Monthly Archive: March 2009

Mar
25

Fast, non-destructive lens and perspective correction? Please?

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OK Adobe Lightroom Team, Apple Aperture team, are you listening? I’ve just spent the last 10+ hours doing something manually that belongs in your products (Lightroom & Aperture): Correcting the perspective and lens distortion of photos non-destructively. Here’s the problem: I have about 30-40 photos that need to undergo this process: Please, will someone out …

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Mar
25

Meatball

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I’m taking a break from sorting photos of San Juan to filter down my recent trip to San Francisco. During my trip out there, we were hosted by a bunch of great friends in the Bay Area and SF City itself. It is possible to feel nostalgia for a place you’ve never lived? Clearly we …

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Mar
23

San Juan, PR: Photo of the Day

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Work continues on my photo sorting. Currently I plan a few different collections to share: A geotagged photo gallery, offering an immersive tour inside the old city of San Juan A “best of the island” gallery, oriented towards travel An artistic gallery, slanted to my own perspective on the shapes and colors of Puerto Rico …

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Mar
22

Threat-on-a-Billboard: “If you continue to take my name in vain, I could always extend rush hour traffic.

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The literal translation: “If you continue to take my name in vain, I could always extend rush hour traffic.” Found here, along the coastal road to San Juan.

Mar
22

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-22

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Mar
22

San Juan Puerto Rico, Photo of the Day

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Now about 80% through my batch of Puerto Rico photos. I’m still hobbling around, but the “splint” is off and the pain is slowly going away. For some ungodly reason, I’m up at 2:00 AM EST. So what better opportunity to share another photo from the trip?

Mar
20

Back in Boston, enjoying a balmy 36F on crutches

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6 days and 12,000 photos later, Cynthia and I are back in Boston, where it is freezing as usual. I’m about 1/3 of the way through sorting my photos, and taking stock it does seem like I met my goals of <continued>

Mar
19

Geotagging San Juan, Part 1

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On my trip to San Juan Puerto Rico, I decided to make my first formal foray into the world of geotagging. On advice of my friend Saadiq, I brought along a GiSTEQ PhotoTrackr, a small USB device that records your location and time. So far, I’ve managed to geotag nearly all of the photos on …

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Mar
16

Back in old San Juan, PR

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Cynthia and I are back in Puerto Rico, this time staying at El Convento in the heart of oldtown. We’ve been wanting to come here for a while, pretty much since we first walked by the hotel in 2004. I’m not sure exactly what appeals to me so much about this archway in the El …

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