The campus of Utrecht University has a small field with sheep, and today I got up close and personal. One of the big sheep was even tame enough to let me stroke and pat it!
Marit and I had a long, very romantic weekend in Paris a few weeks ago. Photo-wise all I took with me was my Chinon CS, two lenses (50mm f/1.7 and 28mm f/2.
21 Apr 2012
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This summer Flickr will stop supporting their old authentication system and move fully to OAuth. I’ve gotten several questions about whether Python FlickrAPI will support that. No worries, it will. If you want it fast, clone the repository, implement OAuth (don’t forget the unittests) and send me a pull request.
24 Feb 2012
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One of my photographic heroes, Joe McNally, wrote a blog post looking back 20 years at National Geographic. He also has a video from back in 1992 about the process of National Geographic, from the photograph via editing, more editing, and then finally to print.
At the start of my last project by Chess IX (I’m leaving after working there for over 5 years) I looked at several Java web frameworks. One of the frameworks was Wicked, which I blogged about earlier, but the hands-down winner was the Play Framework.
21 Nov 2011
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A week ago my friend Janet asked for a photographer on Facebook. The next day she stood in front of me, modeling outdoors in Amsterdam. I had packed all kind of gear - digital camera, flashes, light stands, umbrella, reflectors, analogue camera, the whole shebang.
15 Nov 2011
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“when you’re looking with your eyes, it doesn’t mean you’re seeing.” – Andreas Gursky
The video below is a 23-minute documentary by Ben Lewis, about the German photographer Andreas Gursky.
15 Nov 2011
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This weekend I got a lot of dark room supplies from friends (thanks Ton & Q!). Monday I bought the necessary liquids, and yesterday I developed my very first photo. As soon as I saw the photo appear on the paper I fell in love with the process.
Ever since I bought Fallout 3: New Vegas, I’ve been playing their hacking mini-game again. Of course I’m using my own hacking tool to help me. Today I made a small improvement: it now also suggests which words to try first.
Last Monday I went for a job interview at Universiteit Utrecht. Later that day I received a phone call from my to-be-promoter telling me I’m hired! So starting this December, my life will be radically different.
20 Oct 2011
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