Jack it up! Jack it up! Now they’ve shut the alley down

January 30, 2016January 30, 2016 Timothy Price16 Comments

Digging2 — Digging up the alley at the back door to the office only a few feet from my desk.

Interesting work on the foundation for Patrician Design’s new wall, plus we’re getting a new alley. http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/1/jack-it-up-jack-it-up-now-theyve-shut-the-ally-down

It’s a New Dawn, It’s a New Day, It’s a New Dam

January 25, 2016January 24, 2016 Timothy Price16 Comments

SashaPlaying — The animated gif of the day is Sasha playing with her automatic feather mover†

It’s like the Battle of Evermore (note: there are no photos of Sasha on today’s photo blog) http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/1/its-a-new-dawn-it-s-a-new-day-it-s-a-new-dam

†You may have noticed I’ve been putting up lot of animated gifs lately. This is because I finally upgraded my old Core Duo Macbook Pro to a newer Macbook Pro with a Quad Core i7 processor and 16GB RAM. The last three generations of OS X had become progressively worse about managing memory on the Core Duo system, so doing much of anything was slow and cumbersome. It got the point that the special effects programs and add-ons wouldn’t work and I could only have one major program open at a time to accomplish anything in reasonable time. For over a year now, what looks like special effects in my photos are created from what I can do with exposure and adjustments in Camera RAW and that’s it, because, as I mentioned, all of the effects software quit working properly. Before the hardware upgrade, creating a simple, tiny, 2 image gif crashed the system. The latest OS X works very well with an i7 processor, so now I can create gifs until my heart’s content. They are a good way of putting multiple images on the WordPress side of my blog as either a preview or just fun images to look at before clicking through to the photo blog.

Castor canadensis

January 21, 2016January 25, 2020 Timothy Price15 Comments

You can read more about what the Bestiary† from the middle of the 13th Century had to say about beavers at http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2016/1/castor-canadensis

†Image from Bestiary MS Bodley 764. Page 43. “Bestiary being an English version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford M.S. Bodley 764 with all the original miniatures reproduced in Facsimile. Translated and introduced by Richard Barber. The Boydell Press. Woodrifge. 1999”