Panoramic stitched from atop Fu Ta at YRGZ.
-BOB-
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Capitalizin' Chuxiong
The new YizuBucks about a block away from our house. Instead of the mermaid, we have an Yizu tribe lady.
-BOB-
Walk Around YRGZ
VIEW GALLERY
We just walked around Yi Ren Gu Zhen (YRGZ) and I took some pictures with the Italian Tripod and my trusty Rebel Digi.
Keeping you all in the loop.
-bob-
Caught!
It turns out that the camera at the bottom of the hill is, indeed, turned on and connected to the system. 151 km/h = 91 mph (as seen on the top of the page) the fine was 200 RMB, or roughly $25 and 1 point (of 12) on my record.
The header (from left to right) displays the date, time, how fast and exactly where on the highway I was. Doh.
-BOB-
ps – the only reason I have this is because I kept asking the police officer at the station if he could email me the picture (it looks much more impressive in color with the red car, I must say). He said all he could do is give me a print-out, that’s why 1/2 the picture isn’t there. BTW, the Chinese license plates display a character for the province, followed by the city letter (in this case, E for Chuxiong).
That’s why it’s ?E 36958. ? = Yun, short for Yunnan, or ??
Jimmy and Carol
Thank you.
We both love this gift, so I just wanted to take a picture and show everyone how nice it looks!
bob and chun mei
(taken with tommy’s italian tripod ;))
Screen Test
If you, your colleagues, or friends were wondering about the new Macbook glossy screens and their brightness compared to older PowerBook G4 models, here is a demonstration.
I took the picture with these camera settings and picked this photo (after taking 1/10 sec through 1/1000 sec) because it most accurately represented what the screens looked like in a natural environment. I then sampled the same spot on each screen and finally took a “Gray Scale Slider” brightness measurement in Fireworks 8.
-BOB-
PS – the test page was searching for “freestlyle.com” in Google and had Safari take up the whole screen, shot it in the dark on the Italian tripod at 1/25 f4.5
The Grasshopper 3.
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Introducing The Grasshopper 3 – Touring Edition with Zynergee Drive-o-matic.
From the top of Mount Everest to the entrance of your favorite night club, the Grasshopper will get you there.
Standard features:
Three wheels ?
Four doors ?
Five seats ?
150 miles per gallon ?
“Almost” Zero Emision Vehicle ?
“Pop-up” Sun roof ?
Sleek and sexy ?
Designed after the Airbus 380 landing-gear tire configuration ?
Who needs GPS when you can just stop the ladies on the street with this sex machine? Simply ask for directions and we guarantee you will get lucky. Don’t trust us? Look at this chick magnet.
It’s more than a car. It’s the Grasshopper 3. Comes in Grasshopper Green and Animal Heat Red.
30x less than our Japanese rivals vehicles. Nine eight-night ninety five ($989.95 USD) for a limited time only while supplies last.
*Don’t make any sudden turns: better to hit it than try to miss it, not responsible for rollovers. Do not go more that 35 mph as a front tire blow out may be fatal. Remember, potholes will cause the car to nosedive into the asphalt. Do not get rear ended as it will most definitely result in life threatening explosion. For best results, only ride with one passenger at a time, preferably of the same weight as driver and seated in the front passenger side, or the rear middle seat. Always buckle up.
WMMBPIC #1
Why My Macbook Pro is Cool #1
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You can make funny faces in Photobooth.
Chuxiong Pano
Thanks to pano add-on in Photoshop (with the smart picture merge) and some editing knowledge, I finally created another masterpiece. Thank you, thank you. Chuxiong City starts is on the righthand side and this photo is (obviously) facing west.
Go to this directory and click around for different sizes. The grain on the picture is because I was shooting at 800 or 1600.
Enjoying the free time while it’s here,
Bob
Update:
I took these a little earlier with a 50mm and I had it at f/1.8 so it could have a faster shutter speed in the dark. I learned a little about Photomerge, so the editing on this one was about 1/2 the time.
Update 2:
Here’s towards the city a few minutes before the other first “update” shot.
Panoramic Shot of Chuxiong
Shot of Chuxiong City, taken a little before that last picture entry. CX is nestled in a valley between the surrounding (LA-like) mountain range.
I think, to make this a better picture, you need to set the camera to a fixed mode so that the exposure for the sky stays the same. Otherwise you get different color skies (as seen in the photo.)
There are also Photoshop tricks, I can’t really remember, but something about going in channel layers, going to the blue layer (which then makes the photo B/W temporarily) and you match the shade with the neighboring shade, and presto, you have the same color blue when you exit out of channel mode.
You can also see how I clone-tooled the left hand side of the overlapping skies (which kinda works), but the right side, the sky was just too bright so I gave up.
I’ll try this again tonight on the mountain.
-BOB-