Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Pano of South Beach Marina breakwater

Assembled from 2 images in Photoshop CS2:

Pano of Pier 48

Assembled from 3 images using Photoshop CS2:

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Misc class stuff

Supplies: Discount Builders' Supply; www.logangraphic.com/products/boardmounted

"Before you begin the next assignment read pp575-581 and p115"

Sunday, October 14, 2007

A few random photos from Singapore

Album: Singapore
Singapore_07101x

Grafitti in Singapore ?!?!

I was quite surpirsed to see graffiti in Singapore:

but it turns out that it's part of a youth center skate park, that I think is setup by the city. Maybe somebody got official permission to do this graffiti? But what happens if somebody else comes along and tags it?

Big Bird Redux

A slightly better image of the Airbus A-380:

Saturday, October 06, 2007

More San Francisco Fleet Week backstage

Album: SF Fleet Week 2007, 10/06/2007

SF Fleet Week Airshow, Saturday 10/06/2007

What's in a name?

I don't know much about marketing, but it seems like not being able to decide on which name to use for your new waterfront (actually, canal-front) condo development is probably NOT going to help pull you out of the housing slump, especially when the choices are bad and worse ;-)


Friday, October 05, 2007

Big Bird

Airbus A380 setting up for a pass during the Fleet Week airshow:

Super-jumbo or super-dumbo?

It's Fleet Week in San Francisco, and we have a nice view "backstage" - out where the planes regroup and make some of their turns setting up for another stunt. I noticed a few planes from the early part of the airshow go by today while working at home this afternoon, so I was keeping an eye and an ear out for the Blue Angels and had my camera out just in case it got interesting. I noticed a fairly large plane coming around, and initially thought it was a cargo plane. Then I got a better look:

An Airbus A380 (MSN 009) is in town for a "fitting" at SFO as part of a "function and reliability" flight tour. It's in town for several days, and did a few passes in today's airshow. I managed to capture a few shots as it was setting up for it's first pass. Unfortunately, nothing to provide scale, but it's definitely big and seemed relatively quiet (at least at low speed). Of course, the interesting questions will be how it performs in actual service, and if it ever becomes commercially viable or becomes another Concorde.

Here are a few more photos "backstage" of the A380 and the Blue Angels' performance in today's show:
SF Fleet Week Airshow, Friday 10/5/2007

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Assignment 02

Posting all the pictures in a Picasa album is easier than copying things back and forth on usb memory sticks (mainly because I just discovered that I need to upgrade to a much bigger one ...). Here's a link to the album, unfined and unfiltered:

Assignment_02