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ornoth

2007 DargonZine Summit: Las Vegas

Mar 31, 2007 12:33

The following is my travelogue from the 2007 DargonZine Writers' Summit. The official project writeup and photos can be found here, while my favorites out of my own photos can be found here.
Wednesday, 21 March 2007

Woke up to 20 degrees, but at least it was sunny. We'd had snow ( Read more... )

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jtroutman March 31 2007, 23:53:23 UTC

nice! sounds like it was actually real fun.

How did you do the panoramic shots? Does flickr have a photo stitching feature I am not aware of?

ornoth April 11 2007, 00:43:12 UTC

Did I respond to this offlist?

Naw, the panos are stitched with autostitch: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

If you use flickr be sure you're a paid flickr member. Free members have their images reduced to like 1024 on a side, which makes the panos useless.

dafyddcyhoeddwr April 1 2007, 05:28:22 UTC

Glad you enjoyed most of the Summit, Orn - sorry the Ethiopian didn't work out so well.

Too short doesn't even come close to how I felt about it, even though I was there for an extra week (almost). The last day (Friday), I drove out 159 at about 1:30am (after the Thunder show), and I think I got some interesting night shots. The moon was almost full, so i didn't see the Milky Way, but I figured out some of the settings on the camera and managed to get some moonlit scenes, as well as a few stars.

Won't clutter your blog with my angst, but there were definitely some desperately depressed and lonely moments of my vacation ... the best part was certainly when I had people to share my experiences with. (I might have been able to change that perception if I hadn't been the only solo male at Thunder and far too chicken to get in line with all of the girls to get a photo with the dancers at the end of the show ...)

ornoth April 1 2007, 13:30:30 UTC

Ethiopian: Not your fault. The funny thing was, the dish I go was basically sheep bones in *still more* injera. Eh. You go for one-of-a-kind experiences, and sometimes you get a miss. No biggie.

Hope you had a tripod for those night shots. I would have liked to have gotten a good desert sunset, and maybe been out there at night, as well, but it wasn't to be. I suppose I could have taken a car out Sunday night, when we stayed up, but it looked like Jon needed some assistance staying awake...

Hopefully the angst wasn't too bad; definitely not something that should spoil your time off! Though I'll agree that the apres-show photo opp is a lost opportunity.

Send along any last pictures you want on the Summit DVD, and the panos. And thanks again for hosting a great time. I think you're right that it was a big improvement over Philly! ;^)