April 2013 archive

Old Flickr Record Completely Blown Away

While out gallivanting on another one of my San Diego Zoo and Balboa Park adventures yesterday I completely missed that I had by far my highest single day viewing ever on Flickr with 56,186. At first I thought the stats had gone horribly wrong and that there was a bug in the system, a fly …

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Microbes In My Navel

This evening I attended another terrific lecture at the San Diego Natural History Museum. This one was titled “The Wild Life of Our Bodies” and was presented by Rob Dunn, a Ph.D. biologist from North Carolina State University. His lecture basically went over talking points from his book by the same name. When I arrived …

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Workspace Glimpse

Here’s a quick glance at what my desktop looks like whenever I work on a set of photos in Photoshop. This is a bit more extreme than normal, but it is also not a rare occurrence. Often I have to split a job up into smaller groups because there just are too many images to …

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ISS For 20 Seconds

Thanks to my friend Rodrigo letting me know about tonight’s fly-over by the International Space Station, I took out my trusty old Bogen tripod and was able to capture two 20-second images of the ISS passing overhead. This is the slightly better of the two. I adjusted the contrast a bit to remove some of …

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