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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Tonight's sunset was completely surreal - a torrential downpour followed by a glowing orange skyline against an almost #333333 grey sky. In preparation for the 2016 Olympic Committee visit next week, the Hancock appears to be sporting Olympic colors, though in a different order than the rings so maybe unrelated. 
Friday, March 27, 2009 With my upcoming travel and (gasp) likely limited internet access, I've been investigating ways to optimize my digital workflow. I'll describe the details of the end to end process later, but today I wanted to post this neat little slideshow I found (Monoslidesow) that pulls images from a Flickr set. Click the image below to view a slideshow of skyline images.  There are a few handy utilities to streamline this process. I upload the images to Flickr using the Lightroom to Flickr plugin, which not only resizes and uploads the images, but also transfers any titles and descriptions and automatically creates sets. I also use Mogrify which, in the same step as uploading the images to Flickr, adds a watermark. To create the sideshow, I simply have to paste the url of the Flickr feed into an XML file, which is called from an html file. Because I want to have more than one slideshow on a page, and because I use Blogger with a custom template, the best solution was to have the slideshows display in a popup (I'm using ThickBox). Of course, the slideshow would also work if I wanted to store images on my website but then I would have to ftp the images to my site and add the titles to the XML. By using Flickr as the central repository, my Flickr contacts see the images, the images are automatically posted to my Facebook account, and visitors to my website see the snazzy slideshow. At least that is the theory - we'll see how it works in practice in a little over three weeks :)
Friday, March 20, 2009 Friday Sunrise    
Thursday, March 19, 2009 Delayed posting of Wednesday's Sunset    (I like the clouds in this one)
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 St. Patrick's Day Sunrise   Sunset  
Monday, March 16, 2009 Sunrise Sunday  
Saturday, March 14, 2009 Sunrise Saturday 
Friday, March 13, 2009 Daylight savings and the early calls have confused my internal clock. I'm up around 4:30 and can't go back to sleep so it seems like FOREVER until sunrise. 
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Sunrise on Wednesday  
Friday, March 06, 2009 For no required reason, I woke up at 5:15 this morning and decided to not fight it and just start the day. The 50-degree weather means I can finally go out on the terrace at least, though through the zoom lens the view of the neighboring Cabrini Green row homes was rather unremarkable.  Looks a little better intentionally out of focus for a bokeh effect. The blue lights are anti-crime cameras, which in addition to being used for remote surveillance, can supposedly recognize the sound of a gunshot within a two-block radius, pinpoint the location and rotate the camera accordingly, and place a 911 call.  A covering of light fog muted the eventual sunrise around 6:30. 
Thursday, March 05, 2009 I've been experimenting with time-lapse photography a bit this week. I found a good tutorial here, used the in-camera interval timer, and then used Quicktime to assembled it in two clicks (painless!). The first-try and a tilt-shift version is posted on Flickr. Next I think I'll try programming the remote instead of using the in-camera interval timer and hope that improves battery life...
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