Triathlon photography

Ryandlrg, Foto, Hardtsee

This weekend I photographed the local DLRG (German equivalent to American Lifeguard Association) while they kept watch over the swimming part of a large triathlon here (Kraichgau Challenge). The swimmers started in 2 groups (1.9km and 1.5km) at the Hardtsee in Ubstadt-Weiher. It did get a bit cloudy by late afternoon, but the whole morning and early afternoon the weather was great allowing me to get some good shots. I selected around 45 photos, cleaned up the lighting where needed, and uplaoded them to the DLRG Ubstadt-Weiher picture gallery

Hardtsee Ubstadt-Weiher
Hardtsee Ubstadt-Weiher

HDR / DRI pictures

Ryan2 Comments on HDR / DRI picturesgta4, HDR, nikon, Photomatix, Photoshop, Wedding

I admin, I haven’t been updating my blog all to often lately. Mainly due to a) nothing special happening and b) getting stuff prepared for our wedding. So what have I been doing the last few weeks? Well, I finally installed and played GTA IV (which I bought many months ago ;))

Other than that I’ve been plaing around with my camera (and Photoshop CS3) a bit. Tried some light painting, played around with HDR a bit (bought myself a Photomatix license since it can handle my nikon raw format natively), added some of the stuff to my deviant art page d0py.deviantart.com

rrdtool tricks / tips

Ryan1 Comment on rrdtool tricks / tipsbash, rrdtool

There are various different ways to generate rrdtool images. And most people will probably be generating elaborate ones out of perl or php scripts. The ones I am currently generating are built in a shell script (bash) and I was really having a problem with quotes and white space here for a while. If you generate the query and save it in a variable, the quotes go to hell and your white space (e.g. a space in a COMMENT) starts causing problems. my solution may not be the best, but it works without any trouble: Throw the whole command line into a temporary file and then use eval to create the graph. The following is not a complete statement, just a few lines as an example.

Du bist Terrorist (You are a Terrorist)

Ryan1 Comment on Du bist Terrorist (You are a Terrorist)

Sadly, this isn’t a joke or just being paranoid. The politicians are going a bit overboard with internet censorship right now (elections this year). They are currently trying to pass a law, allowing the BKA (the German FBI) to block sites on the internet and monitor people trying to access the blocked sites. The BKA can freely decide which sites to block, and no one except for the BKA officially  knows which sites are on the list.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGD2q2vewzQ

You are a Terrorist! A Campaign against Terrorists.
United for a safer Germany. The Campaign „Du bist Deutschland“ (You are Germany) in 2005 was the beginning of a wave of positive spirit in the whole country. This combined energy has turned backwards in 2009, because now you are a potencial Terrorist and you have to be watched closely.