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This beautiful and fantastic seascape was taken with a Canon EOS 700D camera, then was modified and edited with PicsArt app. Which resulted to "Sacred Parallel Seascape - A Paradie Riddle" abstract photo and artwork. Enjoy one of the "Paradise Riddle" with Love and Light!
(Seascape Abstract posted on 21st Dec 2021 on FLICKR at 11:11)
PicsArt Photo Studio free app (direct download link)
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.picsart.studio&...
or
www.microsoft.com/fr-nc/p/picsart-photo-studio-collage-ma...
This beautiful Tropical paradise landscape with palm trees was taken with a Canon EOS 700D camera then Edited with PicsArt in 2021 to have this stunning effect (click on the link below to download FREEly the PicsArt App). Enjoy with Love and Light!
For those who are interested in using PicsArt app, here is PicsArt Photo Studio free app (direct download link)
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.picsart.studio&...
or
www.microsoft.com/fr-nc/p/picsart-photo-studio-collage-ma...
Panorama de 5x3 photos de 8s
Sony a7s samyang 24 f1.4
traitements:
Sequator, lightroom, topaz sharpen ai, image composite editor
sites.google.com/site/sequatorglobal/samples
www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computational-ph...
....è uscito il service pack 1 di vista....chi ne ha bisogno se lo vada a scaricare dal sito ufficiale della microsoft
foto scattata con una zenza bronica sqa film fuji reala da 100ASA
5 Images stitched using Free Microsoft Image Composite Editor
HDR Applied with Free Google Nik Collection and Photoshop.
3 photos taken w/ FE28mm on SonyA7s @Rottnest Island, Australia,
and panorama made by Microsoft "Image Composite Editor 2.0" (ICE 2.0, Free software) download here:
www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computational-ph...
"What is more pleasant than the benevolent notice other people take of us, what is more agreeable than their compassionate empathy? What inspires us more than addressing ears flushed with excitement, what captivates us more than exercising our own power of fascination? What is more thrilling than an entire hall of expectant eyes, what more overwhelming than applause surging up to us? What, lastly, equals the enchantment sparked off by the delighted attention we receive from those who profoundly delight ourselves? - Attention by other people is the most irresistible of drugs. To receive it outshines receiving any other kind of income. This is why glory surpasses power and why wealth is overshadowed by prominence."
Caterina Fake, Co-founder of Flickr, 2005.
A couple of years ago I wrote a post called Top 10 Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr that proved fairly popular. A lot has changed at Flickr in the past 2 years though and how imagery is rated and ranked on the site has also changed. That said, I thought I'd write a fresher updated post on the top 10 ways, presently, to get attention on Flickr.
Back in 2006 when I wrote my original article on how to achieve popularity on Flickr my photostream had been viewed almost 400,000 times. According to a Flickr stats page that's been added since that time, the view count for my pages on Flickr now stands at 9,953,328. It should pass 10 million sometime this week. I'm averaging about 14,000 page views a day on Flickr.
Some of how one gets attention on Flickr has remained the same since 2006. Other stuff has changed.
1. Take great pictures. This was my number one way to achieve popularity on Flickr in 2006 and remains the number one way today. Despite all the other things that you might do to promote your photography, none of it will matter if your photos are not interesting. Everyone can be creative. Some are more creative than others. Sometimes your gear and photo processing matters, other times it doesn't. I've seen incredibly beautiful and creative photos taken with a $10 toy camera. And I've seen incredibly beautiful and creative photos taken with a $40,000 digital Hasselblad. I've seen people upload interesting things from a crappy iPhone camera and I've seen people upload interesting things that they spent 8 hours on Photoshop with. But, the better your photos are the more likely that you will get attention. Taking great photos is a prerequisite to everything else in this article.
This said, there are certain types of photos that tend to become more popular on Flickr than others. Provocatively posed female self portraits or photos of attractive women in interesting poses, extremely saturated photos rich with eye candy like color, cityscapes, night photography, photos depicting movement and motion, silhouettes, dramatic architecture, unique portraits, creatively arranged macros and cross processed and some film photography.
2. The order that you post your photos to Flickr counts. The number one way that your photos will likely be seen in Flickr comes from your Flickr contacts looking at their Flickr contact's photos. At present Flickr allows you to set your contacts most recent photos to their last photo, or their last 5 photos. Anything beyond 5 photos in a single batch upload will largely be buried on Flickr. If you are uploading more than 5 photos at once, make sure that you upload your best 5 photos last and what you consider your very best photo last of all. Frequently people will upload a batch of 30 photos from a concert or something with no thought as to which will be the last 5 of the 30 in order.
3. Consider places outside of Flickr to promote your photography. Do you have a blog or a photoblog? If you want more attention on Flickr you should. Flickr makes it very easy to blog your photos, you simply cut and paste the html code above your photo and you are now photoblogging with a direct link back to your photo. My blog, thomashawk.com is my number two external referrer of pageviews to my Flickrstream. Are you on FriendFeed yet? You should be. It's easy to set up and makes sure more people see your photos. Pownce (when it is working) is another place to post interesting photos.
