I’ve finalized the uploading to Flickr of the photos I took at WordCampNL. I will devote one or two posts to the camp later. For the moment I leave it with posting this slideshow. The reason I link to my own stream and not the entire pool is that it is chronologically organized from the checking in to the final one thanking Erno photo.
All photos are also in the WordCamp Nederland Flickr group.
Category: Photos
Amazing Food Art – Dominique Davies
Not planet Saturn, but Radish Ravioli
Not some new weapon or a couple of invading aliens, just Apple Pie Caramel with edible wrappers
Not an alien wedding party light years away, just an oyster with passion fruit and lavender
All these beautiful photos have in common that they were made by Dominique Davies in a series for the Big Fat Duck Cookbook by Heston Blumenthal of the famous Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, UK….Hm I still have an invitation for dinner there ….. once…
2009 The Hague Sculpture – Read My Lips
On Tuesday June 9, 2009 I was present at the official opening of the 2009 The Hague Sculpture exposition by the Prime Minister of The Netherlands, Jan Peter Balkenende.
First there was a opening session in one of the oldest churches of The Hague, The “Kloosterkerk” (or church of the convent). The CEO of The Hague Sculpture , The Mexican Ambassador in The Hague, a trustee of The Hague Sculpture and some other persons held speeches. The Prime Minister got the first brochure of the exposition. Thereafter the company moved outside where the sculptures of Javier Marin were installed, for the official opening ceremony.
There the company stopped at the sculpture from which I took the above photo on beforehand. In a sequence of my photo’s there was an exchange between the CEO and Xavier Marin. I have made a small “video” of this exchange, because there are too many photo’s to present them all here on the blog. Look for yourself:
Picasa Video
I’m not so much a video person. It takes far too much time for me. But this little video (without sound) I could produce reasonably quick with Picasa 3, the free Google photo (management) program. Picasa is also very good for organizing many photo’s…I have approximately 20,000 and counting on my computer, deep sigh.
The Ceremony
Then there was the opening ceremony itself: The freeing of a bundle of balloons that, of course, partially got hung in the branches of the trees over the sculptures. How dumb!
Storytlr
I have experimented in telling this little story via Twitter by uploading some of the pictures to Twitpic and then putting them together in Storytlr: [ Update: Originally there was a working link here, but unfortunately the Storytlr service has discontinued since March, 2010]
Unfortunately the thumbnails of Storytlr are a bit too unsharpened to make it a nice looking story. I don’t have a mobile telephone with a camera ( I prefer better quality photo’s of ordinary cameras, but it won’t be long and then the mobiles can compete with ordinary cameras), but it is clear to me that Storytlr is a nice app to spread a life stream story.
More photos of the exhibition on Flickr
If you are interested in more photos of The Hague Sculpture, I refer you to my Flickr Sets 2009 The Hague Sculpture and 2009 The Hague Sculpture – Official Opening on June 9, 2009
PS In the meantime I succeeded to upgrade the Worpress Version of this Blog to WP 2.8, which was a hell of a job, as I tried to cut corners.
Last edited by GJE on March 21, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Rose of the Day (2)
My Mc Cartney Rose is getting into bloom.
Easter Monday: My own Little Easter Fairy Tale
There are several reasons to publish this Little Easter Fairy Tale here:
- I was inspired to take these photos of our yesterday’s Easter Brunch by the excellent close up qualities of my Panasonic DMC TZ5 with Leica Lens and 10X optical zoom. Usually I have it in my pocket and thanks to it I don’t need an Iphone or Berry with photo capacity.
- I would like to give a heads up for the always amazing Little People Blog that shows you what you can do with your camera in micro space
- I’m still struggling to find a good way of presenting a good slide show here on the blog…the above slide show is the original Flickr one. Only works when you set it to full screen with the comments on..story will be continued.
- Also experimenting away with my Flickr account
- Some peeps I referred to it on Twitter liked it, someone commented fractured Fairy Tale. Maybe you like it too:-) Lemme know!
- And finally would like to thank Darren who pointed me to a WP RSS footer plugin to prevent scrapers. Just installed it and it works!