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Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:58:25 +0000

Original video @ http://vimeo.com/11673745 by Sean Stiegemeier

You can increase up to HD 720p in this youtube video for better quality of the images.

Music: Jónsi – Kolniður (jonsi.com)
Camera : Canon 5d mkII

Springtime by Joseph Weigert

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:25:09 +0000

Few hours before the summer, you can enjoy this great video about the spring done with a photography camera, like the last Dr. House’s season episode.

Digital cameras and objetives are not focused on video but some results are great.

Magical Gyomaendrőd, Hungary. :)

Portfolio: weigertimages.com

A day at finals II – Rafael Nadal wins Roland Garros 2010

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:03:18 +0000

I have been watching live Roland Garros, Paris french open tennis tournament, last week and these are some of the photos I got on sunday. So these are not the best photos I have found but ones I got from my seat on the last row I like more.

I hope you like them too.

A day at finals I – Agustín Velotti Roland Garros junior champion 2010

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:19:41 +0000

I have been watching live Roland Garros, Paris french open tennis tournament, this week and these are some of the photos I got yesterday.

Men’s single Junior champion Agustín Velotti from Argentina serving, photos dedicated to the friend site Chuenga.net.

Bathing machines

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:30:05 +0000

The bathing machine was a device, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, to allow people to change out of their usual clothes, possibly change into swimwear and then wade in the ocean at beaches. Bathing machines were roofed and walled wooden carts rolled into the sea. Some had solid wooden walls; others had canvas walls over a wooden frame.
The bathing machine was part of sea-bathing etiquette more rigorously enforced upon women than men but to be observed by both sexes among those who wished to be “proper”.
Especially in Britain, men and women were usually segregated, so nobody of the opposite sex might catch sight of them in their bathing suits, which were not considered proper clothing to be seen in.

Once mixed gender bathing became socially acceptable, the days of the bathing machine were numbered.

Photocroms of Holland from 1890s to 1900s

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 05:30:26 +0000

Like postcards, the photochroms feature subjects that appeal to travelers, including landscapes, architecture, street scenes, and daily life and culture. The prints were sold as souvenirs and often collected in albums or framed for display.

After travelling to Belgium, Norway, Scotland and Turkey we arrive today to Holland and its canals. Amsterdam has been called the “Venice of the North” for its more than one hundred kilometres of canals, about 90 islands and 1,500 bridges.

Around Paris -Time lapse HD

admin — Sat, 01 May 2010 09:00:41 +0000

Today I should be at Roland Garros but next days I will probably revisit most of the places shown on this nice time lapse of the city.

Iceland volcanic ash turns Northern Europe into a no-fly area

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:56:49 +0000

A huge cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland spread south east and has turned the skies of northern Europe into a no-fly zone on Thursday, leaving hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded.

Volcanic ash contains tiny particles of glass and pulverised rock which can damage engines and airframes.

Flights from Europe main airports to the Scandinavian area have been cancelled and trans-atlantic flights were taking a longer route south to avoid the cloud.

Sheep, mixing Churras and Merinos

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:36:46 +0000

Sheep were one of the earliest animals to be domesticated for agricultural purposes, sheep are raised for fleece, meat (lamb, hogget or mutton) and milk.

The domestic sheep is a multi-purpose animal, and the more than 200 breeds now in existence were created to serve these diverse purposes.

Churras and Merinos are 2 of those breeds, one for excellent milk production, the other excellent for wool production but if you mix them you got neither good wool neither good milk production. So, as it is said in Spain, do not mix churras with merinos trying to get maximum benefit because sometimes it doesn’t work that way.

Welcome 2010

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:34:38 +0000

Happy new year to everybody.

I have too many many projects and hopes for this 2010 :) But let’s see what you can expect here.

2009 fails and lessons:

Big fail, TBF 2009 total income 0$. The goal was to help with hosting.
WP security is important and it can be a pain.
Grid hosting systems are great but there are still issues.
Sometimes Flickr images are not showing despite of being there.

So for TBF I want to achieve 3 things this 2010:

Fix unexpected DB issues. Some posts were affected (images, links, credits and images text have been changing, sorry I don’t have the time to fix this) and I haven’t found why this was happening, so I will probably will change hosting. If I manage to solve this issue I will try to automatize photo and data photo insertion. It is all manual now because it relies on insert order and it failed.
Fix blog security issues, link injection has been a pain since summer.
Fix the flickr image not showing despite of being there. The solution probably will be to host the images but this can consume a lot of bandwidth and I have to read the flickr guidelines.

For money I will only consider sponsorship related to photography, travels, sciences and culture.

Jacques Offenbach – Barcarolle , from ‘The Tales of Hoffmann‘ a piece of the 2010 New Year concert at Vienna, that my sister likes. The Barcarolle has been incorporated into many movies including Life Is Beautiful and Titanic. Offenbach died with Les contes d’Hoffmann unfinished.

How can I end a post related with New Year’s Concert without the Radetzky March? :) Enjoy!