West Coast
Posted on August 15th, 2007 07:29 PM | Comments (0) | Pings (0)Earlier this month, Kat and I flew out to the west coast to visit some friends, and to spend four days in Monterey with my family.
The following entries were written in the Photo category:
GPS + Camera
Posted on July 8th, 2007 08:18 PM | Comments (1) | Pings (0)I’ve finally gotten the GPS connection working with my D200, and am loving the simplicity of it all: turn on GPS, turn on camera, wait for satellite fix, take pictures, enjoy the extra geospatial metadata.
Site Brokenness
Posted on June 4th, 2007 11:03 AM | Comments (0) | Pings (0)I spoke way too soon in saying “We’re Back”. The server is up and running, and has been for a bit now. But the upgrade that caused all the trouble a few weeks ago has left my site crippled: None of the RDF-backed features (pictures!) are currently working because of mysterious problems with mod_perl and Redland.
Snowy Weather
Posted on February 26th, 2007 12:17 AM | Comments (2) | Pings (0)After a week of highly varied weather, it snow a couple of inches this morning. It was apparently great snow for making snowmen, because there were four of them outside my apartment and I passed another four on a short walk around the campus.
Brighton Pier
Posted on January 25th, 2007 12:35 AM | Comments (0) | Pings (0)I’m always impressed with Sam Javanrouh’s daily dose of imagery, but his recent shot of the Brighton Pier is wonderful.
Shooting in Boston
Posted on January 21st, 2007 01:43 PM | Comments (1) | Pings (0)I spent all day Saturday in Boston shooting photos with Matt. I rented a Nikon PC 85mm lens for the weekend and we played around with it all around town. We had more than just the tilt/shift lens, though.
The International Semantic Web Conference is currently taking place here in Athens, Georgia, and it’s been really great so far.
Earlier this month I spent a few days in Maine visiting friends and enjoying the scenery. Unfortunately, the foliage couldn’t seem to make up its mind, and the trees were mostly either green or brown.
Flickr Photo Maps
Posted on September 1st, 2006 02:06 AMPings (0)It’s been around for a few days now, and I’ve got mixed feelings about Flickr’s new geo-tagging support. On one hand, they’ve done more for the cause of spatial photo annotations in the last few days than anyone has ever done before. On the other hand, the data still ends up being controlled by Flickr, and the simple coordinate approach to geo-tagging means that you can’t attach any other interesting data off of locations.
Two Weeks in California
Posted on August 17th, 2006 02:57 AMPings (0)This most recent trip to California is coming to a close, but it’s been a great trip. I spent four days in San Diego with my parents, three siblings, two brothers-in-law, four nephews and two nieces. We had a great time visiting the San Diego Wild Animal Park and Sea World, paddle boating around and watching fireworks across Mission Bay, and attending a Luau.
Party Pictures
Posted on July 10th, 2006 12:31 AMPings (0)Photos from the barbecue in LA are now online.
Thunderstorm Season
Posted on June 23rd, 2006 12:06 AMPings (0)The other night Matt kept pestering me to grab my camera and get some shots of the approaching storm. I’m sure glad he did because I got about 3 shots off from the balcony before it started pouring rain and this one captured the lightning very well.
Photo Strategies
Posted on April 27th, 2006 07:32 PMPings (0)For a long time, I’ve tried to consider what the best way to present my photos on this website is. Here’s some background on what I’ve done in the past, what I’m doing now, and a solicitation for thoughts on how to move forward.
Back from Japan
Posted on April 11th, 2006 02:05 PMPings (0)So I’m back from Japan. I have been for about a week, actually. It took a while to get caught up on sleep, though. I haven’t had time to publish all the photos yet, but I’ve put some highlights in a (Flickr) Japan Set. Expect more soon.
Spring Travels
Posted on March 20th, 2006 03:47 PMPings (0)Last week, Kat and I spent a few days of spring break in Vermont, doing all the Vermont things we could think of. Also, I leave tomorrow for two weeks visiting Kabir in Japan.
