35 miles outside of Portland.
Category Archives: Photography
Latourell Falls
Crown Point & Vista House, Columbia River Gorge
Out for a drive in the gorge. 
A New Toy
I’m planning on making use of it this weekend with a trip up the Columbia River Gorge.
Star Time-Lapse Video From The Very Large Telescope
As you may be aware, I’m a big fan of time-lapse star videos. They’re so beautiful and remind me just how insignificant we are in the big scheme of things.
The following one is made from a series of photographs by Stéphane Guisard and José Francisco Salgado of the European Southern Observatory that were taken at the Very Large Telescope in the Chilean desert.
I strongly recommend watching it in fullscreen and 720p HD.
Also here’s a little reminder that we’re the ones rotating rather than the stars (you might want to mute the bad music):
Looking Out Over Seaside, Florida
A photo taken earlier this week from the top of the house I was staying at in Seaside, Florida during the Automattic meetup. I’ll post more later.
Lunch With Beau And Andrew At Whiffies!
I had lunch with Automatticians Beau (in town for OSCON) and Andrew (who also lives here) at the most excellent Whiffies at SE 12th & Hawthorne here in Portland. Here’s a picture I took with my iPhone 4.
CHDK Is All Kinds Of Awesome
I’ve had CHDK on my Canon PowerShot G11 for about a month or two now. CHDK is a custom firmware that sits on top of the default Canon firmware (it does not replace it!) and allows you to do a ton of things that your Canon camera normally can’t do. For example, my G11 can only take exposures of up to 15 seconds. With this firmware, I can take incredibly long exposures if I want to (we’re talking up to hours or days).
Even more awesome though is that you can use CHDK to run scripts. I currently have two really awesome scripts on my camera. One is for time lapse — it will take a photo every X seconds/minutes for however long I want. Great for sunsets and more. The other is a motion detection script. It will sit and watch the scene and take a photo or video any time the scene changes (you can control sensitivity). It’s even good enough to catch lightning!
If you have a Canon camera, I highly recommend you taking a look at CHDK.
