It seems like the more pictures I take the more fascinated I get with the process.
The sky outside was a really cool set of colors earlier this evening so I decided to try and get some pictures. Shooting out of the window is always tricky but I’m starting to get the hang of it.
I love motion in photographs and when I have a chance to try and capture it I do what I can to do just that.
The first thing I did was take twelve photos and turned them in to a collage. The photos themselves showed some nice motion individually but I wanted to see what the combination looked like. That’s the picture at the left.
Then I decided to see what I could do with ImageMagick to create an animated version of twelve of the photos I took. That’s the picture below.

Who says animated gifs are a complete waste of time?
posted by Colin J. at 2:28 pm
Not only does this look like a great burrito, the description is a great explanation of what a real burrito is and what is wrong with the east coast idea of a burrito.
Right now I’m really missing Albuquerque.
posted by colinj-flickr at 8:59 am
This is the kind of story that I feel moved to speak about but I’m not at all sure what to say. I want to be able to put this kind of thing in perspective but how do you do that. Over 40 years ago the buddhist monk Thích Quảng Ðức burned himself to death to protest the repressive Diem regime in Vietnam.
Last Friday a man in Chicago (tentatively identified as
I can only hope that his actions do get folks, at least some, to think about what is going on in the name of the U.S. around the world and maybe, just maybe, start working for a change.
posted by Colin J. at 9:41 am