Sunday, December 20, 2009

Solving the problem of too many pictures

My camera takes photos really fast. And it's digital, so taking photos is free. So sometimes I take a lot (and then the boys take a lot too). And then going through and deciding which to keep and which to throw away is really hard, and in the end it just gets easier to get bigger hard disks. Today, for example, I took 357 photos. I put 16 on Flickr, and three (I think) in this very blog.

So my solution to this problem was to put lots and lots of photos into a video. Then it only looks like one thing, and not lots of things. Then I'll make the pictures go really fast. And put some headache inducing transitions between them. And that will solve the problem.

At last for some values of solved.

Wile E Coyote(s)

Grandma is visiting, so we went to the Griffith Observatory, Grandma and the boys went in, and I took the dogs up the Mount Hollywood trail (which I'd failed to get to the top of with Oma and Opa). I went to the top (here's a picture of the dogs at Dante's View- I'm not sure what the structures were for, and why is it Dante's View, not Dante's Peak?).

Dante's View

It turned out that that didn't take long enough, so I headed down the hill, where we saw a coyote casually strolling across the path.

Coyote in Griffith Park

The boys and grandma were finished in the observatory so we went home. On the way we say a coyote (another? the same one?) standing much more photogenically by the side of the road.

Griffith Park


And then, because it was still there, I took another.

Griffith Park

Actually, because it just stood there, and because taking photos with a digital camera is free, and because I have a camera that can take photos pretty quickly, I took about 50. But they're all basically the same, and you get the gist from two of them.

Daniel wanted to know if we could take it home.