Wistful Skies

17 Aug
2010

Wistful Skies from Adam Richardson on Vimeo.

Time-lapse of a sunrise, storm and some clouds. Toronto, August 2010.

Music Credit:

Artist: Kendra Springer
Album: Hope
Song: Wistful
License: Creative Commons
Links:
http://www.kendraspringer.com/
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/55571

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A storm was heading my way on Sunday, and I was hoping to get a timelapse of lightning. So, I set up my camera, tripod and intervalometer and started shooting. While there wasn’t much lightning, I was able to capture the storm as it passed by. I was even treated to really cool rainbow (rainbow rays!!!) that started its formation close to my apartment. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the start of a rainbow. Sadly, no pot of gold from what I could tell.

To get a shot of the beginning of the rainbow, I had to interrupt my timelapse and reposition the camera. Which in hindsight was a mistake. I could have had a timelapse of the rainbow forming and then disappearing. I cut these frames out of the video since there weren’t many and created an awkward cut. So, in the video, I have the rainbow fading away. The advantage to this was the new angle offered a nice view of clouds passing out to the horizon.

There’s a crappy audio edit in the video. I didn’t have enough material to fill a point in the song where I could cut to the last bit. Maybe with a few more timelapses I’ll re-visit the video. Enjoy!

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Thanksgiving 2009 – Road Trip

7 Nov
2009

I’ve uploaded some photos on my flickr account from the Road Trip I went on over Thanksgiving Weekend.

I have some more to go through and some time lapse videos I made. Some spectacular views!

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This is only a test…

7 Nov
2009

I’m testing out Windows Live Writer to write my blog posts. Not sure if I like this but we will see.

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Now that I have said some stuff I”ll just say, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah balh <—got that far before a typo. I am sad. I shouldn’t post pictures of that Pumpkin Pie…it was way too good…I must go back to Vermont to get more!

In fact, I’ve just added a review of the place I got the pie from,  P & H Truck Stop

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Thanksgiving Weekend Road Trip 01

9 Oct
2009

I’m currently 6 hours into the start of a Thanksgiving Weekend Road Trip with David and Joseph. We’ve just entered Quebec.

I got a bit bored in the back seat, so I set up my blog to work with the word press iPhone app – which I just downloaded! I love 3G data network!

We are heading to a border crossing near Montreal then we’ll briefly be on a highway in New York State (Excelsior). From there we’ll cross into Vermont (Freedom and Unity), and stay at a hotel over night. Tomorrow, we drive to New Hampsire (Live Free or Die).

The plan is to see the site’s around and including Mt. Washington. If I can figure out how to blog a photo from my iPhone, I’ll be sure to post, as that should be a spectacular view

Once I’m home I’ll post some proper photos.

Dang lost 3g data network. I was going to check on the MLB Playoffs on the iPhone MLB @bat app.

I’ll try to blog a few more times over the weekend.

Oh, found out how to insert photos into the blog post. Cool stuff!

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Flickr – My faves.

25 Sep
2009

Recently found out that you can embed slide shows from Flickr into your blog, so I’ve done that with my photos tagged with “my favs”:

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Toronto Zoo, August 2009

9 Aug
2009

I went to the Toronto Zoo yesterday and waded through a serious of 466 photos or so, that I took. That’s a bit more efficient than the last time I went to the zoo.

Here’s one of the 68 photos I posted on my flickr account:

Siberian Tiger cooling off in a pool

Siberian Tiger cooling off in a pool

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My vimeo site…

28 Jul
2009

Well, I haven’t updated in awhile – originally due to laziness, now due to being too busy!

Started working as an assistant editor on a 4-episode tv series – things have picked up quite a bit lately.

When I’ve had a spare moment, I’ve been working on some motion graphics/video work, which you can see here:

http://www.vimeo.com/user900995/

Here’s one of the videos I have put up at vimeo:

Tilt-Shift – Edwards Gardens, Toronto from Upsidedownjim on Vimeo.

I’ve been starting to work in Cinema 4D with the goal of having a pretty decent graphics/editing reel put together by the time my current assistant editing job ends.

Hopefully I’ll stick to that plan!

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Photo: Leafy Beetle

27 Apr
2009
Beetle in High Park, Toronto

Beetle in High Park, Toronto

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Working under the hood…part 1: Flickr Photostream

22 Apr
2009

Well, the set up of this blog is still on going and will likely never end! I’ve dug a bit into the CSS/PHP behind the site and I think I’m starting to get an inkling of what’s going on. I’ve been trying to tackle the issues I mentioned in my blog post, “Getting this blog going…”

I spent a few hours today trying to resolve some of the issues I’ve been having and have come up with some form of solution(s) to those issues.

After this blog post got incredibly long(er) I decided I would break it down into parts so that each issue would be a separate blog entry. This way I can detail what the issue was and how I solved it without boring you all at once.

Part 1: Flickr Photostream

The first issue I tackled was getting thumbnails of my flickr site to display on the side bar to right.

Read the rest of this entry »

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Getting this blog going…

20 Apr
2009

So, I finally decided that I should have a proper blog and I should properly update it with frequent posts.  Over the past few days, I’ve been trying to figure out how to set up a self-hosted Wordpress blog.  Fortunately, my subscription to Lynda.com had some training on blogging and a few google searches found some helpful sites.

I’ve also been seeking out snazzy looking Wordpress themes. After several attempts I think I’ll stick with this design, Evidens (Dark) Theme by Design Disease. Of course, if another theme catches my eye, that could change.

Some of the tweaks/issues I’ve been having with this theme:

  • Flickr Photostream ( plugin: adv Flickr RSS) isn’t loading photos from my account and I can’t figure out why that is.
  • I’d like to have the “Flickr Photostream” and “Latest Tweets” (plugin: Twitter Tools) have the same link properties as the rest of the site ( ie, hover orange, and blue visited)
  • Latest Tweets is only showing one tweet at a time, I’d like to increase that to 5 or so.
  • Comments box text is almost the same colour as the background making it difficult to see the text.

I’m definitely thankful for free themes and of  the time it takes to make them but I’m getting frustrated with not being able to tweak it  exactly the way I would like.  That is my current limitation, not the designers, but I think this may finally motivate me to gain a better understanding of how CSS and PHP work.

If the blog is spotty or things don’t look quite right, that’s probably me messing around where I shouldn’t be. :)

Cheers.

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