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February 4, 2018 on Sanibel Island, Florida, USA. Sunny & in the 60s F. here. Flowers blooming. What a lovely change from ice & snow in New York!
#1 of my mailbox project. I find the variety of mailboxes quite interesting, so I thought I would make a project shooting them. And I just found out that there are mailboxes groups
This just struck me as days gone by. Mailboxes on a country road patiently waiting for today's news.
Biking in Niagara on the Lake.
Update: Here's a brief description of my Geotagging (Embedding the Geographical information to the photo) process.
1. I have a small portable GPS Data Logger (Globalsat DG-100) in my camera bag at all times. A GPS Data Logger is a relatively cheap device, and it doesn't have an LCD screen or any real time MAP features, but what this device does is when activated it records my location on an interval time. It has three customizable time settings, for example when I'm riding my bicycle I set it to every 30 seconds. The device can run for many hours, even days, logging my whole trip in every 30 seconds. The GPS Data Logger records the location based on the local satellite time.
2. This step is very important. You have to set your camera's time and date carefully. What I do, which seems to work fine, is to set my camera to the time on www.timeanddate.com on local time. Just search for the city you're in and set your camera's time to that.
3. When I get to a computer I download the logged GPS info and export a GPX or KMV file. These files can be used in any application that supports GPS, such as Google Earth. You can see your whole trip in Google Earth by opening these files. To dowload the log files from the device I use the software that comes with it, but other devices like Sony's (see below) are easier to work with.
4. Time to attach the GPS information to photos. I use a software called RoboGeo which is great. You open a bunch of images, and then you open the GPS log file (from step 3) and RoboGeo automatically matches the time your photo is taken to the GPS log file and can stamp the file with the GPS info. So the GPS information is embedded to the image file's EXIF info without changing anything else.
The only complaint I have about RoboGeo is that it doesn't support RAW files. It does however support TIF and JPG files, so I Geotag my 16bit TIF converted photos or the final web ready JPG files. When you upload the Geotagged JPG files to flickr, they automatically show up on the map. Very cool indeed!
4a. RoboGeo is poweful application, and one the fun things you can do with it is exporting a KMV file with embedded images, so you see your photos show on Google Earth and other application and website (like www.gpsvisualizer.com)
Here's our trip when the photo above was taken.
Resources: There are other GPS Loggers out there too, like Sony's GPS-CS1. Here's a great comparison and review of the two products.
Mailbox at 7209 E. Calle Cuernavaca, Tucson, AZ
One of the strangest I've seen. Looks like an insect with a human face.
Well, not you're everyday mailbox.
Seen in New Buffalo, Michigan. Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim with XPRO. (Explore)
This is a different large Silver Argiope (Argiope argentata, Araneidae) spider in the same patch of California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum, Polygonaceae) by the mailbox that I've been showing. It almost looks like a cartoon spider with those remarkable "horns" around the abdomen. The common name comes from the silver/white part on the spider's top side. It's interesting that this spider was there for a while and then suddenly disappeared after being there for a good month. No problem, we had a second spider which I showed for Arachtober 2 in this photo - and now that spider has suddenly disappeared. Maybe it's hatching eggs somewhere? Maybe a spider wasp got it? Maybe it just got tired of me butting in to get a photo? Whatever the reason, I miss it. Arachtober 17. (San Marcos Pass, 14 August 2016)