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Christmas Vacation in Delphi

Add comment January 13th, 2008 02:45pm BenSeese

Here is the high-def video I shot on Christmas Eve & Christmas Day:

(lots more HD video from the holidays is forthcoming)

Art House Burns

6 comments November 3rd, 2007 01:30am BenSeese

Sad day in Pilsen. This house was a real cultural landmark.

When I came out to my car this morning, I noticed some smoke coming out of the eaves. Took about a minute for me to realize that it wasn’t just a smoky fireplace. Called 911, pounded on the doors & windows, then sat back & watched it go up.

Turned out nobody was home except for the dog, Gizmo. The firemen pulled her out of the basement after I left. She was in pretty bad shape, but alive.

Here are my photos of the house: before, during & after.

Nikon S51c - Flickr sharing deconstructed

8 comments October 15th, 2007 12:56am BenSeese

Nikon & Flickr have been commingling more & more the last year (nikonstunninggallery.com, flickr.com/nikon). Now the last couple Nikon wireless cameras make the claim that they can upload pictures to Flickr. Finally, right?! This seems great, because while several wireless cameras have had the ability to transfer wirelessly to your own computer, they haven’t really been able to get your stuff out to the real world where they belong. The wireless transfer just moved the files from camera to computer, but you still had to sit down at your computer if you wanted to y’know, do anything with them. Last year, Nikon made the S7c, which had the ability to at least email your photos from the camera. Close, but no cigar: the email only contained a link to Nikon’s ugly photo-hosting website. I’ve got 8000 photos online already at Flickr; I’m not going to move over to an inferior website just because my little camera happens to put my photos there.

These last two cameras, the S50c and the S51c, seem to finally cut the computer out of the equation. Again, though, it looks like Nikon have gotten close to a good thing, but failed. Here’s where the camera-to-Flickr system falls short:
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