I have been doing a fair bit of traveling in the United States. My iPhone 4 is on Telus in Canada. The roaming fees are not cheap. So I've whipped out my old US cell account - and put it on a Samsung Focus running Windows Phone 7 (from a Nexus One on Android). In... Continue Reading →
Canada Day Weekend Fail
How I spent my Canada Day weekend...trying to get the washing machine to fit in the closet and get the closet door reattached. and then reattach the broken knob to the washer so that one does not have to use such things as BBQ tongs to change it. As one can see, the project was... Continue Reading →
V8 Vantage – the Farewell Review
Ottawa Fall Colors '09 #78, a photo by rdonovan on Flickr. I admit it. Jeremy Clarkson was right. Those who bought the V8 Vantage would probably just end up wishing they buying a DB9. I can now count myself in that boat, having worked a trade of my V8 Vantage for a DB9. There are... Continue Reading →
Hot Dog!!!
One of the rarest of rare photographs - the elusive dachshund known as Otto. Otto personifies why I don't like to photograph living things. They move. And are very hard to compose. Otto in particular is extremely camera shy - even of camera phones. If he sees a camera, he bolts. I finally managed to... Continue Reading →
Secret Agent Man
For most of 2010 - and so far all of 2011 - I have been working on special projects as my primary focus day-to-day. A lot of the details of which will never be known - except to a select few involved. It has provided for a vexing and at times lonely corporate existence. And... Continue Reading →
Fun with Lightroom and RAW – Part 2
San Miguel Dusk #32, a photo by rdonovan on Flickr. Now, here is the exact same photograph as from last week/last post - but with considerably different color and tone settings utilized. Because all of the data is there - and it can be processed quite differently - I have been able to re-render the... Continue Reading →
Fun with Lightroom and RAW – Part 1
San Miguel Dusk #31, a photo by rdonovan on Flickr. For this week's picture of the week - my favorite shot of San Miguel at dusk. Shot from the roof of the building where I stayed. What's of note is that with the Canon 1D Mark IV, this is the first time I have started... Continue Reading →
A Shot in the Dark
Atotonilco & Vicinity #121, a photo by rdonovan on Flickr. Surrounding the Church at Atotonilco are many abandoned native chapels. Just sitting there. In cornfields. Or converted to barns, etc. The shot here was taken in the near dark, as there was zero light other than from the front entrance - of the ceiling of... Continue Reading →
Why High ISO and Multi-Autofocus Matters
Atotonilco & Vicinity #13, a photo by rdonovan on Flickr. One of the more interesting locations I visited in San Miguel was the Church at Atotonilco. It is a World Heritage site - and upon perusing its interior it is easy to see why. However, it is anything but a museum. It is a working... Continue Reading →
Retro-United at Sea-Tac International
As I was disembarking on a business trip to Seattle from an Air Canada Dash-8 on the tarmac - I did a double take. No, time hadn't shifted back a few decades. But there was United's old Friendship livery - on an Airbus A320 at gate N16 just getting in from San Francisco. It's great... Continue Reading →