One Random Saturday
Busy with on-call duties earlier this week, recovered Saturday.
May 11, 2008
May 01, 2008
Chart & Graph
April 16, 2008
Seattle Japanese Garden
The Japanese Garden in Seattle offers several photography sessions each year. These let you use a tripod and other gear not normally permitted in the garden. Well worth the money, as there were only three other photographers, and the weather mostly cooperated. Most useful lenses were the 18-70 kit zoom and 105mm macro.
April 12, 2008
Chocolate!
This photo required six bars of chocolate, three vertical on each side. There is a lego roof keeping the bars vertical, between two boxed sets of the Tale of Genji (Seidensticker and Tyler). The only lighting is from a desk lamp, the direct shine of which being masked off from the camera by shirts and chess boards. The Ferrero Rocher (picked up pretty much at random from the store; I had no idea how large the central chocolate should have been) rests atop a book case, and the background is a cork board. A polarizer was used, though I set it when the chocolate was wrapped, not unwrapped, so that might have been adjusted better. Had trouble lining the camera up square with the opening, which ball heads make difficult. May want to pickup a head that allows finer adjustment.
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March 31, 2008
Kumo the Cloud
A story in five frames…
February 14, 2008
Rug-of-War
The recent Rug-of-War article discusses Afghan war rugs. These are a recent invention, despite the long history of various empires invading the present day Afghanistan. I own two of these, a small 28cm by ~36cm rug:
And a larger prayer rug:
October 17, 2007
Spider II
Tricky subject to photograph, what with all the moving about and manual focus and macro lens.
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October 13, 2007
Last Of Summer 2007
September 17, 2007
Dinner Guests
June 16, 2007
Knight
May 11, 2007
Olympic Sculpture Park
Olympic Sculpture Park: large empty swathes, stay off the grass warnings, and “do not touch the fragile art” signs abound. If the variously rusted or painted metal edifices are fragile, that’s news to me. Most interesting art: the chrome squares, silver tree, and walking between the large curved metal structures in the northwest corner. Otherwise, best to visit for views of the Sound, and once the trees grow more.
May 06, 2007
Japanese Maple
May 05, 2007
Fuzzy Chess
April 11, 2007
Leaves III
February 18, 2007
Sicilian Opening
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February 10, 2007
Sightseeing
Chess/Shogi take III. Shogi set arrived at work, but could not round up enough folks for a try at bughouse Shogi…
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January 30, 2007
Gold General
December 29, 2006
X-Orc-Status
November 03, 2006
Sphere III
The previous two live elsewhere.
September 19, 2006
Aaarr!
And, on a somewhat related note, Talk Like a Pirate Day.
September 13, 2006
Clouds 2
Same environment used to generate Pastel, modified.
September 10, 2006
For A Rainy Day
August 13, 2006
Shrine of Maps
Yet another view, previously unpublished.
August 09, 2006
AntiVision
Another mutation, from an old source image.
August 07, 2006
Pastel
Mutation on mudcracks used in a previous post. Water layer and different texture and lighting thrown in for good measure.
July 27, 2006
Fluff
Some clouds. Well, a sphere with an expensive volumetric texture.
July 20, 2006
Blue Tree Squares
Next, a CMYK series! Or maybe EBCDIC.
July 18, 2006
Red Tree Squares
Variation on green tree image. Well, shadow of a tree reflecting from a plane with a funky texture on it. Now in red!
July 17, 2006
Tree Squares
July 15, 2006
Spring Tree
July 11, 2006
Earth - dark water
Desktop image in use on one of my systems. Two spheres with reflective earth texture on them, and the camera in between.
July 10, 2006
Recipe for World Peace
Not quite what I had in mind…
July 09, 2006
Obligatory Pirate Reference
Pirate movies justify the use of the Unified Modelling Language (UML) like nothing else does.
