Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: rack

Two stories today.... Last year I listened to my entire CD collection. The main object was to hear everything; a lesser-but-important goal was to cull about a third of the albums and sell 'em on Amazon. Two years ago I owned 750 or so compact disks and they were scattered randomly all over the office. I'm now down to about 500 disks, with about two thirds of those in these racks and the others in decent order. My main 366 Snaps photo idea a year ago was more or less this pic. Capturing what I could see turned out to be more difficult than I'd expected, and I ended up taking many pix from a variety of angles. Then I went with my fallback. This is not my complete music collection. I've many recordings in a variety of formats. I still need to figure out what to do with those... ========== My fallback photo was of the Denny Baxter & Lew Chamberlin bobblehead, which lives (well, lived) on this rack. That became the 366 Snaps image. There are many reasons to own a minor league baseball team, most of which I consider legitimate. My favorite owners, though, risked their fortune to bring a team to their home town. Denny & Lew, who own the West Michigan Whitecaps, fit that model. It turned out, too, that they were singularly good at running a minor league franchise, and the team's prospered. These are people I admire. I generally avoid bobblehead giveaways. This bobble I wanted. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 48 Title of " roll :" CD Rack Other photos taken on 11/26/2012: none.

Two stories today.... Last year I listened to my entire CD collection. The main object was to hear everything; a lesser-but-important goal was to cull about a third of the albums and sell 'em on Amazon. Two years ago I owned 750 or so compact disks and they were scattered randomly all over the office. I'm now down to about 500 disks, with about two thirds of those in these racks and the others in decent order. My main 366 Snaps photo idea a year ago was more or less this pic. Capturing what I could see turned out to be more difficult than I'd expected, and I ended up taking many pix from a variety of angles. Then I went with my fallback. This is not my complete music collection. I've many recordings in a variety of formats. I still need to figure out what to do with those... ========== My fallback photo was of the Denny Baxter & Lew Chamberlin bobblehead, which lives (well, lived) on this rack. That became the 366 Snaps image. There are many reasons to own a minor league baseball team, most of which I consider legitimate. My favorite owners, though, risked their fortune to bring a team to their home town. Denny & Lew, who own the West Michigan Whitecaps, fit that model. It turned out, too, that they were singularly good at running a minor league franchise, and the team's prospered. These are people I admire. I generally avoid bobblehead giveaways. This bobble I wanted. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 48 Title of " roll :" CD Rack Other photos taken on 11/26/2012: none.

And a self-portrait, in the mirror. I'd post a similar photo to 366 Snaps on April 10 . It snowed last February 24th. Between the weather and my need to do prep work (mostly laundry) for our impending vacation, I only shot indoor pictures. But I shot a lot of indoor pictures. I tinkered with the camera settings, playing with focus (as best I could control it), depth of field (likewise), and contrast. I also experimented with camera angles and lighting. I was testing the camera's limits in easily-controlled situations. I'd shoot many of these photographs again, with different cameras, so most of the day's shots from can be called rehearsals for photographs I'd take later in the project. ========== Rant! By this time I was growing weary of the Bionic. While the software is adequate , the phone makes a frustrating camera. The main issue is ergonomics. The design features that make the Bionic's hardware a good telephone (and/or a useful computer) work against its camera functionality. This is a difficult camera to hold still, as there's really nothing to grab except the device's edges. The bracing I routinely do to stablize my DSLR simply isn't possible when you're holding a narrow glass-and-aluminum box. And the camera's on-screen shutter release requires a certain amount of finger contortion; this does not contribute to image stability. More: The lens is merely adequate, and easily soiled. (To be fair, it's also easily cleaned.) The zoom--which seems to be entirely electronic--is a joke; I didn't get a single decent zoomed photo during this month of experimentation. This is not meant to suggest that the camera's not useful--I got some excellent photographs last February, and everyone encounters situations where an adequate camera's enough to document their life. But I'd not call it a serious camera. End of rant. Of course, Moto didn't intend it as a serious camera. And I'm actually glad I invested a month in it. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 57 Title of " roll :" Around the House Other photos taken on 2/24/2012: I shot 4 pictures for what would prove to be my last eBay auction.