My first Winogradsky column debuted to much fanfare last October when its inaugural description featured optimistic photographs of the column in a sunny bedroom window. Soon thereafter, complex spousal negotiations led to the relocation of this marsh muck experiment in a dark basement room. In this location the column remained fairly static — just marsh [...]
I have added a new index page for Aerial QTVR Panoramas. There you will find a description of my aerial panorama process and links to three new aerial panoramas created from images taken during Monday’s outing to Heron’s Head Park. Here is a smaller preview sample:
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I made it over to Heron’s Head Park yesterday (President’s Day holiday). It was a lovely outing that combined panoramic photography, kite aerial photography, and microscopy. The high point of the outing, aside from being outsdoors on a decidedly pleasant day, was gathering more aerial fisheye views for QTVR work.
The Hunter’s Point Power Plant at [...]
Pigeon Blogs, Paper Cup Networks, and Karaoke Squirrels:
Life and Art in the 21st Century
A lecture by Steve Dietz
Graduate Lecture Series
Tuesday, February 21st, 7:00pm
Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco
After bumbling about for an jour or two I have sucessfully installed new WordPress software. The principal differences will be evident behind the scenes in the editing and administration areas.
A few posts back Gayle contributed an image of a tattered stick underneath the Dumbarton Bridge. I was out that way on Sunday and while poking about I came apon Gayle’s under much different circumstances. While Gayle’s photo of the stick had a delightful Ray Bradbury-desolation-of-Mar’s quality to it, mine seems as though on vacation [...]
I have long admired Scott Haefner’s series of aerial QTVR bubble panoramas. Scott built on a techinique first described by Philippe Hurbain. Over the Winter Break I started playing with a Nikon 8400 and its companion FC-E9 fisheye lens. This weekend marked the completion of a bracket to carry it below my kites. I made [...]
Here is a bit of buzz I picked up at the CNN WWW site this morning. Beatriz da Costa, of the University of California at Irvine is designing instrumentation backpacks for pigeons who will beam pollution data back to a ‘pigeon blog’. The ISEA conference will serve as the inaugural test of the system.
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