Another close-up view of flowers from my walk around Crab Cove on Saturday. You can see the full flower in the gallery version of this photo.
Not quite as sharp as Saturday’s photo, but not bad considering I took it hand held with the standard 18-55 mm lens and no shelter at all from the wind (which was coming off the bay pretty strong on Saturday morning at times).
A close up shot of the same squirrel as yesterday’s photo.
At Crab Cove there are always squirrels sitting on the rocks at the edge of the shoreline. This one was the only one that didn’t run for cover when I approached with the camera. He paused briefly, then went back to his meal.
There are signs up all over this area, and the adjoining Crown Beach asking people not to feed the squirrels. As you can see from the one in this photo, they get enough to eat without any help!
A very close up shot of what I think is a member of the Brodiaea family. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything that looked exactly the same at eNature.com (the site I normally use to identify the wildflowers that I photograph). You can see a photo of the full flower in the flowers and plants gallery.
Also, it is worth clicking the thumbnail on this one to get the larger popup version – the thumbnail does not show the detail visible in the larger version.
There have been a number of really great photos online in the last couple of weeks. Over at spriggs.net there have been some great macro shots, including the one on the right. While on that site check out splash, butterfly on orange and fuzzy red.
Then there’s a really great dragonfly shot over at Joe’s NYC.
Finally, on PhotoSydney site there are some great photos of Yarramalong Valley. The colours in the sunset shot are amazing, and I really like this foggy shot, the panorama and this tree.
As part of his recent trip to the US, PhotoSydney’s Ben spent some time here in San Francisco and managed to find time for some shots of the city. Jump over to his posting on PhotoSydney for all the photos. (While you’re there you should take a look at the Boston photos too: 1 and 2.)
A very cool time lapse photo of the moon rising over Seattle by photographer Shay Stephens.
Thanks to The Daily Irrelevant for the pointer.
Having given up waiting for the camera connector to appear in an Apple store, I just bit the bullet and ordered it online. Since it was free shipping I’m not really sure why I didn’t do it earlier, but there you go.
Tonight I actually got around to trying it out. I was going to upload some photos I took while on my recent business trip to Seoul and Tokyo that have been sitting on my S100 since I got back last weekend. Then it struck me that I could test the iPod Camera Connector and also how easy it would be to get the photos from the iPod into iPhoto. I was also wondering whether it would cope with the S100 since it is old enough that it has a proprietary protocol. Of course, iPhoto handles it so I thought that there was a pretty good chance it would work, and sure enough it did.
Connecting the little adapter to the iPod caused it to immediately switch to the import screen. Connect the camera, turn it on and the iPod’s display tells me how many photos are available for import. Starting the import resulted in thumbnails of each image appearing on the screen as it sucked them off the camera. That simple.
Next step was connecting the iPod to the PowerBook. As always, iTunes jumped into action and did its thing, but it did not do anything about the new photos. Starting iPhoto took me directly to the import screen, with an iPod icon and the number of shots available for import displayed. Click the import button, and the photos were transferred, quickly.
Of course, I really bought it to take the photos off my 20D while travelling on vacations when I don’t have a laptop with me, so the next test will be from the 20D. First impressions though are that this little gem does exactly what it said it would, and will be the perfect solution to storing my photos while on vacations without the PowerBook. It would have been nice if it was bundled with the iPod Photo in the first place, but at $30 it remains affordable for anybody who is likely to need this capability (isn’t that most iPod Photo users?).
Looking in my site statistics, which I do occasionally, I discovered that a couple of people over at myspace.com are using images from my site without any credit. So, now those two images have copyright overlays. I’m not bothered by people using the images from my site on their personal sites, but please give me, or my site, a credit for the image.
One of two heads, this one lies on his side looking up out of one eye.
