mcbeen.com

Another site I forgot about until Alex brought up the subject of high speed cameras. These guys took cheap disposable cameras and rigged together optical triggers to get some pretty amazing photos. Here is an example of one:

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Pretty crazy considering this picture was taken by a bolt knocking a piece of cardboard free.

I found a rather fun site today. It is a online etymology dictionary. So if you are anything like me, and sometimes wonder why certain words are used certain ways… This is THE place. Ever wonder why exposed film is called footage? Now you know.

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This area of Spanish Creek cuts through a large vertical section of granite. As you can tell the water is pretty rough. That is David standing out on the rocks.

I always thought it was a rather moving picture. The dreary muted colors of the overcast day contrast strongly against the bright jacket he is wearing, one one source of color in the photo. One person standing alone looking into the rapids that can symbolize so much in our lives that feels impassable.

Anyways. I like the photo.

I have had this video clip for some time now. It was given to me by a local electrician. Supposedly it is real. Supposedly it came from a site in the Central Valley of California. Real or not it’s pretty neat.

Judging by the way these guys back away, I think it is real.

Jenn and I now have WP 1.2 installed. Lots of good new features for us to play with. Plus, we couldn’t just let Joe have all the fun. The Coppermine stuff is really starting to work well now. It’s pretty much what I have been wanting. One of the reasons I stopped posting photos to my website was I was sick of maintaining the html library by hand. WHAT A PAIN! Now it’s cake… And my blog is directly linked to it.
Sorry about the new theme Jenn. I couldn’t resist. Let me know what default theme you would like and I can set it for you.

I’ve gone ahead and updated my blog to 1.2 of wordpress, and linked to a new online photo manger, Coppermine, running on my server. I’ve got about four other blogs running on my server right now, and I plan to integrate all of them into coppermine. A small sample of what this means can be seen off to the left. Random photos from the gallery are shown. There are tons of different things that can be done here. the least of which is something like this:

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This image is being served directly from the Coppermine system. I’m hoping that I can find a way to add in a post to blog button to the gallery so this can be a two way posting system. I may just have to write my own fuction. Based upon what I have learned about both systems, this should not be hard.

[thumb:5:l] Thompson Valley Foggy Morning
Took this picture a couple days ago. The fog has started to apear around here for the first time this year. Soon the leaves will be changing and I’ll have some great pictures to go with this one.