(2048×1628) After seeing some of my street portraits, my coworker Hari wanted me to do a portrait of him as well with my Crown Graphic. I did two images, two shots each. The first was in our 6th floor conference room, which I love, but this shot in our server room turned out much better. Continue reading →
Today at work, we experienced one of those puzzles you read but rarely experience in real life. We have a relatively new row in our server room at work, where it is surrounded closely on three sides by walls. on one of the short ends, there is a plastic barrier you can walk through (think Continue reading →
last week i attended vmware’s annual conference, vmworld 2009. since i am doing so much shooting this year, i decided to bring my widelux f7 camera with me to the conference. by carrying it with me, i managed to meet a lot of photographers there, including many who shoot (including one 4×5 guy!). the conference Continue reading →
next week i am giving a presentation at vmware’s annual conference, vmworld 2009 (breakout session VM1461). it’s a pretty big thing for me. i’ve done presentations for user groups but not like this: audio/video crew, session owner, audio recording, wireless microphones, session feedback surveys. this conference will have about 10,000 attendees. the speaker staff is Continue reading →
on june 11th, our group at work went to beresford park in san mateo, one of their many municipal picnic areas. it turned out to be a warm day and, with a lot going on at the office, a nice break to be outside. i brought my rolleicord for the day, with some ilford delta Continue reading →
once in a while, my job brings an opportunity to write some sort of documentation. this week i gave an internal presentation on a vmware product named lab manager. getting a bit tired of the vmware slides, which all use the same small set of icons, i decided to do my own. using a blue Continue reading →
(800×638, 2500×1993) yesterday i took my crown graphic to work to show a coworker of mine. the weather was nice, so we went out to the front of out building and i took this shot. too bad i didn’t have a 25A filter for this! some detals: 4×5 ilford delta 100, rated 125, souped in Continue reading →
at work i take great pride in what i do. i love working in the server room, a unique physical environment where the computers that run the company live. i enjoy building new infrastructure, and tuning systems. at my current employer, i’ve written scripts that succintly summarize backups, automatically provision monitoring, and completely prepare a Continue reading →