Tag: photography
June is gone already!?
June 30th, 2009, No Comments
Yes, June is over already and it feels like I haven’t gotten anything done. Work has been taking up most of my time. Since I last posted I’ve been to A-Kon 2009. I shot few A-Kon cosplay photos plus a few time exposures of the A-Kon Friday night rave. I also shot a few photos [...]
May Miscellany
June 28th, 2009, No Comments
Time for a quick update. May started off with the VEX Robotics World Championship here in Dallas. I was one of the judges evaluating the 270 teams and their robots. I’ll probably write a little more about it in an upcoming issue of Robot Magazine for those who are interested.
I created a robots.net twitter feed [...]
Retro-Photography Update
April 10th, 2009, No Comments
I posted a while back about my experiences repairing and using a Bencini Comet S 127 film camera. Since then I’ve acquired a few more interesting old cameras. One is an Argus C, an American 35mm camera made in 1938. I bought it at an estate sale for $10. The Argus C series cameras were [...]
Adventures in Retro Photography
February 4th, 2009, No Comments
Susan and I frequent estate sales these days. For my part, I’m usually looking for interesting metal objects and potential robot parts. Occasionally, I see something I’m not looking for that’s weird or interesting enough that I have to buy it. That was the case recently when I spotted a Bencini Comet S 127 film [...]
Austin Maker Faire 2008
October 26th, 2008, No Comments
The Austin Maker Faire was last weekend and I was there, of course. I got a different view of it than last year because I spent part of the time as a maker. I helped out at the Dallas Personal Robotics Group table, where we showed off a variety of a small robots. We had [...]
New Camera
June 23rd, 2008, No Comments
Well, I finally did it. I bought a new Canon 40D with a 17-55mm f2.8 zoom. I also picked up an EOS to FD adapter on eBay so I could get at least some use out of my existing FD lenses. This is the third Canon I’ve owned. My first was a Canon A1, my [...]
Work and Photography
June 7th, 2008, No Comments
Wow, I’ve been so busy lately. Has it really been over two months since I posted any sort of an update here? Well, work has mostly been a blur of SQL, Perl DBI, and RETS. I’ve been shooting lots of photos in what little time off I could manage: there was the Deep Ellum Arts [...]
Austin Art Car Parade
May 19th, 2007, No Comments
Earlier this month, Susan and I drove down to Houston for the annual Orange Show Center for Visionary Art’s 20th annual Art Car Parade. This is one largest and oldest art car events in the world. About the only place you’re likely to see bigger and stranger moving art would Burning Man. There were over [...]
