Category: Photos
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2013-10-06 Flight of the Heron [panorama]
So this was a bit of a challenge, mostly because I had to stitch together two different series of photos to help fill up the sky enough to get a level pano. Also, I’ve never needed to mask-out so many photos before. But this was a time-series. One of the things I noticed was that…
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2013-10-06-heron-2930×1280 [wide wallpaper]
This was a beautiful morning. I original sky color was not as contrasty as I would have liked, but you’ll see other panos from this morning pretty soon. I like this darker, ruddier version.
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2013-09-01 Padilla Bay Oxbow
2013-09-01 Padilla Bay Oxbow This was a bit of a challenge to cook up. I ended up with four layers in Gimp: a desaturated bw as a hard-light layer, a ND layer over the sky, and a color-enhanced layer to bring the sky color into the foreground ponding. This was surprising done on my lappie,…
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2013-08-25 Bellingham from Lummi Island [wide wallpaper]
2013-08-25 Bellingham from Lummi Island [wide wallpaper]
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DIY Travel Mug Lid
I lose lids off of travel mugs frequently. The great shame of travel mugs is the cheap caps that just fly off, into traffic, when biking. For a while I had been using lids from other disposable coffee cups. But then I found a lid to an empty peanut butter jar. So, pop quiz: how…
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Misty Cape Dissapointment [wide wallpaper]
Pentax K10D, 50mm F4@1/60th; Hugin: 6 shots; Gimp: 3 layers.
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Former Columbia Brewery, Astoria, OR
Former Columbia Brewery, Astoria, OR This is from the alleyway where the trolley tracks are. Notice how all the copper wiring has been pulled (and presumably recycled). Anyone know if this was it’s last position, and its actually gone?
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