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ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
My brother-in-law installed the marble tile backsplash. We used about 25 sq. ft. of tile, so even with the supplies this transformation only cost just over $300--thanks to free labor of course!
Replacing the range hood with a microwave hood was one of the first things we did in the kitchen. We then moved one of the big cabinets we took down on the other side of the kitchen to where the old microwave was and it's made a huge difference. Here's what the kitchen looked like before.
Countertops - IKEA Pronomen
Flooring - Trafficmaster Allure in Teak
Backsplash - 3x6 Grecian white marble from Home Depot
Wall color - Benjamin Moore Aura in Ice Cubed Silver
Cabinet and shelf color - Olympic in Sentimental
Appliances - Whirlpool
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2012/04/16/holy-macro/
Our encore performance of Wedding Day is now securely in the past, most of the major time consuming tasks to create a whole new life are accomplished and my new work assignments are finally beginning to trickle in. I have about a month to get myself oriented with my co-workers and begin the climb up a couple of steep learning curves before another trip to Dallas and then St. Louis, which will take us to the end of July. So, I decided to take a few hours of "personal time" to exercise some of the many capabilities of the new Canon EF 100mm ƒ2.8 L IS USM 1-to-1 Macro Lens. Aside from being a mouthful to describe, I have to say that it is more fun to fool with than any other lens I've ever owned (quite a box full over about fifty-five years of photography).
When I decided that my new work required a radical upgrade of my equipment, I settled on a Canon 5D Mk II camera body, mainly because it seemed the most bang for the buck and its HD video capabilities are so good that many independent film makers are using it as a prime capture tool for raw footage. For lenses, I compromised and bought two Canon zooms, a 17-40 and a 70-300. These choices created an awkward "hole" in the focal length range right at the "normal" focal length of 50mm, but I reckoned that I could live with that.
However, this left me without a decent macro capability. Neither of the new Canon lenses were significantly better than the macro capability of my Canon G-series cameras, the latest of which is the marvelous G-12 which I gave to my bride as a pre-wedding gift. Gracie now has no excuse for not taking great pictures. I have always been captivated by the creative wonders of macro photography, but I've never had a purpose-built lens with which to fully explore the tiny landscape.
Enter the Canon 1-1 macro. This was my first serious image with the new lens on the night before our April Fool's Day Wedding, a Hydrangea purchased at Safeway to decorate the church for our do-it-yourself ceremony. If you click to enlarge you'll see that the image speaks for itself:
I'm now using it as a desktop background on my Toshiba Tecra. It feels strange to say that I take little credit for this picture. It's 90% equipment. I pretty much just pointed the camera and clicked. I'm used to fiddling incessantly in Photoshop to coerce an image file to comply with my imagination. Using the right gear makes most of that unnecessary.
Another thing which impressed me immediately is the amazing increase in working distance one gets with the 100mm 1 to 1 macro. I'm used to sticking the lens right up in the bug's face to get an image on the sensor large enough to work with. Even with that, I usually had to crop and enlarge, meaning that I was losing detail on every shot. Careful sharpening can bring back some "apparent" detail, but it's really faking it. I snapped this shot of the funny little black bee at nearly two feet and it suffered only minor cropping for the sake of composition:
The amount of adjustment required to get used to shooting from much farther away is disconcerting. I was sitting on a rock down at Beaver Creek with Gracie when this lizard crawled up into the greyish light about three feet away. I had only to lean forward a little to grab him with the heavy Canon.
In fact, it's very easy to get too close at first and have trouble finding your subject. It sometimes seems like trying to find a star in a telescope. I feel like I need a "finder" scope.
Another thing which I am really loving is the range of creative effects that you can squeeze from the enormous variety of tricks one can conjure up from the very broad selection of apertures ranging from ƒ2.8 to ƒ32. I'm sad that this might be getting a little too geeky for some readers, but there's really no way to talk about it without the technical terms. If some of it seems befuddling, have a look at my post on The Exposure Triangle. In this shot of pretty orange flowers which are blanketing the high desert now, I wanted a slightly blurred background to showcase the detail of the blooming plant while maintaining full sharpness for the subject:
This was dead easy. I just set the 5D to show me the live image on the screen, put the body in the Aperture Priority mode and twiddled the aperture control wheel until I could see that the entire plant was in focus while the background was blurred just the way I wanted it. I never had it so easy. I could achieve a similar effect with Photoshop from a fully focused image, but it would take a lot to time.
Just a little more twiddling of the aperture control produced a very arty shot right out of the camera:
Here I opened up the aperture to 2.8 to reduce the depth of field dramatically, creating a bare suggestion of the plant itself, tightly focused points of interest and a cool, furry canvas of contrasting colors. Really, the lens is doing all the work for me. I'm gobsmacked!
