Photo of the Week #5

This week’s photo is of the new Camaro concept car. The San Francisco International Auto Show finishes up today, so I made the trip to San Francisco yesterday to check it out. It was a good show, lots of new and exotic cars out there on the floor. I got a bunch of photos of the event, they’re all in their own album.

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Photo of the Week #4

Alright, I made it to four photos, hopefully this’ll soon have enough momentum to keep going without me having to make a conscious effort each week.

This week’s photo is of the garden in front of Google’s Building 46. I saw the scene while I was in a conference room in the building this week and decided that I had to come back and photograph it some time. The green, yellow and red trees lined up and against the blue sky jumped out at me. (I think the photo could’ve been a little better if the sky was a little bluer today, but I can’t control the weather.)

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Photo of the Week #3

This week’s photo is of Mountain View’s Charleston Park. The park is right next to Google’s main campus, and you can see Shoreline Amphitheatre in the background.

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Posting Frequency Plugin

Now, several weeks after it was supposed to be done and posted, I finally finished version 1.0 of my posting frequency plugin for WordPress.

The options screen is still terribly ugly, and the default colours come from the colour scheme for this site (but are configurable).

So, if you’re running WordPress, try it out.

Photo of the Week #2

Today I took the “Outdoor Sculpture Walk” around Stanford campus, taking pictures as we went along. I got a couple of decent shots, but none of them were of sculptures. My pick for this week is a high-speed shot of a fountain (to freeze the drops of water) with a student reading a book in front. I think it came out pretty well.

As a note, this picture was cropped and straightened after the fact. That and maybe some colour correction is all the editing that I plan on letting myself do for these ‘Photo of the Week’ pictures, unless my goal for the week is to try something like HDR Photography, etc. This project is to make be a better photographer, and to encourage me to get out and do something photo-worthy every week–messing around with a digital image isn’t going to help me with either of those.

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Sonoma Valley

Two weeks ago, a group of people from work went up to Sonoma Valley for the day to do some wine tasting. In addition to tasting over a dozen wines, I thought this was a good chance to take a few more pictures. I tried a few using a polarizer this time around, forgetting that they can give some odd effects at wide angles. Nevertheless, I got a few (what I think to be) decent photos out of the trip, that are now in my gallery.

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