Archive for January, 2011
the bus out to Tuscany decided to skip a few, so there was close to 100 people huddled in the cold, waiting to get home.
that’s what you get when you say “create something” to someone with no skill, and even less ability to self-restrain.
lots of blowing snow, building large drifts on our driveway.
the kitchen sink was removed today, along with most of the kitchen countertop. sure glad it’s not my house…
had to take another sick day today. ugh. mixed up a Buckley’s/Sudafed/Caffeine cocktail to ty to shake the exploding sinuses. Didn’t have much success at that, but WOOOOooo…
Relax. This isn’t a navel-gazing retrospective. It’s an effort at editing my photo library.
I took some time last night to go through the photos I shot in 2010, to find ones that were good. I do this long after taking them, to distance from the emotional connection – it’s easy to think a photo’s good if it’s of family member etc… if you like the content or moment. But I try to go through on a second (and third, and fourth) pass to find ones that are good on their own. I started doing this delayed review after watching an interview with Gary Winogrand, where he mentioned that he doesn’t even develop film for at least a year after he shoots it, to separate himself from the emotion of the moment.
Last year, I figure I shot at least 10,000 photos (probably over 20,000 based on my keep/delete ratio). I kept just over 2,000. And after going through the 2010 album 4 times, starting at 1 star then voting up the best of each round and moving on to repeat the process, I wound up with 70 “good” ones. That’s not bad. I could probably go through the set a couple more times to winnow it down some more. Maybe next year.
but not for long. I was just about to slap a shiny new 750GB drive into the laptop, tripling the room we have for stuff. It was getting a little cramped before, after filling the stock drive. The laptop also feels a wee bit faster, after jumping up to a 7200RPM drive. It benchmarks at about 50% faster for disk throughput. That ain’t bad…
the new taylor family digital library is looking a little more lived-in, with lights and equipment now visible.
5 hours worth of mouse activity on my computer at work, while putting the finishing touches on my MSc thesis research proposal, ethics application, and supporting documents. Dark spots are where the mouse stopped moving (the big blob must be where I was doing a bunch of typing or something). Lines are where the mouse moved. Light circles are clicks.
High(er) resolution version on my Flickr account.