4. Do you have your settings on Flickr configured for maximum exposure? After Flickr itself, Google drives more traffic to my Flickrstream than any other source, even my blog. Yahoo search and both Google and Yahoo image search drive traffic as well. But your photos will be blocked from appearing in search engines unless you authorize Flickr to display your images in search engines. Make sure your photostream is set to not "hide your stuff from public searches," here.
Same goes for the Flickr API. Lots of people are using the Flickr API in interesting ways. I get traffic from places like Flickrleech, Compfight, Technorati and lots of other places that use the Flickr API to extend your photos outside of Flickr. Make sure that you've authorized Flickr to allow API access to your photos here.
5. Explore. Explore still remains the number one way to get photos viewed on Flickr. Explore uses Flickr's "Magic Donkey" algorithm to each day highlight 500 of what Flickr feels are the best photos on Flickr for that day. It's a very popular section of the site despite the fact that everyone seems to constantly hate Explore and decry its mediocrity in selecting exceptional photos. Explore has changed and evolved a lot since it was first introduced at Flickr a few years back. Initially things like *when* you posted your photos mattered.
Whether or not Flickr chooses your photos for Explore is still very much a mystery. But there are some things that we do know. The more faves, comments, tags, etc. your photo gets, the more likely it is that it will appear in Explore. Explore also uses averaging in their algorithm now. This means that if your average photo gets 5 faves, then you'll need to do considerably better than average if you hope to see that photo in Explore.
Photos are also constantly dropping in and out of Explore. I've got 157 photos in Explore at present but I've had 446 that have appeared in Explore at one time or another. You can check out which and how many of your photos that have been showcased by Flickr in Explore here. Just change my Flickr ID at the link above for your own.
6. Groups. Speaking of Explore, if you really want to get a particular photo in Explore consider adding it to a group that encourages tagging, faving and comments of photos. Photo critique groups are good examples of this. Some of the photo critique groups play games where tagging and commenting on a photo are part of the game. Flickr does not distinguish between a photo that has been commented on or tagged organically vs. one that is included in some sort of photo critique game. If you want to boost the likelihood that your photo will be selected for Explore consider putting a strong photo into one of these pools. Photo critique groups on Flickr run the gamut from nice and friendly photo critique groups like TWIP's, to hostile and brutal photo critique groups like DeleteMe Uncensored (note NSFW and maybe not the best group if you are easily offended).
Whatever the case, the key to groups is participation. If you simply dump a bunch of photos blindly into random groups you will likely not get much benefit. In fact, Flickr actually penalizes photo rank if someone posts their photo to too many groups. But posting your photo to selective groups where you participate will encourage activity on your photos and photostream.
7. Tag for Exploration (especially your most popular photos). Why has this photo of mine been viewed over 27,000 times on Flickr? Well in part because it shows up on the first page search results on Flickr for the search term guitar. And why does it show up in searches for the word "guitar?" Because I've got the photo *tagged* guitar. By tagging your photos appropriately you can ensure that more people will see them in search. Think of other ways that you can tag your photos. Are all of your photos taken in San Francisco also tagged "California?" They should be. Are all of your photos tagged "self portrait" also tagged with your name? Again, they should be.
The better you keyword and tag your photos, the more likely they will show up in searches that take place on Flickr. Even if you think that your photos will never be popular enough to rank highly in search, remember that there are other ways that Flickr users can filter search. You can search just by your contacts photos on Flickr for instance. So even if you don't have the most popular sunset photo amongst millions on Flickr, you might have the most popular sunset photo amongst your contacts because you tagged it.
A note that I've seen some people on Flickr abuse tags. They will tag every photo with girl, sunset, cat, etc. Even if these things are not in their photo simply to try and trick people into getting to their photos through search. This sucks. I'm not sure what/if/how Flickr penalizes people who do this, but it's a crappy thing to do and ruins the search experience for everyone. Tag early and often, but only tag your photos with tags that truly are accurate and descriptive.
8. Geotag. One of the more interesting ways to find photos on Flickr is through exploring photos that are geotagged on a map. When I'm going to a new place that I'm not familiar with, frequently Flickr's "Explore the World Map," is one of my first destinations. But of course your photos will not show up here if they are not geotagged. The best way to geotag your photos is actually at the file level before you upload them. I use Geotagger on the Mac which allows you to use Google Earth to geotag your photos. You can also download the free software program from Microsoft Pro Photo Tools to geotag photos on a PC.
Check what Flickr considers your most popular photos and make sure that you geotag (and more descriptively tag) these photos especially -- even if you have to geotag these shots on Flickr using their tools. Geotagging has been documented by Flickr staff as increasing the Flickr "interestingness" rating of a photograph.
9. Consider creating a few "best of" sets and feature them prominently on your Flickrstream. Frequently when people first discover your photostream they don't have time to check out your entire stream. But if you make it easier for them and create a few sets that highlight some of your best work they may stick around longer. I've created two such sets myself. My 10 faves or more set and my 25 faves or more set. These sets highlight what are some of my best work according to the Flickr community and are my two most visited sets on Flickr. As my photos are faved 10 or 25 times I add the tag fav10 or fav25 to these sets and then use SmartSetr to automatically generate these sets.
