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We went to Albany today. I forgot my camera so I bought a disposable. Disposables suck for indoor shot but are not too bad for outdoors. Here are some photos of the Empire State Plaza:

Last night, I also started the extremely tedious task of tagging my photographs. It would be basically impossible to find any photograph among the 3,620 that I have on Flickr if I didn’t add tags. Even after working on this while watching a long movie like Babel, I only got through about 15% of my photographs. (BTW, Babel is an excellent movie. Not a *great* movie because I don’t think it holds up well with other “great” movies of this decade, but it was one of the best movies of 2006 and definitely worth watching.)

Most Highrock related photos, I’ve tagged with “highrock”. It’s kinda neat how it works. To get all the photos in my photostream tagged “highrock”, you just go to the URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterskim/tags/highrock/.

Or all my dog photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterskim/tags/dog/

It looks like Flickr recently removed restrictions on bandwidth and uploads for Pro account, so I’m going to use it as a “backup” for my old film photographs. I’ve also been wanting to put these online, since they’ve just been sitting on CD-ROMs.

They are currently all “public” but if you want me to remove any of them, send me an email with a list of links to each of the individual photos you want me to remove. There are about 1,500 photos in the batch I uploaded so I’m not going to spend my own time going through each one to try to find what might be embarrassing or offensive to someone.

Enjoy!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterskim/

The New York Times has an article about a digital photography technique called High Dynamic Range photography:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/technology/03basics.html

I first learned about this from Luminous Landscape a while ago:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/digital-blending.shtml

It’s a pretty simple idea, but you get some amazing results.

I might be biased but I’m sure many experts would also agree–Chicago is the most architecturally interesting city in America.

That being said, I love the John Hancock Tower in Boston. It’s the only building in Boston that I can say that I love. I think it’s beautiful. So even though everyone and their mom has taken a picture of its breathtaking majesty, I did too.