This shot proclaims, in a tiny little voice , that spring has arrived:
This image shouts, "Spring has arrived!" by zooming the focus of attention onto the crisp young leaves:
Again, the effect was created by a few clicks of a little black wheel about the size of your fingernail
This shot was spoiled only by the unfortunate position of the sun. Had our shiny giver of light and warmth been over my shoulder, as any photographer knows it should be, the dark pinnacle would have been magnificently red, contrasting nicely with the blank blue sky. However, I would have lost the dramatic back-lighting which makes they fuzzy flowers glow so brightly. The big Canon macro lens comes with a hood about the size of a beer can, so flare and dimming of contrast from internal reflections are very unlikely. You can turn it around when you don't need it, shortening the lens by about four inches.
Which brings to mind matters of weight and size. Unobtrusive, this rig is NOT. Here are some bananas for comparison:
By the time you get the lens on and a twin battery grip you have maybe eight pound of gear to lug around, not to mention another fifteen in a back pack with spare lenses, and two flashy things.
Still, the exercise is good for me and my Geek Index has risen astronomically. And, I can take cool , super sharp closeups such as this:
Bugs . . . where are my bugs? I hope things liven up around here.
If I'm in an arty mood, I can back off another few feet and do this:
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
I really want to buy the "Fireman" (it's practically my sig fig) and "Policeman" to a lesser extent LEGO® CITY 30cm Plush Soft Toys when they become available. They are the same plush toys that K-Mart Australia had advertised for Black Friday in November 2009. They will be £14.99 GBP each(approximately $24.48 USD) according to the Argos store website. Would any of my UK Adult Flickr LEGO friends be willing to help me procure it (them)? [I found one on BL from Australia, but the shipping quote seemed mighty spendy, I think one would fit in a #7 - 14.5" x 20". self-sealing poly bubble mailer to keep weight down] Thanks!
The input processor is a Freescale Semiconductor MCU. Looks like a MCF51QE series Flexis/coldfire 32 bit processor
www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=M...
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
A Satyr carrying a youngster walks behind an elephant. Two Maenads, one blowing on a flute-like 'aulos', and two Satyrs are seated upon it.
webapps.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?qu=Pashle...
Engraved boulder inscription at the park orientation area (just past the main entrance gate) .
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Celebrating Canada's 150th anniversary (2017): admission to all National Parks is FREE with the 2017 Parks Canada Discovery Pass.
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
My take on AMANA, originally by Imrik, Naalo, j3 and the 4Imp crew. I worked really hard on the litestep. It has much more web integration now (see details section after the other preview images).
Credits
// OS
Windows 7 x64 SP1
Icons → Sanscons by P.J. Onori
Litestep Shell (incl command line) → AMANA² by me
Wallpaper → AMANA² by me (really just a gradient... hah)
// Windows
Visual Style → Mod of AMANA for Windows 7 by Neiio (originally for XP by Imrik)
TrueTransparency Window Borders → AMANA² by me
// Apps
Mail/Browser→ AMANA² Opera (mod of default skin by me)
Launchy → AMANA² by me
CD Art Display AMANA² by me
// WebApps
News Reader → AMANA² by me
Chat → AMANA² by me
Youtube → AMANA² by me
// Misc
Images from AMANA wallpapers by Imrik, j3
Images in the RSS reader are taken from the Final Fantasy wikia
And as Imrik said in 2007: "I would like to thank amana.jp/company/tsutawaru/ and blog.arsthanea.com/" and all of the old-timers who are still around =D
Alternate views
Click for full view
A Tribute to the Original AMANA Mac shot by Imrik
Litestep Details
The login/loading screen are all done in litestep. Basically, windows boots to my account and displays the login screen (no password matching yet, but it's coming - it's a moot point, as I have a boot password set anyway...). The login text area resizes down and the loading circles resizes out. It's a pretty slick animation :). The loader animation is a throwback to the old days of cmd prompt where you would just use the / - \ | characters to make a spinning wheel.
The taskbar has an integrated information bar that shows battery, network and twitter info. Clicking on the twitter bird calls a php function (via LSActiveDesktop) that fetches and updates the latest tweet from my feed. Clicking on the box icon brings up the console.
The console is by far my favorite part of the theme. I took stole a lot of design cues from the terminal in the new tron movie. Clicking on the icons on the left side change the text in the left panel. The home screen displays weather, news, and social info (pulled from various RSS feeds). Clicking on the graph icon brings up system info (CPU clocks, RAM, etc). Currently, those are the only two implemented, but once LSActiveDesktop is more robust, the chat, reader, favorites, and video app should all be possible.
The right side of the console features a little text area where you can input !Bang commands. It's not LSXCommand, but a Text Box that parses bang commands and runs them. I wanted to use LSXCommand, but I couldn't (I can't remember why, just that it didn't work like I wanted...). You can actually control the console from within this command box (so you can feel extra l33t), but it's not useful for much else. Really more eye candy than anything.
Clicking on the <<- arrow in the top-left brings back the desktop. That's about it.
If you stuck through all of that text, I applaud you :). Merry Christmas :D
Just outside Bozeman, Montana sits this very cool old black car. I don't know what kind of car it is, but I'm sure at least a few of my flickr friends do! So If you know please share :) This car was for sale in June (maybe it still is!) so I hope the person who owns it doesn't mind me "advertising" it on flickr haha. I thought it was such a beautiful old car, and loved the green grass around it and the blue Bridger Mountains in the background.
