Marigold flower unopened

Marigold flower unopened, originally uploaded by Otto Phokus.

It's amazing what pictures people like, you can't even guess it right, you just have to put up your best, and a lot of variety, and see what takes off. I happen to like this one, the bokah, blur, and colors of this picture; and someone else marked it as a favorite too.

Frozen Pond Fun

Frozen Pond Fun, originally uploaded by Otto Phokus.

As you can see the Pond is frozen over, and it is being cleared for ice skating and ice hockey. I am also using this picture as my first test post from Flickr to blog. Photrade is having a hard go of it since they lost all there funding as a result of the current financial crisis, and it's a coin toss as to how long they can keep going. Flickr is the premier picture site anyway, so I am just going to upload to there from now on.

One of my Photos used on a Website! Hooray!!!!

Finally, one of my photos was selected to be used on a website. The woman contacted me and asked if she could use the picture. That's a first for me! She said there are 2 more she wants to use. It made my day, week, year. If you can't get the the link I have included for the web page where my picture is located. I have a copy of what she used it for here:

Webpage link

Time Machine

Time Machine backup strategy/solution. I was able to get a 1TB USB 2.0 external hard drive for just a little over a $100 after the rebate. I paid a little more in October 2007 for my original 500 GB external hard drive to use with Time Machine. The 500 gb drive was down to 100 GB left, and I wanted to get the 1TB drive to move the backups over to the new drive, and erase and reformat the old hard drive to use for my digital pictures, and also as a network share off my Apple Airport Extreme, so I can move files back and forth between the MacBook Air, and the G5 Powermac that has 2 internal 400 gb drives. So I should theoretically be covered by the 1 TB drive, since the MacBook Air has an 80 GB hard drive (about 74 available for use), and the two, 400 Gb hard drives (about 370 available for use), so that leaves a total of a little over 800 GB possible to be backed up to the 1 TB drive ( about 931 available for use.

When I bought the G5 PowerMac in 2005, I knew I was going to use it for digital video, and Photography, so I loaded up on the hard drive space. I was starting to run low on space though, even with the bigger hard drives, and I just started taking pictures with my Nikon DSLR this year.

It took 12 hours to copy the approximately 350 GB over to the new hard drive, and then another 6 hours to verify the information on the new hard drive. I had renamed the volume the same as the old volume, and held my breath as I turned off the old hard drive, and then turned on the Time Machine backup, and it connected back up to the new hard drive, and did the hourly backup. I checked the backups, and everything back to the original October 2007 backup was still there,success, Wow!

Definitly a better solution now for the MacBook Air too, now it is easier to share and use files and programs from the shared network hard drive, rather then keeping on the hard drive of the MacBook Air.

I'm shaking off a small cold or flu, just had the flu shot last Tuesday, and today my nose is running,congested, headache, slight fever. Finally napped about an hour, and my nose has dried up, and sore throat gone, so hopefully I'm good to go for the new week.

Smiling Yellow Jacket

Another picture from my album on Photrade. I will have to figure out how to make thumb nails of previous pictures, and I want to add a few more gadgets to the blog, but for now I have to get ready for my real day job!

First Blog Post - mostly a test.

One of many pictures I have taken with my digital camera, a Nikon D40x. This one of the Caterpillar, was taken with a lensbaby 2.0 Selective Focus Lens. I am mostly using one of my 2 Lensbaby lenses right now for pictures, and will post a lot more links to my Photrade page. Hope you like them.