Location: ??.????°N, -??.????°W Alt: ???m
	Photo Date: 1 October, 2008
	ISO: 100
	Aperture/Shutter: F/4.1, 1/25"
	Focal Length: 89mm
	Camera: Olympus Evolt E-510
Category: None

Ah, a good job completed. Signed, stamped, sealed and ready for submission to the Great Bureaucratic Machine.
Whatever the hell that is.
Ok. You try finding exciting shit in an office to photograph. Cut me some slack!
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Location: ??.????°N, -??.????°W Alt: ???m
	Photo Date: 1 October, 2008
	ISO: 100
	Aperture/Shutter: F/6.3, 1/20"
	Focal Length: 78mm
	Camera: Olympus Evolt E-510
Category: None

My experiment is concluded! I have indeed confirmed that my days are, in fact, mind numbingly boring!
Not surprising given my capture and subsequent enslavement by the bureaucratic establishment. However, as promised, I will subject you to it all in glorious and excessive detail!.

My day began with a greeting of a pile of union propiganda on my desk. Obviously dropped sometime overnight to remind us of our impending walk outs and the unique abilities we have to vote for our next employer. Not many people get this strange collaboration, but I assure you, it doesn't help our plight to fare wage any.
The colours where a nice mix however and,with a slight arrangement of bands, it seemed good enough for at least a quick shot (I'll probably email it to them actually). the shot above is, of course, the finished product. Adjacent, you can see that the limitations of my wrecked nerves and poor lighting did require some slight adjustment to the image as it came out of the camera.

Behind the Lens Details
As I've already stated, the bands did not fall naturally this way but where slightly arranged. Also, due to the low light and several different types of florescent lights, the colour is a little off.
First order of business is to assault the colour with Curves (in PS CS-3). Setting the white to the page (it was, after all, white) and the 50% grey to the baffle wall at the top of the image, gives us a pretty acurate correction of the colours. Also the histogram is still pretty intact with no drastic spikes or gaps.
Next the tone. As some colour was subdued by the lighting and subsequent Curves changes, a slight tweak to the Saturation and a bit of reinforced contrast where added to finish off the shot.
Total post-processing time: about 5 minutes, including load times.

More of my day tomorrow afternoon!

Well, it finally happened. Age caught up with me and I can officially declare myself old (by the definitions of the young).
The dreaded 'Big 3-Oh' has arrived and somehow, it's everything I imagined.
A depressing reminder of my mortality and utter failure to find immortal youth.
In order to commemorate this auspicious event, I've decided to borrow an old photography inspiration technique. Camera in tow, I'll be taking a picture of wherever I am for the course of the day. Every half and hour to an hour or so.
Posting them all, in the raw, I should be able to examine each for the pros and cons of the actual image and turn it into a bit of an educational exercise. I'll go step by step through any corrections and adjustments to show a standard work flow.
Yup, there's going to be some crap in there that would normally be filtered out by good sense, but sometimes it's important to realize that happens and discuss why a photo may not make the grade.
If I'm going to be old, I might as well be sage and wise as well.

Project Gutenburg never ceases to amaze me with it skill at ensuring that classic materials are made easily accessable by the public. In a time when profits are more important then philanthropy and Pirates are once again the scourge of "The Man", they continue to upload 1,000's of books weekly.
When browsing, I noticed that several of their books have gone audio. Great news for the visually impared, young or busy (and lazy) sorts that can't take the time to whip out the ol' PDA for a few hours to read.
Now you can hear Nietzsche in German as it was intended ... or just in English if you'd rather know what the hell is going on.

Technology and geeks with OCD are an awesome combination!

Location: 47.6908°N, -80.2772°W Alt: 261m
	Photo Date: 31 July, 2008
	ISO: 100
	Aperture/Shutter: F/7.1, 1/60"
	Focal Length: 42mm
	Camera: Olympus Evolt E-510
Category: Fauna Pictures

Elk Lake, Ontario (Near North)

Peanut theif revealed! Exposed to peers!
When asked for comment he had this to say in his defence:
"Waff're you woookin at?"

I'm really not sure what prompted me to bother watching yet another season premier of Knight Rider, but for some reason I decided to actually check out this new incarnation last night. Yes, yes. Groan all you like, but I have yet to run into anyone in a country bordering the 49th parallel that has yet to see at least one episode.
I'm still trying to decide if it's a strange and half-assed rip-off of James Bond or just an ugly, bastard child of the original series that has been twisted by the fetishes of our modern television viewing society.
Time will tell.
I will give them credit for actually provided some funding for this version, although the absolute bastardization of his new carcass being a FORD is depressing and makes me want to cry ...
I wonder why GM passed up this lucretive advertising opportunity to make their vehicles look so appealing to the next generation of buyers.
I suppose in the next version of the series, he'll be a Honda ...
In the one hour pilot, they've already had near nudity (woo hoo! Skivies!), a 'dead' Iraq vet (son of Micheal Long, no less), terrorists, jewish allies, government traitors, secret-unaccountable-black-ops-chicks-in-"D"-cups, a chinese girl in a mini skirt (regular cast, I think), enough micronized gadgets pulled out of his watch to put a swiss army surplus store to shame and more Fords then you can shake a stick at ... oh, and let's not forget the obligatory formal martini ball (did I mention the potential for Bond rippage?).
Sigh ...
Do they have anything left for a second episode, or did they blow their load of emotional American baggage all over the premier?

Location: 10.58°N, -85.66°W Alt: ???m
	Photo Date: 30 May, 2008
	ISO: 100
	Aperture/Shutter: F/4.5, 1/20"
	Focal Length: 150mm
	Camera: Olympus Evolt E-510
Category: Costa Rica, 2008

Guanacaste, Costa Rica