John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe gave a talk at the UofU Scientific Computing Institute last night. It was a great review of the early days of computer graphics and where the modern personal computer came from. It was also intriguing to hear about the central role that the UofU played in the history of computing.
A couple more photos on Jonesblog here.
Apropos of Trent’s noise post, I have been blown away by how far sensor technology is coming these days. This evening I shot some images on a walk around Sugarhouse Park from my cell phone… A 5MP image from an iPhone 4, not even the latest 4s with a physical sensor the size of a pin head. Crazy… Pretty soon one might imagine multiple smaller sensors distributed on a larger surface and their individual images digitally composited and processed to make a better, higher quality image. What will that mean for photojournalism? We are rapidly approaching a time when the phrase, “images straight outta the camera” will not really mean what we have come to expect that phrase to mean.
More photos on Jonesblog here.
We should have a category here about food, so now we do. Its called Füd… Not necessarily the pretty stuff, but we all make photos of the food we see on assignments. Some of its tasty, some of it is not so, but it all makes for good entertainment and says something about the culture of photojournalism it seems. Or not…
Riffing on the inaugural One Star Loser podcast, we need to figure out how to figure out a rating system… Something for the food, something for the photo.
Seen at the Strasbourg Cathedral in Strasbourg, France.
Its a late night at work and I’ve got nothing for an everyday post except this shot from the iPhone while I wait for a process to finish.
We have lots of birds on the U of U campus. Species from the pigeon to falcons and hawks are common sights, but one of the most common birds is the magpie. Campus is overrun with them in some places as they very successfully have exploited the campus environment. On my way home this evening, I watched a group of 7-8 magpies take turns emptying one of the trash cans in back of the Moran Eye Center, pulling out popcorn bags, fast food bags and wrappers, napkins and water bottles. One by one the items came out of the trash and onto the lawn where they were explored and remaining food nibbled out of them.
Took a bike ride out to the Great Salt Lake Marina today and was stupefied by the *thousands* of HUGE spiders inhabiting the rocks out at the point. The were truly monsters.