Archive for September, 2009
Starry Backyard
Posted by Prentice Wongvibulsin in Photography on September 24, 2009
I’ve been wanting to shoot the stars since I got my 85mm f/1.2 but it was way too bright in Orange County and since I got back to SLO, I’ve been pretty busy and I’ve also been too lazy to go too far at night… but I was surprised when I got pretty decent photos from my backyard! I can’t wait to shoot in Montana De Oro at night!
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Tabs in Vim
Posted by Prentice Wongvibulsin in Development on September 16, 2009
Did you know vim supports tabs?
try vim -p foo bar to open the files foo and bar in tabs.
alternatively, the :tabnew bar command opens the file bar in a new tab
:tabs lists the tabs open.
:tabnext to visit the next tab.
For more information, visit the vimdoc site.
American Heart Association Heart Walk
Posted by Prentice Wongvibulsin in Photography on September 13, 2009
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I went to shoot my sister running in the Heart Walk at the OC Great Park today. Good weather, good run, good photos.
See the full set here.
Canon 5D Mark II Memory Stick
Posted by Prentice Wongvibulsin in Just for fun on September 13, 2009
Anywho, looks like the famous Vincent Laforet nabbed Yosemite Trip, Summer 2009
Posted by Prentice Wongvibulsin in Just for fun, Photography, Uncategorized on September 11, 2009
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This past weekend, my friends and I took an awesome trip to Yosemite. For our 3 day trip, we planned on hiking Cloud’s Rest when we got there on Saturday, Half Dome on Sunday and go relax and rafting in the valley on Monday before we drive home.
So to get there early enough to do Cloud’s Rest we decided to leave SLO at around 5am and drive to Tenaya Lake where we’d start our hike.
Unfortunately when we got there, the road to Tenaya Lake was closed due to the fires… so change of plans…
We decided to stop at Bridalveil Falls and explore that area since it was on the way into the valley…
There was nearly no water left coming down the falls so we were able to climb all the way into the base of the waterfall!
Nick ventured into the icy cold waters 
We also stopped to get some food Nadia really seemed to enjoy…
Then met up with Eric and Angie to hike around Mirror Lake… which was also completely dry!
On the hike I found this squirrel who was lit just perfectly by a ray of sun that broke through the trees above…
On our way back to Curry Village, we encountered some deer near the campgrounds…
It was interesting that we saw more deer here than during our Half Dome hike. All the hikers must have scared the deer away from the trails 
.
We also encountered some assholes who decided to litter beer cans all over the ground… so Nick heroically ran to recycle them
Then we took a nice drive up to the top of Glacier Point where we got a good view of Half Dome.
There were some pretty amazing views from up there and we even packed an awesome dinner Nadia made for us to enjoy with the scenery!
The next day we began our hike before the sun rose… at 5 am, we left Curry Village.
Amazingly, even the Mist trail was dry…
It was freezing once we got up to Nevada Falls… I think the temperature was in the 50’s or 40’s!
After many more hours of hiking, we were close… nearly to the top!
We then stopped for lunch and rested up our feet for the long hike up the stairs…
and then up the cables…
a super steep climb, nearly 60 degrees maybe at some points.
But we finally made it to the top!
And stood on inspiration point…
And jumped some more….
We even saw a man in a Kilt on top of Half Dome!
Then it was time to go down…
Almost a straight plunge down…
Better not let go
After making it back down, we hiked to Nevada Falls…
where we cooled off our feet in the awesome water…
and filled up our water bottles….
and jumped some more…
then we continued our journey back down…
By the time we got back, it was already dark… so we started hiking before the sun rose and got back after the sun set. It was an epic hike that took over 12 hours climbing over 5000ft in approximately 16 miles.
The next day we had anticipated rafting, but since there’s hardly any water left in the river… that was closed for the season. We ended up touring the awesome architecture of the Ahwahnee Hotel and then hitting the rocks at Bridalveil Falls again.
And alas, it was time to say goodbye to the beautiful place and drive on home!
All these photos and more are in this slideshow below and in this set on
Flickr:
Blog Upgrades: Scaling Images
Posted by Prentice Wongvibulsin in Development on September 11, 2009
I hacked this theme I’m using a little to hide/show the sidebar. This allows me to put larger photos on my blog posts. Some day when I have some free time I’ll make my own theme which incorporates a fancier version of this… but here’s what this hack can do:
Example 1: I can have a link at the top of a blog post to hide the sidebar and grow the image.
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Example 2: I have a toggle button on top of the sidebar to show/hide on any post.
(click on it!)
Example 3: I can link to a blog post with the sidebar hidden by setting hide=1
Link back to this page with sidebar hidden
LInk back to this page with sidebar showing
Incase anyone is interested, this is the code I used to resize the images. This code uses on the moo tools framework. The resize_all function takes an integer sz for width and a boolean instant (optional). The instant variable allows you to resize the image without the moo transition effects (this would be useful if you wanted the images resized on load).
const SZ_SMALL = 633;
const SZ_LARGE = 900;
function resize_all(sz, instant){
if (null == sz){
sz = SZ_SMALL;
}
if (null == instant){
instant = false;
}
for (x=0; x<document.images.length; x++){
h = document.images[x].height;
w = document.images[x].width;
if (w > 600){ // ignore tiny images
factor = sz / w;
nh = factor * h;
nw = sz;
if (true == instant){
document.images[x].height = nh;
document.images[x].width = nw;
}
else{
document.images[x].set('morph',{duration: 'short',});
document.images[x].morph({height: nh, width: nw});
}
}
}
}