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I am now a PUBLISHED photographer!
An online city guide website (Schmap) has used one of my pictures in the 2009 edition of their Vienna, Austria city guide! They found a picture that I took of the Hotel Sacher in my Flickr gallery. The picture was taken during my recent trip to Vienna and the Czech Republic.
If you’d like to see the actual image, you can view it at the following link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/landofthegargoyle/3288772419/in/set-72157614006588509/
J
Manhatten, Then & Now
I found this picture from the New York Times. It’s a pretty cool representation of what Manhatten looked both before it was settled and now.
Manhattan, Then and Now
Pretty cool!
J
Cloud Files Test
A few months back the company that I work for, Rackspace Hosting, began offering a product called “Cloud Files” through one of our subsidiaries, Rackspace Cloud. It’s a CDN method for distributing files via the Internet. You upload your files to the “Cloud Files Container” (I’m using Cyberduck to accomplish this), and it gets propagated into Limelight Network’s CDN.
A lot of my customers are asking questions about using Cloud Files, so I figured I’d give it a try and see how it works! A few minutes ago, I uploaded my very first file to the Cloud. It’s a 1.1MB high-resolution satellite image of Washington D.C. taken during President Obama’s inauguration.
(Clicking on the above thumbnail will open the high-resolution image in a new window.)
J
Afghanistan, Then & Now
I have always loved History. It was my favorite subject growing up. If I ever had access to a time machine, I think I’d probably spend more time investigating the past then the future.
One thing that I really love to see are “Then & Now” pictures of places. I have a book called San Antonio, Then and Now that shows pictures taken from the same vantage point from various places around the city. It shows the picture of the location from the past, along with a more recent picture.
While voyaging through the Internet today, I stumbled upon a “Then & Now” image of Paghman Gardens in Afghanistan. The images are from 1967 and 2007. It documents just how much change can happen from 40 years of war. You can see the images for yourself at:
http://www.pbase.com/qleap/image/83230527
Pretty sad.
J
HDR Pics
I’ve been playing with HDR Photos recently. Ever since I first saw some examples, I’ve wanted to do it myself. I uploaded some examples of my first attempt to my gallery at http://pics.landofthegargoyle.com/v/LandscapePhotos/Downtown_HDR_01/. Check them out!
J