Digging through folders on my phone, rediscovering little gems.
BitCam is one of them!
I’m impressed with the lens flare that was captured. I’m sure that a digital camera in the 80s or 90s would not look this good.
Besides the novelty of 1-bit rendering, this app is fun to play with. So many fun details.
Anything the Iconfactory makes bring delight.
(Which makes the mess over at Twitter hurt. This team doesn’t deserve that kind of treatment.)
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Baseball season is starting up and I was searching for the location of our practice field. It happened to be near our house. Since I was "in the neighborhood," I decided to scroll over to see what our house looked like.
Based on the arrangement of the table on hte back porch, this photo was taken two summers ago.
That also means that those light patches you see in our front yard mark where The Boy & I stood when playing catch.
This captures the summer before the year he actually joined a "real" baseball team. We would stand on either side of the driveway and toss the ball back and forth.
As this was a new activity for us, and accuracy was still an issue, I stood just on one side of the driveway. (I'm the upper light spot). The Boy stood across the driveway (his is the smaller light-spot, near the red car).
Nowdays, I'm under the tree, and The Boy either pitches from the same spot, or does diving catches a little south of the driveway. (towards the bottom of the picture).
On Top of Portland
Originally uploaded by a.k.a. Little L
Yesterday, Mooj & I rode in the Providence Bridge Pedal. It was fun.
This was our third time. We missed last year, but the year before was a cluster. I think that the event suffered from its own success. It was so crowded that we were caught in a couple of big traffic jams. For example, a couple of years ago, it took us about half-an-hour to cross the starting line. We crossed a bridge and hit another jam, where we crawled along for about 45 minutes. It was very frustrating for a little one.
But this year it was very smooth. When I see the large crowds and the combination of riders of various skills and good/bad manners, I’m amazed at how well it works. But this year was the smoothest ever. It was fun!
In our previous two attempts, we did not get to the Fremont bridge before it had to open back up to traffic. This year we were determined to make it.
As we were waiting to start, the organizers announced the availability of a shortcut. We missed the Ross Island and the Hawthorn. Lots of cool pix from the Portland Bridge Pedal photos on Flickr.
My sister-in-law shares her experience on her blog. We met at the beginning of the ride, but were separated shortly after the start.
I just uploaded a bunch of photos to Flickr. Over the past 6 months, I’ve been moving from iView to iPhoto, transferring tags, and updating sets, etc.
I’ve taken quite a few self-portraits of my son and me. They’re arm-length and now, after eight+ years, becoming a quite a collection.
If you look in the widget over at the side of this page, you’ll see my Flickr stream, but it doesn’t give you a feel for the chunk of pix that I’ve just tossed up.
I still need to fix the titles and add some comments. Another project!
I Know You Stole This Bike
Originally uploaded by tinctoris
Whilst browsing Tinctoris' flickrstream, I found this photo. Great stuff! As one who has had a bicycle stolen. I love it!
The Boy & I in The Gorge
Originally uploaded by a.k.a. Little L
via my simple Nokie and T-Mobile
We took a drive out to Stevenson, Washington, looking for "The House of Loudness." We found the "Thunder Shack." It was beautiful out there. We will definitely be heading out again. We saw some neat places that we want to check out. This also gave me a chance to test some of my new techno-weaving I've been doing with my phone-Flickr-WordPress-Twitter
Once upon a time, I wanted to create a great web presence. It would includes posts and photos and videos and links and more!
But I always got tied up in the CMS (Content Management System). My first was Frontier. Later, I was going to make my own, using XML-RPC, then I used Radio (from Userland, which was really an updated version of Frontier) There was a big mess with Radio upgrades, and so I thought I’d build my own.
Well, that hasn’t happened.
So I’m here at Wordpress (thanx WP!) and now the photos are going to Flickr. I’ll be working on integrating them all.
Which is really what I want to do. Create and fiddle with code.
Over at TWIP (This Week In Photography) there’s a cool story about Scott Bourne’s photo “Cranes in the Fire Mist” that took 12-years to capture. It’s called Pre-visualization and Patience Can Pay Off .
Every year, for 12 years, he made a trek to Bosque del Apache in New Mexico. He thought about the composition and light in the photo that he wanted. He learned what the weather had to be for it to happen. He prepared his gear. He had a list of nine things that had to be in place, including a cold, cloudless morning with slight winds from the west or northwest. Oh yeah, the birds had to be there, too!
It’s a great photo, and now that I know the back story, it’s even more impressive.
Wow.
Here’s my first Flickr photo.