Make sure also that you change your Flickr page layout from the boring default one to one that highlights your collections and sets better.
10. Tell everyone you know about your Flickrstream. Are you active on other social networks? Is a link to your Flickrstream prominently displayed on your blog? On your Facebook profile page? Be sure to include a link to your Flickrstream in every profile that you are on with other sites. Consider buying Moo cards (even though Moo.com has been lousy for me lately and won't let me buy anymore cards from them) which highlight your photostream that you can give out to people that you run across while out shooting. Tell your friends and family and your offline "real life" contacts about your Flickrstream.
Bonus tip: Reciprocation. Above everything else, perhaps the most important thing about Flickr is that it is a community and a reciprocation based community. If you think that you can just post your photos on the site and they will garner thousands of faves and views simply because, you are wrong. Even the best photos on Flickr will not get very much attention if you simply upload them to the site and never participate.
Flickr has been built to encourage reciprocation. In fact a recent study cited reciprocation as the number one key to popularity on Flickr. Every single time you fave or comment on someone else's photo you are giving them a link back to your own photostream. While you may not have the time to check out *everyone* who faves your photos, spend time each day faving and commenting on other people's photos on Flickr. By sharing with others the fact that you appreciate their photos they will return the favor. Be generous with your faves and comments. Remember, other people like the attention as much as you do.
Update: An interesting link to comments Flickr staff have made about the Explore algorithm here. Thanks, Ole!
The first Tarwonga School was a brick room, 15 feet
square, that stood alone at the rear of the Old Tarwonga lnn owned by Mr J. Kerrigan. The room had a fireplace, one window and a door and was given free of charge by Mr Kerrigan to the Education Department in order to facilitate the opening of a much needed school in the district. Initially it was a half-time school with the Arthur River School 12 miles to the south. A single teacher was assigned to both schools and opened each school on a full-time basis on alternate weeks; children attended one week and then had one week off while the teacher was at the alternate location. Many of the children attending the school rode horses or drove carts or sulkies from their parents' farms.
The School was opened on November 26th, 1906 with 11
students and by 1909 it was a full-time school. By this
time the single room was proving to be inadequate and a
new school site was selected about 300 yards north of the
Inn on the eastern side of the road. A standard Tent
School was opened on march 20th, 1911. T his, in turn,
became inadequate in 1914, and a new school was built
the following year some 100 metres south. For many years
the original school room was used as a storehouse for the
chaff and harnesses of the horses ridden or driven to
school by the students.
Attendance at the Tarwonga School began to taper off in
the 1930s and despite it becoming a Government School
(rather than only an assisted school) in l 941, after several
temporary closures, it was finally closed in April 1949
when the bus service to Williams was established. The last
school building in Tarwonga was removed by the Main
Roads Department in 195l.
This is a composite image showing a larger-than-real-life moon.
Camera: Sony A57, Sony 55-300 f/4.5-5.6
Composition: Moon (single image with lens at 300mm, f/5.6, 2s, ISO1600), Landscape (mosaic of 2 rows and 3 columns with lens at 55mm, f/5.6, 30s, ISO3200)
Processing:
I've had this idea in my mind for a long time now and happened to get a few 10-packs of new unused disks for free yesterday so I decided to give it a try. It took about half an hour to put them on the wall with little pieces of double sided tape and 46 disks were used for the figure. It might look nice if there were a white backlight behind every disk.. Maybe someday. ;)
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December 16, 2008: One of the Microsoft's Softwear campaign photos
» http://www.microsoft.com/windows/softwearbymicrosoft/photos/ !
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SANTORINI, GREECE, view MAP - geotagged! 18 images (music embedded) with the software Microsoft Photo Story 3 - a free download...
Cathair Chonaill - Conall's Stone Ringfort.
This fort dates between the 10th and mid 12th centuries.
An absolutely amazing sight in the wine growing region of Georgia.
This is a panormama made with ICE (www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computational-ph...) from a number of handheld images. Came out quite well :-)
Pentax K3 II, objectif Pentax HD DA 16-85mm à 16 mm, F11.
Assemblage de 4 photos HDR: 4 x 3 expositions (-2 EV à + 2EV).
Raw DNG.
« Kentoc'h mervel eget em zaotra » devise bretonne qui veut dire: « plutôt la mort que la souillure ». Elle est gravée sur la croix que l'on aperçoit au centre de la photographie. On la nomme: Croix de Pen-Hir, c'est un monument commémoratif aux Bretons de la France libre qui domine la mer de plus de 60m.
Le lieu est aussi un site d'escalade, on y voit des personnes pratiquer cette activité (au pied de la falaise sur la photographie). Vers la gauche, sous la ligne d'horizon, on distingue un groupe de récifs appelé "le Rocher du Lion" et au delà, se profile le trait de côte de l'entrée de la Rade de Brest et la Pointe de Saint-Mathieu.
