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The Moa were brought to Hawaii by the Polynesians when they settled the islands. They are now running wild, and can be found just about everywhere on Kaua’i. They are fairly docile and quite stately.
Available as a 12×12 print for $35.00, including shipping. Other sizes (up to 24×24) are available.
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Waipo’o Falls in the Waimea Canyon is an impressive sight — dropping 800′ to the rocks below. A rare rainbow forms in the mist from the falls in November 2008.
Printable to 20×30, offered at 12×18 for $35.00, including shipping.
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1 minute exposure under full moon and sodium vapor lights in downtown Eugene, Oregon. Available as an 8×12 print for $35.00.
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A haunting image of the moon peeking through clouds over the Bay Bridge in San Francisco.
Printable to 20×30, offered at 8×12 for $35.00.
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Nothing like a fresh cup of black coffee to get you going ni the morning.
This is offered at 8×12 for $35.00, including shipping, directly from the photographer. Printable to 20×30.
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This past Saturday, a few of us went to Alcatraz. It happened to be horizontal rain, 25mph gusts. Not a particularly pleasant time to be there, but we had a great time nonetheless. First round of edited photos over on zenfolio.
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Back in January 2005, I took some pictures from Treasure Island of Alcatraz Island. I posted them to Wikimedia commons (since I had no commercial interest in them), and one of them is now the main image for the Wikipedia page!
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New Project
I’ve started planning a new little project for aerial photography. I was thinking about the problem of shooting in the less than predictable winds of Western PA, and about the urban environment with much smaller greenbelts. (Okay, there *is* a
green belt, but that’s not the same thing.)
Anyway, the above sketch is the first complete device scaled drawing I’ve produced. It’s a remote controlled powered parachute. The intention is to use an electric motor, with a rather large propeller. That’s in the cage-thing on the left in this picture. The wheels are rather tall to allow the camera platform to sit nicely underneath. I won’t be able to shoot forward with this rig, just left, right, and down.
Most powered parachutes put the fan behind the “driver”, as a pusher. This puts the fan and the lines of the parachute in potential conflict. I’m approaching this with the fan on the front, and the parachute hanging out the back, which hopefully will turn out better.
The above fancy aluminum one will be the “1.0″ version of it– I’m planning on building a test model from plywood and aluminum strip to test out the geometry and flight characteristics before building a nice one. I’m also not sure of the rear caster plate shape… I like the first one, but the rear one just seems “off” to me.
More later, as it’s all developed =) Estimated time for starting this is around June 2009…
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Just so I don’t forget:
mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vpass=1 -mf type=jpg:fps=40 -o $VIDEOFILE mf://$IMAGEPATH/*.jpg
Let me know if anybody wants a longer post on the subject, but I stole the above line from here
