Cedar Waxwing
I finally got see the long-rumored Cedar Waxwings this weekend. Yesterday evening there were more than a dozen sitting in one of our trees.
This morning I took a few photos, but never could get positioned for any great images. I did like these two enough to share; don't forget you can click on the image to see a larger version.
What's in 144 Browser Tabs?
I tweeted a note about how I had 144 tabs open in my browser, possibly a new high!
I then thought of the terminally bored or insatiably curious, or perhaps the merely credulous, who might be asking, "what 144 web pages have you looked at in the past 12 days?" (And it's not all of the pages I've visited. Work isn't counted and neither are all the pages I viewed and then closed the tab.)
No, these are the pages that are still open (in tabs) because I seem to think I'm going to do something with 144 open web pages. Well, I will. I'll do a 'bookmark all tabs' storing the results in the 20100326 folder and then I'll close the window and restart Firefox.
Meanwhile, here they are for your amusement.
Mike's not quite 144 open tabs (a few that had personal info in the URL (I know, bad form, eh?) were removed). Oh, and this page doesn't validate either.
- Google Reader (1000+)
- Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » Stupid Tone-Curve Tricks: A Half Dozen Develop Presets for Lightroom
- High-tech copy machines a gold mine for data thieves - thestar.com
- Whitechapel - FREAKANGELS Episode 0091
- McPherson - Lindsborg Freecycle - OFFER: Marble Slabs 4ft long 6in wide 2in thick ()
- Well-Placed Pixels
- Life With Droid: The Good, the Bad, and the Bizarre
- A 53,900% speedup: Nignx, Drupal, and Memcache bring concurrency up and page load time way down | TechnoSophos
- The Story of Bottled Water
- Chris Glass
- A Painter's Year: Patio Furniture
- Two scenes at Lindsborg, KS, 23 years apart
- Tom Russell: Notes from the Borderland
- YouTube - Tom Russell Guadalupe
- Google Maps
- laura's watercolors: march virtual paintout
- Murphy was a Grunt: Semper Fi...
- Google Online Security Blog: Meet skipfish, our automated web security scanner
- River2: Home
- Relaunching Dogcaught: What’s New!
- Get the Party Started: 1941 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive
- Ralphie's Ramblings: Huh? Duh? Wuh?
- I and the Bird (IATB) #121
- I and the Bird
- The good, the bad and the ugly of earmarks - Pittsburg, KS - Morning Sun
- Send in your samples to be photographed by a scanning electron microscope - Boing Boing
- Facebook | Police Inspector Gadget Fan Club
- The politics of yakuza: Jake Adelstein Q&A pt. 2 - Boing Boing
- Apcupsd, a daemon for controlling APC UPSes
- Phone Numbers, Shortcuts & Customer Service Tips - Companies Worldwide - GetHuman.com
- Make a molehill out of a mountain with Tilt Shift Focus
- There Were Plants and Birds, and Rocks and Things
- ReefStock 2010 pictures part 1: Setting up
- CEJournal
- Best Oatmeal Recipe « Jeremy Zawodny's blog
- Ksplice » Hello from a libc-free world! (Part 1) - System administration and software blog
- Rework: Unveiling the cover - (37signals)
- David Byrne with Santigold: "Please Don't," from "Here Lies Love" (a BB exclusive) - Boing Boing
- Nelson's Weblog: tech / blosxom / blog-migration-help
- Free Ebooks Catalog - mybebook.com
- Gallery 28
- Watercolors: Mixes
- TIME GOES BY | Good OLD Rock and Roll
- Strobist: Something Fun While You Do Your Brackets
- The Stupid Shall Be Punished: USS Chicago CO Fired
- The Future Of Iris
- Acorn, the image editor for humans.
- The Twenty Minute Challenge: THANK YOU KATHY!!!
- Interarchy Fire Sale
- Daring Fireball: An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox
- Slashdot Technology Story | 25 Years of the .com gTLD
- On the First Days of the Journey
- Things 1.3 Brings Support for Mixed Projects | Things Blog | Cultured Code
- Podcast: Speech On The Skills Of Practical Innovation | Phil McKinney - Sharing his experiences on innovation, creativity and ingenuity
- TwonkyMedia Fixes for HP software 3.0 Patch 2 « MS Windows Home Server
- Troubleshooting TwonkyMedia – How To Fix Twonky Issues in 3.0 Patch 2 | Using Windows Home Server
- Watercolors: His Royal Highness
- laura's watercolors: ... and again
- no description, colours uploaded by ademir laurindo de m
- Texas Tomatoes: 1939 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive
- Hacker News
- Life According to Google. | Leigh Reyes. My Life As a Verb.
