Wind Power...

Wind power is nothing new, we've been using it since the first boat was blown across water. Windmills are not new either, but seem to have been forgotten for quite some time.

I just like the picture. It's not one of mine, and was found in the British newspaper, The Daily Mail.

The person in the foreground is actually a cast iron statue, and is one of many on the beach at Crosby in a temporary art exhibition. That means this picture was taken on the edge of Liverpool Bay.

Vignetting

A fellow blogger linked to an article talking about how vignetting was not really a problem.

I think this shot is helped a lot by the excessive vignetting here. I believe this was an early shoot with my DX 7440, with the 2x telephoto added, and shooting at wide angle.

The plane is SW airlines (727?) taken at Oakland International, but that is irrelevant.

The rest of that mornings shoot, or rather the high points are also included here for reference.

This is, if you didn't realize, the jetway, the bendy part of it. I've passed a couple of these driving up the street, quite a surprising sight first time round.


I like when the light shows us things we forget. Airplanes may look all soft and rounded, but they are made of facets which approximate a round.

Lost the bus...

Seriously, I've lost a great couple of photos of one of the last working Routemaster Buses in London. I took it a couple of years ago on a trip to London. Anyway, while trolling through the server I found these.
They were in a folder called "old floppies" which itself was in a folder of interesting stuff archived from the oldest PC in our house when it was retired 12 months ago (it just came back into service so everyone can have a PC).

These represent some of my oldest images in digital format. They were scanned at work on the company flatbed scanner. The oil rig is the only one that was digitally enhanced.

They actually looked great on my old 640x480 monitor, and they printed up nicely on the color laser printer we had at work.

Of course they are very outdated now.

They all represent what used to be a typical month for me. The lightship is in Birkenhead, NW England. This was close to home, and my base office of Bootle.

The hovercraft is the Portsmouth/Ryde ferry. This was close to our Waterlooville office, where I spent a lot of time with system integration and field trials.

The platform was off the coast at Christchurch(?) at the end of the Solent I believe, within sight of the Isle of Wight. We had a system deployed there.

The Chinese Dragon is in San Francisco, which was just a dozen miles from our US office in San Leandro where I spent a lot of time on firmware development for components in the system.