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Jan. 29th, 2008 03:19 am
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San Jose early morning from my hotel room, rendered as a high dynamic range image in GIMP 2.4




Puss in Boots (or at least the box for them)

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Date: 2008-01-29 12:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joyeuse60.livejournal.com
Are these yours??? WoW you are getting really good with that camera. I especially like the haunting quality of the fog shrouded farm house by the tree

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Date: 2008-01-29 04:53 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] dracodraconis.livejournal.com
Thank you. I took a lot of originals, but these were the only ones I could do anything with. Given they were almost black-and-white I just cranked up the contrast and fiddled with brightness until things looked "right" in my eyes. That and creative cropping.

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Date: 2008-01-29 12:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] ms-danson.livejournal.com
Ooo... looks like lava in the streets.

Those fog shots cleaned up nicely. Are they all high dynamic range?

Love you. I'm going over to Corradus's tonight but I'll have my phone with me all day.

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Date: 2008-01-29 04:54 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] dracodraconis.livejournal.com
The fog shots (and Zoe) are not HDR. I just increased the contrast to make things look better.

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Date: 2008-01-29 10:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] ms-danson.livejournal.com
I made your San Jose photo my background at work.

Despite my comments the cats have been quiet and mostly not whiny (I think, I may have sleep through it). I suspect that they are saving it all for you.

Love you.

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Date: 2008-01-29 12:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ancalagon-tb.livejournal.com
ah, how I wish i had thought to take photos of the fog not a day AFTER the fog... great shots!

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Date: 2008-01-29 04:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] dracodraconis.livejournal.com
I was lucky that the day of the fog was the same day I had a meeting with my supervisor so I had time to take a walk around the AgCan grounds before going to Carleton.

All work and no play makes Dd......

Date: 2008-01-29 03:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] montesqusmith.livejournal.com
Afternoon greetings Dd,

Like the landscape - although does remind me slightly of 'the shining'.

Re: All work and no play makes Dd......

Date: 2008-01-29 04:57 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] dracodraconis.livejournal.com
"The Shining" is one movie I have not seen, not being a big horror fan. But I can see what you mean, having seen plenty of trailers and clips from the movie.

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Date: 2008-01-30 12:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_luaineach/
Wow, these are beautiful!

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Date: 2008-01-30 11:09 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] dracodraconis.livejournal.com
Thank you. I should be doing more photography next month because I will be taking a course in how make better use of the camera.

OFF TOPIC

Date: 2008-01-31 06:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] d2leddy.livejournal.com
Maybe--just maybe, you haven't seen this:

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13252-artificial-letters-added-to-lifes-alphabet.html

Re: OFF TOPIC

Date: 2008-01-31 08:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] dracodraconis.livejournal.com
Actually, I just read this yesterday, but I've been in San Jose so haven't been doing tech posts.

Very interesting article, though. I could definitely see this being used for genetic tagging. I would also be interested to see how these bases affect an organism if they were added to different places in DNA.

Re: OFF TOPIC

Date: 2008-02-01 03:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] d2leddy.livejournal.com
would also be interested to see how these bases affect an organism if they were added to different places in DNA.

I'm also wondering . . . how do I put this? The researchers came up with these by random generation.

Given that is how we got the "four genetic bases," I wonder . . . why four? Why not . . . six? Or eight?

Actually, I just read this yesterday,

Hmmmm. Foiled again. Maybe I need to go more eldritch.

Re: OFF TOPIC

Date: 2008-02-05 04:51 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] dracodraconis.livejournal.com
Given that is how we got the "four genetic bases," I wonder . . . why four? Why not . . . six? Or eight?

For discussion on these questions I should hand you off to [livejournal.com profile] ancalagon_tb who did his Master's work on genetics. I'll drop him a line and see if he wants to take up the discussion. I would certainly like to see what his opinion is on the subject.

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