Category Archives: Photography
Two Harbors Winter Weekend
Jessica and I had a great time this weekend in Two Harbors, MN. This town of about 3,500 people is located just a little North of Duluth along the shore of Lake Superior. Day 1 We left on Friday evening, and drove straight through until just before 11pm. We had reserved a “normal” hotel room [...]
Mountain Biking Lebanon Hills Again
On this trip, I re-challenged the monster log pile, and it bit back pretty hard. My bike nearly cleared the top when I lost momentum and hit a bigger log. This caused me to fall backwards down the jump. Fearing a repeat of last time, I tried to come down at more of an angle. Instead of recovering gracefully, my bike tilted sideways and I fell of the edge. My metal bike pedals dug into one side of my leg, while rocks dug into the other.
Graphical Web Search Engine
Photo sharing site Riya.com has pioneered new technologies in graphical search engine technology. Using highly advanced facial recognition, they are able to auto detect faces from within your online photo album. It works through a training program. This is not unlike other similar technologies such as speech recognition. It requires several pictures of a person [...]
Geotagging EXIF locations in Flickr
I recently began geocoding my pictures as described in a post a couple days ago. However, I found that Flickr was not automatically placing my geocoded pictures on their Flickr Map upon import. I would have to re-input the data to Flickr after uploading. But a few minutes ago, I found my solution on Jannis [...]
Flickr increases upload limits
I was just reading a post on GeoBlogger.com about photo sharing. They had an important announcement to make. The popular photo sharing site, Flickr, announced that they will be completely removing their upload limit restrictions for pro users. This makes their site far more valuable for people who pay the $24.95 for the pro account. [...]
Canon Powershot S2 IS!
Jessica and I celebrated Christmas today. I know it was a little early, but we are very busy over Christmas break, and now is one of the few times we could have celebrated between now and Christmas. I gave Jessica a new digital camera (Nikon L3) and she gave me a new camera! I got [...]
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