brainwagon

Well, this evening I was staring out the door into the darkness to see if our sometimes-feral cat Scrappy wanted to be let in for some additional kitty chow, and I found this little guy peering in instead. He’s a good sized frog, probably three or four inches in length (just the body, not the […]

Well, the tulip bulbs that I planted last October are finally blooming, and I grabbed my little Nikon 4500 and shot this photo just to have something colorful in my background. I really need to get a new camera. 🙂 [tags]Flowers,Photo[/tags]

I upgraded my Gallery to version 2.0. It seems really slick, and is supposedly more themable than the older version. Check it out.

While looking for an entirely different CD full of image, I uncovered the original PhotoCD that my friend Jeff Eaton and I made when we went to Australia. It has thirty four images that we took while we were at Grove Greek Observatory. I spent an embarrassing amount of time getting them converted into JPEG […]

I took one of the infrared photos that I took on my recent Sonoma trip and tried tweaking it a bit in gimp to make it appear more dramatic. Check out my photo gallery to see both my after and before pictures. Basically, I took the original and stretched the contrast, then applied some color […]

Oh yeah, while at Disneyland, we gave a shot at the new Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters ride. At the end, rather than trying to convince you to spend $12.95 to get a photo of yourself, they just have a bunch of terminals where you can mail your picture to yourself. Like the one on the […]

Every year Pixar has a small auto show. People who work here bring in some of their classic cars, and a couple of local dealers usually bring out some top of the line dream cars. We have a picnic and lots of people show up. It’s kind of fun. I snapped a bunch of pictures, […]

I really like the convenience of having a camera phone for taking snapshots, but unfortunately, there is a vast gulf in capability between what a modest digital camera can do and what is standard on camera phones. My Motorola MPx220 (despite it’s quoted 1.3megapixel capability) is just pathetic. Witness the following two pictures, the first […]

Make your own.

Pear Photo Originally uploaded by brainwagon. While in front of the Copia center in Napa last weekend, I tried snapping close up photos of a wide variety of plants and fruits they had growing in their gardens. I think this pear image turned out the best. I like the general shape, the out of focus […]

Cell Phone Warning Originally uploaded by brainwagon. Sometimes the inspiration to blog something strikes me at odd moments. As I was gassing up my SUV this morning, I noticed that all the pumps at my local Shell station bore the warning stickers that you see at the right. I’d never really noticed them before, so […]

Well, okay, so these bandits were really just stealing Scrappy’s cat food from the patio, but this time I had my new trusty JVC GR-D270 lying around, and decided to try out its night vision mode to try to get them on tape. A few minutes of work with Microsoft’s Movie Maker, and voila!, here […]

Here is a picture of the crescent moon, captured at 25x zoom on my JVC GR-D270 camcorder. I punched it up just a tiny bit with gimp, but it’s pretty close to what you can expect from this camcorder. Not bad, but not staggeringly exciting either.

I have a lot of fun with digital cameras, just taking pictures of objects in isolation. A bit of work with Gimp, and you have something you can, well, write posts about on your weblog. Okay, okay, my inspiration was actually here.

I’ve got a lot of toys in my office. My friend Jeff and I used to play Starcraft online quite a bit, back when both of us were single guys living the high life. During that time I had just begun dating my wife, and so I have a number of toys that our son […]