So, like….I took some pictures of the de facto capital of Canada. This is a follow up to my pictures of People I’m still not sure what to make of the city. Don’t get me wrong, its a good city (sit Ubu sit). I’m having a hard time comparing it to any of the cities I’ve been to. I can say though, with a very high level of confidence that its better than Edmonton.
Well anyway, here’s the link to my flickr photo set, and as usual here’s a few snippets:
So some posts might not have far reaching appeal to mass audiences. This one pretty much has an appeal to about 7 people, 3 cats and 2 Snoopys and 1 Dirigible.
I know in a previous post I mentioned that I was moving away from Picasa towards Flickr. I think I’m partially doing that. For random silly pictures I think I’m going to keep going with Picasa since so many of my friends have a google account and commenting and following is still decent in Picasa. But as mentioned before, the resolution algorithms on Picasa blows, so “real” photos will be handled by flickr.
Anyway, If you want to see some general tomfoolery, shenanigans and skylarkings by some of Ben Co.’s greatest minds and followers, click here. Generally speaking most pictures involve beer, standing looking stupid, sitting looking stupid or posing stupidly.
For a brief period last Thursday, I had access to the 41st Floor of 200 Public Square (née: BP Building). Seen here in the center of this Urbanohio.com Image
The weather wasn’t necessarily Ideal, it was hazy, overcast and windy. But when you have access to the 41st floor and might I add there was outdoor access, you have to seize the opportunity to get snappin‘!
Last weekend I went out to the spooky old cemetery on the southern fringe of Cleveland’s downtown. Its old. Some headstones predating the Civil War, or the Antebellum era for all you english majors. Not sure how it got in such bad shape. Vandals, smog, soot and marmots have clearly taken their toll on the area.
Its famous gates. These are actually made from the remains of the old Superior Viaduct, which I snapped a few pics of in a previous post.
In an earlier post I had mentioned that I was switching my photos over to Flickr versus Picasa. There were quite a few things I enjoyed about Picasa. I think the biggest benefit was having so many different of my online tools running through my Google Account, (gmail, documents, calendar, etc.), that it made a lot of sense to use Picasa. Most of my other friends have a google account, so sharing and commenting on photos was easy enough.
Now, a decent deal of my photos are hosted on UrbanOhio’s servers, then hotlinked elsewhere. Picasa was good for non-UO photos and quick uploads without having to meander through FTP world. So for the random image, or the random post, I’d throw the image up on Picasa, then hot-link it here. However, during my last post, I was seeing a lot of loss with image quality. When I upload photos, I generally upload at a high resolution, generally around 3000×2300 because that how my camera shoots (and unless storage size is an issue, I’m not going to bother with resizing). Picasa and Flickr both take it upon themselves to resize the image, while keeping the original in tact. Unfortunately, Picasa does a piss poor job of this. I don’t know if its some weird algorithm or whatever, but its clearly a case of everything Google touches does not turn to gold. Below are two exhibits.
Huzah! Spring is here! And early in spring with cool evenings and low humidity usually makes for good nighttime photography. Here’s some snippets. I think I’m changing up my photo hosting away from picasa. These are hosted on flickr, and I’ll blog about that later.
For larger resolutions and a few alternative takes and edits, click here
My subject for the night was Cleveland’s bridges. More specifically my most favorite bridge of all, the Center Street Swing Bridge
Since I only have the power to look backwards in time, I’d like to share with you a montage of my photography from 2007. Two things:
1) I help run this website UrbanOhio. I’ll give it a proper introductions later, gotta space out my material.
2) I have never thought myself to be a “good” photographer (and no I’m not fishing for “woe is me” compliments.) I like photography because I do. The pictures included in the link below represent places I’ve been, memories, city’s, stories or just a laugh.
And now something from the “I Don’t Have Time for an In-depth Post” files.
Okay, okay, I know this is a little schmaltzy, but I still think these are some pretty striking images. As far as I can tell these are authentic, but someone let me know if I’ve been duped.
Have a look at the posts, make snide remarks, post something of your own, insult me - pretty much do whatever you want.
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