Taken during my run this morning. My timing was impeccable. You can get a larger resolution at Flickr.
Full Fall
Category Archives: Photography
Updated Flickr Collection of Lindo Channel Photos
I've updated my Lindo Channel albums on Flickr and they're broken down by year. They are Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licensed. Maybe you'll be more creative with them than I have been. Let me know if you do something cool with them. @pberry, Instagram, or same username @ gmail.com.
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
Above the Fog
On Sundays I take Posey for a hike in Upper Bidwell Park. It’s been foggy lately, as it usually happens during fall in the California Central Valley. It doesn’t take a lot of elevation to get above the fog and the park is perfect for this.
Photos from the Cyclone Bomb
We live on the Lindo Channel here in Chico, which is an overflow for Chico Creek. The channel doesn’t have water in it most of the time as it’s designed for, well…overflow. Overflow isn’t really something we deal with a lot here in droughty California. But, when the rain comes down this much, this quickly, overflow is exactly what you get.
The above photo doesn’t even capture the high water mark, but I get down there to take photos when I can, not when I want to.
It’s going down pretty quickly, the photo above is roughly 24 hours later.
iPhone Photo Breakdown
Since January 15, 2008 I've taken 18,784 photos with 7 different iPhone models.
- iPhone 1 (1,486 over 1,482 days)
- iPhone 3GS (2,186 over 670 days)
- iPhone 4S (3,344 over 803 days)
- iPhone 5S (3,051 over 751 days)
- iPhone 6S (3,913 1,104 days)
- iPhone 8+ (4,804 over 746 days)
- iPhone 11 Pro Max (3,091 over 664 days [as of 08-07-21] and counting)
Generally I've taken more photos with each successive iPhone model, with a little lull at 5S and 6S. The 11 Pro Max is probably going to come in lower just due to COVID. We haven't travelled hardly at all and that tends to be when I add a good number of photos to the collection.
I'm not sure if I think I've become a better photographer or if the camera technology just generates better photos, but over time the number of favorites has increased. Again, the 11 Pro Max is a COVID outlier.
Not exactly riveting data analysis, but the air quality is crap today so I was stuck inside and this is all I could think up.
Update: Based on some feedback I have corrected the number formating and added the number of days I had each phone.
My Photo Backup Vortex
A photo backup vortex? What the heck is that?
I'm so glad you asked! Everybody should backup their important digital files. Luckily there are so many easy to use serives that it's trivial and inexpensive to backup everything, thus freeing you from having to decide what's "worthy" of being backed up. The default should be everything. But, what if some things were so important than you wanted more than one backup but still wanted everything to just get sucked into the "vortex" and off it went to however many backup systems you wanted? I consider my photos to be very, very important and I want them backed in multiple places.
This is the story of my photo backup vortex.
It starts with my iPhone. This is my camera at this point. I don't have any other DSLR or digital "point and shoot" (at least with a working battery) to take photos with any longer. I guess the best camera you have really is the one you have with you.
- Photos and videos taken on my iPhone get uploaded to iCloud Photo Library
- My iMac downloads full size copies of each photo and video
- My iMac is continually backing up to Backblaze
- My iPad is setup with Amazon Photos (free with Prime) and is continually uploading photos
- My iPhone is also set to upload to Flickr but...it's quite unreliable.
The key thing is that the vortex just sucks photos in and I don't have to do a thing. There's also local Time Machine backups on my iMac, but I just focused on add "offsite" cloud services. It's great to have local backups, but you really need to also have backups that don't live in the same house as your computer.
I don't really test doing a full restore from backup, or at least very often. Any time I get a new device (iPhone, iPad, Mac) it gets access to the canonical iCloud Photo Library and life is good. Backblaze would be the best restore to test out as it has a full copy of the library.
If you're a Google/Android person, you should just replace iCloud Photo Library with Google Photos.
Capturing Cold in a Photo
You can do what good photographers do, which is use good equipment and skills that you've honed over many thousands of photos or you can do what I do, which is cheat. I typically try running my photos through the Camera+ "Clarity" filter. That usually does the trick.
The Start of a Photo Series
I believe this to be the first instance of what has become quite a collection of photographs taken from approximately the same spot. Looks like it's been going on for almost two years now. The frequency in the first year was very erratic and I'm looking at how to best collect these. And by "erratic" I mean the next one wasn't until January 29, 2017. As the kids say these days, lol.
But for now, you get to see the genesis.
Aerial Recollections, Continued
I'll spare you, fine reader, the before and after presentations. You, being of keen mind and sharp wit, no doubt know what atrocious originals these shots came from.
Going through these old single megapixel shots reinforced a very important photography lesson for me -- the best camera is the one you have _with_ you. Without that little Canon, I would only have what images my mind can store. Digital file corruption and data loss pales to what happens in my mind.
San Francisco Aerial Photography
Aperture 2 is an amazing piece of software. I've been going back through photos that I long ago gave up on and seeing how Aperture might bring them back to life. Sure, in this set I had to give up on color and crank the contrast up to 11, but in the end the shots are at least viewable now. The starting files are from a Canon S110. In other words, crappy little JPEGs.
Pro tip: plane windows suck to shoot through.
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