufacturers either getting out of the camera business (Minolta), dropping all but 2 film cameras (Nikon), or “considering” dropping film cameras (Canon); CNet is showing a slide show of film cameras from the past.

Ryan on May 27th, 2006

Well, figure it’s time to drop auto moderation of all the comments. It’s just too much trouble going through 400+ comments to find the 3 that are from real people when Akismet does such a good job.

Ryan on April 22nd, 2006

Ok, so it really wasn’t a rainstorm. But ‘flowers wet from the sprinkler’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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Ryan on March 23rd, 2006

Buy.com has 1gb Kingston CF cards for $29.95 after a $9 rebate. I didn’t know Kingston was even making CF cards, but they’re pretty good as making memory so it should at least be decent.

The creator of the SimpleViewer Flash applet – you’ve seen it even if you didn’t know what it was called – has created another great one called Auto Viewer. It displays images in linear series, much like a film strip. There is an example on his site.

Ryan on March 19th, 2006

This is an image from last year that I found while going back through my images. The color version was lacking, so I had skipped over it on first pass. But after converting to black & white, I found I really like the image.

Black & white fern from Zilker Park

Ryan on March 17th, 2006

Ok, so I’m kind of in a rut. There’s something about black & white trees that really appeal to me. I think it’s the textures.

This one is from Bear Creek Park in Houston.

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