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YouTube - Puppy vs. Cat

So the cutest things ever! And you just know one of them was named Poopy.

HEALTH NEWS ARCHIVE

Kissing 'could help hay fever'

A 30-minute kissing session may suppress the body's allergic reaction to pollen, providing welcome relief from hay fever, a new study suggests.

I think I want to live in a house boat one day. Shot today walking to downtown from Fisherman's Wharf park, after taking a harbour taxi for fun. And, fabulous dinner at Hime as usual.

Cannon EOS 20D, 18mm, 1/500s @ ISO 200.
Some photoshopping: colours and contrast adjusted in the sky and land/ocean seperately. Sharpened with a hipass filter.

Shot yesterday on top of Beacon Hill park. This is probably more abstract than I usually go, but I really like the simplicity. I'm going to have to figure out some colour management pretty soon, as the colours look different in different browsers.

Evaporated and condensed milk are different. Don't use condensed milk in that chocolate-oat meal recepie that you love, when it explicitly calls for evaporated. AND DON'T WONDER WHY IT DOESN'T WORK IF YOU USE THE WRONG INGREDIENT.

see:
Evaporated milk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Evaporated milk is fresh, homogenized milk from which 60 percent of the water has been removed.

and see:
Condensed milk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Condensed milk is cow's milk from which water has been removed and to which sugar has been added, yielding a very thick, sweet product that can last on the shelf for years.

I've got to stop wandering off, away from the group. I shot this one, and missed the tales of illicit deals in the big city.

Shot in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

• beacon hill
• Victoria
• sunset
• blue
• orange

Joy and Matt, the intrepid explores on their way to regale us with tales of the big city, nefarious dealings and other fun.

Shot in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

• beacon hill
• Victoria
• climbing
• grass
• sky
• sunset

I'm told that this building will be the last one built with a view of the inner harbour. Exposure corrected by five f/stops.

Shot in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

• Victoria
• urban landscape
• realestate
• b+w
• construction

Shot in the Finnerty Gardens at UVic. I think this is a poppy, and the image is unprocessed, except for a little sharpening in the forground.

Shot in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

• uvic
• flora
• yellow
• poppy
• depth of field

I love the calm nights downtown, even with the tourists. The water was so clear I had to take a photo. We just left a restaurant after a good meal and some really fun people, and there she was.

Shot in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

• night
• Victoria
• legislature
• Inner Harbour

update: bah. Stupid JPEG chunks in the darker areas. The original is beautiful, with actual black where there should be black.

Pinhole photography is wonderful and fascinating. I'm trying to turn my fancy-pants digital camera into a digital pinhole camera, and it's actually going ok. I need more tools (should a gay man dream of owning a Dremel?), and I need to figure a better material for the actual pinhole than tin-foil. Everybody knows that stuff is best for hats.

The dark circle is caused by the small "inner" aperature that I cut into the spare body cap. It isn't big enough to cover the full frame when I put the piece of copper pipe with the aperature in front. The specks are dust on my image sensor.

Shot in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

• pinhole
• abstract

This photo was also shot amidst taudry tales that I missed Ah well, such is life.

I wanted to get a good sense of the cable supporting the flagpole, but I don't think the camera was close enough. Also, this was my first attempt at using hyperfocal distance - the foreground (cable, branches), and background (clouds, flag) are both sharp.

I'm posting this with my new system -- all the metadata (and the text you're reading right now) are entered directly into the photo in Photoshop, (this description is available as part of the EXIF data). A JavaScript exports the photo as a JPEG, and writes the metadata into an XML file. A perl script reads the XML, and contacts the MovableType software over XMLRPC, uploads the photo, formats the text of the entry, and then creates the entry, all with XMLRPC. One click publishing, that I built myself!

Shot at 2006:05:20 20:02:22, Victoria British Columbia Canada

Keywords for this photo:

• beacon_hill
• Victoria
• flag
• blue
• sunset
• dusk
• hyperfocal_distance

EXIF data for this photo:

• Date_Time: 2006:05:29 22:10:36
• Color_Space: Uncalibrated
• Model: Canon EOS 30D
• White_Balance: Auto
• Focal_Length: 24.0 mm
• Shutter_Speed: 1/160 sec
• Exposure_Mode: Auto
• Exposure_Time: 1/160 sec
• Metering_Mode: Pattern
• Flash: 16
• F-Stop: f/11
• Scene_Capture_Type: Standard
• Aperture_Value: f/11
• Orientation: Normal
• Date_Time_Original: 2006:05:20 20:02:22

An uninteresting colour shot, but a very interesting black and white one.

Shot at 2006:05:16 14:40:22, Victoria British Columbia Canada

Keywords for this photo:

• uvic
• flora
• b+w
• rhododendron

EXIF data for this photo:

• Date_Time: 2006:05:31 11:55:46
• Color_Space: Uncalibrated
• Model: Canon EOS 30D
• White_Balance: Auto
• Focal_Length: 53.0 mm
• Shutter_Speed: 1/250 sec
• Exposure_Mode: Auto
• Exposure_Time: 1/250 sec
• Metering_Mode: Pattern
• Flash: 16
• F-Stop: f/6.3
• Scene_Capture_Type: Standard
• Aperture_Value: f/6.3
• Orientation: Normal
• Date_Time_Original: 2006:05:16 14:40:22

I think this is a camelia, but I'm not sure. It is my entry in this month's photo club challenge: shallow depth of field.

Shot at 2006:05:31 15:20:05, Victoria British Columbia Canada

Keywords for this photo:

• flora
• fauna
• macro
• ant
• camelia
• depth_of_field

EXIF data for this photo:

• Date_Time: 2006:05:31 16:53:59
• Color_Space: Uncalibrated
• Model: Canon EOS 30D
• White_Balance: Auto
• Focal_Length: 55.0 mm
• Shutter_Speed: 1/500 sec
• Exposure_Mode: Auto
• Exposure_Time: 1/500 sec
• Metering_Mode: Pattern
• Flash: 16
• F-Stop: f/5.6
• Scene_Capture_Type: Standard
• Aperture_Value: f/5.6
• Orientation: Normal
• Date_Time_Original: 2006:05:31 15:20:05

Yellow flowers in the Finerty Gardens at UVic. The curves in the petals caught my interest while I was there, but the out-of-focus flowers in the background are more interesting to me now.

Shot at 2006:05:16 14:37:48, Victoria British Columbia Canada

Keywords: (toggle)

• uvic
• flora
• yellow
• closeup
• depth_of_field

EXIF data: (toggle)

• Date_Time: 2006:05:31 22:33:19
• Color_Space: Uncalibrated
• Model: Canon EOS 30D
• White_Balance: Auto
• Focal_Length: 55.0 mm
• Shutter_Speed: 1/1000 sec
• Exposure_Mode: Auto
• Exposure_Time: 1/1000 sec
• Metering_Mode: Pattern
• Flash: 16
• F-Stop: f/6.3
• Scene_Capture_Type: Standard
• Aperture_Value: f/6.3
• Orientation: Normal
• Date_Time_Original: 2006:05:16 14:37:48