Kim Stanley Robinson is an author with a message, and after reading this book you will understand why terraforming is impossible and why humanity will never succeed with interstellar colonization. Aurora is the counterargument to his earlier Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars), which, if you were to read them, would make you understand why terraforming is a practical method for taking humanity to the stars. 2019-08-07More
Full-frame (35mm) cameras are heavier than their crop-sensor siblings. Their lenses are heavier too. But how much heavier? After hauling my Nikon D3200 (DX 1.5x crop sensor) as well as my Nikon D600 (FX full-frame sensor) up and down and around, I thought I'd just run the numbers and see if the FX system was as much heavier as it felt. 2019-08-02More
I had my GhettoPro 360, but the footage that came out of it when I was biking was, simply put, unusable. It was simply too unsteady. I suppose it's because the lenses on the Theta SC sits on the end of a cantilevered arm, so any vibration of the helmet causes the camera to swing wildly. 2019-07-23More
A little forest of stonecrop by the water. The shots taken with the Raynox DCR-250 were done with a Nikon D3200 and a Nikon 70-300mm/4.5-5.6 lens. The Raynox just about fits on it. 2019-07-14More
People expecting a cruise ferry to Finland who get on the wrong boat will be surprised by the lack of tango and pickled herring buffet. 2019-07-14More
Or, further adventures of Ingo the dog, Poldi the owl, and their friends. This is a sequel of sorts to Wo die Liebe hinfliegt. 2019-07-13More
I rarely - make that practically never - buy photo books. Sure, they have some nice pictures in them - but nice pictures are a dime a dozen and the material quite simply lacks staying power. When I saw Tanja Brandt's photos on Facebook, though, I placed an order for two of her books. The photos of the friendship between a little owl and a dog were just magic. 2019-07-13More
Someone knitted a "kiss stop" as opposed to a "bus stop" (busshållplats). 2019-07-10More
A colony of sedum album (white stonecrop) near Berggården. 2019-07-06More
Can't afford a GoPro helmet mount for your 360 camera? There's a cheaper solution for that. The downside is that you risk getting an M8 screw clean through your skull if you crash, but if you use GhettoPro 360 you weren't using your brain anyway. 2019-06-28More
Kitchen orchid outdoes itself again. 2019-06-26More
Some partial crop circles, but mostly crop lines. 2019-06-26More
Walking around after a BBQ. 2019-06-26More
Sunny evenings and bees. I also found an explanation for the algae in the Japanese pond: salamanders use the algae to lay eggs, that's why they're not removed. 2019-06-26More
If you have color artifacts in the shadows when blending large panoramas with Enblend, try doing the blending in RGB color space with --blend-colorspace=unit. 2019-06-18More
The sunsets (especially the hazy summer ones) are amazing from here. 2019-06-07More |