Camera Rig

Look up and say "cheeeeese" (there’s a camera flying over you)!
This is a view of my aerial photography rig in action. You can see how it was made (if you want to understand the picture)…

Olha o passarinho (ou "olha o jegue", no Ceará)! Há uma câmera sobrevoando você!
Este é o berço da câmera que uso para fazer fotos aéreas. Veja alguns detalhes da fabricação dele, se tiver interesse…

Postcards from Galleries and Camera Showrooms

Postcards and brochures of all the photography related galleries and camera showrooms in Shinjuku and Ginza.

Apple Store, Ginza (free internet, 4th floor)
3-5-12 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0061
+81-(0)3-5159-8200
www.apple.com/jp/retail/ginza

Epsite Epson Imaging Gallery
東京都新宿区西新宿2-1-1 新宿三井ビル１階
Shinjuku Mitsui Building 1F.,2-1-1 Nishi-Shinjuku,Shinjuku-ku,Tokyo
+81-(0)3-3345-9881
epsite.epson.co.jp/

Canon Digital House
163-0401
東京都新宿区西新宿2-1-1
新宿三井ビル 1F
1F Shinjuku Mitsui Building
Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
+81-(0)3-3345-9101
canon.jp/digitalhouse

Leica Ginza
6-4-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
+81-(0)3-6215-7070
info@leica-camera.co.jp
www.leicaobjektive.com/kultur/galerie/tokyo/index_e.html

Kodak Photo Salon
3rd Floor 東海堂銀座ビル3階
6-4-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
+81-(0)3-3572-4411
wwwjp.kodak.com/JP/ja/professional/photoSalon/4p140000.shtml

Nikon Salon Shinjuku
28F, Shinjuku L Tower, 6-1, 1-chome, Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 163-1528, Japan
+81-(0)3-3344-0565
www.nikon-image.com/eng/activity/salon/index.htm

Pentax Forum
Shinjuku Mitsui Bldg. 1F, 2-1-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-0401 Japan
Phone: (81)-3-3348-2941
www.pentax.co.jp/english/company/company/institution.html
www.pentax.co.jp/forum/

Pola Gallery
1-7-7 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
+81-(0)3-3563-5501
www.pola-ma.jp/

rachel and her new real doll, er, body pillow – _MG_2073

view rachel and her new real doll, er, body pillow – _MG_2073 on a black background.

i work far too much, rachel is hoping this real doll of a pillow will work wonders in my absence.

copyright © 2007 sean dreilinger

Collectibles inside Old Gas Station

Inside Historic Lake City Auto

Collectible Figs Series 6 Case breakdown

I just found some sealed cases at Fred Meyer’s so I snagged one. I broke the seals on this myself, so I know this is how it came from the factory.

Breakdown:
4x Alien
5x Highlander
3x Pajama Boy
3x Statue of Liberty
5x Bandit
4x Lady in Red
3x Robot
5x Minotaur
4x Leprechaun
3x Roman
3x Surgeon
4x Skateboarder
4x Space Girl
3x Butcher
4x Mechanic
3x Genie

Is this what the rest of you are getting?

Collectibles inside Old Gas Station 2

Inside Historic Lake City Auto

Business Card

I have recently redesigned our business cards and sent them off to printers in Lithuania. ElegantePress.com is the company that we used and I’m very impressed and happy with the product. The tactile feel of the card is hard to describe but it’s very organic and velvety.

Shot with a single LP120 gridded from the right, with a white card on left for bounced fill.

Business cards

Collecting and photographing ahead of sharing ideas with the chap who is working on my new cards.

Yep, feel free to add a note if you’re on there.

Business Development Working on Deals

Like any growing business, these dude make dream happen when they strike deals with groups or associations. If you’re interested in partnering with Infusionsoft, visit www.infusionsoft.com/partner-programs for more info.

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baby bentrup

baby bentrup

baby bentrup

baby bentrup

Alameda Point Antiques and Collectibles Faire

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Alameda Point Antiques and Collectibles Faire

This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons license. If you use this photo, please list the photo credit as "Kent K. Barnes / kentkb" and link the credit to
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Picture 058 Photo Credit Cathryn Posey Photos Taken at AFN Arts and Crafts Fair 2008

Hand-made seal skin dolls with hoods made of polar bear fur, by renowned artist Ursula Paniyak, of Chevak, Alaska. What makes Paniyak’s traditional Cup’ik Eskimo dolls especially unique is how their limbs are positioned to be fishing, dancing, weaving baskets, or representing any other number of cultural native activities.

Photo taken at the Alaska Native Arts & Crafts Fair during Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) annual convention – this event is renowned as one of the best places to find Alaska Native and American Indian artwork

© Cathryn Posey

Our last days

After the Christmas and New Year season is over, what would we become ?

pages from my notebook….

these aren’t meant to be great photographs, they are just a few pages from the book I keep with me to doodle and sketch… basically to keep me sane while I’m at work!

as always, comments are welcome, whether they are on the drawings or on the way I have photographed them.

feel free to flick through the other shots in this set, thumb through my notebook…..

Turning a page on the iPad – the beginning to the end of the mouse as the primary ostension mechanism

Turning a page on the iPad while reading Winnie-the-Pooh! 04 April 2010.
- the beginning to the end of the mouse as the primary ostension mechanism
You can even see the text through the back side of the "paper." Radical. Buy stock in Apple AAPL if you have any cash to invest.

My first day evaluating the iPad. (16GB Wi-Fi-only version 9).
This machine is all and more than I had hoped for.

I’m convinced this platform will become a major new computing and communications vehicle for the new generation. It has the potential to obsolete most things paper like textbooks, magazines, newspapers, anything printed for sure like calendars, cookbooks, club newsletters, etc. Shopping on Amazon.com is trivial one-click and fast and addictive.

