Yesterday morning I gave my talk about image segmentation with level sets and in the evening I went to San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter for dinner and some photography. It was a rainy night and I liked that. Wet streets make good reflections. I ran into this Russian ex-KGB agent on the street, quote: "...I used to deliver Pepsi to Lybia, but I made a huge mistake: I delivered Pepsi Light, so they stabbed me...".
He told me that there will be a big Mardi Gras event tonight. I think I will go there and stroll around with my camera.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Sunday, February 11, 2007
New Travel Plans
I'm going on a little California trip this Friday
and will present some new work at a conference in San Diego. The whole conference will almost take a whole week and after that I'll spend three days in Southern California for fun. I'm thinking about getting a rental car and going somewhere. The question is where. Major attractions like Grand Canyon or Monument Valley are about eight hours away. Mexico is quite close, that would be an option.
Another thing that sounds very interesting to me is "ghost towns". In California are a lot of old and abandoned gold-mining towns in the desert. Some of them are totally left alone, some others are turned into tourist attractions. I personally started to be fascinated by ghost towns after I accidentally found one here in Jersey last winter (an abandoned soul asylum).
Here is another idea: I'm a big Back to the Future fan and seriously thinking about driving to Los Angeles and visiting all the places where this movie takes place. Mostly very unspectacular streets and residential areas, but after seeing this movie a thousand times, I would be very excited being there. Can anybody understand this? :-)
If someone has other ideas, let me know!
and will present some new work at a conference in San Diego. The whole conference will almost take a whole week and after that I'll spend three days in Southern California for fun. I'm thinking about getting a rental car and going somewhere. The question is where. Major attractions like Grand Canyon or Monument Valley are about eight hours away. Mexico is quite close, that would be an option.
Another thing that sounds very interesting to me is "ghost towns". In California are a lot of old and abandoned gold-mining towns in the desert. Some of them are totally left alone, some others are turned into tourist attractions. I personally started to be fascinated by ghost towns after I accidentally found one here in Jersey last winter (an abandoned soul asylum).
Here is another idea: I'm a big Back to the Future fan and seriously thinking about driving to Los Angeles and visiting all the places where this movie takes place. Mostly very unspectacular streets and residential areas, but after seeing this movie a thousand times, I would be very excited being there. Can anybody understand this? :-)
If someone has other ideas, let me know!
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Yosemite
Today, my dear reader, I digged out one of my first tries in landscape photography (you know, with trees and stuff). This morning light was not an easy thing for a beginner and the result is not really stunning. However, Yosemite is always something nice to look at and for sure a good contrast to an airport picture.
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Frankfurt Airport
I placed the camera on top of my luggage cart to do some exposure bracketing using a remote control. Kind of a tripod with wheels and without creating any attention.
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