Visited the California Academy of Sciences in April and finally got around to pulling together the various clips that I had filmed while there. Most of the video comes from the aquarium portion of the museum, hope you enjoy!
Gramp’s Greenhouse
My Grandfather’s greenhouse is a place of a few memories, more so because it has become so run down since his passing. After my grandmother passed, the greenhouse was cleaned out so that most of the brush that had begun to grow inside was ripped out. With many of the features unearthed, I entered with camera in hand.
There is a double door system to enter so that the heat inside would not be let out.
A rope holds the door closed to keep out the deer.
These cranks were used to open the windows on the sides.
Many of the panes of glass have broken.
The tub I remember Gramp giving their dog Dusty a bath in.
Many of the pots have survived.
Still many pots sit around, untouched for years.
Peeking inside through a broken glass pane.
Full panoramic from just inside the double door, view larger here.
Believe the bar was either used for support or a place to hang tools, view larger here.
If you would like to see more, visit the gallery of photos directly or just click on the thumbnails below. Enjoy, I know I did!
To see what the greenhouse looked like before it was gutted, see Phil’s post over at The Daily Portsmouth.
Use the coupon code “greenhouse” when purchasing any print from my Grandfather’s Greenhouse set and save 20% off!
I’ve been debating adding a members only section of the site where I’ll provide content that can be saved to your own computer if you really like the photo, video or whatever. If you could vote for an option below it would really help me figure out if this is something I ultimately should pursue.
Over the past weekend we visited the San Francisco Zoo. I figured I would try out Animoto* for presentation since I shot both video and stills. I love visiting this zoo, however it does leave me conflicted.
Individual shots are posted up in the Galleries so just click on through one of the thumbnails.
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Shot with a Nikon 10.5mm f/2.8G Fisheye Lens
I picked the lens up for a week-long rental from Borrow Lenses, who I’ve rented glass from a few times and always had a pleasant experience. The last time I rented, I ended up falling down a hill and had one the rented lenses on the camera. The lens hood was totally trashed and a screw ended up getting stripped inside the camera, luckily I got their insurance so whatever the cost to fix the lens will be, it will only cost me 12% of that instead of the full amount.
There was an awesome sky tonight just before sunset. My Nikon was in the front of the house so instead of missing it completely, I broke out my iPhone and used Pano to generate a panoramic photo. While it doesn’t look great in the small size embedded above, click through to see a larger resolution.
This reminded me of Chase Jarvis’ motto, The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You. Chase has developed an iPhone app and community all around the idea that no matter what camera you have with you, you just need to have one. So far the community effort is focused on the iPhone but I’m sure we’ll see some new developments around the Droid and other phones.
My Best Camera photos can be seen here.
Early last week we had a pretty sweet fall storm. From our apartment in Nob Hill, I was watching the wall of rain come in from the North Bay and work its way over Angel Island, then Alcatraz and finally hit landfall. I had the window in the bedroom wide open and let the first bit of mist just come into the room because it was that kind of rain that just smells good and brings back memories of childhood. I shot some HDR photos during and after the storm, let me know what you think!
