A few of my photos have been included in the Maui guide from the folks at Schmap before. Now they’ve selected one of my photos from the Ferrari Carano winery taken earlier this year for inclusion in their Napa Valley guide.
I caught the very early (6:10am) ferry over to the city this morning, something I don’t think I’ll be doing again. That said, it did afford me the chance to see the sun rise over the bay. Here’s a photo taken along the Embarcadero, looking out towards the Bay Bridge. On the left side is the new Pier 14.
The folks at Schmap have chosen three of my photos for inclusion in the third edition of their Maui and Molokai guide. Unlike last year though, this year’s guide is available online.
The three pictures from my Flickr stream are the one to the right for the aquarium, and a couple from the sugar museum.
Check ’em out (and you can still download the guides if you want to take them with you).
At the end of last week it would seem that China decided to block access to Flickr images. The block is still in place, so most people in China remain unable to access any photos, including their own, hosted on Flickr’s servers. The rest of the world needs to tale note of this type of activity and respond appropriately. Perhaps China should simply be disconnected from the internet until they accept that it must be an all or nothing thing. Selective blocking should not be tolerated.
Then, over the weekend hotspot operator FON also, unintentionally we assume, blocked access to half of the images in Flickr (by breaking the DNS entry for one of the two image servers that Flickr uses to host photos).
Tonight it would seem that FON have once again broken access to half the images (the same half). The details of the break are different, but the end result is the same: farm2 is inaccessible from machines connected through the FON network (either the hotspot side, or the secure personal network that the Fonera boxes provide).
A while back now I ordered a framed canvas print of my favourite thistle photo from PictureFrames.com. The print itself is 20″ square, and it is framed in a 2″ wide frame (so the whole thing is 24″ square). And it is spectacular. The photo on the right shows some of the detail; this one shows the entire frame.
It arrived the day before I left for the two weeks in Europe, and has been sitting at the house waiting for me ever since. This weekend I finally got around to hanging it (it was measured to fit into a recess area in our bathroom).
Went to my Flickr contacts page this morning to see what my new photos were there, and I was greeted with this:
Thinking that it must be my browser I tried reloading, then I tried actually clicking through into the pages for the individual photos. But no, always a broken image 🙁
Update: Seems to be related to which of the servers your images are stored on. If your photos are on farm2.static.flickr.com then they appear to be broken; if you’re lucky, and your images are on farm1 then they’ll be working. Looks like somebody changed the DNS entries for the servers and one has made it through the system, the other hasn’t. More information in the Flickr forum thread.
Update 2: Looks like the problem is not Flickr, but rather DNS coming either from some providers in Europe or from FON. Another person reporting the issue here this morning was on a FON router.
Flickr has a special event going where they are collecting photos taken on May 5, 2007 into a pool called 24 hours of Flickr. As it happens, I was out and about in San Francisco that day and have a lot of photos that I could submit. I’ve uploaded the ones I like best to my Flickr stream, but I’m having trouble selecting the one to submit.
Strauss (shown right) is my current favourite, but if you like one of the others better please leave me a comment (here or in Flickr).
Another Nokia N95 photo, this one taken from the Market St. side of the craft market at the ferry building (you can see the ferry building’s neon sign in the background).
These stalls have some interesting art and photos for sale, as well as clothing and other items.
One of a number of shots taken with my new Nokia N95. For a mobile phone this thing has an outstanding camera. Five megapixel resolution, Carl Zeiss auto-focus lens (not the regular fixed focus) and a whole host of features you expect on a camera but not on a phone camera.
Check out the other photos I’ve taken using the N95 in my Nokia N95 set on Flickr.
OK, I admit, it’s a lame title, but I couldn’t resist. These two three-sided white porcelain pyramids are now in my kitchen. They’re only a few inches tall too.
Was going to ask you to guess what they are, but I think it is a little too obvious.