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Crested Dwarf Iris
Crested Dwarf Iris, originally uploaded by Ezra F. Posted 15 photographs I took today practicing the tips from the Digital Plant Photography class by Hugh and Carol Nourse at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. Would you say it has helped any?
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Smelling a Picture
Smelling a Picture, originally uploaded by Ezra F. Cats have a superior olfactory sense compared to us lowly homo sapiens. Tom, knowing the camera thing flashes leaned forward to sniff the camera only to get flashed right in his face. Any wonder why he digs his claws into me?
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WordPress Error: This file cannot be used on its own.
In posting a comment to a friend’s WordPress blog, it came up with the error: Error: This file cannot be used on its own. I was responding to a comment, so I doubted that he broke his blog between making a comment and my response. So I went looking though my own install. Essentially, at…
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Has Anything Changed?
The previous post regarding the FBI checking on whether a photographer was Middle Eastern reminded me…. The Civil Rights Movement occurred before I was born. However, my parents were afflicted by blatantly racist laws which continued for decades. State anti-miscegenation law [1] at the time prohibited White females from marrying outside of their race. Since…
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FBI Investigates Legal Activity Also
One of the reasons my photos sets are more full of flowers than buildings is people don’t call the FBI over pictures of flowers. While it is perfectly legal to take pictures of buildings from public spaces, it makes “victims” nervous. No one cares about flowers. I can take all the pictures I want without…
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Firefox Weirdness
Our Systems folks upgraded the code running Stats web site they let us use. This morning, was the first time I looked at it since the upgrade. Naturally, it was not working for me. Figuring it was my Mozilla Firefox’s fault, I tried the same web page in Flock. (Firefox with some other apps but…
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Asking to Get Caught
A person intending to rob a convenience store filled out a job application while waiting for the store to clear of other customers. A good idea, assuming the potential robber does not give his real name and phone number of someone who knows him. This is exactly what the police say he did. Ouch. The…
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Watermarks
So far I have either been oblivious or lucky. Some people like my pictures which could mean they are downloading them and even representing them as their own. No amount of HTML or JavaScript technology can prevent this. Even watermarks have questionable efficacy as people get better. Google’s Picasa is my current image editor. With…
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Shoot ’em if you got ’em
Heston died today at 84 years old.