Friday, December 26, 2008
Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you all had a great Christmas and will have a wonderful New Year. I'm still waiting for snow over here, but here is my dog from last year.
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Friday, September 05, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
VIDEO: False Creek
Originally uploaded by Hejl
Friday, June 13, 2008
Oh man I love my trains! Here is the train that provides service to the facilities at JFK Int'l Airport in NYC.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Fantastic! I wish I could take photos this well... or even have time to get to these places to take any pictures.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Sunset on the Empire (State)
Originally uploaded by ytf_nyc
Friday, April 25, 2008
I miss the winter already! So does my 100+lb Newfoundland/Lab mix! Here he is out in one of the few snowy days that we had.
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Friday, April 18, 2008
One of my favorite things about photography is that photographic errors are art in itself, and often introduced deliberately. Take this for example, noise, vignetting, and the poor range of color. They all add together to create this mysterious yet soothing and calm feel to this image. Love it!
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
I say YES to Video on flickr. I love the quality of the video, and as long as we're only posting artful videos, its cool with me. I'm not looking to see vlogs or copies of South Park clips, which I know will be left as YouTube's business. Below are a few examples of the quality on Flickr.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Check out the old and new contrast here with One Liberty Place and City hall in the same frame. Do I see some graduated ND filter use here too?
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Labels: flickr, philadelphia
Friday, September 28, 2007
I love this stuff! This is hardcore! Who knows who they are transporting, but they must be important or in danger or both! They're in town for the UN business going on, must be some head of state!
I hate posting two Flickr Fridays in a row, I'll try to blog some this week!
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I hate posting two Flickr Fridays in a row, I'll try to blog some this week!
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Friday, September 21, 2007
Here I go with NYC again! I just love this place. Here is a odd looking cloud situation over Lower Manhattan Island.
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Friday, September 14, 2007
I love Domo Kun! Here is my pal Paul's Domo that he took with his Nikon. I love how white the teeth are!
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Friday, September 07, 2007
November 5th through November 12th, I will be in Florence, Italy! Hopefully my week long visit will result in a view of this bridge and copious amounts of photo-taking!
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Friday, August 31, 2007
Seen here is the urban sprawl of the City of Cairo and the ancient pyramids in the background. Smog is visible just in front of the pyramids. The artist states that he was unable to capture the amazingly high dynamic range of this scene with his camera.
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Friday, August 17, 2007
This is way cool! I wish I could visit these places! Maybe when I win the Powerball that I never play because I swear there are better odds in Atlantic City!
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Friday, August 10, 2007
Virgin America made its inaugural flights on August 8, 2007 from JFK and LAX with both flights landing simultaneously at San Francisco. VA plans to be a low cost airline featuring a high level of service, including a high tech entertainment system featured in every seat. Pretty cool lighting too!
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Friday, August 03, 2007
No longer the tallest building in the world, Taipei 101 still maintains its spectacular appearance. Burj Dubai is currently the tallest building, though still under construction. It is planned to shatter all previous height records.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Bryn Tassell makes me seriously jealous! Not only are his photos generally a higher quality than mine, but he gets to see places like this! Unfortunately I live on a large sandbar bordered by two major cities.
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Friday, June 22, 2007
Just around 15 days from now I'll be going to NYC (again!). I love trains and when I visit there, I always ride NJ Transit's North East Corridor Line, pictured here. So fantastic!
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There are going to be two ffs from me today, since I haven't blogged in the last 10 or so days, including missing a flickr friday.
Here is the Cyclone roller coaster in NYC, which I'll have to say is the best wooden roller coaster I've ever been on. The sky looks awesome, almost like fire, like doomsday or something.
Remember not to ride "on the wheels" while on this coaster!
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Here is the Cyclone roller coaster in NYC, which I'll have to say is the best wooden roller coaster I've ever been on. The sky looks awesome, almost like fire, like doomsday or something.
Remember not to ride "on the wheels" while on this coaster!
