Picture from hotal room when i went for a photo seminar in October
Well its that time of year. Ba Humbug. Been swamped at work have to install 80 plus pc’s by the 24th. I have about aabout 3-4 to do. And about 5-7 that I have to wait on for software. Other than that I did just it all in the time frame. Everybody have a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy new year.
well I’m still kick in. work been tough lately. my company is upgrading there network and i have a short time to get them company upgraded. bought new dells with Intel’s new I7 cpu. so far they are pretty nice.
been brain storming on my book i keep saying i want to write. i guess i just don’t want it all that bad. i keep putting it off time after time. its something i need to get in the mood for. this is the difference of a real writer and just an everyday dreamer that wants to write. being a writer is harder than people think. ya i can sit down every now and then and jot something down like I’m doing now. but to create a book and make it good is the hard part. i need to look into some workshops . start school this evening. i have 3 quarters left yaaaha. kind of of getting burned out . but ill keep on trucking to the end.
well its its that time of year when everybody rushes to get things done. rush rush rush. that’s what everybody dose now a days. big t-day and C-day just right around the corner. just received a bunch of new pc’s for work. be spending a lot of time just setting them up and installing. keeps me busy. well not much on this post but more to come later..
went out this week end with my buddy and his wife to a couple of haunted houses for the hween weekend. they ask another friend one of teir female freinds along and we all went out. (read between the lines something like a blind date). no problem, i don’t mind need to get out of the house every now and then. this tend to look pretty good. shes pretty and the most important thing is availiable. with luck it turns out tat i like her right from the get go. just found out that she also like me. hhmm hope this goes well. other than that my days are still hoe hum. work school work school. now maybe i can have some fun and more. hehehehe. i cant say that over teh years most of the haunted house just suck or that were at that age where the monsters don’t opay much attention to us to scar anymore. just becouse we are bigger or in some cases a lot bigger. that we just dont take them out when they scare us should not be an issue. but again i always had fun just to scare them instead. well until next bs session.
well here we go with another Holloween that’s came and gone. just around the corner is t-day and the big c-day. this year has just flown by. befor you know it another year has crept by and I still feel like I got nothing accompished. oh well I guess I can just continue on and do it next year.
Well well well. whats up people? our photo club was just together this past week end and we had Erica model for us. we headed downtown to fountain square and walked around a two block radious and had erica pose for us. it was a sweet day. I took like over 600 pictures that day. I have posted them up at my photoblog http://photoblog.sirryche.com head on over and check them out. all the shoots are streight from the camera. when I have time I will be deleteing and rediting them so only the good ones will be up. hope you like them.
just watched the Last Airbender Avatar on TV last night. wasn’t to impressed. a couple of weeks ago I just finished the avatar anime series and I really liked that. the live action movie was missing a lot. when ever there was a lot of fighting with the fire nation there was very little fire fighting going on. they could have put in more visual fires into the scenes but it was just non-existent. the whole movie seemed empty. the avatar himself was just not up to par with the anime. in the anime the avatar always kept joking around and would always ride his air ball. not once did he ride his air ball in the movie. it looks like they tried to cram to much of the anime into a to little time span. I would be better to make a live TV-mini series then a full movie. ill give the movie itself a 6 out of 10 but the anime is still one of my favorites it gets a 9+.
well here we are again and I am ready to go. Since I have no plans and need to burn some vacation time up I thought I just drive east on st Rt 52. This will take me to the appliation mountains and I plan on hitting the blue ridge parkway. Rt 52 will intersect the parkway around the 200 mile marker. As of yet I haven’t decided to go both or south. the time has came and went. i ended up going south on the parkway for there seems to be more of a site seeing drive then then going north. i had stopped off many cemeteries and took some pics. at first i planned on stopping at every site i came across but since most of them are kind of new and don’t have anything special like fountains, statues, morgues , etc i only toke the time and pictures of sites that caught my eye for one reason or another. besides the grave yards i have made stops at meldhal dam, chilio lock #34, and Greenup lock and dam. nice to lock at once in a while but no ships or barges where going thru to make it interesting. over at the Greenup dam they had a drudger operating getting all the extra silt out of the lock. just saw a barge with a big pipe shooting water and silt into another area. went thru Ironton Ohio and came across 4 old churches. the neat kind that they had some masters create the stone work. like the old gothic churches. now those where cool. the roads were nice and very little traffic thru the hills. only time i didn’t like is when 52 hooked up to another expressway and you then had same traffic. i tried to shy away from those and only used the expressways when i had no other choice. like when it is already 8:00 pm and i was still another 100 miles from the parkway. i ended up taking the express way to shave off 2 hrs of driveling so i could find a campsite. when i came to the parkway i headed south looking for the state run campsites (cheaper) and 40 miles later found it. this was now around 9-10 pm at night . pulled into the camp ground and not a soul was there. it was so dark for there was no light pollution you could not see your hand in front of your face. so instead of wrestling with my tent i just slept in my trunk. the next morning i got up and started to drive the blue ridge parkway. what a beautiful site. no pictures can justify the first hand view of the land. drove for hours and enjoyed the sites. stopped at some picnic grounds to eat launch. drove thru the old tunnels and drove across the famous Linn viaduct in North Carolina . that was neat . hiked a little trail and came up underneath the viaduct and so the way it was built to keep nature intact as is instead of destroying it with construction. after that i headed down the parkway and came to Linville water falls. took a trail hiked a mile to the top of the falls. two 20 foot drop falls raged in front of you and disappeared down a set of steps. you then took another trail a half a mile and you came around to see the front of the falls. up top are the two 20 foot falls and below them where they disappeared down the steps it fell into another 40 foot falls. you are on a lookout some 60 feet in the are and see these falls dump into the valley below. very beautiful site. after that i drove some more ate another meal the hit interstate 40 and took the express way home. i set the speed control to 61 mph all the way to see what kind of highway mileage i could get. very impress with my new ford explorer. i got 18.9 mpg with 420 miles on one tank of gas. nice. that’s it for this small update have fun.
