by Kevin Thom | Dec 19, 2005 | Personal
I was watching 60 Minutes the other night, and they had a feature about people trying to leave New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for an adjacent suburb. The police from that city had blocked the bridge between the two cities, preventing the exodus, and...
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...
