Pure Walt, from Concentrated Thought
Photographs available.
Photos of the Chantilly VA police shooting — from inside the forbidden lock down zone.
On May 8th, 2006 a lone gunman open fired on officers at a police station in Chantilly, VA. The event made national news. The lock down happened so fast that the media was unable to get pictures of the event.
But we did. PHOTOS: INSIDE THE LOCKDOWN.
Photos are copyrighted and are not available for redistribution or republication without permission.
While attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I got approached by the Washington Post to do some photography for the Business section of the paper.
While attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I was taking some photos of some police cars when I was approached by a nice gentleman from the Washington Post.
He explained that they needed a picture of the chaos and the crowds at CES for their business section, but so far everything that was coming over the AP news wires was dark, muddy, or off topic. The deadline was coming up, and his job was to find a photographer who could get the picture and get it to them in fast turn around.
So, we headed to the South Hall of the convention center, and I found nice set of stairs, climbed them, and took a number of shots. We contacted another co-worker in the press room who had a laptop, and we previewed the pictures right there on the floor. Three pictures were sent, since the FTP connection was rather slow.
Ten minutes later, the Post called back, confirming that they really liked the picture and wanted to use it.
The picture was published on the front page of the Business Section in the Saturday, 7 January, 2006 paper. The photo is in color,
four columns wide, and approx 8 x 6 inches. It’s also available online to see the CES crowds.
A photo summary is available for a Colorado Christmas.
Decided to take my new copy of Aperture out for a spin and try auto generating a page of photo graphs.
For the subject, I made a Colorado Christmas Summary page based off of pictures taken from my Canon PowerShot S20, a simple 3.3 Megapixel camera. I’ll be posting the really heavy duty pictures, which consist of hundreds of photos sometime in the future.
Generally speaking, Aperture made organizing, sorting, selecting, and rotating much easier. I felt the web page was too constrained, and I’m unhappy that I can’t post the actual master pictures at full size. Additionally, it makes a bunch of files, instead of intelligently doing what’s needed with one or two, programatically. Even worse, some of the generated HTML just looks wasteful.
Nonetheless, for a quick hack, it turned out well.