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Spaceship Earth viewed through Marble
Recently I was listening to a Talk of the Nation interview with Jerry Brotton about his new book A History of the World in Twelve Maps. He mentions how the maps have a political reason for existing as well as having an effect on the viewer. He also mentioned how the map creator always puts…
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Mid-August Photjojo
A year ago my most interesting photos mostly involved Lan when she came to visit my house.
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Mid May Photojojo
This photojojo photography time capsule consists of one Orioles game and then photos from the birthday trip to Chicago we took for my dad’s birthday.
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My first video editing experience with KDEnlive
[iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/41535967″ width=”500″ height=”281″ frameborder=”0″ webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen>] KDEnlive Test from djotaku on Vimeo. I’ve mentioned this on my blog before, but there are a few passions that I have been engaged in to various degrees over the course of my life. One of those is the creation of videos. Of course, video creation is…
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Using Digikam from the Point of View of Lightroom User
As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, I’ve been into photography since I was five years old. That’s when I got my first Kodak Instamatic camera and started shooting photos and creating photo albums. I have about ten photo albums, with most of them coming from when I got to high school and could really…
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Approximately a Year Later: Top 200 Photos #11
The original #11 photo was: now it’s, which has fallen from #8:
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Approximately a Year Later: Top 200 Photos #13
When I compiled the photos for the Top 200 Photos feature, this was the #13 photo: and now the #13 photo is: which has fallen from #11.
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Early November Photojojo
This month’s photojojo is a mix of various things.
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Top 200 Photos: #11
And now the latest Top 200 Photo photo #11 is: This is the last time these photos appear in the Top 200. I had no idea they were so highly rated. I think they look so awesome if you look at them at “original size”. They lose a lot of impact at the size at…
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Top 200 Photos: #19
A rainbow in today’s Top 200 Photo photo #19 is: Until I went to the Grand Canyon and saw an awesome rainbow there, this was the only photograph I had of a rainbow. I was going to a work breakfast when I was working at P&G and when I got out of my car it…
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Top 200 Photos: #30
And once again to Cornell for this Top 200 Photo photo #30 is: When I was playing with the macro mode of my Fuijifilm Finepix S7000, I started to get into flower photography. This flower was on the other side of a small wall on the walkway that leads to Ho Plaza, near Olin Hall.…
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Top 200 Photos: #37
More stroboscopic photography for this Top 200 Photo photo #37 is: Galileo postulated that in a vacuum (in other words with no air drag) that any two items dropped should fall at the same rate regardless of their mass. I didn’t hold both of these scissors at exactly the same height, so to compare you…
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Review: Windows 8 Developer Preview
I decided to check out the latest Windows release to see how much it differs from my Windows 7 install (on my video game/photography computer). So I installed it into Virtualbox. At first it wouldn’t install and I couldn’t understand what was going wrong. Turns out that in the settings under the…
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Top 200 Photos: #40
Nam is back for this Top 200 Photo photo #40 is: This photo, again, is from before Nam was afraid of my photography. I was in town for the Lunar New year and just doing some kid photography of him by getting to his height to take the photos. He was interested in my camera…
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Top 200 Photos: #56
Back to wedding photography for today’s Top 200 Photo photo #56 is: Any wedding photographer can get the usual shots (and better if he doesn’t want to lose business). Shots like this one are the ones that set you apart. Once you’re done with the ones you need, just follow the bride and groom around…