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Slashdot has a nice item on an attempt to reproduce the work of Kyte-Photographer George Lawrence. In 1906, after the San Francisco quake, Lawrence used a rig of kites to fly a 46lb panoramic camera over the devastated area to record the destruction. He did that same thing three years later to show the success of the rebuilding process. You can find out more about Lawrence’s work and view his amazing images at activetectonics.asu.edu  and robroy.dyndns.info. The guys attempting to reproduce his work in 2006 had to cheat a little and used a helicopter because, they had to get an authentic replica of Lawrence’s  camera to the same  vantage point as the 1906 shots in modern-day San Fancisco. The final result is stunning and makes for fascinating comparison to Lawrence’s 1906 images.

I have final got around to adding some new images to my Everyday Images album.

This was supposed to be my first actual day at the MacIT conference but I had signed up to do the Advanced Digital Photography day instead. I had expected to be doing it on Tuesday but fate had dealt me a different hand. Read the rest of this entry »

Cued outside the Moscone Center for twenty minutes or so at about 8:30 am to register for the MacIT conference, exhibition etc. only to discover that there were no events for me to go to this day and that if I had left it till 10am I wouldn’t have had to cue at all. Read the rest of this entry »

Photos from day two. I’ll post some relevent comments very soon.