La série de photographies est prise sur le sentier qui descend à la crique située entre la Salle Verte et le Monument, un coin tranquille qui contraste avec le sommet autour du monument qui connait une forte présence touristique, un autre sentier descend sous la corniche, c'est celui que l'on aperçoit sur la photo et qui semble tracer une diagonale, je l'ai emprunté ensuite et il est tout aussi peu fréquenté.
Je ne sais pas comment on nomme une série de photos assemblées comme je l'ai faite: Panoramique ou Vertorama ?
C'est le genre d'endroit où le Vertorama se justifie, une vue plongeante en partie inférieure et une autre au niveau de l'horizon, ces deux vues permettent de saisir la falaise, la mer et le ciel mais comme cela ne suffit pas à saisir le paysage dans son entier, il faut faire un deuxième Vertorama sur le côté en vue de faire un panoramique.
Le logiciel Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE 2), gratuit fait merveille dans ce genre d'assemblage.
www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computational-ph...
Le résultat final donne une image pratiquement au format 3:2 comme une photographie en 1 seule prise, sauf qu'il m'aurait été impossible de l'obtenir avec ma focale 16 mm et ma position à cet endroit ( espace très limité).
(my newly adopted Nikon, that is.. iso 1000 and SOOC) But, not too amused by flickr and explore right now. Thursday I had 14 pics in explore and Friday zero. Curious, I inquired with the fine folks at the flick customer care:
[Flickr Case 2176220] Re: Other Concerns ()
Hello, 6º of Kevin Bacon!
This is a copy of a help case reply:
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Hello David,
Thank you for contacting Flickr Customer Care.
I am sorry to hear that you found all your fourteen photos dropped from
Explore on Flickr. I am glad to be of assistance.
The photos displayed on Explore are selected based on something we call
"interestingness":
www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/
There is not one specific thing you can do to make your photos and
videos show on Explore. The best thing to do is be involved in the
Flickr community. Join groups, tag your photos/videos, explore, and
comment on other people's photos/videos.
Flickr does not tell you when your photos and videos have been on the
Explore pages, but there is a tool called Scout that can do this:
Because Scout was created by a developer outside Flickr, we cannot
provide support for it.
If you have a question about Scout, please ask in fd's Flickr group:
www.flickr.com/groups/flickrtoys/
Thank you again for contacting us. If you have any other questions,
please feel free to reply to this email.
Regards,
Glenn
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If you've got Windows 8 or 8.1 there's a free fractal app from Microsoft you can use on a desktop or laptop PC that creates very basic fractals based on the Mandelbrot set:
www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/fractal-photographer/9...
This one above took me about 3 minutes to create, unlike the ones I do in Ultra Fractal!
Founded under the terms of the will of Dr Richard Steevens (1653-1710) by his sister Griselda Steevens in 1720 it was one of the finest establisments of its day and in 1857 the Dublin School of Medicine was transferred to Dr. Steevens' Hospital and renamed Steevens' Hospital Medical College.
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for the "BERLIN BLUES" Slide Show I used Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows - a free download; embedded music played by myself on an acoustic guitar; visit my BERLIN SET
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Kilmainham Gaol was built in 1796 as a replacement for an older prison. It has a sorrowful past with deplorable conditions. It is the place of imprisonment and subsequent execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Kinalehin was founded c. 1252 by John de Cogan for the Carthusians. The first monks came over from Hinton Charterhouse and/or Witham Friary, both located in Somerset. It was purportedly destroyed in 1279 and if so, rebuilt soon after.
In 1306 Kinalehin was sold to the Knights Hospitaller, but the sale appears never to have completed. It was dissolved by the General Chapter (Grande Chartreuse) in 1321 and the diocese of Clonfert took possession in 1341.
Around 1371 Pope Gregory XI granted permission to the de Burgos to refound it, this time with the Order of Friars Minor Conventual.
Kinalehin was shut down in the Dissolution of the Monasteries of 1540. The monastic lands were purchased from Elizabeth I by Richard Burke, 2nd Earl of Clanricarde, who retained it for the friars. It was dissolved before 1609.
It was again refounded in 1611 for the Observant Franciscan Friars. In 1629 An Leabhar Breac, a famous manuscript of the 15th century, was held at Kinalehin.
The friars were expelled after the Cromwellian conquest but returned during the time of Charles II.
Ref:- Wikipedia... [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinalehin_Friary]
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Kilmainham Gaol was built in 1796 as a replacement for an older prison. It has a sorrowful past with deplorable conditions. It is the place of imprisonment and subsequent execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. This yard is where these executions were carried out.
What is your favorite company or website?
here are few of my favorites. Tagged on our very own beach..tagging our style.. Maldives style..
