What you see here is not one image but a series taken and then automatically stitched together by the Sony A55 into one panorama image. The camera has a sweep mode. You point the camera at one end of the panorama you want to capture, press the trigger, and then sweep the camera view across [...]
...the full sized full resolution photo is incredibly detailed and he hairs you can barely see are very large, in focus and reveal, incredible detail. However, I do not want to give you too much!
I have to take these words to apologize to you. I am sorry, I was working on the lupine post last Tuesday (IIRC) and in the middle of that work the site started to exhibit 500 Internal Server errors. I did a few things but to no avail, could not read logs, could not do [...]
As you can see, the rose is just starting to explode with blooms and yes it is doing just that. The best one is blooming off a cane that stuck its head through the nearby trellis and is blooming in the shade of the deck, I hope that cane will weave its way back out and around the trellis. This rose is one of three that came back from last season and the only Don Juan that came back. We have a New Dawn climber and a Christian Dior tea rose from last year that are doing well.
Legacy Lens Capatability This was one of the biggest selling points of the Sony line to myself. You see, that Sigma 300 mm F/2.8 lens set me back a few bucks and it wasn’t the dollars down the river I was concerned about, it was sending more down the river to replace the lens. I [...]
Happy Fourth of July! Happy Independence Day to all of my fellow Americans! The Wisconsin Skier Upgrade I have finally decided to rollout the new look and feel to The Wisconsin Skier. I created the theme based on work for a client of mine and on Matthew James Taylor’s Holy Grail layout. I took that [...]
I just picked up the Sony A55 camera body. It is isn’t quite right to call it an DSLR as it isn’t really one, but it is close enough. SLRs have mirrors that allow the photographer to sight the photograph directly through the lens and when the button is tripped the mirror is pulled out [...]
Note: What follows below and under posts entitled Turn Quest are works of fiction. Any resemblance to characters living or dead is likely but unintentional. I don’t know how many installments will make up the story, but I hope enough to be a small novella (a novelita?). Turn Quest Jim had a hard time getting [...]
Here is the map of my 2011 biking season high (in terms of miles spun): View 2011-05-21 07:32 in a larger map Hmmm, for some reason (I would call it a software defect), Google wants to show the area north of my ride rather instead of my ride. Drag the map upwards to bring my [...]
Here you see my first composed video. I have posted video here before, most of it videos from YouTube created by others or my raw camera video. However, here you see video composed of scenes I recorded and then put together and edited! The music however comes from the Grateful Dead’s July 17, 1989 Alpine [...]
One thing I find myself doing more and more often, is shying away from Twitter usage when I am on the laptop or our desktop and confining the reading and writing of Tweets more and more by mobile phone. I have been thinking of this for sometime now, since I got my Android phone and [...]
Yeah, you may have guessed it, I am done skiing for the 2010-2011 ski season. I skied last Saturday April 09 at Ski Brule and about an hour before the last chair I hit the Big Bear and skied to the lodge and clicked out of my K2s for the last time this season. So, [...]
Most of the time we think of skiing in terms of movements over the horizontal, after all, we are essentially fastened to the slope by gravity, the need to stay in control, and fear of breaking bones & body parts. However, our knees and legs can work our body in a vertical fashion. We bob [...]
The reason this is so, is because the Abba CD was stuck in the CD player of my Brother's truck and so there was no other option. I don't remember much about those ski trips, but I remember being with my father and brother and always will and the skiing was just incidental.
Here is my first bikeride of this season. Not so flashy as my ski tracks, but there is some up and down on this trip. It was a nice sunny day today. I went to town bought some bike-clothing to keep me warm on the ride. I did not go for the Wiouwash Trail as [...]
Ski Brule hosts races on a regular basis. Usually younger competitors ages 12-15 and under. Watching those kids ski during the day is real fascinating, no fear lots of comfort and they ski fast and furiously. At least when free skiing. Last spring I watched them closely on the race courses. Not so impressive (not [...]
I just noticed on the polls someone registered a vote for skiing over 70 miles per hour! Wow, please leave a comment I want to hear more about that!
The ski industry discovered it first! Here is the research: The scientists found human remains: an upper mandible, the right side of a pelvic girdle, and an ankle joint fused to one of the mastadon tusks, all of which are estimated to be approximately 9,000 years old. ?It appears that they used the mammoth bones [...]
Some of you may ask WTF am I doing mixing up physics on this site. A lot of good skiers can ski without knowing a vector from victor, of that there is no doubt as any accomplished skier may know they ski without thinking of what is happening, they just do. Depending on my goals [...]
My top speed this year occurred on this trip and on this map. I have yet to figure out exactly when and where it occurred but I have my suspicions! View 2011-02-27 14:27 in a larger map
