Simple test post from the wordpress iPhone app. Included is a pic from a recent hike.

I heard about this on a weekly tech podcast I listen to, and it recently came up on digg and it reminded me to write a little blurb about this on my blog.

Flickr Vision is a simple website that takes photos that are posted in flickr that have been geo tagged (gps data embedded into the photo) and displays them on a 2d or 3d map. Its pretty neat and you can find your self just watching the 3d version for quite some time. I do want to point out this isn’t real time, meaning that the photo posted could of been taken a day ago but someone just decided to add it to flikr, what is real time is when they add it.

anyhow head on over to Flickr Vision and check it out for your self. I prefer the 3d view personally.

One of my good friends and co-workers put together a nice NASCAR documentary montage video which was filmed at Infineon Raceway formally known as Sears Point. While I’m not a huge NASCAR or Indy Car fan, I have to give Matt some credit he did a great job on this video and I think deserves a mention on my blog.

You can see Matthias Worch video here and more of his other videos hes been working on that revolve around NASCAR and Indy Cars here and if you want to visit his home page here is the link to the Matthias sites.

Anyhow its been a while since I have updated, look for more updates soon since im finally back from a well needed vacation and rest.

Looking though some of my pictures from Europe there are a few odd ones that stand out that I have labeled “WTF”.

I figured I would share some of my odd photos of signs, items, places and ads that I think you guys might get a kick out of. If anyone has any ideas on the last photo of the bunch I would love to know, just drop a comment in the comments section below.

Full Picture of Budapest at Night
Map Location

Here is yet another photo from my collection of 700 photos taken earlier this month on my Europe Trip (Munich, Prague, Vienna and Budapest). I’m a compete shutter bug and for anyone who knows me I usually have camera in hand or in my pocket waiting for that prefect photo opportunity.

The first night we arrived in Budapest we went on a long walk up to Buda Castle had a great dinner and Hungarian wine (Polgar) at Apetito. During our trip we liked to explore the streets, alley ways, and off beaten paths of the cities we visited. To my surprise we found our selves in a great location for a night photo shot of both the Hungarian Parliament and Buda Castle region.

Of course I only had my Canon SD900 camera (point and shoot), which isn’t great for night shots like a nice DSLR and tripod, but using my handy timer trick I was able to find some what of a stable location to set my camera and take this shot.

Hungarian Parliament Building
Originally uploaded by Gate-Way.

While looking though my trip photos (all 700 of them) I came upon this one that actually turned out really nice giving the circumstances of light, distance and lack of a tripod. This is the Parliament Building in Budapest and we are standing across the Danube river in the Buda Castle district. Here is a snippet from wiki about this building.

“The Hungarian Parliament Building (Hungarian: Országház) is the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, one of the world’s greatest legislative buildings, a notable landmark of Hungary and a popular tourist destination of Budapest. It lies in Kossuth Lajos Square, right on the bank of the Danube, at Budapest”

I was surprised as to how this photo came out and most of the night photos of buildings usually turned out blury but I remembered a trick to do when you don’t have a tripod handy.

Most point and shoot cameras have a timer function which counts down a number of seconds and takes the photo. So finding a good stable place to set my camera i used the 10 second function, which as you can tell worked out nicely. Just a friendly photography trick to keep in mind.

This is one of the 700+ photos I took, I haven’t had a chance to sort though most of them but I liked this door in Prague, it Belongs to the Týn Church. I swear Ill post a bunch of photos soon, its so hard to find my favorites. I just quickly posted this to flickr to get at least one photo up Here is a link to the wiki about this Church and believe me I have plenty of photos that will be coming soon.

I have been a fan of Trey Ratcliff (more info) work for some time now and it looks like he now recently had set up his own blog to post some of his latest work. His web site Stuck in Customs gives you a unique photos from his travels around the world. He also uses some really great photography tricks such as creating High Dynamic Range (HDR) photographs.

Below are some photos that he allows to be posted as long as credit is given and below that I highly recommend checking out his personal blog, flickr account and maybe even buying a print.

• Trey Ratcliff’s Personal blog – Stuck in Customs
• Trey’s Flick Account
• Prints for Sale

Just a quick little post today about some funny sports photos that I found on this link. Some of them I have to think where photoshopped but who knows with the huge amount of sport events year after year some things are bound to get caught on camera. My favorite which doesn’t look real is this one.

Mission Control We have a Problem

You know I have this great friend who will remain anonymous, but hes into collecting remote controls and while I was over at his house the other day I had to take a snap shot of this gathering of remotes.

I count 8 in this photo but I know he has another 3 hiding somewhere Now the thing is that all of these are in use in some form or fashion but I think we need to take up a collection to get him the Logitech® Harmony® 1000 uber remote control all in one, it even gets you beer.

Ok last part is a joke but would be great, maybe we can rig it up to the beer launching fridge (see video)