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Photo-day

5 February 20055 February 2005 Mark

Ariesna and I went out walking today. Partly because I have a couple dozen rolls of unused film collecting dust, but mostly because AWelkin will get a chance to see Iwahara-san & Keki-san at a conference this month. Why is that important? Well, they were fabulous to all of us who went on the trip to Japan last summer that I feel the need to extract some hospitality vengeance upon them. 😀

Around 1pm, we headed out and started today’s walking/photography adventures. We went over to the Iowa River & Power Company’s parking lot and I started taking pictures of the river, some trees the remains of the dam¹. However the main reason we were there is I’d heard from a co-worker that there’s a big nest of eagles in that area. We’d probably been there about half an hour without seeing anything when some other people came up with binoculars. From what we could overhear them saying; they were coming to try and see the eagles too. So I asked them about the eagles and they pointed the nest out to us². We chatted with them for a couple of minutes and they mentioned some other areas around town we could go to look for eagles. Then we started walking away and spotted an eagle a bit further up the river. I probably shot 15-20 pictures using my 35mm camera and I know some of them weren’t focused that well. Hopefully, at least one or two will turn out nicely. We left shortly after that and went to a couple of the parks over in Iowa City and then down by the Iowa River and the UofI’s Art museum. It was a lot more walking than we usually do, but it was a good time.

I only ended up using about 2 rolls of film (~50 total photos) but I also took some shots with my digital camera. The image attached to this post (and now added to the Gallery) was the last photo I took today, as we walked back to the car. I’m starting to feel a bit tired, so that’s all for now.

¹ They’ve torn a good chunk of it down, but I’m pretty sure the plan is to rebuild it.
² To give credit where credit is due, Ariesna had spotted it but from the description I’d gotten; I told her that was too small to be it. Besides, we hadn’t seen any eagles near it or anywhere on the river.

Links

Low Flying Cameras

2 December 20042 December 2004 Mark

…. these folks over at the RC Groups forums who have been rigging up small digital cameras to their R/C airplanes and getting some fantastic low-altitude aerial pictures. The trick is to find cameras that are light enough not …. 2005 Calendar Entries [RCGroups]

Kudos to Gizmodo for the link!

My favorite entry is a toss up between RoadKill’s shot of Montfort, Wisconsin or edthedoc’s shot of Oxford University, England, UK.

Art

New Photos in Gallery

16 October 200416 October 2004 Mark

As we’re heading into Autumn here; I’ve been walking around with my camera taking pictures of the leaves. I’ve added a few new images to the gallery of the leaves. To the left, you can see one of my favorites. I walked over to my Mom’s place¹ and saw this leaf on the sidewalk. I crouched down, set my camera on the sidewalk and snapped it. I’m vain enough to say that it’s vaguely arty and I like it. 😀

Oh and if you’re curious about this photo. I’ve had it for a while and I’ve been meaning to add it to the gallery but kept forgetting.

¹Hi, Mom!

Reviews

Review: Steaming pile of poo

27 September 200415 August 2005 Mark

Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to go and see Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Wow was that ever a mistake!

I went in knowing that most of the reviewers out there had said it was bad and about half of the geeks were saying the same¹. However the trailers for the movie looked just gorgeous with an impressive style that felt very much like one would expect a 1940’s pulp sci-fi movie to look², from the giant robots to the cars down to the ray pistol. The one interesting thing about the movie that one should remember is that the entire thing was shot in front of a green screen and there were no locations. All the background stuff was computer-rendered. Then it appears that they pushed the film of the actors through some filters to add a bit of noise & distortion into the film, giving a feeling of being from the 40’s. These computerized specials effects were unfortunately the only good thing about the movie. The writing of the movie was wretched. The acting was sub-par at best. If you wish to know more details, following the (more) link but be warned that there are some spoilers mixed in there.
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