Photography
Our big guy was lurking in our pond as the afternoon light was hitting. I took this shot with the Celestron C-90 and Nikon D50. The setup is shown below:
Month: January 2007
Geocaching and Maps, Local
There was terrible news in this morning’s Greenville News. The Map Shop is joining the ever-growing list of downtown business that have closed. The owner has decided to retire from retail, and will focus on creating customized maps for business. Located on Coffee Street since 1982, The Map Shop was one of the first unique … Read More “The Map Shop – RIP” »
Local, Photography
Today was a full day of photography. First there was the portraiture class in the morning. Later in the afternoon, I met up with some of my friends from the Greenville forums on UrbanPlanet.org for a photowalk around downtown Greenville. Eric (aka RestedTraveler) and Ron (aka ManinthePark) were waiting for me under the canopy overlooking … Read More “UrbanPlanet Photowalk” »
Photography
This morning I began a class on portrait photography. The class, taught by Polly Donahue, is being offered at the Greenville Museum of Art in conjunction with Furman’s Lifelong Learning program. We meet on Saturday mornings at the museum for three weeks. Today’s session was a general overview of the various types of portrait photography. … Read More “The Art of Portrait Photography” »
Photography
I’ve been getting a bit more daring with my Photoshopping. After reading about blur overlays on the Digital Photography School, I decided to try a few on some more pictures. Here are a couple more before and after shots. First, the Before. This shot was taken with my Nikon D50 attached to a Celestron C90 … Read More “Full Moon Photoshopped” »
EdTech, Internet
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ~Henry Steele Commager I am a government censor. I am responsible for blocking certain images and ideas that might be deemed harmful to our students. I do this … Read More “Censorship” »
General Technology, Geocaching and Maps, Internet
Back last summer I wrote an article on this site complaining about triple tags and the clutter they create on tag clouds. The idea was that a tag cloud is meant to group items with similar characteristics. However, triple tags are meant to identify a specific item. They are often called "machine-readable" because they are … Read More “Flickr’s Machine Tags” »
EdTech, Rants
Sometimes I hate dealing with vendors. Don’t get me wrong. A good relationship with a vendor is crucial to a successful technology program. However, for every good, successful vendor relationship, there are a dozen cold calls and down right annoying sales people. Since this is E-Rate season, the number of such calls has increased. First, … Read More “What part of “no”….?” »
Geocaching and Maps, Internet
On October 3 Google Earth released a massive imagery update. Until that point, most of South Carolina was in low resolution. The new release provided much higher resolution images for almost all of the state. Almost all, that is. Right after the update there was a very blurry section right where the town of Casey, … Read More “Columbia is Back!” »
Things Overheard
Normally, conversation while watching a football game doesn’t involve discussion of chemistry. Laura mentioned her discovery of www.madewithmolecules.com, which prompted him to relay the tale of this e-mail he received while at Harvard… Dear Dr. Goess: My roommate had the chemical structure of her antidepressants tattooed on her ankle. She didn’t have the atoms labeled … Read More “Unusual Quotes during Football” »