- TIME GOES BY | ELDER MUSIC: Patsy Cline
- If It's Hip, It's Here: A Sweet Treat For Control Freaks. Chocri Custom Organic Exotic Chocolate Bars.
- Slashdot Ask Slashdot Story | Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive?
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- The Online Photographer: How Sharp Is Your Printer? How Sharp Are Your Eyes?
- Using Filters To Overcome The Challenges Of The Palouse « Kevin McNeal Photography
- lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, concept art and other visual arts
- Hoover 868: How does it work? - The Fountain Pen Network
- 3 Sheaffers at a antique shop - The Fountain Pen Network
- Login | Facebook
- | DrupalCon San Francisco 2010
- Broadway RFD | RFD News
- drupalcon-sf.png (PNG Image, 1252x2014 pixels) - Scaled (51%)
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- Topaz ReMask - Masking Made Easy
- The Case for the Fat Start-Up | Ben Horowitz | Voices | AllThingsD
- Hayes Valley: A Former Freeway Turns into a Farm - Look - GOOD
- Fountain pen nib close-up photos image by Cankapopa on Photobucket
- penspotters :: troubleshooting fountain pens
- Bransonic® Products: Home
- what makes a fountain pen nib scratchy - Google Search
- H2OCHURCH.TV
- KPIG (KPIG) on Twitter
- Facebook | Hey pigs we’ve gone...
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- Google Image Result for http://www.penhero.com/365_2010/PallasOceanBlueFP80004.jpg
- FS: Sheaffer carmine BALANCE plunger-filler - The Fountain Pen Network
- Common Counterfeits - Penpedia
- FS -- Sheaffer NO NONSENSE Pens - The Fountain Pen Network
- An Inkophile’s Blog
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- Favorite Inks « An Inkophile’s Blog
- Nibs - The Fountain Pen Network - Page 2
- Esterbrook Safari
- Pelikan M200 Fountain Pen - Blue Marble
- PILOT pens
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- Vintage Pen Catalog: Ephemera, Advertising, Display, and Writing-Related Miscellany
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- Flickr: andrea=netnemo
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- laura's watercolors: the garland briefer
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- Law Enforcement Appliance Subverts SSL | Threat Level | Wired.com
- laura's watercolors: more following the masters
- News – Lightroom 3 Beta (Part 2) | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips
- Canon Blogger: Home of the Learning Digital Photography Podcast
- Scott Kelby's Photoshop Insider Blog » Photoshop & Digital Photography Techniques, Tutorials, Books, Reviews & More » Blog Archive » Adobe Releases Lightroom 3, Public Beta 2
- Making Window Light | Joe McNally's Blog
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- Lightroom Queen Blog » Blog Archive » What’s New in Lightroom 3.0 Beta 2?
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- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.0 Public Beta 2 Feature Feature Preview
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- The Online Photographer: The Leica as Teacher
- Two scenes at Lindsborg, KS, 23 years apart
- Slashdot Ask Slashdot Story | Is the Line-in Jack On the Verge of Extinction?
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- quicken how do I transfer quicken 2010 to a new computer - Google Search
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- Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » Stupid Tone-Curve Tricks: A Half Dozen Develop Presets for Lightroom
Fractalius Owls
I'm having fun using the Fractalius photoshop plug-in as these 2 images show.
Both of these images remind me quite a bit of pen and ink drawings.
You can click on either image to see a larger version.
Here's a link to the original, unprocessed image: Steven's Owl
Here's a link to the original, unprocessed image: Maxwell Owl
Does Mirror Lock-up Matter?
The answer is, quite often, yes. For studio work and landscapes, yes. For action shots of people or animals, the delay can cause problems, so mirror lock-up should not be enabled.
Mirror lock-up is a setting on (D)SLR cameras that causes the mirror, which is used to bounce the image up to the viewfinder, to be flipped out of the way (as it is every time a picture is taken) and then held for a short period of time for the shake induced by that movement to settle before the photo is taken.
These 2X crops of a test chart clearly reveal the difference when mirror lock-up is not enabled.
Part of me feels bad for not testing mirror lock-up previously, but part of me realizes that it's only now having a noticeable effect as digital image sizes continue to grow. There's just a lot more pixels to view, and therefore to reveal resolution and shake, with modern 20M-pixel+ cameras.
The image above was taken with a Canon 7D and 100-400mm zoom, mounted on a tripod and shot with a remote. The camera had just been returned from Canon after being serviced for a front-focus problem, and so far I'm quite pleased with the results.
Fractalius Flower
And now for something different. This photo of a water lily was processed using the (Windows only) Photoshop plugin Fractalius. (The original version may be seen here.)
