Archive for the 'General' Category
Amazing Video
Came across this today and thought I would share it. This is a video from Apollo 11 launch on July 16th, 1969. It is of the Saturn V rockets starting up for liftoff and was shot in high definition at 500 frames per second. Amazing stuff!
Avery Update
Word on the little people street was that Erin and Adam’s house was the place to be this weekend. Last night we had Jackson, Steph, and Andy and today we had Avery, Kelly, and Steve! Baby Avery was super cute and it didn’t take me much time at all to bust out the camera. She has grown so much since the last time I seen her! It took a little bit before she warmed up to me and my giant lens, but we got lots of great pictures in the end. I added them to the Avery June Sloan album on the Greatlandings photo site. Just like Jackson’s pictures I have added the dates below the photos so you can see when they were taken.
Next up on the baby photo train, Baby Carlson!
Jackson Update
Andy, Steph, and Jackson came over to visit last night. While they were here Jackson asked me if I would take a million pictures of him. Not wanting to disapoint my little buddy I busted out the camera and took some pictures. I have added them to the Jackson Andrew album on the Greatlandings Photo Site. I have also added the date below them so you can see what is from where. It was great to have everyone over and hanging out with Jackson just makes me more excited for our own little baby to show up!
By the way, Andy used the baby name book and came up with the names for Baby Carlson. If it is a boy – Anta, and if it is a girl – Daniesha. But really, I seen that guy go to work this morning wearing navy blue pants he thought were black, so I don’t think I can take him seriously any more.
Super Slo-mo Surfer!
I mentioned before I like to have a “filler” post between the baby updates. Since no one has done anything really awesome for me to post about I found this really awesome video instead. Enjoy!
What’s a Gizmodo?
I spend a lot of time during the week looking for random stuff of interest to put on the website. Stuff like the recent “WWW by the Numbers” video or the cool pictures of Earth and stuff I posted a few weeks go. I do this for a couple of reasons, but mostly it is so there is something to separate the baby updates and make it easier to see that the site has been updated. Well this week I have something that actually involves me!
One of the websites I visit regularly is called Gizmodo. It is sort of a technology site that has articles on geeky stuff about gadgets, computer stuff, and other nerdy things most of y’all don’t care about. One thing they also do is hold a weekly “Photo Challenge“. They present some sort of photography challenge and let people email in their submissions. They then pick a winner and the cycle starts again the following week. I have been watching these challenges for a while and always thought it would be cool to submit something.
Well last weeks challenge was to take a photo using only candlelight. So on Saturday I enlisted the help of my whole photography team (Erin, Buddy, JD, and Molly) and we took a series of photos in search of the perfect shot! I then submitted my picture and waited for the results. Fast forward to today and while I didn’t win, I did get selected as a sort of runner up. Since this isn’t a contest and there are no prizes or anything the site just puts up a few that were in the running, and then makes their pick for the winner. So that is it, our “Lego Indy” photo made the short list out of 133 entries and I could not be happier to just see my little picture highlighted on a big name site. Pretty cool… By the way you can see a bigger version of the picture by just clicking on it, or check out the post on the Gizmodo site for yourself by clicking HERE.
That’s cool…
I might be the only one who is a big enough nerd to care, but I came across a few cool pictures on the internet and I thought I would share. First two below are closeups of some common items everyone has probably held at one point or another. The one on the left is a 1,000x closeup of a vinyl record grove. The bumps in the image is dust on the record. The picture on the right then is a 20,000x close up of what a CD looks like. Pretty cool…
Since I am showing my inner geek here I might as well stick with it. The two images below come from our nice friends at NASA. In addition to doing crazy stuff like fly around in outer space, build space stations, and drink Tang, they also provide some pretty awesome pictures on their website. Of course 99% of their work just ends up as computer wallpaper, but still amazing stuff. The two images below are two of the highest resolution images of the earth ever taken. Probably make some nice wallpaper right?! By the way you can click on any of these to get a larger view. Enjoy~
