Crab Season Open With Bang

November 18, 2011 at 12:53 am

The crab fishermen don’t know what’s going to happen each year, until they pull in their first pots. The sport season is open and things are looking good. Our friend Billy is holding this not-so-gentle giant and doesn’t this guy have poisson-ality? He’s pissed. (I was waiting for an action shot if he managed to grab Billy’s finger.)

It’s been a good year for fish around here. Amazing, what with the state of the world…

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More on Kindle Fire

November 17, 2011 at 9:19 pm

Rick Gordon found this very comprehensive article. (We ordered a Fire yesterday — for one thing, to become familiar with it in order to see which of our books might work on it.)

“…The Fire is a marvelous device. And Apple and Amazon couldn’t have created a more complementary pair of tablets if they’d colluded on it. Want a tablet that does everything, and which does books exceptionally well? Buy an iPad. Want something more compact, and you’re not terribly interested in much more than content consumption? The Fire is aces. I feel as if every potential tablet consumer will recognize themselves in one of those two descriptions.…”

https://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/8816567-452/review-kindle-fire-is-no-ipad-killer-but-it-is-a-killer-device.html

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Tiny Houses Built From Hollowed Out Logs in 1800s

November 15, 2011 at 1:52 am

From the Tiny House Blog, worth checking often for anyone interested in the subjext:

“Zol Fox emailed me an interesting article showing some of the logging history of the Northwest and included in the email a couple of pictures of tiny houses built from hollowed out logs.

The size of the trees that were taken down in the Northwest 150 years ago is something impressive. We are not likely to see anything like this in this area ever again. Below I’ve shared a few of those photographs.” https://tinyhouseblog.com/tiny-house/tiny-houses-of-the-historic-northwest/

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Greenough Surfboats

November 13, 2011 at 8:31 pm

George Greenough, the ultimate Waterman, who was the first photographer to get inside a curl with movie camera (on kneeboard), designed a series of super little fast surfer-friendly boats. Anyone know of one for sale?

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Camera Talk

November 13, 2011 at 8:24 pm

(This only  for camera nuts. Others won’t be interested.) Can we talk?

My first was a Kodak Baby Brownie at age 12. First photo was of Puddles the hippopotamus at the SF Zoo. Next camera, from Uncle Walter, who had an Oakland camera shop, a Rolleicord (not Rollieflex), shot pix on 3-month Lambretta motor scooter trip through Europe. Next when I was in the Air Force in Germany (’58-’60), the secret service guys on our base let me use a little Leica fixed lens (35 mm I believe); the b&w’s I shot with it are so luminous. I was in charge of the base photo lab, so learned the techniques and developed and printed b&w for maybe 8 years.

Then in the ’60s a Nikon and Nikkormat (one with TRI-X, other with color slide film), both with fixed 50 or so mm lens — the photographer had to zoom by moving back and forth. Traveling in US, Canada, shooting pix for Shelter. Shot ’65 Bob Dylan concert Providence RI from stageside, Tri-X, some of my best photos ever.

Then the Olympus OM1 came along, half the weight of Nikons, a wonderful system and I ended up with about 7 lenses, 2-3 bodies. That was it for many years.

Then I got my first little digital point and shoot, a-ha.!

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