Flip Video + iMovie 08

I recently bought a Flip Ultra camera. It works straight away with iMovie 08. I like the way iMovie shows the film strip when zoomed in, and this is making my brain whirr a little. Reminiscent of Brendan Dawes' Cinema Redux.

Cycle Path

Last May/June I went for a ride out along a new cycle path which I can see from the train every day on the way to work. On the first day it rained very heavily, and on the second day the poppies were out in full effect.

Gallery

More information on the route, and the meaning of the stripes (if you can't guess from the clue in the sculpture) can be found here.

Change

When I did my MA in 2003-2004, I made some experiments with video and panoramas down at Stourbridge Common in Cambridge. Nothing very ground-breaking, but there is something about visiting the place where Newton supposedly bought his prism.

A couple of years later I went there to take my first panorama with my panosaurus.

And now I go back there today with my new (to me) Garmin GPS device to try some Geotagging (more on that later). It's clearly been a while, even though I'm not that far away because firstly I see they've almost completed a new bridge across the Cam nearby, but a tree I have often photographed is no more. I always feel a bit sad when a tree gets taken down, but I seem to remember that this one looked a bit spongy in the middle, so was probably brought down before it came down.

Here it is, still standing in Google Maps

Old Glass

So, it's 2008. Looks like spring might happen sometime soon.

I seem to be keeping up with my 1 upload a day to flickr, and have only had to put pictures up from the back catalogue twice. Amazing! And 20 days in! Many of the pics have been sent direct from my phone, and a few (many) are not that exciting to look at, but it's a record of something. I'll figure out what in December.

I've ordered a handheld GPS device, and am looking forward to some geotagging. And maybe some other things over on the other side of my life.

Not all the pictures have been taken on the iPhone. The one above is my trusty D50, but instead of the large, heavy (and wonderful) 17-200mm I usually lug around, I used my old 50mm 1.8 manual lens that dates back to the early eighties. Having to guess the exposure, but that's rather fun. Unfortunately every day I want to go out with it has been rather miserable and grey, so all I have to show for the experiment so far is a picture of daffodil buds taken at home. Quite a nice quality to it, I think. More to come when the sun comes out.

edit: 28 Jan - Hubris update

Well naturally I failed to upload an image the day after making the above post. And on another day that week too. The shame.