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13 November 2009 - The Historic C.O.D Ranch
The Historic C.O.D Ranch outside Oracle in Arizona where Automattic held a meetup in January 2008. Winter in the desert is mostly pleasant, during the day. At night it was freezing!
13 November 2009 - Straighten and Crop with the GIMPOne of the more awkward tasks to do in the GIMP is straightening horizons. You have to manually rotate the image using that tool which always seems to be fairly hit and miss.
I had hoped that GIMP 2.6 would have the “draw a line and rotate” function that Bibblepro and I think Photoshop have but unfortunately it’s not there. Not to worry because the Straighten and Crop plugin by Bert Hinz does the job too! (There’s another Straighten and Crop plugin too. I haven’t tried it. What’s it like?)
Install the plugin by copying the .py file into .gimp-2.6/plug-ins/. You might need to chmod it to make it executable. Fire up the gimp and using the Path tool (press B) mark two points on the horizon with left clicks of the mouse. Run the plugin (from Image->Transform->Straighten and Crop) and it will rotate the image.
Nice and simple and has worked on the couple of images I tried it on. (via)
12 November 2009 - Old Wood and Yellow
The gorgeous Autumn colours contrast with the dark and rough texture of the old wood of a fence.
Shot in Quebec of course.
11 November 2009 - Fire Hydrant #3
A lone hydrant sits on the edge of an empty field in Quebec, Canada.
Last of the hydrant photos. Are you glad?
10 November 2009 - Fire Hydrant #2
I shot this while showing Lloyd the A-DEP feature of his camera. Just down the road from our main meeting house.
09 November 2009 - Fire Hydrant #1
So I went to Canada and took photos of fire hydrants, or fire plugs as they’re apparently known as in the US.
First of three photos taken in Quebec. I love the white fencing behind. Houses near where we stayed in Mont-Sainte-Anne were all pretty and different. Beautiful part of the country.
08 November 2009 - Looking through the clouds
Irish countryside through the clouds.
07 November 2009 - Moderne Lighting
Light trails along Patrick’s Street in Cork.
06 November 2009 - Flying back to Cork
On the way home from Quebec I flew to Heathrow first, before hopping back home via Aer Lingus to Cork. I’m pretty sure this was over the UK somewhere, but really, it could just as easily have been the south coast of Ireland too.
05 November 2009 - Moonlit Arizona
The moon shines down on the Arizona desert, January 2008.