Monthly Archives: March 2012
Please, don’t steal my photos
(Anonymized browser screen capture of unauthorized use of makebright photos – not affiliated with the TEDxWaterloo organization) This isn’t cool. And it’s happened two additional times in the last month with two other for-profit parties. So now I gotta say … Continue reading
Flyin’ the Bear
Flying Bearskin to Ottawa on Monday last week, I noticed this cool effect of the prop appearing when I shot this with my BlackBerry. If I knew the scan rate of the camera + estimated distance between the prop blade … Continue reading
Robots? Yeah, we got that in Waterloo!
Last weekend, the annual FIRST Robotics Regional Competition was held at the University of Waterloo. I go every year. Smart high school students making ‘bots and competing in a challenge that changes each year. What’s not to like?
#TEDxWaterloo 2012 was a great time
TEDxWaterloo once again delivered an amazing experience. So good to catch up with old friends and meet a whack of new friends. An unreasonable amount of pictures follow…
Jeff Ferst with Art Allies at the AC
While I was doing the good work of my other favourite job out in Vancouver two weeks ago, my brother David G. White was representing makebright with the camera over at the Accelerator Centre. Artist Jeff Ferst was rocking the … Continue reading
The ROM rocks…
A little Friday trip to Toronto to check out the Royal Ontario Museum (left)…
Smartphone macro photography–on the cheap
I cracked open one of those 1-time-use disposable film cameras, pulled the 8mm plastic lens out, and taped it on the front of my smartphone. You have to manually focus by moving the phone, but you get some interesting results … Continue reading
Random Vancouver
Great photowalk today with my new shooting buddy Jerry. Just trying to get better exposures in the camera. Subjects are pretty random as I can only steal an hour here and there around the conference.
1shot #003–London calling
In the UK last week for work. The whole drive-on-the-other-side-of-the-road thing makes me think about how arbitrary some of our conventions are. Happy making,DW
