Thursday, September 18, 2008
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Vista Photo Search
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Monday, December 10, 2007
Thursday, December 6, 2007
HD Photo plug
Released for Photoshop
Microsoft Download: HD Photo Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop Software"HD Photo offers compression with up to twice the efficiency of JPEG, with fewer damaging artifacts, resulting in higher-quality images that are one-half the file size.
In addition, HD Photo offers increased image fidelity, preserving the entire original image content and enabling higher-quality exposure and color adjustments in the image. This new format offers the ability to decode only the information needed for any resolution or region, or the option to manipulate the image as compressed data.
'With HD Photo, we're taking a new approach to creating and editing photos that simply isn't available to photographers with today's formats,' said Amir Majidimehr, corporate vice president of the Consumer Media Technology Group at Microsoft. 'HD Photo fully preserves the original image fidelity with high dynamic range while still allowing for significant improvement in compression size.'
In addition, HD Photo offers both lossless and lossy image compression, and can retain the full dynamic range and color gamut data from a camera's sensor. Also, because making adjustments to common color balance and exposure settings won't discard or truncate data as other common bitmap formats typically do, it's easier to "undo" those changes at a later time. As a result, significantly smaller files can be created while still retaining optimum picture quality."
Press Release
CNet - Vista to give HD Photo format more exposure
"HD Photo is a new file format for continuous-tone still images that surpasses the limitations of existing image formats. HD Photo supports a wide range of features including:
- Multiple color formats for display or print
- Fixed or floating point high-dynamic-range image encoding
- Lossless or high-quality lossy compression
- Efficient decoding for multiple resolutions and subregions
- Minimal overhead for format conversion or transformations during decode
HD Photo delivers a lightweight, high performance algorithm with a small memory footprint that enables practical, in-device encoding and decoding. It delivers compression quality comparable with JPEG-2000 and more than twice the quality of JPEG."
Labels: Photography, Tools
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Thursday, July 12, 2007
New Video Player
Pictures with comments
(and free server storage)
"Viddler is very different from other video-delivery based websites, because we stream video our videos instead of having the user download it.
That means you get to watch videos without having to wait until the entire video to load.
This is especially useful when wanting to view the last few minutes of a very long video.
It's a secure system and prevents other people from watching the video (in ways they're not supposed to) or ripping the video off the site.
Video that you host with Viddler can not be stolen, or used in any fashion, unless you set your sharing options to allow it."
Viddler.com.
Labels: Collections
Monday, July 9, 2007
Friday, July 6, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
All Around Stadium
360°
Here are a number of Virtual Reality views of Stadium:

DreamLight360.com
See all Topics
windows
Labels: Link, Photography
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Time is short, the world is small
Tacoma - Paris
This picture was submitted to 24 hours of Flickr
It didn't make it to the book, but it was displayed on a monitor at the "Wanted" Gallery in Paris.
Siobhán Silke saw it and sent me a picture of it.
"There was a slideshow on a big screen.
It was a great night, and we got a chance to meet some of the Flickr staff."
Labels: Link
Friday, June 15, 2007
Paul Blanchard
Great clips
Paul Blanchard has produced a series of video clips, mostly based on his kid's elementary school.
Kevin Freitas has pointed out this addition to the Tacoma area.
Explore Paul's web site
You can also subscribe to his YouTube collection.
Labels: Collections, Link
Monday, June 11, 2007
Thursday, June 7, 2007
OK Tacoma
Daniel Blue
Here's a link to a well done mashup of poetry and light.
Exit133.com

Also see:
Daniel Blue
Labels: Link
Monday, May 28, 2007
New Flickr Show
Sorta Screensaver
Turn your screen saver off and use your browser at full screen to see:

www.FlickrTicker.com
Labels: Collections
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Flickr Slide Show
Tacoma Foto Gang
Created with Paul's flickrSLiDR.
Paul's flickrSLiDR. will give you the code for a show like this one.
(If you don't see the show, click on Permalink "Sunday, May 20, 2007 - Permalink")
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Flickr Flics
Newest shots
David Troy has produced a mashup of Google maps and Flickr.
See new entries as they occur.

FlickrVision
Labels: Collections, Tools
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
24 pictures for 50 cents
Lived in a truck
My Grand Uncle, Paul Herman Wedmark, was an itinerant photographer who lived in his truck.

This could have been in Hennepin, Minnesota. The postmark is Sep. 12, 1930, he died the following year

Labels: Collections
Monday, April 2, 2007
Quick Irene!
Get the Flickr
Here's a link to beginner's quide to Flickr.com
Flickr's not hard to use, but it's nice to have someone walk through the steps.
"Flickr is a popular photo sharing and hosting service with advanced and powerful features. It supports an active and engaged community where people share and explore each other's photos.
You can share and host hundreds of your own pictures on Flickr without paying a dime. There's also a pro service that gets you unlimited storage and sharing for about two bucks a month, making it one of the cheapest hosting sites around."
| www.flickr.com |
Labels: Tools
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Old Photographs
Collections

I found another source of great old pictures.
Conveniently named:
"It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Even with a thousand words, how do you describe the look in a Mother's eye who does not know how she will feed her children, or the look on the face of a paratrooper minutes before the D-day invasion. The simple answer is that there are some stories that can only be told with pictures. This site is dedicated to those stories, and those pictures."
Labels: Collections
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Greetings
From a 13 year old girl
In 2003, I bought a post card on e-bay. It is a picture of the newly completed Stadium High School.
The postmark is October 12th, 1906. It was addressed to someone in Montezuma, Iowa.
(no street address)
In 2006 Stadium had its Centennial Celebration and I put the postcard on the web page.
(CelebrateStadium.com)
Just the other day I received this email:
"The "Helen M who wrote the note alongside the picture of Stadium High (Tahoma High then) was my Mom....Helen McDonald, class of 1912.
In 1915 she married John Stedman Wood, also class of 1912. They raised 3 boys, Donald, Philip and myself...Jack M. Wood class of '41."
It's an itsy, bitsy, tiny world.

Labels: Collections, Stories
Monday, March 26, 2007
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Old Town
Pneumonia's challenge
The Tacoma Foto Gang Safari to the original Tacoma
| www.flickr.com |
Old Town (13 meg MMV)
Labels: Old Town








