, on October 21st, 2008 
Check it out, I was featured on a friend’s wife’s Japanese blog!
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Click to see full size pictures. This is an example of WordPress’s photo gallery function. I got my photograph photography studio set up. And I am please by the results, much better than any personal scanner that I’ve tried. Adjusting the white balance took a little research, but it turns out quartz halogen lights (think construction flood light you can buy at Home Deopt) run at 3200 deg K. I have two 500w lamps at 45 degree angles on the left and right sides of the camera. The camera is hooked up to the PC via USB and I take the pictures through Canon’s EOS Capture utility. If the photos are warped too much I have a piece of museum qaulity non-reflective uv coated glass. I highly recommend flattening your photos and not using the glass. It attracts smudges and dust like stem cell research atrracts controversy. I scanned photographed about 250 old photos from my collection, Kathryn’s, and a bunch I borrowed from my grandmother several years ago. It takes a bit of effort to process them. I have to crop, straighten, and fix up the faded colors in some. Plus, I shot all of them to RAW files, which means my slow old computer takes it’s time chugging through them. I really feel bad for these bees, maybe it’s the sad accompanying music or the fact that the giant hornets can decapitate a bee in a single bite. I guess it’s just nature, but if this kind of attack were to be translated to human scale (or applied to humans versus, say, giant insects a la Starship Troopers) it would be freakishly gruesome. Maybe I just don’t want to have to explain this to my little baby girl. How cool! Large painted statutes are always cool. Now, they’ve painted 25 buzz statutes and placed them around campus/Atlanta.
I wish I were there to go check them out. In case you are like me, and not in the Atlanta area, you can check out the painted yellow jackets online here: http://gtalumni.org/buzzaroundtown So Ratatat is in town… should be an awesome show. I’ve been into their stuff ever since it was used on NPR as their interlude music. The difficulty that I am having now is figuring out how to make the show an enjoyable experience for Kathryn. The show either starts at 8 pm or that’s when the doors open, it’s at the Black Cat, and there are two opening bands. Will she make it so late? Will she be hungry? Will she be able to sit or will her ankles swell up? I hope she can make it because my little baby girl needs to experience some great music!
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