Tag Archive for 'photos'

Portugal

We’ve just returned from a week cruising through Portugal in a rental car. Wondeful place, photos and stories soon…

castle and olive trees

castle and olive trees

Aperture, and keeping GPS metadata

So after starting to use Maperture to geotag my photos, I’ve discovered that exported versions don’t include the GPS EXIF data (masters are ok). A few people have noticed this problem(1, 2), and there is a “fix.” This fix involves storing your piccies outside the Aperture library, which seems like a really sucky option to me.

I’ve found that exporting a project, and then reimporting it is an alternative solution. Evidently something doesn’t get updated when Maperture changes the original files (though the metadata turns up in Apertures info), but this gets re-done when the project is reimported.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that it doesn’t support DNG files. It will let you try and tag them, and adds the “Geotagged” keyword, but doesn’t edit or add the GPS exif data.

B-Side

I’m a big fan of the b-side lounge, and the b-sidecar…

b-side

b-side

They also have excellent mac ‘n’ cheese. Yum

Provincetown II

I love the Cape so much we went out there for my second trip in a few weeks, this time by car. We saw (generally actually old and expensive) antiques, marshy coastal stuff,

Cape Cod National Seashore

Cape Cod National Seashore

and a beautiful sunset from Race Point.

Race Point sunset

Race Point sunset

How much the colour of the sunset is due to air pollution I don’t want to know… More photos here.

White Mountains

We just spent a lovely week in the White Mountains, a few hours north of Boston. We tented on the hard campground sites, ate granola bars and breakfast diner food, saw chipmunks,

got nuts?

got nuts?

waterfalls,

one of many

one of many

great views,

toy train from a hilltop

toy train from a hilltop

and wierd fungi.

not quite sure

not quite sure

We also only drove someting a bit over 300 miles for the whole week. More photos here.

Provincetown

I had a nice day out in Provincetown last weekend. We caught the boat and had a liesurely day, with the only real effort being the obligatory climb up the Pilgrim Monument.

Provincetown

Provincetown

The rest of the photos are here.

Where to sleep near Harvard Sq

Walking home late one night last week I doscovered where the homeless people in Harvard Square sleep. This is the entrance to the Co-op (pronounced like a chicken coop), where you can buy books, coffee, and all sorts of touristy crap.

homeless sleeping at the harvard coop

homeless sleeping at the harvard coop

James Nachtwey

Amazing photos of things wrong with the world..

Elections

Boston being a blue state and all, I guess the state of this McCain sign isn’t all that surprising…

vandalised sign

vandalised sign

Flights

I made it to Boston, its wonderful to see my friends here again! The trip, not so much fun, though there were some nice views out the plane window at times…

somewhere over the USA

somewhere over the USA

More photos here.