Canon 24mm TSE: Austin, Texas Capitol Building

I went downtown to actually shoot this from afar but couldn’t resist visiting the grounds since it was such a nice day…more specifically a great cloud day.

I also wanted to take a few standard 24mm shots and then some from the same perspective with the tilt/shift to give you an idea of the kinds of things this lens can do.

With Tilt/Shift

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Without:

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With Tilt/Shift

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Without

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I thought I broke my FireFox today.

I had to reinstall Firefox 3.0.1 (a weird oversight on my part).

Once I did that I noticed that java/java-script features on various websites no longer worked!!

So for instance:

1. when I hit anything in the post formatting boxes on a vBulletin forum (like the smileys) nothing happened, or
2. when I hit a link @ Photrade that said javascript:void(0) nothing happened.
3. Trying to use the “multi-quote” feature @ http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ also was broken.

I thought what the heck did I do! I had java & JS enabled in FF.

I restarted FF, rebooted… nothing doing in any case.

Then I go to wondering…had anything else changed today besides my reinstall of FF….YES!!!

There were 9 Microsoft XP “security” updates today!

I tried removing all of them and everything was back to normal!!!

So I’m off…off to see which one was the culprit! If anyone find it before me, comment and let me know as I won’t bother investigating it tonight…just releived I found the culprit!

Thanks MicroSoft!

24mm TSE: Austin’s 360 Bridge aka Pennybacker Bridge

This (Austin’s 360 Bridge also known as Pennybacker Bridge ) is one of my favorite landmarks to photograph in Austin. The only problem is that I’ve never been there to take pics @ sunset or sunrise………………….definitely a cardinal sin for sure for any photographer.

I have no excuses really, it’s close enough to me that it shouldn’t be a problem, I have just never taken the time (many things are like that).

This was a rare instance of free time recently that I was able to break away from the house for a couple of hours with my new lens. I wanted to see what the TSE lens would do with the bridge.

The few shots I was able to include a boat in seemed to work well with the “mini” look

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The shots that included the bridge didn’t exactly make it mini but it seemed interesting enough. I think being as close to the bridge as I was though, I’d need a much further vantage point in order to miniaturize the bridge.

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I like the way the shoreline trees came out through,

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And here I got lucky with a Ryder truck on the bridge itself.

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