Today in casual use I:
* Looked up a few words I did not know in the important Comics section. I now want my Comics delivered not just in .jpg format, but text-selectable format, so I can touch a word and get a Wiki-definition, map, etc.
* Checked the tide chart before walking the beach.
* Bought "Pages" text editor for for the iPad – I expect much of my future writing will be done on the iPad, saved at MobileMe and/or Dropbox, and never stored on any local computer.
* Read and responded to numerous e-mails while eating six pancakes with blackberries, OJ, and coffee in the kitchen.
* Checked what’s playing at the Morro Bay Bay Theatre, and then when I saw it was "Alice in Wonderland," I watched a trailer on iTunes, and then
* Put it on my Netflix queue. (Last night I watched SNL: The Best of Chris Farley while waiting to get sleepy). Movies rock on this platform in your lap.
* 3 minutes ago I received a CNBC news notification pushed to my iPad abut the 6.9 earthquake that just happened in Baja that was felt in Los Angeles.
* Looked at Flickr photos Joyce Cory took on her vacation to Arizona.
* Played music of course.
* Checked eBay and Amazon.com for some silk liner socks I wanted to buy for hiking, that keep my feet from blistering – Norma’s Oats Peak Coon Creek Hike yesterday reminded me that was a past-due item.
* Checked the Morro Bay Surfline "Dawn Patrol" report to see if this might be a day to photograph surfers (nope).
* Tracked the location of my leather iPad case on its way from FedEx.
* "Talked" to Dragon Dictation which translated my voice to text, which I pasted into an e-mail to remind me to post this review. (I’m actually doing this review on my iMac, shame on me).
* Connected a wireless Mac Keyboard to the iPad via Bluetooth (so, that’s just tool building, not really accomplishing anything).
* Took a break to read FML and found it is replaced by FMLOfficial (still free) – was entertained by a few funny stories.
* Listened to Radio Paradise while brushing my teeth after my blackberries and blueberries pancake breakfast.
* Updated Facebook and Twitter at the same time by speaking to Vlingo "Facebook Update: Testing my new iPad" where I found out Devra Cooper finished her taxes already, dang her.
* Checked the weather for tomorrow (Monday 4/5/2010) and saw there may be some showers and chilly (43-52 degrees F)
* Read part of Winnie-the-Pooh as evidenced by the above photo.

So, that’s just a sampler of stuff people do, that can now be done with the iPad better, faster, in a more convenient location and time, than is possible on a laptop or desktop, and with a display 4-times that of the dinky iPhone.

I see this very simple iPad idea implemented in an almost obvious manner (that no other company saw or could execute on – shame on Microsoft and Dell) as the start of a revolution as important as the PC, Web browser, or mobile phone.

Net Picks for the weekend

You probably have to view large to read them.

Regarding "Mirror", I’ve held on to this for almost four weeks now, because I just keep puttting it into the DVD thing and watching some scenes over and over again. It’s not really a movie, it’s a big ball of Tartovsky’s life experiences, recollected and recorded with poetic license. It’s not really a story, it’s just a film. I guess it’s art; but for me, it’s a collection of (mostly) subtle vignettes, some of which are simply transcendant, engrosing and deeply powerful in their lush visual and kinetic perfection.

And in case you haven’t seen this (I’ve spammed it to all my friends at least once) here’s a couple of Tarkovsky’s "Mirror" vignettes set to Arvo Pärt’s musical composition called "Mirror", just because it’s clever like that.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dweiGyjxhHs

See?

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365-47, Weekly Theme: Romance

A photo-a-day for A Hobbling A Day. Group theme for week of February 14 : Romance.

My true love gives me things that I will appreciate, like shiny new DVDs. Romantic movies, melancholy fantasy, flamenco music video, old TV shows, or farce — she picks things she knows I will like. A lot of them, we watch together. Some, like the Three Stooges, she shakes her head and leaves the room when I put it on. But she gets them for me anyway.

Entertainment Stand

Built from Scratch and stained with a Walnut Stain.
Hubby and I are movie (more so me) and game (more so him) geeks. Needed the storage and couldn’t find something that fit our needs and in our price range so we made our own. Not 100% perfect but does the job. Not bad for a first time woodworking project, eh? There is one more set of shelves. Hard to fit it all in one picture.

Wood Wardrobes (1)

www.dabasformumebeles.lv – wardrobes from natural wood forms

Nature form furniture – Unique furniture and design elements:
Harijs Stradiņš – a craftsman working with natural shape wood processing, has been designing furniture and other interior design elements since 1997 selecting the best parts of the tree from top to root. In his works Harijs uses such materials as stone, glass, hammered works, fabric, clay and other natural materials to be able to make common design for a particular room.

Мебель природных форм – Уникальная мебель и элементы дизайна:
С 1997 года мастер по обработке природных форм дерева Харий Cтрадиньш, работая с деревом, изпользует его с корня до верхушки, отбирая самые интерессные части для создания своей мебели и елементов дизайна. Думая об общем дизайне помещения, в своих работах Xaрий изпользует также камень, ковку, лён, стекло, глину и другие природные елементы.

Dabas formu mēbeles – Unikālas mēbeles un dizaina elementi:
Kopš 1997. gada dabiska koka formu apstrādes meistars Harijs Stradiņš sadarbojas ar koku, kā dabas elementu, mēbeļu un dizaina elementu radīšanā, izmantojot to pēc iespējas pilnīgi (no saknes līdz gaotnei). Domājot par telpas kopējā dizaina risinājumu, savos darbos Harijs Stradiņš izmanto arī akmeni, stiklu, metālkalumus, audumu, mālu un citus dabas elementus.

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