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This was my first attempt at shooting in raw & then fine tuning the image in Photoshop Elements 6. This is Lake St. Clair, so needless to say i played with the color a bit!!!!! Thanks to my friends at Exposure Detroit for the information on shooting raw & its benefits & also to my friend Ken from ED for being my online geeksquad that helped me get this back to jpeg & posted. it's opened up a whole new world of photography!
Part of a fleet that plies the Embarcadero in San Francisco...old cars collected from a number of cities. Read about this one here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric
From what I read, it seems this car was rescued from Los Angeles when their street service ended.
HXDB remix
Mannn, so there I am, all excited about getting settled back in at home, and inspiration flowing thru me, and so ready to start back up with my project... and then my laptop has some error, and wont start up windows. /sigh Luckly I was able to boot in safe mode and back up everything... But yeah, my system recovery (or restore?) disks dont seem to work. Dropping the comp off at geeksquad is going to take a week or two...
I can't even use my camera, cuz I dont have a place to dump out my CF card
Boooooooo. I so miss the project. As much as I complain about it sometimes, It's also like my moment of zen. /sigh. At least i have a bunch of cool ideas for when I can get back up and running, but i'm starting to get pissed at my computer luck. This is the 5th computer I've gone thru in the past 3 years. Its getting a little old >.< I hope it doesnt cost too much to fix (as i had been out of work the entire time I was staying with my dad)
Anyway, thanks for the letters I received, from people wondering if I quit the project, or asking me if I'm ok, or to start back up. <3 love you guys, ty. I'm sorry I havent responded, but no worries, I'm not quitting the project.... Life's just been throwing all sorts of curve balls at me, and it looks like my project is going to be put off a little longer than I thought.
As for this pic... it was an edited outake that I had on one of my USB drives. It'll have to do for now =P I miss ya'll, and hope all is well with everyone. I'll be back asap <3
This is Andrew, he works for Best Buy, he is a member of the Geek Squad.
Andrew helped me with my laptop then he helped me start the 100 strangers project!
I was really nervous, but he looked like he would be really receptive to the idea.
Especially since he said,
"Can I help you with anything else?"
Ding Ding the bell had rung & I ran with that, lol.
Andrew was a great guy & very helpful, I enjoyed meeting him.
I took the plunge yesterday & decided to join the 100 Strangers Project, I'm not really good @ talking to or with strangers but I'm gonna learn.
A special thanx to some new Friend / Contact's R C Hill and David KM for his encouraging work & words on the project.
Also a Plus1 in the comments.
Visit www.100Strangers.com. It's an easy way to see other peoples strangers grouped by photographer.
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Sixth in a series of nightfog photos I'm hoping to post in the following days. From March.
They turned out underexposed in general, I guess my camera screen is set for daytime use, so I waited until I felt like processing them. I hope to use film for this type of shot in the future (Looking into the Yashica Mat. Medium format. Inexpensive, hopefully good to learn on.)
Nightfog continues to be my favorite subject/genre, though the thick stuff is relatively rare and hard to catch. I hope to branch out in my subject matter within the nightfog. I'm always making mental notes when out driving around of potential subjects.
All of these will be very minimally processed, if at all. This one's sooc.
libraries are NOT for the faint of heart They require A LOT of maintenance & if one has allergies, forget about it! This is the library in the art studio of my loft . It's one of the places where stuff gets done.
can't manage a full shot because of walls that block me The bloody thing's massive! So, here's a partial from my office...
and to think, I came to America, owning what I carried (2 bags, 7 years ago)!
Alane Golden, eyewash design: NYC, 2007
Introducing Best Buys newest Cadet Installer. Darek starts his new job today. He'll be part of the Geek Squad. His squad shirts haven't arrived yet. CONGRATULATIONS, Sweetheart!
Gamer nerds should offer this as a GeekSquad-style service, help lesser gamers conquer levels with live chat advice for like $5 every five minutes or something.
Darek got his Geek Squad shirts yesterday. I'm so use to seeing him in blue he looked like a new man!
Meet Linus Poindexter, my inner nerd! ;) :P
Have a super day everybody! :) I mean it!
Much Love,
T-Sil
SB-600 Camera Left Through Diffuser
So I just got my new Rebel XS today, and upgraded to Flickr Pro. I have always wanted to do one of these desk description shots as this is where I spent 90% of my time. So this is my Ikea Jerker, which is getting a little cramped, and I can't get the swing arms for anymore. <3
You never know what to expect at the Best Buy office. I roll into work, look out the window, and see ECTO-1 chillin downstairs. What's a geek to do?
Take pictures of course! :D
Well a few months ago I dropped my Nikon D90 and snapped the lens off, bummer! When I bought the camera from Bestbuy last year I got a Geek Squad Black Tie Protection plan (GSBTPR). So I sent it in to be repaired, they called and said that they would give me a new Nikon D90 and 18-105mm VR kit, as it could not be fixxed. I also got a new nikon AF nikkor 28mm f/2.8 lens from my cousin mike, his girl friend broke up with him and she took his camra and all he had left was this lens, so he gave it to me, this image was shot with the 28mm lens, much thanks mike for the lens! Chichester Falls is approximately a half mile past bedrock campground at fall creek dam!
Exif data
Camera Nikon D90
Exposure 2
Aperture f/22.0
Focal Length 28 mm
ISO Speed 200
Exposure Bias -1/3 EV
Telesar ND 4X Filter
Quantaray UV Filter
Some friends from the Mars program have built the excitement here in advance (Thanks Mark and Todd!).