Guys, Ive started my personal blog. its here: www.reallynattu.com
-- Some of my favorites
www.facebook.com/, www.yahoo.com, www.paypal.com, www.flickr.com, www.youtube.com, www.google.com, www.apple.com, www.microsoft.com, www.asp.net, www.php.net, www.ebay.com, www.nikon.com, www.wikipedia.com, www.nikon.com, www.canon.com, www.toyota.com, www.apple.com/ilife, www.nseries.com/products/n95/
Location: K.Huraa / Maldives
What a year! 2013 was a very important year for us as this was the year where we truly went independent for the first time since opening our doors as a part time experimental creative workshop back in 2008. Through this little creative indie workshop, we worked hard throughout the night and weekends to try new techniques and refine our craft on very select projects while Carson still worked as an art director during the day. This duo life as an artist at night and art director by day lasted for 4 years until the end of 2012 where we finally made the leap to run our company full time.
This year we travelled far and wide. Shooting our independent documentary in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Montreal, and Hawaii, guest lecturing at the Montserrat College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts, artist signing event at kidrobot in New York, Art show collab party in Toronto, judging the Ad Rodeo in Calgary and working with clients in Seattle, LA and Texas really made this year a special one for us. We're very grateful for everyone who believed in us and allowed us to really flex our creative muscle, whether it's a mural, a microsite, animation, illustration, photography, or just a silly doodle, we had a ton of fun.
We hope to continue working on projects we believe in and helping others along the way to build even greater creative work for 2014.
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all our friends at TAXI Vancouver, Spencer and Bloom, Whole Foods, Microsoft, Hootsuite, DDB Canada, The Canadian Tourism Commission, Kidrobot New York and Boulder, Digital Kitchen Seattle, Creature Seattle, Mini Shatsu LA, Edelman, Goo Media, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Montserrat College of Art, BC Business magazine, 123 West, We The Collective design and our friends Jeff Hamada, Henry Chu, Francis Lam, Clay Rochemont, Ryan Holmes, Patricia Seto, Maggie Cavallo, Eugene Kan, Wu Yue, Andrew Bell, Nathan Jurevicius, and more for helping us out in many different ways or with our independent documentary film this year.
Signing off here in Hong Kong. See you all in 2014!
Full story and video here:
Casque de réalité mixte, HoloLens de Microsoft.
Ce dispositif sorti en 2015 destiné au public et au monde professionnel met en oeuvre des technologies militaires et spatiales (NASA). La visière permet de voir l'environnement mais des informations ou des images 3D sous forme holographique peuvent s'intégrer dans le champ visuel.
La société Opuscope qui a pu disposer d'un casque HoloLens (ces casques sont encore difficiles à acquérir) a présenté des sculptures de Maillol et de Rodin modélisées en 3D qui apparaissaient dans l'environnement de la salle du musée des arts et métiers où se déroulait la démonstration.
Les numérisations 3D, ayant été effectuées avec un smartphone et sans soin particulier faute de temps (comme me l'ont indiqué les démonstrateurs), la qualité du rendu des sculptures était extrêmement médiocre mais permettait néanmoins de tester les capacités de ce casque révolutionnaire beaucoup plus léger et fonctionnel que les casques de réalité virtuelle commercialisés actuellement (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear ou encore Google Cardboard en carton).
Ces casques de réalité virtuelle, qui isolent l'utilisateur de son environnement et surtout des autres humains, apparaissent en comparaison du casque HoloLens comme des systèmes technologiques de transition.
Le site Hololens de Microsoft
www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us
Site de la société Opuscope
Démonstrations organisées par le Club Innovation & Culture, CLIC France
Manifestation parallèle à Futur en Seine 2016 au musée des arts et métiers à Paris
www.club-innovation-culture.fr/weekend-patrimoines-immers...
Cathair Chonaill - Conall's Stone Ringfort.
This fort dates between the 10th and mid 12th centuries.
Green is the hot topic these days, and the concept is having an impact on the way people think about datacenters. Companies around the world are announcing ways to save energy and reduce -----more---http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/10/Green/default.aspx
#Microsoft Windows 10 Event
To maximize the use of the new operating system “Windows 10” Microsoft has unveiled devices under the #event named Microsoft Windows 10 devices event”
In this Event it has revealed its first ever #laptop and two new brand #smartphones with #Windows10 operating system.
Microsoft’s first laptop, the surface book, built with a detachable screen, sixth generation #Intel processor, 13.5 inch and 12 hours battery back up
Along with its surface book it has show cased 2 new #lumia handsets with windows 10 operating system namely lumia 950 and 950 xl whereas 950 screen size is 5.2 inch Hd screen and 20 mega pixel camera and 950 Xl has 5.7 –inch screen
The main high light of both smart phones can be connected by a small portable display dock accessory into a personal computer. A keyboard or a mouse can be connected, Expanding the capacity of the smart phone to operate like a personal computer
Isn’t that interesting…?? To know more about Microsoft Windows 10 device event check this video www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us/live-event
Microsoft Wireless Notebook Laser Mouse 6000
Works seamlessly with MacBook ;)
Mighty Mouse SUCKS in terms of *Ergonomics*, truly.
www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetail...
