This will be a little short, but we have pictures posted from our honeymoon. I am going to be working on a more detailed writeup of some of the more interesting stories from our trip, but in the mean time, take a look at some of the pictures. Of course, we took about 1500 pictures while we were gone, but I managed to bring that down to a sample of just 160 pictures to highlight a lot of the things that we saw… Let me know what you think…

Pictures are here

-Matt and Cindy

So, the wait is over, we have pictures from the wedding. First of all, the pictures taken by the photographer can be found here. The two photographers are almost as much of a shutterbug as Cindy and I are. They posted almost 500 pictures, but we are sure that they took closer to 2000 pictures and just picked out the best ones, much like we do…

Secondly, we have some pictures that other people have shared with us. Those can be found here. If you have pictures that you would like to add to this section, please let me know and I will give you information about how to get them added…

Finally, there will be some of the pictures that Cindy and I took, but we have soo much from the days leading up to the wedding and then the honeymoon that it is just going to take us so long to get through them, but look for them… We also have soo many stories to tell about our honeymoon, so look for those to be added soon too….

-Matt and Cindy

I reading through Technorati, and I found a good blog entry “More On PhotoTerrorists“. It is a good article that talks about people taking pictures in public places and police or other officals asking them to stop for “security reasons”. The article goes on to talk about how this just does not make sense, because of all the other people out there with camera phones and the such…

…authorities don’t want you taking pictures of/in the Tubes. Yet last week showed that hundreds of people can and did, and every day, tens of thousands walk through those same stations with the same photo-broadcasting capabilities.

You simply can’t stop it.

Being an avid photographer, I can understand this myself. I remember a few years back, before 9/11, I was doing a video for school and I need some good highway back drops so I stopped along the road and setup my video camera. After a little while, a cop stopped me and asked what I was doing, I explained and he asked if I had permission from VDOT, which I of course did not. He let me go, but if that had happened in recent days, I would have been brought into custody and they would have gone through all my video footage…

Are we becoming too paranoid? It seems that the authorities are going after people like me who are just doing thigs for benign reasons, but they will probably not get the ones that would be doing it for bad reasons, because they know how to do it without being seen. I was seen because I did not care if anyone saw me… Is there a solution, no… But we can continue to all work together and instead of trying to stop people, just talk with them. Have a cop stop and ask you what you are doing, do not try to ban it because it will only make things worse…

…It was May 22, 2004, when I wrote, “Imagine what will happen if they try to tell New Yorkers they can’t take pictures on the subway. There will be a web site created devoted to nothing but pictures taken on the subway. It will become a big joke.”

Within weeks, it was indeed a big joke. And the prophesied web site appeared. And it worked. The ban never passed, and today MTA regulations explicitly allow photography. (Quotes from “More On PhotoTerrorists“)

-Matt

Some Related Links:
http://www.photosig.com/
http://www.freedomtophotograph.com/
http://www.photopermit.org/

After viewing my site, I am sure that you can see all the pictures that I take, and as you might imagine we print out a lot of them. But there has always been one issue with making your own prints, how well they last. I was looking through some blogs, and I saw a blog linking to an article in PC world about ink fading and such (here). This is a little a coincidence because Cindy and I were just talking about this exact issue.

Last month, Cindy and I sent out Save the date cards for our wedding. Deciding to do something different we decided to make the cards on magnets. So we designed a magnet and printed it ourselves (the magnet is the image with the flower in the background here). Recently we have been hearing some of our friends telling us that the image is fading, and this was printed just last month. I use all HP original ink, so that there is no issue of using ink that does not work with the printer right.

One of the things to remember is that when you print your own images, there is no protective film over your image. If you get your picture developed at a lab, they add a nice little coating to your image that helps to make sure that the image lasts a little better. This is why I have started getting some of my larger prints and such done on-line at Shutterfly. I have been mostly happy with their prints. I did have a few images where they tried to “improve” the color, but ended up making the entire image too dark.

So back to the article, it is good because it talks about how there are no standards so printer manufacturers can make tests that will make it look like their ink is magical. This is just like processor companies have been doing for years, trying to show that their processor is better than sliced bread. In the end, the claims just do not hold up as well as they should… So buyer beware…

-Matt

So while reading through Engadget, I found an article talking about the Gigapixel project. So while Nikon and Cannon are fighting with cameras that are producing 12 or 16 mega pixels, this group has one that will do 1,000 megapixels, just image how much detail is in that. The project website had this to say about it:

It would take a video wall of 10,000 television screens or 600 prints from a professional digital SLR camera to capture as much information as that contained in a single Gigapxl™ exposure.
The Project’s near-term goal is to compile a coast-to-coast Portrait of America; photographing her cities, parks and monuments in exquisite detail.

How about they let me borrow one, and I will go wild taking pictures all over the place. I guess I will have to go back to my small like 6 mega pixel camera I am sure that I can manage for a little while, until they can get this gigapixel camera down to a handheld size…

And I thought that I had storage problems with my pictures, I have a 100 GB drive that I have more than filled with my pictures. With this camera, each picture, in uncompressed form, takes 24 GB. That is one large file, I guess I would not be doing as many snap shots with that camera as I do with mine. I think I would also get rid of a few more of the images that I do now

-Matt
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