My son built the LEGO Rover, festooned with sensors and radar dishes (the annotations are his). And I worked on fiberglassing the booster stage of my GLR Sledgehammer rocket this weekend.
The MRO launch in the background took the Orbiter to Mars on March 2006. It has the highest resolution camera in orbit around Mars and took an amazing shot yesterday of the Phoenix Mars Lander descending by parachute. (see below)
Yes, that's a real "Geek Squad" outfit. (I love eBay!) Our office invited employees to bring in their costumed kids to trick-or-treat in our cube farm and said it was OK for workers to costume too. I think I was the only one who did!
You never know what to expect at the Best Buy office. I roll into work, look out the window, and see ECTO-1 chillin downstairs. What's a geek to do?
Take pictures of course! :D
self portrait
Strobist:
1 SP Studio Systems LancerLight 1600 thru medium softbox camera front. 1 Nikon SB-28 to camera left & right
Geek Squad Best Buy Stores Volkswagen Beetle Cars. 6/2014 Meriden CT. Pics by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube.
Best Buy's Geek Squad came to hook up our surrond sound speakers this afternoon. It turned out the Darek was the cadet on the job.
Members of the Geek Squad (those tech support guys in every Best Buy) were stationed in every premiere of Sex and the City in New York to supply tired/bored/desperate husbands with quarters for arcade games. This team is at the midnight premiere in the Times Square Regal Theater on May 30.
Strobist: Single Vivitar 285HV.
You never know what to expect at the Best Buy office. I roll into work, look out the window, and see ECTO-1 chillin downstairs. What's a geek to do?
Take pictures of course! :D
So a quick backstory to this picture - this little dude's dad is a very smart fellow. He knows more than a few things about computers. He also hates just about anything Mac on principle alone. Sooooo we had the idea when shooting this little guy's 1st birthday party (which included a very unsuccessful LZP "Trash the Diaper" session... take 2 is coming soon) - we brought along this old Mac that Debby had and dressed little guy up as the stereotypical computer "geek", including the horned rimmed glasses (which he totally didn't want on his head) for a couple quick pics. He's come a long way since this picture (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunahzon/4773776356/) huh? Sooooo happy we did this pic, truly another example of why I love the fun stuff we get to do in our job!
Blogyness: blog.lunahzon.com
So when my little redhead came into my last class of the day wearing the "Geek Squad" shirt I really had to laugh!
Only lighting again in this one is just natural light through a north-facing window.
So I wonder if the Geek Squad might have something so say about this. Does anyone else like this sort of 'negative' branding? Nerd... Geek... We run an IT business and none of our employees like to be called nerds, but maybe geek is getting cooler. I don' t understand. Answers.com says:
geek (gēk) pronunciation
n. Slang.
1.
1. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
2. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
[Perhaps alteration of dialectal geck, fool, from Low German gek, from Middle Low German.]
geek'y adj.
Our Living Language Our word geek is now chiefly associated with student and computer slang; one probably thinks first of a computer geek. In origin, however, it is one of the words American English borrowed from the vocabulary of the circus, which was a much more significant source of entertainment in the United States in the 19th and early 20th century than it is now. Large numbers of traveling circuses left a cultural legacy in various and sometimes unexpected ways. For example, Superman and other comic book superheroes owe much of their look to circus acrobats, who were similarly costumed in capes and tights. The circus sideshow is the source of the word geek, “a performer who engaged in bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.” We also owe the word ballyhoo to the circus; its ultimate origin is unknown, but in the late 1800s it referred to a flamboyant free musical performance conducted outside a circus with the goal of luring customers to buy tickets to the inside shows. Other words and expressions with circus origins include bandwagon (coined by P.T. Barnum in 1855) and Siamese twin.
and nerd:
nerd also nurd (nûrd) pronunciation
n. Slang.
1. A foolish, inept, or unattractive person.
2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
[Perhaps after Nerd, a character in If I Ran the Zoo, by Theodor Seuss Geisel.]
nerd'y adj.
WORD HISTORY The word nerd, undefined but illustrated, first appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss's If I Ran the Zoo: “And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!” (The nerd is a small humanoid creature looking comically angry, like a thin, cross Chester A. Arthur.) Nerd next appears, with a gloss, in the February 10, 1957, issue of the Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday Mail in a regular column entitled “ABC for SQUARES”: “Nerd—a square, any explanation needed?” Many of the terms defined in this “ABC” are unmistakable Americanisms, such as hep, ick, and jazzy, as is the gloss “square,” the current meaning of nerd. The third appearance of nerd in print is back in the United States in 1970 in Current Slang: “Nurd [sic], someone with objectionable habits or traits.... An uninteresting person, a ‘dud.’” Authorities disagree on whether the two nerds—Dr. Seuss's small creature and the teenage slang term in the Glasgow Sunday Mail—are the same word. Some experts claim there is no semantic connection and the identity of the words is fortuitous. Others maintain that Dr. Seuss is the true originator of nerd and that the word nerd (“comically unpleasant creature”) was picked up by the five- and six-year-olds of 1950 and passed on to their older siblings, who by 1957, as teenagers, had restricted and specified the meaning to the most comically obnoxious creature of their own class, a “square.”
Best Buy's Geek Squad came to hook up our surrond sound speakers this afternoon. It turned out the Darek was the cadet on the job.
Geek Squad Service Desk, where you can book one on one training sessions, tutorials and just get general help and advice.