Photography

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Ali kind of wins the prize. See also Willo’s photos.

My sister sent me the best early birthday present ever. Scrabble + macro lenses + Photoshop = win!

After yesterday’s antics—almost crashed my motorcycle, saw the sun rise from the top of Mount Tam, worked, got paid, had coffee with Tiff, cooked dinner for Krissy, drank wine with her and Garth, exchanged relationship war stories and went to sleep drunk and happy—I took pictures of the sunrise from sea level:

Tomorrow is built for brussels sprouts, mustard grains, pancetta and ahi.

Stephanie lent me her crushingly fabulous 50mm f1.4 lens today:

Yesterday I was reminded of a few pithy truisms about Ye Olde Internets: Never post anything on the internet that you aren’t comfortable with it existing forever. On the internet, copyright is largely irrelevant. APIs and the ecosystem they support provide interesting mechanisms for discovering both new works and infringement.

I’m pretty liberal with usage rights. In general, if someone isn’t deriving income from the reuse of something I’ve created, then I don’t request compensation, only credit. I’ve considered using a blanket Creative Commons license for [most of] my stuff, but haven’t researched it enough to understand all the ramifications. For now, everything is ©, All Rights Reserved. This has proven to work well. I used to create textures for the indie mapping scene. Occasionally I’d get reports from people who’d played a game that reused my textures without credit (or compensation), but in all cases a few phone calls or emails resolved the situation.

Yesterday I saw a Google link to a Flickr DNA page for my photos. From there, I clicked to a related Technorati page with references to my photos. Curious, I dug in a bit more and found these minor references:

• 10000 ft from Mauna Kea
• Did You Knows?
• Mike Cane linking my Oh Noes Foleo picture.

Simple, nothing crazy or too profound, but interesting to see what other people think is interesting.

1000 WordsPhotos. Zoom!

Originally posted to shaderlab.com on January 13, 2001.

I’ve been busy slicing up photos from New York and recent trips to Hunter’s Point here in SF for a couple more sets, New Jack City and Subway Series. Click the image to the right for a preview of the latter.

I hope to have one of the sets, at least in partial form, released next week.