Here is the link to the Gallatin county website (Gallatin County is where I took this photo):
Excerpt from webapp.driftscape.com/map/a28d30ce-e3a5-11eb-8000-bc1c5a8...:
Briarly, Gone but not forgotten
Hello, I am Miss Coco. This nostalgic depiction of Upper Canada at the Montgomery family home is of visual calm. From an African/Caribbean perspective, I symbolically reflect to consider the hidden political climate and story of Black settlement. The family established Montgomery Inn in 1832 to rent to tenant farmers. This mural is ironically close to Burnhamthorpe and Dundas, historically known as “Darky Street”, a discriminatory label about the small Black settlement. This link uncovers the complex social status of Blacks in Ontario, where enslaved Africans fled from the USA using the ‘Underground railroad’ strategy for freedom away from slave catchers. Politically fleeing to an anti-abolitionist and anti-slavery climate within Southern Ontario, Joshua Glover is a story of his own emancipatory arrival to the Etobicoke township in 1852, where only 39 Blacks resided.
Glover gained employment from Thomas Montgomery’s son, William, at the Inn and lived in a small home he rented from them. I make visible Black presence in Etobicoke and an unspoken friendship between Joshua and William. Among the unspoken discrimination against Blacks navigating their social capital, relationships were built within the European settlement. Owning land was impossible, but integration was. Glover married an Irish woman in the 1860s and lived on Montgomery’s land. Among these farmland landscapes are emancipation stories tied to Slave Abolition Act of 1833. Montgomery Inn was a resting place but a gathering space for socializing, dance, and meetings. The Montgomery contribution is artistically commemorated in grace.
Created using odosketch, a really fun webapp: here is the making of sketch.odopod.com/sketches/302591
and if you want to have a try yourself sketch.odopod.com
Have fun!
Site Address: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/bangladeshboat/
This post is blogged at: dharmafly.com/blog/bangladeshboat
Phew! Dharmafly has been busy these last three weeks! From commission to launch in just 12 working days (and nights)...
The Bangladesh River Journey is a mashup of posts from a BBC World Service trip to track the effects of climate change in Bangladesh. The trip lasts a month, with photos being posted to Flickr, messages sent to Twitter and journal entries made on the World Service site. The mashup puts all these posts on to a map, letting you navigate around and follow the trip.
The journalists are equipped with a GPS navigation device. Each time they visit a new location, they post their co-ordinates to the Twitter stream (e.g. this post). Our system then logs the coordinates and applies them to every photo, tweet and diary entry until the next location.
In addition to what you see in the browser, there are a number of gems hidden under the hood... (Non-techie folk may happily skip this :)
Microformats
Microformats are new, developing standards for adding extra meaning to the HTML of a web page. They create all sorts of possibilities for software (from search engines to browsers) to interact with the content in new and useful ways.
The HTML for each Twitter, Flickr and diary post in the Bangladesh River Journey is written using the hAtom microformat. This means, for example, that an RSS feed can be generated directly from the HTML on the page.
If you use the Firefox browser, you can explore other microformats on the Bangladesh Boat site, with the excellent Operator extension. You'll find xFolk bookmarks, geo locations, hCard contacts and tagged links.
GeoRSS
The site's RSS feed allows users to stay up-to-date with new posts, without needing to re-visit the site (we talked about using RSS in a previous post).
The feed is encoded with the geo coordinates of each post (this is called GeoRSS). Some interesting things can then be done with the feed, such as plotting it straight on to Google Maps.
API
Part of the task was to build an API - a way for web developers to access the data in the system, to create their own mashup applications. This will be promoted through BBC Backstage - the BBC's hub for exploring new media technology.
More info: dharmafly.com/blog/bangladeshboat
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
My HP DeskJet 6840 Color InkJet Printer (with WiFi, Ethernet or USB connectinos). I'm using Ethernet.
On top of it is the base for my Logitech MX1000 Laser Cordless Mouse. Off to the right is my IOGEAR USB/Firewire Hub.
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
This is what I meant when I said that zeroing both of my gmail inboxes made my gmail widgets on netvibes useful again. Mouse over the upper left to see the area I'm describing.
I used to have a fairly annoying cognitive load every time I checked netvibes to see if I had any new emails in either account (the best way I know how to simultaneously check multiple accounts) because old unread emails kept popping up to the top of the list, no matter how much I cleared out the new ones. Now that the gmail boxes are refreshingly empty and non-essential emails get filtered into their own individually labeled sections of the archive, it only takes a split second glance at netvibes to see if there's anything I need to respond to.
Piecing together little scraps of nerdvana as I go along...
As seen from Ping Tom Park in Chicago's China Town. I posted a similar photo last year but this is a new version which I much prefer.
More info on this bridge from the Chicago Landmarks page.
I also wrote about this on my blog.
© Andy Marfia 2012