Wee little house

wee little house
Originally uploaded by mikefranklin.

Water drops are fun.
My neighbor’s house is mostly visible, upside down in the drop.

Still too much snow!

still too much snow
Originally uploaded by mikefranklin.

Two weeks ago was the Feb 14 storm which dropped the most snow in a single day of any storm recorded in Vermont.
Snow in my yard reached about 32″/81cm.
Nights have been cold (-10F/-23C), and days near freezing, so there’s still a [...]

aperture book tip – album pick

One of the many great things about Aperture (and the Lightroom 1.0, I hear) is the ability to make multiple versions from a single master image. Thus, it’s easy to have a square image and a monochrome image from one master image, and be able to edit them all, without having to copy files [...]

thanks Niels!

The owner of the blog who had used one of my flickr photos for a banner has removed it upon request.
I’m glad he did, even though he had to endure what I guess was a bit of over enthusiasm by some of my friends in spamming his blog with comments. So for that I [...]

photo theft

photo theft
Originally uploaded by mikefranklin.

the original:

I was alerted to this blog which has used my macbook photo without permission.
very annoying. And yahoo doesn’t go after copyright violations except on yahoo websites, it seems.

My funny machine tags in flickr

People (ok, two so far) comment on my “funny machine tags” in flickr, such as “a:a=years” or “a:a=countries”.
There is a good reason for them.
My photo management app, Aperture, allows hierarchical keyword groupings, so I can group cities under states and states under countries and then I add city-specific buildings or whatever under the cities, [...]

book making update (minor)

Fresh from the success of … uploading … books via Aperture and blurb/Booksmart, I went looking for other possibilities to test.
I looked at lulu, but that seemd to be more for manuscripts, though it appeared to be generally cheaper (I didn’t actually calculate how much a book would cost). There was a photo book [...]

Using blurb.com’s Booksmart to make a photo book

I just sent off my Apple/Aperture book, so decided to make the same book (more or less) with blurb.
I exported the photos in my Aperture book (browser: show unplaced photos. select all. show all photos. invert selection. export.), and imported into the blurb app, Booksmart.
Booksmart provides a variety of page templates, categorized by page [...]

cuppa tea

cuppa tea
Originally uploaded by mikefranklin.

with the outside temps pretty chilly, a nice cup of tea makes the day more endurable.
or at least more caffeinated.
I get my loose-leaf tea from In Pursuit Of Tea which has an extensive collection of excellent teas.

-25C. great day to stay inside!

-25C. great day to stay inside!
Originally uploaded by mikefranklin.

I really wanted to go snowboarding… but my toes tend to get a bit frozen at this temperature. (-10F)