Making Photos Private
Posted on January 27th, 2006 12:22 AMPings (0)I’ve just made public a feature on this website I’ve been playing with for several months. After discussion privacy issues at ISWC with Libby and Bijan, I added support on the photo pages for marking individual photos as private. The idea here is that if you’re in a photo, you have the option of taking it offline.
Thanksgiving (with Photos)
Posted on November 25th, 2005 10:46 PMPings (0)Last Saturday we had a great early Thanksgiving in Providence before everyone left town to be with their families, and this week I’ve spent the actual Thanksgiving holiday with family in DC. Photos are now online.
ISWC Wrap-up and Pictures
Posted on November 15th, 2005 10:38 PMPings (0)I’m finally back from Ireland (and England) and ISWC. There are pictures online from the conference and my weekend in London.
Pumpkin Pictures
Posted on October 23rd, 2005 05:06 PMPings (0)Pictures from the Keene Pumpkin Festival are now online.
I’m drooling over the announcement of Aperture. The demo videos (and quite frankly everything I’ve read about it) make Aperture look like a near-perfect post processing application for photos. It’s clear that Apple took all the serious issues photographers deal with when working in digital, and thought long and hard about how to solve them. From the stacking of rapid-fire shots, to the backup vaults, the pervasive metadata support to the beautiful user interface, Aperture looks like a winner.
LA and Providence
Posted on September 25th, 2005 08:42 PMPings (0)New photos are now online from the Cnation mini-reunion at Sunset and the Housewarming at our new place in Providence.
At the Airport Again
Posted on September 12th, 2005 02:09 PMPings (0)I’m back at the airport. Again. Back to LA for a week. I’ve got lots of work to do while there, and lots of other things to take care of, but I promise, I’m going to start posting more often.
All the Wheaton crew was back together this weekend, meeting in Freedom, Maine for Greg and Laura’s wedding. The weather was pretty damp and cold, but the rain mostly held off for the wedding, the reception was under a large tent nicely erected atop several birch trees, and a great bonfire warmed everyone up later on in the night.
OK. Everyday since getting back, I’ve promised myself that I’d post an update. And sure enough, every day I’d not do it. But today is different. Today is the day that I get back into the habit of posting. I swear.
New Orleans
Posted on July 8th, 2005 09:16 PMPings (0)We’ve been hanging out in the French Quarter and enjoying the night-life of New Orleans. We leave tomorrow heading back to Providence, but New Orleans has been tons of fun.
Graduation
Posted on May 22nd, 2005 03:58 PMPings (0)Wheaton’s Graduation was yesterday. It was great, as always, to see so many old friends and to watch the seniors graduate. So congratulations to the class of 2005. Thanks for being such amazing people, and here’s hoping you stay in touch.
Matt came down to visit this weekend, together with Simon, we found ourselves at a Wheaton party where seniors and the underclassmen that are staying for graduation are all enjoying the week before commencement and the beginning of summer.
Nikon is fucking up big time on this RAW debacle. The refuse to engage the community of their users, and it’s utterly frustrating. Engadget’s recent interview with Steve Heiner, head of Nikon’s DSLR group, had an obnoxious cut-in by Nikon public relations trying to avoid saying anything at all about the RAW issue, or Adobe’s DNG format.
Station Dinner
Posted on April 24th, 2005 12:40 AMPings (0)I’ve put up pictures from the WCCS Station Dinner at Paragon last night, with a few additional shots of the flowers that are springing up all over Providence.
Silent March
Posted on March 28th, 2005 03:32 AMPings (0)I’ve been doing terribly at updating this month. Really quite awful. So here’s a recap of the month.
Death Valley Photos
Posted on March 9th, 2005 10:29 PMPings (0)My Death Valley photos are now online.
Code and Photos
Posted on February 8th, 2005 06:41 PMPings (0)With a working computer back in my life, I’ve been cleaning up some code, and making some changes to the website.
Walked down to Izzy’s in the rain last night, and enjoyed the assorted 2am crowd.
Christmas Eve
Posted on December 25th, 2004 05:41 AMPings (0)Photos from our Christmas Eve dinner and church service are online.
Back in LA
Posted on December 21st, 2004 02:52 AMPings (0)Here’s a photo of Logan from the plane while we were waiting to be de-iced.
