outside

Today is one of those days where the sunshine creates a special feeling and renders the day into an experience in itself, just to look around and see the colors.

The fact that the weather is more or less completely out of sync with the normal seasons makes it even more fairy-like.

So I took the opportunity to get out my camera and make some more pictures. I hope the quality has improved somewhat.

and phone has site

Now we have it official on apple's site :

• iPhone
• Apple TV

Be warned, site is slow. I guess everybody is watching this now.

we have phone

Finally the ghost is out of the bottle : Apple just announced it's long awaited phone (referred to as iPhone) on the San Fransisco 2007 MacWorld.

Basically its a widescreen iPod with full calendar syncing and a new touchscreen alike interface. Syncs with iTunes, 3.5 inch screen ,...

More over at MacRumorsLive ...

Ohh... and also AppleTV (former iTV)

translucent

Sometimes it's fun just to just find a word which you feel sounds great and the look at the results in google image search (SafeSearch turned off).

I tried it with " translucent" and the resulting puctures vary from a crappy card with a translucent heart in it, to a stunning photo of greenish amber pills .

The most funny result were these translucent water sandals from www.artlex.com.


Oh, and these are the search results as they appeared to me.

more photo

This afternoon I took as small hike to the supermarket and took some photo's on the way there.
I managed to salvage more or less four of them from the wreckage to post on flickr.

I also found out a way to change the adres for my flick account to a permanent one so now it's www.flickr.com/photos/foo-fu/.

frist postH^^^^ photo

Inevitably I now created a flickr account to post my photos.

The camera in itself is quite intuitive and insofar as I could check at this time of day (night photography is not my best) the picture quality is good.

Anywho : here's my flickr account and my 2 first photo's.

toys for boys

Finally I got myself so far as to purchase a digital photo camera.
A bit to my surprise my requirements for the machine pushed the boundaries of the compact cameras :

• a decent lens
• a decent optical zoom (a bit more then x3 or x4)
• flash override
• Lithium-Ion batteries in stead of the dreaded AA batteries
• USB connection and no proprietary memory sticks (like Sony)

I turned out the Samsung NV7 OPS was as good my type of camera as I could find.
On top of that it has a certain slick yet serious look.

The only drawback was the lens sticking out a bit, but the etui that comes with the camera covers this up nicely.

Now it sits here loading in it's dock. As soon as we have power you will suffer the first of my photo's.

photolicious

Two colleagues of mine have a talent for photography.
Both have their own stile and techniques :
Gerard Maas & Marion Kahane
Bonus points for those who find the third colleague.