189/365

Picture info: Shot with Blackberry 8900

OK. Computer is pretty much back to normal. If I were more ambitious, I'd rearrange my hard drives. With all the photos I've been taking, my good ol' 120gb drive is getting full. My secondary drive is getting tight as well.

The plan is to take some real pictures tomorrow and upload them after some post. I have a bunch of California pix to catch up on as well.

In the meantime, I changed my desktops to some of my recent favorite shots.

165/365

Picture info: ISO 100, 1/500, f/5.00, 100mm, Av

My computer is pissing me off. I would have had this by midnight but it decided to take about 2 minutes to flatten a picture. I sped through the edit and the computer puked on me.

Anyway, this is the unedited shot. The edited one is incoming as my computer is STILL flattening it.

EDIT: The current picture is the turbo edited picture. Even though I didn't make my self imposed 11:59pm deadline, it was shot on 6/14. And as such, this is my first missed deadline all year.

Sob.

I have good excuses, but it won't happen again.

126/365

Picture info: ISO 100, 1/15, f/22, 18mm, Av

I shot this on Utah Street at Discovery Park. Apparently these are abandoned, or unused, military buildings. The road was open to "authorized vehicles only", which meant I had to check it out, of course.

I heard the truck and snapped away. I do not like the foilage above, but unfortunately it's part of the picture, so there you go.

This is the picture I was going to do until I had some unforeseen computer problems earlier. Those are now gone and this will replace the previous #126.

Picture info: ISO 400, 1/4, f/3.50, 18mm, Av

I went to Discovery Park in the Magnolia area of Seattle today. A friend's sister wants me to shoot her engagement photos there so I went ahead to scout things out so I didn't seem unprepared when we actually do it. It was absolutely gorgeous out and I took about 150 shots.

I downloaded them to my desktop and, since that computer was running SUPER SLOW, I thought I'd reboot it to refresh everything.

Instead, I decided to tweak the BIOS to see if I could increase the speed a little. After all I did bump the RAM up from 2gb to 3gb (WOW ) recently, and the thing still runs like a PIG.

Well, the tweak I did (adjusting the video aperture from 64mb to 512mb) apparently hosed the computer. It turns on, but won't post or boot. I can't seem to get back into the BIOS screen to change it back, which means I can't get to any of the 150 pictures I took as they are on that computer and I've already erased the memory card.

So you get this awesome self portrait. I'm sorry. :(