foggy morning
Oct. 18th, 2007 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I dropped Sarah off. It's picture day, so we instructed her to keep her hair off her face for the photo. She's wearing the panda shirt she's had since she was tiny. It fits her pretty well now. While we waited at the bus stop, I picked up some little seed pods and tossed them upward and watched them spin back to the ground. Traigh was impressed, and this afternoon we'll gather some up and take them to the park to drop off the tall platform.
Then I went out for my walk in the cool fog, taking pictures with the new camera. I set the compression a little looser so I'd get more pictures -- I can get about 19 5M pictures with "normal" compression, 8 with fine, and 5 with superfine. Messing around with different permutations, I see I can get 13 8M pictures with normal. It'll be nice to get a bigger SD card for this thing.
Silver Stream runs through the block our house is on -- a large sort of block, actually, since the smallest circuit I can make without hiking across the stream is just about a mile. The stream can't be seen back of our house, but when you go a couple of houses down, it's back there. The power pylons stand in it, and it's nicely overgrown with weedy shrubs and such. Here it is seen from the bridge on Ashley.
At the other side of the block, on highway 20, an asphalt driveway (blocked by a gate) goes down to a cement foundation that I can't quite reach; the former location of a hot tub business. Somewhere in the overgrown gully, the stream starts up. I was taking a foggy photo of the drive, and a cat obligingly showed up and stood there. I'd have used the zoom, but I was at the end of the card and had to delete some less exciting pictures first, and the cat didn't wait for me.
A feature of the camera is a mode that assists in setting up panoramas. It shows the shot I just took next to the one I'm taking, so I can line them up. Then the software that came with it will stitch it up for me smoothly, as in this shot of the neat little apartments on Lee Ann Terrace (I just looked up the name on my walking map. Ha!).
This one, taken the old-fashioned way, is a better picture, because I was in a better spot when I took it. This one took two snaps, the longer one is from four.
The wooden box full of nuts and bolts and fuses still sits back of Friendly's. I like the box. I'm not so wild about the hardware. It makes a nice picture, though.
Close-up, testing the close-up feature. Perhaps a little too much depth for it to have everything in focus.
All in all, a nice walk.
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I dropped Sarah off. It's picture day, so we instructed her to keep her hair off her face for the photo. She's wearing the panda shirt she's had since she was tiny. It fits her pretty well now. While we waited at the bus stop, I picked up some little seed pods and tossed them upward and watched them spin back to the ground. Traigh was impressed, and this afternoon we'll gather some up and take them to the park to drop off the tall platform.
Then I went out for my walk in the cool fog, taking pictures with the new camera. I set the compression a little looser so I'd get more pictures -- I can get about 19 5M pictures with "normal" compression, 8 with fine, and 5 with superfine. Messing around with different permutations, I see I can get 13 8M pictures with normal. It'll be nice to get a bigger SD card for this thing.
Silver Stream runs through the block our house is on -- a large sort of block, actually, since the smallest circuit I can make without hiking across the stream is just about a mile. The stream can't be seen back of our house, but when you go a couple of houses down, it's back there. The power pylons stand in it, and it's nicely overgrown with weedy shrubs and such. Here it is seen from the bridge on Ashley.
At the other side of the block, on highway 20, an asphalt driveway (blocked by a gate) goes down to a cement foundation that I can't quite reach; the former location of a hot tub business. Somewhere in the overgrown gully, the stream starts up. I was taking a foggy photo of the drive, and a cat obligingly showed up and stood there. I'd have used the zoom, but I was at the end of the card and had to delete some less exciting pictures first, and the cat didn't wait for me.
A feature of the camera is a mode that assists in setting up panoramas. It shows the shot I just took next to the one I'm taking, so I can line them up. Then the software that came with it will stitch it up for me smoothly, as in this shot of the neat little apartments on Lee Ann Terrace (I just looked up the name on my walking map. Ha!).
This one, taken the old-fashioned way, is a better picture, because I was in a better spot when I took it. This one took two snaps, the longer one is from four.
The wooden box full of nuts and bolts and fuses still sits back of Friendly's. I like the box. I'm not so wild about the hardware. It makes a nice picture, though.
Close-up, testing the close-up feature. Perhaps a little too much depth for it to have everything in focus.
All in all, a nice walk.
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