While in New York we got tickets to Tropfest 2012 which is a short film festival held in Bryant Park. It turns out that we didn’t need tickets as by the time we arrived they were letting in anyone. Most of the shorts were rather humorous, but the winning film was a documentary about homeless people and others without regular jobs recycling to earn income. The director was from Portland, Oregon. Hugh Jackman was the MC for Tropfest in New York this year. Tropfest originated in Australia and Jackman is Australian.

How this photo was made: I used Photoshop’s photomerge feature to combine multiple photos into one image. I didn’t like the result as the building in the center was really distorted–and not in a fisheye kind of way. So I took the photomerged, rectangular image (after a crop), went into Adaptive Wide Angle (under Filter in CS6), and chose Panorama as the Correction. This action mostly fixed the weird looking building in the center and gave the overall picture more of a fisheye lens perspective.

Posted on August 16th, 2012 under Other. Tags: new york, nikon d7000, photomerge, photoshop, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Tropfest New York 2012

Why superman? See my prior post, and here is a video of him dislocating his shoulder and then popping it back into place.

Did he get taken out of the game and go on the DL? No, instead Inge put his shoulder back in place all by himself. Then he took a few practice throws and the game continued. Finally, in the top of the 8th inning, with men on first and third, two outs, and the score tied 7-7, Inge delivered what would become the game-winning hit.

Posted on August 14th, 2012 under Other. Tags: AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II, baseball, Nikon TC-17E II 1.7x Teleconverter, oakland. Comments Off on Superman Brandon Inge heads to the DL

There is nothing quite so tiring as walking through a museum–the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in this case. This guy looked like he had the right idea so I sat down next to him. Within a minute or so he began snoring rather loudly. People walking by could hear his snores so they were pulling out their cell phones to take photos.

Posted on August 13th, 2012 under Other. Tags: MOMA, museums, new york, nikon d7000, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Sleeping in the MoMA

On my way home from my road trip to see Iron Maiden I took in my third A’s game of the year. Three games in one year are the most A’s games I’ve attended in a single season since the early 1980s (when I used to go to dozens a year). In fact, I don’t think I saw three A’s games in person in total after 1986 and before 2012.

Posted on August 11th, 2012 under Other. Tags: AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II, baseball, nikon d7000, Nikon TC-17E II 1.7x Teleconverter, o.co, oakland. Comments Off on Adam Rosales of the Oakland A’s

Frogner Park (Frognerparken) is one of the most interesting parks I have ever visited. Luckily I’ve had the chance twice. The first time this view wasn’t as nice as the church in the background was undergoing repairs and was covered in scaffolding. Three years later (last summer) the scene looked better. Little did anyone know at the time, less than a week later lovely and peaceful Oslo would turn into chaos with the terrorist attacks launched by Anders Behring Breivik.

Posted on August 10th, 2012 under Other. Tags: frogner park, Nikon 18-200mm VR II, nikon d7000, norway, oslo. Comments Off on Frogner Park