I’ve been busy with other things lately have not been taking or post-processing many pictures. I’m looking at getting some of that going again and getting a small gallery of my shots up on the site here.
I’ve considered adding a separate picture gallery wordpress instance in the past. To date I’ve kept things here on the discussion blog. I think that if I’m going to post more than the occasional picture or set of pictures that a free-standing blog instance would do the job better.
My good old canonscan 8800 has started putting color streaks in the middle of the dark parts of images
The platen is clean enough (not that platen state should matter for this) and I ran this several times at different resolutions and get the same artifact in the same place. I can imagine this could be a calibration target issue or a sensor aging issue, but either way I’m not inclined to try to dig it out.
I just ordered an Epson Perfection V600 which looks like a good step up and at a reasonable price. I’m going to be doing a good bit of imaging in the near future as I build out the site here and do some home sandbox work so I want a reliable and high quality scanner.
I’d expect the price hikes to have trimmed down the number of people and I would have assumed that this was somewhat intentional. I’m a bit bemused that Disney is cutting budgets if park and resort revenue is up on fewer total guests. I’d be guessing that they’re trying to squeeze more profit out of operations and that this is an excuse more than a necessity. Continue reading Interesting, Disney park attendance down but revenue up…→
I’m continuing to put together images to use on the site(s) here. This weekend it was role playing games and war games. I’ve added a few shelves of science fiction and fantasy books that were taken last weekend to the headers here earlier in the weekend. Continue reading Weekend of photography of board games and RPGs→
Busy weekend doing fun stuff. Didn’t get as much work done on the site or photo backlog as I had been hoping. Saw friends, went places and generally had a good weekend… Continue reading Monday, July 18, 2016→
I loved the Dresden Files books by Butcher so I have now finally gotten around to starting his new series, ‘The Cinder Spires’ and I’m about a third of the way through The Aeronaut’s Windlass. Continue reading Reading Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher→
Tonight while listening to reviews of Pokemon GO it struck me just how much potential AR technology has on the entertainment front. Pokemon Go seems to be getting huge traction and I expect that there will be follow on apps from other companies and in other domains. Continue reading AR is a cool thing so…pokemon go→