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Friday, June 08, 2007
Here is an awesome High Dynamic Range shot of Amsterdam. I love the colors of the boats, the dark sky, and the off center steeple in the background.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
I'm sure Scully has some type of medical reasoning for this!
The truth is out there.
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The truth is out there.
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Friday, May 18, 2007
Here is some neat macro photography of some bug! I hope to get the lens that was used in this shot some day. Its actually a telephoto zoom lens with some special extensions attached to it that allow it to focus really really close to things. "Distance to subject about 18 inches."
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Friday, May 11, 2007
I figure I'll throw one in from NYC since I so rarely do! He is the Police Substation in Times Square. This photo was also taken using HDR photography.
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Friday, April 27, 2007
I've seen some pretty sunsets recently but hadn't had the time or the camera to snap a shot. Here we have NYC and the Empire State Building with a colorful sunset in the background.
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
This shot here is from someone I just met online, Bryn. He is a classmate of my friend Duncan who is listed in my sidebar. Bryn has some amazing knack for great shots. I don't even know where to find a place that looks like this, let alone know how to shoot it so well. I would literally have sex with this picture if the rocks weren't under exposed in spots.
Great work Bryn.
(Sorry for being late again on this one!)
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Great work Bryn.
(Sorry for being late again on this one!)
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Friday, March 30, 2007
Here is a photo using a technique called High Dynamic Range. It involves taking a couple of underexposed and overexposed images and merging them into one using special software. Some day I hope to take a couple of these photographs, but at the moment, I have photographers-block! (Like writers block!)
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Friday, March 23, 2007
This thing is great, it is very photogenic. He seems to like pretzels too!
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Friday, March 16, 2007
I just bought the lens that took this photo, the Canon EF-S 10-22mm. I can't wait to get it in the mail! I should have it by Thursday to take some sweet pics! Spring begins this week too, so looks like I'll be outside more often.
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Friday, March 09, 2007
Here is what I eat nearly every day. When I work at the store in Mt Laurel, NJ, I go to the Chick-Fil-A in the parking lot of the store. In the box are 8 chicken nuggets, in the bag is a chicken sandwich (which I usually don't get at the same time as the nuggets). I get some good buffalo sauce and their great waffle fries, too. Then I wash it down with a Dr. Pepper! I took this photo myself.
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Friday, March 02, 2007
Would you believe that people actually photograph SEPTA? Its not exactly the cleanliest or convenient, but occasionally you end with with nice little photographs like this.
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Labels: flickr, philadelphia, subway
Friday, February 23, 2007
I haven't had one from New York in a while... so here is the top of the Chrysler building. I love the detail this picture shows of the top of the building with the darkened edges and how the flat square pieces make the arch on the sides of the building.
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Friday, February 16, 2007
Stunning. I just CAN'T believe some pictures that people take. These people seriously need to quit their job and get paid to do this or something. I'd pay this guy to take pictures. Look at the perceived curvature of the sky. Breathtaking!
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Friday, February 09, 2007
Here is Pat's. Their steaks suck, their building is boring, they are mean people, but they have orange soda!
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Friday, February 02, 2007
I'm using this as my desktop right now. Its very sharp and vivid. It is also available on Wikipedia.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Wow. This is amazing. I can't even beleive that a place like this actually exists. I found this in the "Big City Nights" group that I've posted my night time photos to.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
This photo is from the Milwaukee Art Museum. This hallway is absolutely fantastic. The guy in the picture kinds subtracts from the amazing clarity and reflections in this shot. I love the colors outside and at the end of the hall.
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Friday, January 05, 2007
This is the last flickr friday before I head to NYC for the day on Thursday! I can't wait! I am going to make every effort to have this coming Friday be a photo from me and my new camera! The glow you see in the center is, of course, Times Square. You can get off the train at any hour of the day, head to street level, and just be amazed at how bright everything is. It is one of the few places in the US that require flashy signs, lights, and graphics as part of the zoning ordinances.
