Photography

People at the tower of Pisa taken out of their intended context

As seen from the Everglades to the west of Miami

So glad a colleague at work pointed me to what Goldfinger were up to - making the most of social isolation in times of Covid-19! This video, “Here in your bedroom”, is a nostalgia trip. https://www.facebook.com/goldfingermusic/videos/231918244594308 Will this still be available in 10 years? God knows, but I might go check out what some other great bands have been doing online during this time.

I recently got my music bug again, and with my recent trip to Australia was able to bring back my original Gameboy. Combining the two, I thought I’d check out what music-making capabilities the Gameboy had. The most popular software was “Little sound DJ” (https://www.littlesounddj.com/). I purchased the full version of that, and while I could run that on an emulator, I wanted to run it on the real deal. To do this, I purchased a Gameboy flashing cartridge, “Flash BOY” ( https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/223590080458). This came with few instructions however. I was able to plug it into my laptop’s USB and see that it displayed as a FTDI device, but would need drivers. I installed some from here: https://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm but after more googling for flashing software, found that this also provided some drivers: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gbcf/ ...

I set up a Raspberry Pi photo viewer at work to display photos from members of the photo club. Members were instructed to put their photos on a Google Drive location (accessible only within the company VPN) and then the viewer would sync down the photos at a predetermined schedule. To get access to Google Drive, I used rclone. To display I used ‘feh’, which was also used to put text indicating the name of the photo. ...

Testing out a tripod shot of my new 200mm - 500mm telephoto lens with 2x magnification on 1.5 DX crop (~ 1500 mm equivalent)

Liftoff! Up up and away! Returning twin boosters