well hell, why is it when i plan on taking a vacation the weather decides to get nasty? is it a message form the big man in the sky or what. i was planning on taking st rt 52 east and just go east at least until i hit the blue ridge parkway. but i have been watching the weather a little and good ole hurricane earl decides to stop by around the same time ill be out east. and make the weather nasty. hhmm maybe ill take rt 52 and go west and see where i end up . hhhmmmm.
well i just got the cotton carrier for my camera and so far i like it. was able to get out and take some shots last weekend and i put the holder on and used it while i was downtown Cinci.
the carrier is the best i have used so far. i don’t like the straps that came with my camera because its just to thick and uncomfortable. i have bought the sun bounce camera strap. that work ok . it attaches to the bottom of the camera and slide up and down the strap. but i don’t like that it always swing and wasn’t to good for hiking up and down hills or riding your bike.
the Cotton carrier with the quick connect lets you hang your camera in front of you and it stays there. it don’t swing around. it hugs your body so you can climb hills and ride a bike with quick access to the camera for fast pics. one of the best products i have bought in a long time. it is also very well built and i think it will last a long time. be testing it more as time allows
well i have bought the Eye-fi pro2. i hooked it up to the pc and it worked but not as expected. it was slow uploading my pics. it was 10 times faster for me just to pull the sd card out and insert it into the pc and copy over than waiting for the eyefi card to upload. i also couldn’t get the adhoc to work. the main goal was if i was out shooting and filled my card i could jut have my laptop pull the pics off for me between shoots. but couldn’t even get the adhoc to work. i also figured that i am using a 16gig sd card and have over 250 jpg+raw pics on it that for the money of a $100 + for a 8gig eyefi i can get a 64gig high speed sd card and be faster with uploads and hold more pics between up loads. so i sent the card back. for me it was a waste and not worth the effort.
hey what’s up. it looks like i can write a little more a lot often. started to use window live writer. makes it a lot easier to update site. don’t always have to log into site and wait. ill just jot something down and send it up the way i want it. my EVO has a word press add in but it don’t let me do my pics and tags the same as on the pc. anyway i have been messing with a HDR program and taking some cool shots i have and converting them to HDR. like the two below the first is original shot and the second is the HDR shot.
i go to Photoshop and take the original pic and make two addition copies. one set at +2 contrast and the second one set at –2 contrast. then i go to my HDR program and load all three jpg’s. +2, –2, and original jpgs are then merged together to get the high dramatic resolution you see on the final product. there is a lot of adjustments to make your pics just pop out. check it out some time. i have more HDR pics over at my gallery http://photoblog.sirryche.com.
I was at a local store which sits next to a cement gravel company. the tend to have there lime and other resources railed in by rail cares. and when i was there i took these pics with my EVO. these pics turn out really good. for the most part the EVO boasts a 8 meg camera. and it takes really nice pics. my old Canon Digital Rebel (first digital ever made) was only 6.5 meg. the EVO produces some really sweet pics. i was looking into a small all around camera fro fast shots when i don’t have my Canon T2i with me. and i think that this EVO will be just as good as the small point and shoots. i get some more pics and compare them in a future blog.
well i have just loaded live writer and it looks like it works pretty good. i have used this in the past but it didn’t work as expected then. now it seems to work with my blog pretty good. will do more test and see what happens, well just sent this up a couple of minutes ago and every thing seems to work. i am very happy now.