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Friday, December 29, 2006
So far, so good, for the January 11th trip to New York! Hopefully I'll get to see Grand Central Terminal again and possibly the New York Transit Museum Annex. You should also look forward to some flickr fridays from myself with my new camera!
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Friday, December 22, 2006
Yikes! I missed two weeks of Flickr Friday! I'm going to this wonderful city on the 11th! Here is a great shot of New York City looking north from atop the Empire State Building. This picture was taken with a Nikon D80, which is the other camera I was considering buying over the XTi. I think the D80 is a bit better, but hopefully I'll be able to pull out these god-awesome shots still.
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Friday, December 08, 2006
This looks awesome, I wish I was driving around in the city just about now. Hopefully I'll have a NYC trip sometime this winter!
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Friday, December 01, 2006
I don't know where this is. I just got home and I'm too tired to look for a picture to post with some kind of theme and then talk about it. I almost posted a picture of a wet cat. Honestly.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Well I got flickr friday working again. I also have a draft I hope to publish tonight, so sorry for the lack of activity here while we deal with this transition!
Update: I know its not Friday, thats why this is only a repost! Look out for a brand new one on the 1st.
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Update: I know its not Friday, thats why this is only a repost! Look out for a brand new one on the 1st.
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Friday, November 03, 2006
Philly's skyline will be drastically changing with this new tower from Comcast. In about a year it'll be at full hight eclipsing One Liberty Place but a paltry 30 feet. In this photo you can see the concrete core rising in the center of the outside structural steel.
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Friday, October 27, 2006
Happy All Hallows' Eve. Unless you're Jehovah's, in that case, Happy Tuesday.
Who can name the movie?
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Who can name the movie?
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Friday, October 20, 2006
I'm not a fan of the iPod, but the little LEGO man is kickin'! I just purchased a LEGO set on eBay today. Set 7249 XXL Mobile Crane -- I got it for $5 off retail, including shipping. I can't wait to build it!
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Sunday, October 15, 2006
Sorry I missed Flickr Friday, I was out with friends for someone's birthday. Here is a shot of Ground Zero in New York at night time. This shot was taken by the same guy that took this shot that I posted back during pre-flickr friday days.
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Friday, October 06, 2006
Here is a very interesting exposure of a river just bursting with some fresh rainfall from upstream. I almost can't believe that this is an exposure and not some fancy Photoshopping. We just had a Nor'Easter here which brought a long period of rain but not all that exciting of downpours or rainfall amounts. Fall is really starting to show now. My favorite ski area's trees are noticably changing and should be in full color in the coming weeks like the trees shown in this photo.
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Two for one today since I was late. Here is an amazing shot (pre rendered or not?) from the upcoming XBOX 360 game Rainbow Six: Vegas. It looks seriously awesome. All events during the game take place within the same 24 hour span (maybe the success of a certain aptly named TV show has something to do with this).
In other game news, Splinter Cell: Double Agent comes out in just over a week. I have it set up on my GameFly queue so hopefully I'll get it soon!
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In other game news, Splinter Cell: Double Agent comes out in just over a week. I have it set up on my GameFly queue so hopefully I'll get it soon!
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Friday, September 29, 2006
This here is a prop used for the promotion of the proposed Magnetic Levitation train to be built in Munich, Bavaria. The Transrapid trains obtain 265mph (430kph) in passenger service and can reach higher speeds on those same passenger lines. This YouTube video shows a fantastic (and sweetly short!) demonstration video of Transrapid's test facility in Emsland, Germany. Unfortunately, earlier this week, the train at this test facility crashed into a maintenance vehicle that was not integrated into the line's safety systems. An incident such as this is believed to be impossible in revenue service as such a vehicle would be integrated into safety systems.
There is also a Transrapid in Shanghai, China. The entire system is amazingly beautiful and futuristic. Honestly, I don't think you can get more modern than this train. There are quite a few more good YouTube videos here, here, here, and here.
