The City of Saskatoon came out with their strategic plan and it reads and looks good. As I was looking through it (finally after saskatoon.ca was down all last night), I couldn’t help but notice three of the photos were taken from my Flickr account without my permission. Again. It’s happened before and I was [...]
photography
Portraits of Saskatoon
If you are still looking for a spectacular gift with a Saskatoon theme, check out these prints by Saskatoon photographer Christina Weese of the Victoria Traffic Bridge. They look fantastic, are a limited run, and you are supporting a local artist. Oh yeah, someone is also getting a great gift. Speaking of the arts, I [...]
A new perspective on crime
The NYPD is doing 360 degree panoramas of crime scenes now. In 2009, to better record crime scenes, the New York City Police Department began using the Panoscan, a camera that creates high-resolution, 360-degree panoramic images. Each panorama takes between 3 to 30 minutes to produce, depending on the available light, and is added to [...]
Occupy Saskatoon
Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer I was down to the Occupy Saskatoon quite a few times trying to help them out with men and women who were homeless and staying there. Since I normally have a camera of some sort with me, I snapped a couple of photos when I down during daylight hours.
I want one of these
The "Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera," designed by Jonas Pfeil as part of his thesis project at the Technical University of Berlin, creates spherical panoramas after being thrown into the air. The camera "captures an image at the highest point of flight—when it is hardly moving." It "takes full spherical panoramas, requires no preparation and images [...]
The Holt Bulldogs vs. the Babineau Warriors
Mark played his first Kinsmen Football League game on Sunday at the SaskTel Sports Centre. The Babineau Warriors played hard but lost 27-0. Their defense played well but their offense couldn’t get untracked. Plus when you are dealing with 11 & 12 year olds you never know what weird things are going to happen. I [...]
A few photos from the 2011 Kinsmen Football Jamboree
Mark taking the field for his first snap. You can tell from the coaches faces who are standing behind them, they aren’t overly concerned with what he will be doing on that play. They are a power running team. Mark has a pretty good game blocking. Early in the day his team’s starting quarterback broke [...]
WWII: The Campaign in North Africa
Take a look at these incredible photos from North Africa in World War II. They are part of The Atlantic’s InFocus blog’s retrospective on WWII. I really wish one of the media outlets in Saskatchewan (Leader-Post/The StarPhoenix or CBC) would so something similar with their photo archives of Saskatoon events. It would take more of [...]
Inside North Korea
Alan Taylor of The Atlantic’s InFocus has posted 37 photos of North Korea by David Guttenfelder. He was granted unprecedented access to parts of North Korea as part of the AP’s efforts to expand coverage of the isolated communist nation. I now know where Saskatoon got their inspiration for their downtown zoning bylaws.
Focus! Focus!
I loved this blurry photo from yesterday’s StarPhoenix. The autofocus on the camera focused on Cameco CEO’s Jerry Grandey’s suit (nice suit!) and not his face. I am not sure if this was the best photo of the bunch, a commentary on how great the suit was, or if the editor’s glasses were stolen but [...]