Smartphone to be exact. That's right, I got a Windows Phone 7 phone. My parents offered to buy me one for my b-day since they knew I was planning on getting something. Due to the importance of my position, I need to be able to check work e-mail when I'm out of the office. I was going to go with the G2 Android phone until I tried out WP7 and fell in love with it.
Butterfly at Kelsey Spring
2009-04-29: With most of the roads open around Flagstaff and a warm day in store, we decided to hike one of the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness trails. We grabbed Deb Lauman and headed down Woody Mountain Road. Skimming Flagstaff Hikes
and the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness map, we decided to hike Kelsey Trail, which offered the potential for wildflowers according to Flagstaff Hikes. Flagstaff Hikes (5th edition) refers to Kelsey Trail #3 as Kelsey Spring Trail (from the trailhead to the spring) and Kelsey-Winter Cabin Trail (from the Kelsey Spring to Dorsey Spring). The trail sign at the trailhead is labeled Kelsey Winter Trail, and other trail signs are marked Kelsey Tr. No. 3. Additionally, the book refers to Little LO Trail as Geronimo Spring Trail. I haven't looked at the 6th edition of the book yet, which includes 97 trails (the 5th edition lists 146), so I can't speak to the differences between the two editions.
From Kelsey Trailhead and early on in the trail there are great views of Sycamore Canyon. A beaten path heads along the rim of the canyon, heading left from the parking area. We headed down the trail, which dives quickly into the canyon through gorgeous ponderosa pine forest. The trail is well maintained and well marked with signs at the springs and trail junctions. There is evidence of very old tree blazes marking the trail, but these are no longer necessary to follow the trail. Kelsey Spring is approximately 0.5 mile from the trailhead. A pipe from the spring feeds a water trough. The spring was running, and bees and butterflies were flitting around the wet, marshy area surrounding the spring, and the wild flags were beginning to bloom.
Around 1.2 mile from the trailhead is a second spring, Babe's Hole Spring. Based on the map, it's approximately a 700' elevation drop from the trailhead to Babe's Hole Spring. The spring is marked with a sign, and theres a covered stone well protecting the spring. There appear to be irises growing here, but none were blooming yet. The spring was running. Another 0.10 mile from Babe's Hole is the junction of Kelsey and Little L O Trails. Little L O continues another 0.75 mile to bottom of Sycamore Canyon. Hoping for more views, we decided to continue along Kelsey Trail, which runs along the side of the canyon. We stopped at the top of the first rise and ate lunch in the remains of an old campsite.
The New Camera
This was my second real use of my new Pentax K20D. On the first hike using the camera, I'd shot photos in JPEG format, and was fairly pleased with the results. After a few more experiments at home, I decided for this hike to try shooting photos in RAW format instead of JPEG, and was incredibly pleased at the dynamic range I had to work with, collecting images nearly as good as generated HDRs (but without all the work of generating the HDRs). I took a few exposure bracketed shots using my Gorillapod tripod and the camera's wireless remote, and was simply thrilled (my last camera, annoyingly, didn't have a remote).
Once at home, I pulled the RAW photos off the camera and started trying to figure out how to work with them. With my previous cameras, I'd been shooting JPEGs and using a combination of Picasa, Microsoft Pro Photo Tools, Autopano Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Image Composite Editor, and Photomatix. However, if I want to continue shooting in RAW (Pentax PEF) format, I need to adjust my workflow a bit. While Picasa can read the raw files, it simply doesn't have the processing tools to create a decent final JPEG product for the web, printing, etc. Currently, I'm still struggling with the workflow, mainly with issues related to editing the metadata and problems with metadata and geotags being read correctly by some of the software packages. As I write this, the metadata in Gallery are pretty messed up, but I haven't determined if there's something wrong with the files, the Picasa export, or Gallery's import of the images. Picasa doesn't seem to be picking up metadata and geotags correctly where the image files have the full blown camera metadata. I may have to drop Picasa and use an alternative upload tool for Gallery.
@schussman recommended Adobe Lightroom, so I downloaded the 30-day trial and used it to process most of the photos from this hike. I really liked Lightroom's processing tools, which make it pretty easy to apply the same processing settings to multiple photos, and therefore, allow me to process a group of images quickly and get them out to the web. It keeps a really good history of all the processing steps for image, and the RAW image itself isn't changed, so I can go back as many times as I want to tweak the processing settings. Lightroom has a nice directory browser (which will also show the contents of subdirectories), and the ability to create catalogs and collections (I didn't play with that). There's also a full metadata editor, a few gallery building options, a fairly powerful batch exporter, and I think there's ways to manage the workflow between Lightroom and Photoshop (I haven't played with that yet either). I don't know if I want to pay the $300 price tag for Lightroom, but I'll keep using it until the trial's up... perhaps I'll fall in love, and won't mind shelling out the cash. The camera came with similar software from Pentax, which I also intend to try out.
Photo USE: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 You must give photo credit: by Maggie Hallahan, Microsoft, Azure, Visual Studio. Public Institution, Non-profit NGO, Educational, Private Person, and Researchers may use this image for free. This image may not be used in Commercial: Advertising, Entertainment, or in any for-profit use with out a partnership agreement with Microsoft.
