This was a rather quick snap. Especially since the cat was in the process of getting up and moving on…
And another quick snap. This time the automatic focus points were centered on the arm rather than the face.
Cat in a window
Category Archives: Interesting
Reflections in a shadow
I don’t normally walk this way, so I was happy coming across these reflections across the shadow. It worked well on the multi-colored granite tile backdrop. Although I feel that I should spend more time on the post-processing of this photo. The picture turned out too flat.
Florida trip
I went to South Florida again to visit the family, the beach, and some Cuban restaurants. This time I tried out the Prius as a rental car. It was okay car to drive.
While I stayed at my Aunt Jill’s house, I was able to visit with my other Aunt, Beth. Here I am with both of my Aunties.
I also saw some of my friends who still live here: Sean Conner and Bunny.
And another Sean. Williams, that is. It was good to see them again. If only briefly…
We went to the Sundy House in Delray Beach for brunch. I’ve never been there before and it was nice. The location is pretty. There is an indoor garden, well more of a tropical forest. We also had fun taking pictures. I wish I had more spontaneous pictures like these… The first is my mom and I and the second is my cousin Heather and her mother, Jill.
Here is a video of the Lake Worth beach (here).
And a video of the Boynton Beach Inlet.
Texas sized cicadas
It was really hard to take this photo. It was too dark for the automatic focusing to work. So I had to shine a flashlight in one hand to help with focusing. Then the mosquitoes were eating me alive. I gave up after the tenth bite.
I also tried recording the buzzing of the cicadas. I think I need a wind sock on the audio recorder. Because, while it didn’t seem windy when I was standing out there, there were definite wind spikes.
Tropical Storm Hermine
I missed an opportunity to take some pictures of flash flooding. According to KVUE, Georgetown received 14.57 inches over two days! Sadly, the weatherman talked about how this was a 500 year rain event, but then did not blog about it.
The changing light of sunset
When I just happened to glance outside, I noticed an unusual and strong color tint. So I immediately jumped out of my chair and ran to my camera. By that time, the color started to fade. It is amazing how ephemeral these occurrences are.
I also tried taking a picture after grabbing a color-neutral filter and taking a white-balance setting frame. But the result was rather bland after the light skew was subtracted from the picture..
Deep In The Heart Of Texas, again
The first time I tried to take a panorama of this, I hand-held the camera and just winged it by trying to keep the same point of rotation. This time, I used a panoramic tripod. But there is still problems with the low angle of view. I think I need to get it about twenty feet into the air for a better viewpoint.
Later, when I was processing this panorama, I noticed the following tag. Sigh. People make me sad sometimes.
Austin Skyline
I took a High Definition Range panorama of the Austin Skyline today at Disch Field. And learned some things. I set aperture priority. Which was a mistake. The exposure settings changed slightly on every picture. Which caused color problems. Fortunately, Photoshop was up to the task of correcting the pictures to a common white balance.
It also took a while to wait while people left the individual frames of pictures.
Interesting fire hydrant
I noticed an interesting style of fire hydrant on Anderson Lane. Hrm. Maybe I should keep my eye out to see if there are other types of unique hydrants out there…
HDR San Gabriel River
When I went to Georgetown to take a panorama, I ran into trouble. I placed my tripod here. Which was on the sidewalk of a bridge overlooking a small river and right next to a public park. As I was waiting for the sun to set, I notice something odd. A man was standing under one of the trees and was looking in my direction. He waited for a while and then finally left. I thought he was looking at birds or something. But then a teenager walks down the sidewalk and starts confronting me. He claims that I was taking pictures of his house. I didn’t even notice the trailer off in the distance before. I didn’t bother educating him that my camera’s lens was not powerful enough to resolve his barely visible trailer., which was not even where I was pointing the camera towards. I just calmly listened to him and then told him that I was on public land and he could just sod off.