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Posts about photography, contract bridge, astrophotography, astronomy, Java development, internet systems.

Making panoramas

Moonstone Beach in Cambria, CA

I love to make panoramas almost anywhere I take the camera. There are some examples on last week’s Mojave National Preserve trip, a weekend at Moonstone Beach, and the Fremont Peak Star-B-Q.

Making them smoothly takes a little practice, so I thought I’d pass on my pointers. I use a Canon 20D [...]

Snakes, Tortoises, and Stars

Photos and video found here

What do herpetologists and astronomers have in common?

They both like going out on new moon weekends: astronomers to find faint fuzzies, and herpetologists to find nocturnal reptiles.

Last year in October, Jane met herpetologist Hanna Strauss at an event in Mojave National Preserve, and the two of them resolved to get together again [...]

Making Flash video from AVI files for JAlbum

My wife’s little point-and-shoot Canon SD870 makes some splendid video. The full-res versions are motion-JPEG files stored as an AVI. It doesn’t take very long to eat up a lot of megabytes.

It’s not very practical to share our video on a web site in its raw form. By converting the AVI video to Flash, you can [...]