Kelsey Spring Trail (HDR)
2009-04-29: With most of the roads open around Flagstaff and a warm day in store, we decided to hike one of the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness trails. We grabbed Deb Lauman and headed down Woody Mountain Road. Skimming Flagstaff Hikes
and the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness map, we decided to hike Kelsey Trail, which offered the potential for wildflowers according to Flagstaff Hikes. Flagstaff Hikes (5th edition) refers to Kelsey Trail #3 as Kelsey Spring Trail (from the trailhead to the spring) and Kelsey-Winter Cabin Trail (from the Kelsey Spring to Dorsey Spring). The trail sign at the trailhead is labeled Kelsey Winter Trail, and other trail signs are marked Kelsey Tr. No. 3. Additionally, the book refers to Little LO Trail as Geronimo Spring Trail. I haven't looked at the 6th edition of the book yet, which includes 97 trails (the 5th edition lists 146), so I can't speak to the differences between the two editions.
From Kelsey Trailhead and early on in the trail there are great views of Sycamore Canyon. A beaten path heads along the rim of the canyon, heading left from the parking area. We headed down the trail, which dives quickly into the canyon through gorgeous ponderosa pine forest. The trail is well maintained and well marked with signs at the springs and trail junctions. There is evidence of very old tree blazes marking the trail, but these are no longer necessary to follow the trail. Kelsey Spring is approximately 0.5 mile from the trailhead. A pipe from the spring feeds a water trough. The spring was running, and bees and butterflies were flitting around the wet, marshy area surrounding the spring, and the wild flags were beginning to bloom.
Around 1.2 mile from the trailhead is a second spring, Babe's Hole Spring. Based on the map, it's approximately a 700' elevation drop from the trailhead to Babe's Hole Spring. The spring is marked with a sign, and theres a covered stone well protecting the spring. There appear to be irises growing here, but none were blooming yet. The spring was running. Another 0.10 mile from Babe's Hole is the junction of Kelsey and Little L O Trails. Little L O continues another 0.75 mile to bottom of Sycamore Canyon. Hoping for more views, we decided to continue along Kelsey Trail, which runs along the side of the canyon. We stopped at the top of the first rise and ate lunch in the remains of an old campsite.
The New Camera
This was my second real use of my new Pentax K20D. On the first hike using the camera, I'd shot photos in JPEG format, and was fairly pleased with the results. After a few more experiments at home, I decided for this hike to try shooting photos in RAW format instead of JPEG, and was incredibly pleased at the dynamic range I had to work with, collecting images nearly as good as generated HDRs (but without all the work of generating the HDRs). I took a few exposure bracketed shots using my Gorillapod tripod and the camera's wireless remote, and was simply thrilled (my last camera, annoyingly, didn't have a remote).
Once at home, I pulled the RAW photos off the camera and started trying to figure out how to work with them. With my previous cameras, I'd been shooting JPEGs and using a combination of Picasa, Microsoft Pro Photo Tools, Autopano Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Image Composite Editor, and Photomatix. However, if I want to continue shooting in RAW (Pentax PEF) format, I need to adjust my workflow a bit. While Picasa can read the raw files, it simply doesn't have the processing tools to create a decent final JPEG product for the web, printing, etc. Currently, I'm still struggling with the workflow, mainly with issues related to editing the metadata and problems with metadata and geotags being read correctly by some of the software packages. As I write this, the metadata in Gallery are pretty messed up, but I haven't determined if there's something wrong with the files, the Picasa export, or Gallery's import of the images. Picasa doesn't seem to be picking up metadata and geotags correctly where the image files have the full blown camera metadata. I may have to drop Picasa and use an alternative upload tool for Gallery.
@schussman recommended Adobe Lightroom, so I downloaded the 30-day trial and used it to process most of the photos from this hike. I really liked Lightroom's processing tools, which make it pretty easy to apply the same processing settings to multiple photos, and therefore, allow me to process a group of images quickly and get them out to the web. It keeps a really good history of all the processing steps for image, and the RAW image itself isn't changed, so I can go back as many times as I want to tweak the processing settings. Lightroom has a nice directory browser (which will also show the contents of subdirectories), and the ability to create catalogs and collections (I didn't play with that). There's also a full metadata editor, a few gallery building options, a fairly powerful batch exporter, and I think there's ways to manage the workflow between Lightroom and Photoshop (I haven't played with that yet either). I don't know if I want to pay the $300 price tag for Lightroom, but I'll keep using it until the trial's up... perhaps I'll fall in love, and won't mind shelling out the cash. The camera came with similar software from Pentax, which I also intend to try out.
5-frame HDR shot with a Pentax K20D. HDR generated and tone mapped in Photomatix. Metadata refined in MS Pro Photo Tools and Adobe Lightroom.
