15 Mar 2010 | no comments »
Today was the first day of coworking in the Cohere space. Coworking is the idea that freelancers need human contact too, so we gather in places like coffee shops or coworking specific spaces like Cohere and share resources and generally keep each other a little more sane than we would be on our own.
I’ve been working like this with Paul off and on for a couple of months. I am still trying to sort out what level of regular membership I can afford, but I hope I can–today was a really lovely day.
If you’re in Fort Collins, check them out this week. You can work for $1 or by donating a can of food.
15 Mar 2010 | no comments »
I decided this afternoon to see if I could visually illustrate how I feel about the time change. I love it when we have more light at the end of the day, but it also means that getting up earlier becomes an hour harder (eventually). The image that came to mind was an alarm clock blinking 12:00.
It was not nearly as easy to take the shot as I had hoped. I have an SB-24 camera left, gridded, at 1/16th power. I had my shutter speed slowed down to 1/8th so that I could pick up the red glow of the LED, and my aperture around f8 or so to get just a hint of light behind the clock to define it’s shape.
If I had the time, I’d go back and use a different lens to try and capture the clock in better focus, but 365 project ain’t about perfection.
13 Mar 2010 | no comments »
Podcamp far exceeded by expectations. I’m really looking forward to the next one, and hopefully occasionally working in the Cohere coworking space with these folks.
I was too engaged to spend much time taking pictures, so this is the best I got. Too busy living life for once to spend time documenting it. I’m okay with that.
13 Mar 2010 | no comments »
Here’s Nick Armstrong, local WTF Marketing guy and Podcamp FC facilitator, looking rather in focus in a frame that is completely blurry otherwise. How the hell did that happen? I’m posting this one more for the technical oddity of its existence rather than anything else. Never have I seen this happen before. Never!
Oh this photo is released under the creative commons, so use it however you like.
11 Mar 2010 | no comments »
We had a friend who was stranded in Denver International Airport last night, so we hopped in the car and drove down. We didn’t make it home until nearly midnight. Which is why I am so late in getting this posted. But my deal is to take a picture every day, and the posting can come late due to circumstances if need be. Like this!
I love the tent dome that is the main DIA building. I love being there and not being in a hurry like this poor guy was.
11 Mar 2010 | no comments »
Until May 31st anyway. Still haven’t found a new place…
10 Mar 2010 | no comments »
I spent much of my day photographing a Denver-based mortgage company’s annual meeting, a big first for me. The company hired a team building/corporate activities group called Rave Review, some of whose actors are pictured left. They were a remarkably talented bunch, and a lot of fun to watch.
09 Mar 2010 | no comments »
Okay, not really. He’s just yawning. This is the sick kitty, but he’s sick no longer. Huzzah.
Sorry for the lazy shot, but I’m swamped.
07 Mar 2010 | no comments »
Oh thank the FSM yes. We have green things. I repeat, we have green things.
Cue the six feet of snow to crush all hopes of a true early spring.
06 Mar 2010 | no comments »
It’s always a good thing for wildlife photographers to practice with domestic animals that listen to commands other than “Please don’t eat me, Mr. Mountain Lion!” This is Choco, my friend Paul’s dog. Good pup!
Lucky shot of me catching the treat in mid air. Timing is mostly luck, I think.
05 Mar 2010 | no comments »
Dim indoor lighting makes for some very, very difficult shots. Also an F2 lens has a much more shallow depth of field than you expect.
Whew, just made the deadline. Been going through hundreds of shots from the event tonight.
04 Mar 2010 | no comments »
More wide angle experimentation. For some reason, this is all in focus exept for the lower left-hand corner. WTF? If I’d had my tripod with me, it probably would have come out a little better.
Old school houses are kind of vaguely creepy. I always think I’m going to see ghosts in them, even though I don’t believe in ghosts.
02 Mar 2010 | 2 comments »
Some days, you just need to get out of the office and be around other people. This is my friend Paul, all-around great guy, and a fellow work-from-home tech worker.
I have a lot more practicing I need to do with the wide angle. I’m seeing a lot of distortion in this one, not sure how to deal with that.
01 Mar 2010 | no comments »
It snowed again. Peversely, the high temperatures for Tuesday and Wednesday will be 51 F and 53 F. Faster spring, faster.
01 Mar 2010 | 2 comments »
I have this project, have had for a long time, in my mind, of doing a series of macro photos combined with CG to create some alien astronauts exploring the microcosm of our world. I love getting down and looking at the world through a macro lens, and I sometimes wonder what it would be like to live on that scale.
This kind of looks like an artsy shot of a Pandoran plant from Avatar. First person to guess what it really is gets a no-prize!
26 Feb 2010 | 1 comment »
I rose at 5:00 AM, ready for the day, or so I thought. It ended up taking me nearly 50 minutes to get dressed, find all my gear, load up, and defrost the car. But I was on the road before 6 AM, and that was good enough for me. My mission: test out my new lenses in a more exotic environment than my front yard.
The drive through Glen Canyon was beautiful– it snowed just enough last night to coat the pines with a thin layer, like cake frosting. The road was even more treacherous than usual, so I did not beat the sunrise before arriving in the park. So landscapes were mostly out. I went in search of the elk, and to my surprise, I found them in the alluvial fan, eating twigs. I’ve rarely encountered them up among the rocks before. But they were focused on eating and not much else, so I went elsewhere, down to Morraine Park, where I found the main herd of females. That’s where I took the elk shot at the bottom here, which I have titled “What You Lookin At?” She had a bit of an attitude. Around the same time, this magpie put on a show for me right outside my car door. Why did I buy this huge honking 500mm lens again?
Oh well– I snapped off a couple of landscape shots, even though the light was already gone, just to see what it would look like. At 9mm, it makes the mountains look like foothills. So I’m not exactly sure what the heck I am going to use this wide angle for– I’m not climbing those mountains to get closer shots of them. At least not yet.
25 Feb 2010 | 1 comment »
Sometimes, I like to take a crap photo and just demolish the hell out of it in post. Like this.
24 Feb 2010 | no comments »
Why so many birds, Jeremy?
Because they’re the only damned things alive and moving around in this cold, that’s why.
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