The Candles’ Glow
Posted on December 7th, 2004 04:51 PMPings (0)The silence was getting to me, so here’s a photo from Wheaton’s Luminaria.
Image Searching
Posted on December 2nd, 2004 10:12 PMPings (0)Optimizing the image search continues. It’s much faster now than a few days ago (again), but still slow for interactive use. Here’s a screenshot, though, to tide you over.
Querying Images
Posted on November 29th, 2004 11:16 PMPings (0)I had intended to write a short bit about why you wouldn’t be able to browse pictures on this site by location for a long time, but two days of solid hacking on an good-enough solution using RDQL has gotten me so much closer than I would have thought possible just a few days ago.
The pictures are now available to be browsed by year and month.
It is totally snowing.
105093/8642
Posted on November 11th, 2004 03:13 AMPings (0)There are now 8642 photos, at least partially annotated, on this site.
Beer Pictures
Posted on November 9th, 2004 01:55 PMPings (0)The photos from the Beer Festival are online.
New Photos
Posted on October 26th, 2004 05:38 AMPings (0)I’ve been putting tons of work into the photo annotation code, and am about ready to tackle the trip photos. To test the code, I’ve been adding lots of new pictures, and going back and annotating lots of old pictures.
Coming Fall
Posted on October 13th, 2004 02:23 PMPings (0)Fall color is everywhere. Herewith, photos from the last week.
Annotating Trip Photos
Posted on September 20th, 2004 12:01 AMPings (0)I’ve begun the long, arduous process of sorting, selecting, annotating, and publishing the roadtrip and Ireland photos.
Beach Photos
Posted on July 23rd, 2004 04:53 AMPings (0)The camera I mentioned earlier is my new Nikon D70. It’s awesome, and I’ve put up a new photo album of shots of surfers and kitesurfers at sunset in Malibu.
It’s Photo Friday again. This week’s subject is “Mother,” and I’ve got the perfect photo.
Today’s wordPhoto is “Boat.”
Image Search
Posted on June 22nd, 2004 11:18 PMPings (0)You can now search for photos on this site by place name, latitude/longitude pairs, and Wordnet terms.
Photo Pages
Posted on June 18th, 2004 01:48 PMPings (0)Almost all the photos in the pictures section now have individual pages describing who appears in the picture, the date and location at which the picture was taken, and the camera used to take the picture.
A photograph of a door in the Garage, Cambridge, submitted to wordPhoto for “Graffiti.”
Black and White
Posted on May 30th, 2004 04:09 AMPings (0)Photo Friday, a couple days late: Black and White.
An entry for Word Photo’s “Night” topic, too late for submission, ends up on my site instead.
Self-Portrait
Posted on April 16th, 2004 05:20 PMPings (0)Photo Friday: Self-Portrait.
Four Photos
Posted on April 5th, 2004 02:14 PMPings (0)Four photos from the past week.
My pictures from Austin are online.
Photo Friday is here with “Glamour.” And here’s Ben, strutting his stuff.
Alaska Photos
Posted on February 3rd, 2004 08:57 PMPings (0)My Alaska photos are now online.
Until I can get a full photo album online from my recent trip to Alaska, here’s one of the best shots I took of Turnagain Arm, south of Anchorage.
Photo Friday, “Man”: My brother, Glen, wearing my sister’s scarf and hat. Christmas, 2003….
This week’s Photo Friday theme is “Motion.” Here’s a shot of the red line in Manhattan, taken on the night before New Year’s Eve.
Pictures, Again
Posted on January 10th, 2004 09:24 PMPings (0)Trips Pictures are flooding back onto this website. Also, there are some pictures up from Shuli’s Birthday in 2002.
It’s photo friday again: Woman.
A photograph of the Nalgene rainbow on a wall at REI.
It’s photo friday. This week’s theme is “Structure,” and I’ve got two shots of my uncle’s new house in Buellton.
This lovely stencil showed up recently behind the In-N-Out in Westwood.
New Pictures
Posted on March 5th, 2003 12:57 AMPings (0)I’ve put new pictures (from film!) online.