<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.2.2">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://www.apeiron.net/~mainland/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://www.apeiron.net/~mainland/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2023-06-02T11:05:03-04:00</updated><id>https://www.apeiron.net/~mainland/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Geoffrey Mainland</title><subtitle>Geoffrey Mainland's personal home page.</subtitle><author><name>Geoffrey Mainland</name></author><entry><title type="html">Sausalito, in HDR</title><link href="https://www.apeiron.net/~mainland/sausalito-2006/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Sausalito, in HDR" /><published>2022-04-27T17:28:00-04:00</published><updated>2022-04-27T17:28:00-04:00</updated><id>https://www.apeiron.net/~mainland/sausalito</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://www.apeiron.net/~mainland/sausalito-2006/"><![CDATA[<p>If you Google <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Sausalito+HDR">Sausalito HDR</a>, one of the top hits is…well, a previous version of this page. A Google image search for <a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&amp;q=Sausalito+HDR">the same query</a> also shows this image in the top 10 results. Taken in early 2006, I don’t know why or how it ended up being so popular, but I’m glad it’s been appreciated.</p>

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<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.</p>]]></content><author><name>Geoffrey Mainland</name></author><category term="san francisco" /><category term="sausalito" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[If you Google Sausalito HDR, one of the top hits is…well, a previous version of this page. A Google image search for the same query also shows this image in the top 10 results. Taken in early 2006, I don’t know why or how it ended up being so popular, but I’m glad it’s been appreciated.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Cambridge at Night</title><link href="https://www.apeiron.net/~mainland/cambridge-2006/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Cambridge at Night" /><published>2006-02-21T22:00:00-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-21T22:00:00-05:00</updated><id>https://www.apeiron.net/~mainland/cambridge</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://www.apeiron.net/~mainland/cambridge-2006/"><![CDATA[<p>Cambridge at night.</p>

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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/cambridge-2006/factory_original.jpg" title="Factory" caption="A night shot of the “factory” visible from the footbridge across from Dunster House.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/harekrishna_original.jpg" title="Hare Krishna" caption="This was one of the first photos I snapped during a long day in Golden Gate Park. I saw this monk sitting on a bench and debated whether or not to invade his privacy. I ended up using my crappy (but cheap!) Canon 75-300mm telephoto lense extended all the way to 300mm, thus the somewhat degraded quality.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/strybing_original.jpg" title="Strybing Arboretum" caption="I couldn’t resist taking at least one shot of Strybing Arboretum having just looked through Ansel Adam’s &lt;i&gt;The Camera&lt;/i&gt;, where he uses a black and white image of Strybing to illustrate tilt shift lenses or some such thing.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/joelshopping_original.jpg" title="Joel Shopping" caption="My brother Joel investigates the goods and Genki Crepes on Clement St. We tried to eat at Burma Superstar, but as usual the wait was an hour-and-a-half. Instead we went to Straits Cafe, a good Singaporean restaurant close by on Geary. Nobody bought a Crepe, but the cutesy Asian stuff is fun to look at.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/sidewalk_original.jpg" title="Sidewalk" caption="The colorful newspaper dispensers caught my eye on the way back from dinner. The first shot I got turned out poorly, so I returned for this one after we had already walked several blocks. Of course everyone had to wait for me, but I’m glad I got the shot.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/enterplease_original.jpg" title="Enter, Please" caption="An interesting doorway in SF.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/pier28_original.jpg" title="Pier 28" caption="Pier 28 was once a familiar scene, as Vince and I lived a few blocks away from February 2002 to August 2003.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/flowers_original.jpg" title="Flowers" caption="Another attempt at a “macro” shot in Golden Gate Park.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/buzz_original.jpg" title="Buzz" caption="Taken in Golden Gate Park, I later noticed that a similar shot is in Real World Photoshop CS2. I can see why SF is home to a lot of photographers—there’s so much to photograph there!
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/waves_original.jpg" title="Waves" caption="Taken on the beach at the Tennessee Valley trailhead in Marin.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/delivery_original.jpg" title="Delivery" caption="Taken down the street from the Post St. post office, I whipped out the camera to catch a shot of the temporarily abandoned mail bins and happened to get a moving mail truck in the background. I wish I could say otherwise, but this was pure luck.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/produce_original.jpg" title="Produce" caption="Produce being delivered in Chinatown.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/sausalito_original.jpg" title="Sausalito (HDR)" caption="This is a tone-mapped HDR image of Sausalito built from three hand-held exposures. This is my first try at using Photomatix. None of the photos I took in Sausalito turned out well, so this was my consolation prize.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/sffromdolores_original.jpg" title="View from Dolores Park" caption="The view from Dolores Park as the sun was setting to set. Wouldn’t it be great to have a tripod and a better lens for some HDR goodness. Maybe next time.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/vince1_original.jpg" title="Vince at Chow" caption="Vince before dinner at Chow, one of our favorite comfort food restaurants in San Francisco.
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    <a href="/~mainland/assets/images/sf-jan-2006/vince2_original.jpg" title="Vince at Chow" caption="Another snapshot of Vince at Chow. Both shots were taken my last night in SF.
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