Travel

Today decided to visit the Ballarine Peninsula as I had one day left of the car hire before I left for Adelaide. The drive took about an hour and twenty minutes. Visited both Queenscliff and Portarlington both very nice little sleepy seaside towns. I had thought about going on the ferry to Mornington Peninsula but by the time I got there it didn39t leave enough time as the ferry only goes once

Thore 4290m to Gokyo LakeWarm in my sleeping bag with lots of intense dreams I think of them as my altitude dreams. Have to make 1 toilet run in the night cold but so worth it the night sky is so clear and starry. No yaks to contend with only a few snowy steps. Fall back to sleep easily for another couple of hours. Breakfast is a treat last nights leftover birthday cake has been fried up a

On This Week in Tech Today I’ll be on with Leo Laporte, Om Malik, and Dwight Silverman today (Sunday) at 3 PM PT, 6 PM ET. You can watch live at http://live.twit.tv/ . If you’re around Petaluma and want to say hi, stop by! I’ll be sharing some new photos from travels and the Glass. We’ll probably also talk about stuff from Google I/O and other random tech geeky awesome stuff… HDR with Google Glass? I think I figured something cool out, although it is an absolute hack. But, that’s okay. I mean, if you can get the light, then you get the light. If you think about it, using Auto-bracketing on a regular camera (like a DSLR) to get an HDR is kind of a hack, since that’s not even the purpose of auto-bracketing. Today’s photo below shows the hacked effect working from a Google Glass photo. I have a lot more testing and research to do, and I’ll share it soon. It’s different than the usual HDR Tutorial (which was just re-written from the ground-up less than two weeks ago, by the way!). An All-Glass Album I made an All-Glass album over on Google+. I’ve been experimenting a lot with taking photos with Glass. And before you ask, regular visitors to the site (hi!) know that I post-process unapologetically. To me, the first photo is just a sketch. As long as you get enough light and color with an interesting composition, the rest of the light is yours to bend to your will. But yes, all these photos were taken with Google Glass. Some were taken on the San Francisco PhotoWalk a few days ago! Daily Photo – Running down to the Beach I was going down to the beach when I decided to get some quick photos up here with Glass. It didn’t take too long. Man, I sure do wish they were RAW files, but sadly they are just JPGs. It’s not the end of the world, but still… it’s a little limiting. Anyway, as you can see, the waves were crashing in and the weather was wonderful… I guess that makes up for the lack of RAW files! After I got down there, I took a photo of the Natural Bridge, which you can see in the album above. Order a Limited Edition print of this photo

Cred ca toata lumea a auzit de ABBA mai putini stiu ca exista si ABHA. Normal ca hul se pronunta intrun anumit fel Weekendul trecut am petrecut doua zile interesante in Abha si in imprejurimi. Am urcat la munte cum sar spune E impresionat sa uiti de desert pentru doua zile si sa fii totusi in KSA. Pornim la drum dimineata devreme la ora 5 din Riyadh si dupa un mic dejun copios in a

Costa Rica Day 2Alajuela to TortugueroAfter a decent cup of coffee at the hostel we headed to the bus stop to start our trip to Tortuguero. Rather than bore you with the details of our extremely long trip to Tortuguero I39ll just to a brief synopsis. At right around 7am we boarded a Station Wagon bus to San Jose. The trip took about 20 minutes and cost about 600 Colones each. From the Es

Here are just some recent photos that I promised some of you.

May 18 Saturday I overnighted last night at the SuperWalmart in Fredericksburg after eating a very good catfish dinner at the Catfish Haven caf in Fredericksburg. The catfish dinner was very good and came with a full salad bar as well for under about 10 plus tip. I got up early this morning and drove NW on Hwy 87 to Mason.When I came into Mason I checked out the city park which had camp

On This Week in Tech Today I’ll be on with Leo Laporte Om Malik and Dwight Silverman today (Sunday) at 3 PM PT, 6 PM ET. You can watch live at http://live.twit.tv/ . If you’re around Petaluma and want to say hi, stop by! I’ll be sharing some new photos, and I assume we’ll probably be talking about all Google’s news over the past few days. The Google Science Fair – Free educational event – The Science of Photography I know some of you were able to watch the Google Science Fair event a few weeks ago, but be sure to check out that website for some of the other videos. I wish I had all these resources when I was a kid! Daily Photo – A view of the city from the Hollywood Hills One night, Tom and I went up to the top of Runyon Canyon to shoot the city. On the walk up, I liked the view of one of the palatial Hollywood Hills homes through the valley. I zoomed in with my 28-300 mm lens to get this shot. If you’re ever in LA and looking for some new types of city shots, take a hike around Runyon during the sunset. You may find some cool scenes! Order a Limited Edition print of this photo

7 months ago a friend asked me if I would like to visit India with her I said yes and here we are. the flights were fairly decent and I was not sad to say goodbye to the self induced stress sickness I had fallen prey to the day before I left fyi malaria pills major stress a previously empty stomach filled with dill pickle chips will give you one of the worst nights of your life. Amsterda

Loved loved loved Sucre The white city really is beautiful with gorgeous buildings and suspiciously well kept gardens everywhere The 5 nights we spent there flew by arriving at the hostel at around 6.30am on Monday only to be told that reception doesn39t open until 8 and there might be beds for us right away. Luckily we were able to crawl into bed by 9 oh after climbing a ladder up to t