(YouTube, Flickr, and Wikipedia all in a blog post? Web 2.0 buzzwords aplenty!)
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There is also a Transrapid in Shanghai, China. The entire system is amazingly beautiful and futuristic. Honestly, I don't think you can get more modern than this train. There are quite a few more good YouTube videos here, here, here, and here.
(YouTube, Flickr, and Wikipedia all in a blog post? Web 2.0 buzzwords aplenty!)
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Friday, September 22, 2006
Today is the first day of fall, and that means that my favorite season, winter, is up next! I love the sounds and sights of the fall, the crunchy leaves, the wind blowing them around, people's wood burning fireplaces, and my favorite -- spiced wafers and milk! I'm looking forward to working the always fun 4th quarter at my job in retail and most of all, the first day of skiing! (This has come as soon as Thanksgiving week in the past!)
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Friday, September 15, 2006
Just the past Monday was, as I'm sure everyone knows, the anniversary of the attacks on New York and Washington DC. NYC marked their loss of the Twin Towers through two sets of high powered spot lights shinning up in the sky. Seen here from Brooklyn with the famous Brooklyn Bridge in the foreground. I was hoping to go up there and see it for myself, but it was too late to do that by the time I thought of it. Hopefully they'll do it again and I can get up there and see it first hand.
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Friday, September 08, 2006
A few weeks ago the guys at Bizzare Creations rolled out a web upload feature for Project Gotham Racing: 3 for the Xbox 360. I had already taken some photos so I uploaded them. It is just stunning what this system can do. Pictured is Big Ben and a blue Ferrari Enzo.
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Saturday, September 02, 2006
Nothing fantastically artsy here, since this early Saturday flickr friday is rushed. The Roosevelt Islands Tramway in New York City has finally come back online since being down after a malfunction back in April. The trams were stranded in-transit with passengers on board for many hours. Seen in the background is the Queensboro bridge. See if you can't find my photo of the tram and the bridge in my flickr photos.
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Friday, August 25, 2006
The first half of this week I'll be enjoying my time on Vacation down in Wildwood (pictured). I'll be starting out in Atlantic City possibly on Saturday morning and coming home for a little shindig. Then Sunday through Tuesday I'll be staying overnight somewhere in Wildwood. I can't wait to enjoy their boardwalk and waffles and ice cream!
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Friday, August 18, 2006
Here is the Lion's Gate Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia. My buddy Duncan over at Happy Ride may have seen this bridge while across the pond in the mainland of the city. There isn't anything impressive about this three reversible lane bridge, but the detail on the underneath of the deck is amazing. The photo was shot with a two minute exposure! Looks like a front was coming in too, since the clouds have moved so much within those two minutes.
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Thursday, August 17, 2006
Tomorrow you can look forward to a weekly feature called "flickr friday". Every Friday I'll post one of my favorite shots that I've found on flickr. It'll look similar to what I've done here and here. Flickr lets you make a template for blogging images from their site. I've fixed that all up and I'm satisfied that I'm ready for my first flickr friday which should be here very early this morning or late tomorrow night.
Leave comments if you have any photos to suggest and Please Enjoy!
Leave comments if you have any photos to suggest and Please Enjoy!
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Sunday, August 06, 2006
Another great shot from New York found on flickr via Gothamist.
Do you think the shy is photoshopped or is it just a camera trick? I love how the top half of the photo is unreal and then as you pan down to see the street it really comes alive.
Do you think the shy is photoshopped or is it just a camera trick? I love how the top half of the photo is unreal and then as you pan down to see the street it really comes alive.
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Here is another lovely picture from Gothamist/flickr. If you click on the image and visit flickr there is a original resolution image available there.
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
I found this photo to be awesome. I picked it up off of Gothamist and then blogged it from its source at flickr.
1024x768 version
Update: I added a link to a higher resolution shot and I've provided a higer resolution shot within this post.
1024x768 version
Update: I added a link to a higher resolution shot and I've provided a higer resolution shot within this post.
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