Kelsey Spring Trail
2009-04-29: With most of the roads open around Flagstaff and a warm day in store, we decided to hike one of the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness trails. We grabbed Deb Lauman and headed down Woody Mountain Road. Skimming Flagstaff Hikes
and the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness map, we decided to hike Kelsey Trail, which offered the potential for wildflowers according to Flagstaff Hikes. Flagstaff Hikes (5th edition) refers to Kelsey Trail #3 as Kelsey Spring Trail (from the trailhead to the spring) and Kelsey-Winter Cabin Trail (from the Kelsey Spring to Dorsey Spring). The trail sign at the trailhead is labeled Kelsey Winter Trail, and other trail signs are marked Kelsey Tr. No. 3. Additionally, the book refers to Little LO Trail as Geronimo Spring Trail. I haven't looked at the 6th edition of the book yet, which includes 97 trails (the 5th edition lists 146), so I can't speak to the differences between the two editions.
From Kelsey Trailhead and early on in the trail there are great views of Sycamore Canyon. A beaten path heads along the rim of the canyon, heading left from the parking area. We headed down the trail, which dives quickly into the canyon through gorgeous ponderosa pine forest. The trail is well maintained and well marked with signs at the springs and trail junctions. There is evidence of very old tree blazes marking the trail, but these are no longer necessary to follow the trail. Kelsey Spring is approximately 0.5 mile from the trailhead. A pipe from the spring feeds a water trough. The spring was running, and bees and butterflies were flitting around the wet, marshy area surrounding the spring, and the wild flags were beginning to bloom.
Around 1.2 mile from the trailhead is a second spring, Babe's Hole Spring. Based on the map, it's approximately a 700' elevation drop from the trailhead to Babe's Hole Spring. The spring is marked with a sign, and theres a covered stone well protecting the spring. There appear to be irises growing here, but none were blooming yet. The spring was running. Another 0.10 mile from Babe's Hole is the junction of Kelsey and Little L O Trails. Little L O continues another 0.75 mile to bottom of Sycamore Canyon. Hoping for more views, we decided to continue along Kelsey Trail, which runs along the side of the canyon. We stopped at the top of the first rise and ate lunch in the remains of an old campsite.
The New Camera
This was my second real use of my new Pentax K20D. On the first hike using the camera, I'd shot photos in JPEG format, and was fairly pleased with the results. After a few more experiments at home, I decided for this hike to try shooting photos in RAW format instead of JPEG, and was incredibly pleased at the dynamic range I had to work with, collecting images nearly as good as generated HDRs (but without all the work of generating the HDRs). I took a few exposure bracketed shots using my Gorillapod tripod and the camera's wireless remote, and was simply thrilled (my last camera, annoyingly, didn't have a remote).
Once at home, I pulled the RAW photos off the camera and started trying to figure out how to work with them. With my previous cameras, I'd been shooting JPEGs and using a combination of Picasa, Microsoft Pro Photo Tools, Autopano Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Image Composite Editor, and Photomatix. However, if I want to continue shooting in RAW (Pentax PEF) format, I need to adjust my workflow a bit. While Picasa can read the raw files, it simply doesn't have the processing tools to create a decent final JPEG product for the web, printing, etc. Currently, I'm still struggling with the workflow, mainly with issues related to editing the metadata and problems with metadata and geotags being read correctly by some of the software packages. As I write this, the metadata in Gallery are pretty messed up, but I haven't determined if there's something wrong with the files, the Picasa export, or Gallery's import of the images. Picasa doesn't seem to be picking up metadata and geotags correctly where the image files have the full blown camera metadata. I may have to drop Picasa and use an alternative upload tool for Gallery.
@schussman recommended Adobe Lightroom, so I downloaded the 30-day trial and used it to process most of the photos from this hike. I really liked Lightroom's processing tools, which make it pretty easy to apply the same processing settings to multiple photos, and therefore, allow me to process a group of images quickly and get them out to the web. It keeps a really good history of all the processing steps for image, and the RAW image itself isn't changed, so I can go back as many times as I want to tweak the processing settings. Lightroom has a nice directory browser (which will also show the contents of subdirectories), and the ability to create catalogs and collections (I didn't play with that). There's also a full metadata editor, a few gallery building options, a fairly powerful batch exporter, and I think there's ways to manage the workflow between Lightroom and Photoshop (I haven't played with that yet either). I don't know if I want to pay the $300 price tag for Lightroom, but I'll keep using it until the trial's up... perhaps I'll fall in love, and won't mind shelling out the cash. The camera came with similar software from Pentax, which I also intend to try out.
Photo USE: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 You must give photo credit: by Maggie Hallahan, Microsoft, Azure, Visual Studio. Public Institution, Non-profit NGO, Educational, Private Person, and Researchers may use this image for free. This image may not be used in Commercial: Advertising, Entertainment, or in any for-profit use with out a partnership agreement with Microsoft.
Photo USE: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 You must give photo credit: by Maggie Hallahan, Microsoft, Azure, Visual Studio. Public Institution, Non-profit NGO, Educational, Private Person, and Researchers may use this image for free. This image may not be used in Commercial: Advertising, Entertainment, or in any for-profit use with out a partnership agreement with Microsoft.