by Kevin Thom | Dec 16, 2005 | Personal, Photography
Well, I did it. I put my beloved Baby D on sale at Ebay. It has to go though. I need the money to help pay for Pappa D, and I doubt I’d use it now, even as a backup. I’m hoping someone will make a really nice Christmas gift of it. I got a sign up package...
by Kevin Thom | Dec 7, 2005 | Mammoth 2005
I had been thinking about Manyk’s statement that I’m always getting sick when I go away. It’s not entirely true, but it seems to be holding up for this trip in particular. After my bout with food poisoning earlier on in the week, it seems I left...
by Kevin Thom | Dec 5, 2005 | Mammoth 2005
It is magnificent here. We got here yesterday after a pretty leisurely five-hour drive from Los Angeles. As the drive progressed, the terrain gradually turned from So-Cal valleys to desert to High Sierra mountains. The vast expanse of nothingness was impressive and...
by Kevin Thom | Dec 4, 2005 | General, Photography
Plenoptic light field rendering is the future of photography. Basically the image is captured by a grid of thousands of microlenses. Each microlens captures a grid of pixels, and you use a computer program to choose which pixel in each grid is used to make up the...
by Kevin Thom | Dec 3, 2005 | Mammoth 2005, Travel
I’m here. The trip wasn’t too painful at all, aside from waking up at 3:30am. There was a 45 minute flight from Buffalo to Detroit, then an hour of sitting around. The flight from Detroit to Los Angeles was about 5 hours. Uncle Wayne picked us up from the...
