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Cat cubes
Cat cubes, smoked paprika, St James strawberry, razors.
Posted Aug 1, 2009 12:28 PM by Ahmed Fasih
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Briefly on the atmospheric effect called 'pillar of light'
Since the day after Christmas, I've had the pleasure of seeing three sunrises and one sunset (yesterday evening) exhibiting the extraordinary atmospheric effect captured here. Now I am prepared ...
Posted Jan 16, 2009 5:10 AM by Ahmed Fasih
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First two shots of Velvia 35mm
Today was just a glorious day, and after spending all day in the IPS Lab admiring it through wall-to-wall windows, I was moved to try Velvia 50.Goodness ...
Posted Nov 18, 2008 2:02 PM by Ahmed Fasih
Wedding & honeymoon
Emily and Ahmed got married on 19 July, 2008. It was fantastic, thanks
to everyone who could attend, and condolences to those who couldn't. A
lot of the logistic info is here.
Some photographs are online. Our photographer was Tanya from Red Lotus. She was great.
We went on an Alaskan cruise for our honeymoon, which was fantastic!
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Photography
Ahmed started out with a Ricoh XR-7 and a 50mm prime bought at a garage sale, circa, spring 2004. I only have a few favorite shots from then to fall 2005.
For the Great American Roadtrip (see below?), December 2005, my
inexperience at vacation photography was apparent---almost all the
dozen-or-so rolls were junk---but thankfully I had Mom's Nikon Coolpix
2100 (and my cotravellers had digital p&s's as well).
Spring of 2006 I picked up a Canon A620. It's glorious. I love it to
death. It's fun, it's fast. It does HDR really well with the Chdk
firmware application.
By the end of 2007, I acquired a reasonably complete 1970s-era Canon FD
35mm system: three Canon FTb bodies, and 17, 24, 28, 50, and 135mm
lenses. The couple of rolls I put through that made me realize I needed
to take the bodies in for an overhaul. They still still need it. (I
will admit it: I have a tremendous capacity for incompetence.)
Late spring 2008, I picked up a Nikon D40 kit, very soon after I was
settling on buying into Canon's digital line. Ken Rockwell tipped the
balance by singing praises of the "jewel of a [kit] lens," the 18-55mm
DX and by pointing out true auto-ISO and its tripod-killing capacity.
I rented the superpowered 18-200mm VR for our honeymoon in the summer of 2008. You can see the results on the left.
I'm also interested in a super-wideangle (the Nikon or Sigma offerings
that reach into the 10 and 12mm), as well as a f/1.4 lens (probably
Nikon's 50mm, or possibly Sigma's 30mm).
We're also interested in picking up a telepathic body like the D90 for
Emily to shoot with. Emily's great, you hand her a camera and great
pictures come forth. But you can't bother her to twiddle dials (like
the D40 needs, what with it's lack of telepathic auto-powers), hence
the D90 (in the vein of the D200 and D300).
Polyphasic sleep?iTouch application without going through iTunes?
Can we make a wearable vibrating device that's triggered wirelessly? Then I could wear it on my arm/wrist and just tell my laptop to send a
zigbee or bluetooth or even just a simple AM signal (?) when I need to
wake up.
And then we might as well slap on an accelerometer on that wearable
device that would broadcast its motion to the laptop so my laptop
would be aware of when i was fidgeting/moving (in very shallow sleep)
and could choose to wake me then.
So there's 3 options here 1) generate time & sound audio alarm on
iTouch, 2) generate time on some PC and vibrate alarm on arm-device,
2a) same as 2, except the arm-device can broadcast accelerometer data
to PC as well.
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