So, I am day four into my participation in Project 365: One photo a day for an entire year.
I have to make it into May before I improve over the last time I tried this in 2007. Hope I make it. The last time resulted in some gems.
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Didn’t realize it was still on when I put it in my pocket for 2 hours.
At least I still have my SLR.
UPDATE: Ordered a replacement. Hope it is as good or faithful.
Downtown Valdosta outside Bleu Cafe.
Dan Schultz doesn’t like Facebook or Twitter because they are too focussed on individual expression rather than the community.
That may be because he is using them wrong. I liked photography as a kid, but I didn’t know any photographers. Flickr happened to come into my life just after I bought my first digital camera. My participation in photography exploded. Not because I had a way to post my photos but because I had a way to find other local photographers for mutual encouragement. Even better was forming local groups to encourage people to meet. The value of Flickr is developing the community.
Similarly, I got into Twitter because my community, peers at other universities running the same software as myself, were seeking help there. Any place with answers to the problems we face, which is where people with the answers are watching, is where we go. Twitter was the place to get the attention of the right people not a forum like phpBB. (There are already lots of email lists.) My other community, people using the software I run are also on Twitter. I’ve resolved issues for many clients by finding their public complaints and offering solutions. When my focus changed away from using Twitter for the community is when I stopped liking Twitter.
Personally, I have yet to find much sense of community in the phpBB, Google Wave, and Ning. So I find it strange these are the exemplars of community applications. They seem fractured so one finds dozens of groups to covering the same interest. Sometimes this is because some moderator upset a portion of the community with draconian behavior causing people to form an alternative community. Bad blood exists for a while. Other times people set up a new community unaware others exist.
Yesterday was another Athens, GA Strobists meet. Like the previous meets, there was lots of talk about camera capabilities, radio trigger capabilities, working the camera within the flash synchronization speed, etc.
I did stand in for some shots while we waited on actual models to show up. I think I’ll stick to behind the camera.
Caught this one when Katie’s friend, Sara, said something to make Katie laugh.
As this was mostly at night, my Canon wasn’t focusing, so I shot in manual. While the light was right, most were out of focus. Suggestions?
Was saving this for tomorrow. However, I noticed a photo of me taking this photo posted today. So I posted mine too.
I enjoyed exploring this house and environs with Team Shipaway.
Took this yesterday. Dunno why I didn’t think to take this previously.
Check out the large version.
Rather than depend on end users to accurately report the browser used, I look for the user-agent in the web server logs. (Yes, I know it can be spoofed. Power users would be trying different things to resolve their own issues not coming to us.)
Followers of this blog may recall I changed the Weblogic config.xml to record user agents to the webserver.log.
One trick I use is the double quotes in awk to identify just the user agent. This information is then sorting by name to count (uniq -c) how many of each is present. Finally, I sort again by number with the largest at the top to see which are the most common.
grep <term> webserver.log | awk -F\” ‘{print $2}’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
This is what I will use looking for a specific user. If I am looking at a wider range, such as the user age for hits on a page, then I probably will use the head command to look at the top 20.
A “feature” of this is getting the build (Firefox 3.011) rather than just the version (Firefox 3). For getting the version, I tend to use something more like this to count the found version out of the log.
grep <term> webserver.log | awk -F\” ‘{print $2}’ | grep -c ‘<version>’
I have yet to see many CE/Vista URIs with the names of web browsers. So these are the most common versions one would likely find (what to grep – name – notes):
- MSIE # – Microsoft Internet Explorer – I’ve seen 5 through 8 in the last few months.
- Firefox # – Mozilla Firefox – I’ve seen 2 through 3.5. There is enough difference between 3 and 3.5 (also 2 and 2.5) I would count them separately.
- Safari – Apple/WebKit – In searching for this one, I would add to the search a ‘grep -v Chrome’ or to eliminate Google Chrome user agents.
- Chrome # – Google Chrome – Only versions 1 and 2.
Naturally there many, many others. It surprised me to see iPhone and Android on the list.
Behind the Scenes Originally uploaded by Ezra F
Yesterday was the second Athens, GA Strobist meeting. Like the first meeting, it was fun and informative. I really ought to invest in my own setup to practice outside these meets.
Maybe it is time to start selling my work so I can afford more gear.
Missing about 4 people. Photographers sites: 1) Erik (Onelight), 2) David, 3) Sherri (Onelight), 4) Wes, 5) Sara, 6) Steven, 7) Tim
I’m excited to see their photos.
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Asterisks in the sky
November 26, 2009 in Photography by Ezra S F | No comments
Happy (Con)trails
Originally uploaded by Ezra S F
Flickr member Zack Sheppard did me a huge favor yesterday picking this picture for a Flickr blog about Asterisks in the sky. So in one day this picture was exposed to 5,931 people.
Several of those looked at the adjacent picture and others for a total of 10,640 hits yesterday. Lots of comments on many of my photos.
Wow. Just wow.