It was 24oC today (75F) and I was overheating in jeans so I dug out some of the summer clothes. I wasn't the only one - people in shorts and sandals where everywhere. If the days weren't so short you can almost believe it was spring. I know I'm far south but this is still 10o warmer than normal for this time a year and the North is asking where's ( Read more... )

All this shopping craze past week made me find a sale that I really cared about. I got myself a new set of prime lenses for my camera - 35mm for portrait and 85mm macro lens. I was thinking about getting something like this for a long time but these lenses are expensive. This set costed less than the 85mm alone. And this is what I got on the first ( Read more... )

I've just spent two days in San Francisco. Actually I spent there a little over 24 hours and the rest was flying there in back. Not fun. Especially since we flew in early in the morning and then had to spent the whole day in training trying to pretend we are thinking. But at least I got this:

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I've been working on my photos from all the trips. I'm still not done because I keep stopping and just scroll through them remembering how awesome it was. But I also am plagued by that feeling that I could've taken a much better photo now. I keep learning more and more bout what works and what doesn't and one day I may even take photos I don't want ( Read more... )

There was a solar eclipse today. It was a rare hybrid solar eclipse - from some places on Earth it is an annular eclipse (like the one I saw last year) and from others it is a total eclipse. But the totality was only visible over the Atlantic and in some parts of Africa. Here in the US east coast the sun rose after the main part was done so all I ( Read more... )

There is something seriously wrong with LJ posting today (at least on my server) and it took forever for update page to load and it may fail when I save so I need to be quick. Good thing I just wanted to leave this here:

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There is also reference catching post on io9 for all the Easter Eggs in this trailer but I only cared about spotting all the ( Read more... )

A lot of Game of Thrones is filmed at the sunny, warm parts of the world and that's almost like a vacation. At least if you go by the photos of the cast. Lannisters look happy on photos. Some ships got pictures to validate themselves. Some might've just started. I liked best the one with Loras and Theon with Fucking Flowers hat. It just to taunt ( Read more... )

We finally had clear skies here. Just in time for me to see the PANSTARRS comet. Yesterday when it was nice and warm I just watched with my eyes (barely visible smudge with brighter dot at the end if you know where to look). Today I took my camera and tried to take a picture. It's very grainy because I don't have a real telescopic lens (11x is all ( Read more... )

Today Venus is trying to be the Moon and cover the Sun but it's too far away and their difference in size cannot stay unnoticed. However, this is the last time this happens till 2117 so I felt the need to see it. After all I don't think I'll be able to wait a century for a next one. I almost didn't make it as today was a pretty cloudy day. ( Read more... )

I realised that I keep forgetting to post the photo evidence of my travel. I still keep sorting through thousands (literally) of photos and haven't shown it all to my own family so for now you get the part that matters the most. The rare part. The total eclipse of the sun.

I travelled all the way to the other side of the country and all the way up ( Read more... )