Web 2 accounts, coffee addiction, develope iPhone app

Well I've been working on getting all my web things in sycn, ie: facebook, flickr, You Tube, Photrade, the Otto Phokus blog, and I was wondering what would ever happen if these services went out of business. Not only these Web 2 social sites, but some of the others. People have put a lot of work into setting up, and maintaining their accounts, it would be a catastrophe in the making should some go out of business. Hmmmm, that reminds me, I wonder how Photrade is doing, I will have to check and see if they have any new messages to the members about the site. They had lost a lot of their Venture funding when the financial crisis hit, and are looking at any way possible to stay in business.

If you read my blog before you know of my caffein/coffee addiction, but it is going pretty good, I have been drinking about 2/3 or more decafe coffee, and about 32 ounces a day instead of 64 ounces. I did have a Red Eye today at Starbucks on the way to work. I don't get the heebie jeebies anymore like I used to, matter of fact I get pretty darn tired around noon if I have only been drinking decafe. Have to start drinking more water too!
My picture from CC's Wooden Grill still hasn't gotten any views on Flickr, and I really kinda like that picture. Just when you least expect though, there will be gazillion views one day when I check the stats.

I have a pretty good unique idea for an iPhone application, so I have been hitting the books, and trying to get my web and coding skills up to date. I hope to have something possibly to put on the app store by Fall. I think I am going to have to spend some time at the library, or even stay at work to work on this, and also some of my Art projects. Too many distractions at home.

Just a quick post - photrade pictures

I'm finally getting around to put up aother post here on the blog. I am going to post pictures from other user's on Photrade that I like, from my contacts, or just random photos I like. The one I am posting today is from "Elisa", "After the Party". From her color gallery. I like her pictures, lots of experimenting. I am always looking forward to seeing the newest picture she puts up there on Photrade. I'll be out taking some pictures soon, and then posting them here again too.
I hadn't been out taking pictures for awhile, the weather, a cold, a toothache, and now hard disk (storage) space getting low, has been holding me back.
That's all for now, be back soon...
Heres is a picture of Tims (see attribution below picture), he made a comment on this post, said he liked the idea of featuring other photographers photos on my blog and is thinking of doing the same. Thanks Time. I like this HDR picture Tim took at the Texas Classic Car Show 2008 Rudy’s Country Store and Barbeque make a wish foundation classic cars. I would like to take more HDR pictures, but I will have to upadate my camera to one that can take bracketed exposures. Right now the Nikon D40x I use, I have to combine the exposures in the camera. Nice picture Tim! Thanks for sharing!

Autumn Harvest begins

The Autumn Harvest season is upon us now. Fall is only a few days away, Halloween is 44 days, Thanksgiving 71 days, and 99 shopping days until Christmas. Driving around the Topton, Kutztown, Maxatawny area I came across the Farmer's harvesting their pumpkin crop for market the past 2 nights. Still a lot of pumpkins out in the fields. The pictures I posted here tonight are from Burkholder's Farm Market outside of Kutztown. I have some pictures from the commercial farm fields I took today, but not posted yet on my photrade web page. They have security in trucks patrolling the roads around the fields. They waved to me as I was in the field taking pictures. Must of thought I was from a newspaper. Didn't take any free pumpkins, I will buy them if I want them. They looked so tempting though, and I just love drawing and painting pumpkins.

Lilly, iPhone, Kanji,

Edited the Blog title, added one of my drawings from life drawing class. Just changing things up a bit, see what works out best. 

This morning I can't decided what picture I want to spotlight from my Photrade Gallery. And when I choose one, and write about the picture, in the future it won't be attached to the blog in the Archive, but still in the Photrade Gallery website. So, I will always have to make that reference to view the picture on that site, if reading from the Archive. 

Not much happening from the Apple Special Event September 9, 2008 that was earth shattering,  but nice upgrade to the iPod/iTouch line, and iTunes 8. Now I can hopefully add the 97 apps I downloaded back onto my iPhone and it won't crash. I was restoring my iPhone and backing it up too much, and it was taking up most of my time. I felt like I was back in pre Apple Computer days of 1999 before I switched to Mac. I was constantly having to restore the Operating System software, and then the applications, and any data I could salvage. With the iPhone 2.1 OS coming out on Friday, Steve Jobs said at the Keynote, that these issues were addressed.

The iPhone issue is causing a Domino effect on everything else in my life, I am 2 weeks behind on the 2 Web classes I am taking, and new classes come out on Wednesday and Friday. So I have a lot of catching up to do, and that is just the beginning.

A quick word on the Japanese Kanji as Art. I think taking the art approach as I am with Kanji will help get back into painting, more specifically Watercolor, and Pen & Ink. I really miss it, and the digital photography has filled that creative gap so far. Plus the photography is instant gratification. 

Time to get ready for the day job, the picture for today will be Lilly, the farm dog. She is so fast it's hard to get a picture of her standing still. I like this one I took, almost like she is posing, vouge, for the picture. I have some more of her in my picture gallery's too. (Oh good, I just figured out how to edit my post's. I'm still finding my writing voice and style, and going through a little learning curve with the blog)

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.