Sunday Afternoon Ride

18 October 2009

Up until about a month ago I’d only ever ridden mountain bikes, and I was skeptical of how fun road biking would be.  Having biked to work a few times since then I’m now solidly sold on the virtues of thin wheels.

I think what I like most about road biking is how much distance you can cover in a relatively short period of time.  For example, this afternoon I took a 2-hour ride round the tip of the SF peninsula and was able to take in views of Crissy Field, the Golden Gate, Ocean Beach, Lake Merced, and Golden Gate Park.

Here’s the route, logged on My Tracks. You can click the start/end point for details.


View SF Ocean Beach Loop in a larger map

New room mate

24 June 2009

So it looks like next week I’ll be getting an additional room mate, check out her blog at http://macpup.net.

Spilt Milk

1 June 2009


v9

29 May 2009

I just moved my site over to a new simplified model, getting rid of my crazy custom CMS system and moving the blog to wordpress.  If you follow this in an RSS reader, sorry for spamming you with a bunch of old posts.

Shasta Polaroids

26 May 2009

A couple of weeks ago I picked up an old Polaroid Sun 660 from a guy on Craigslist.  It was a mere $20, but since Polaroid have stopped production the film is rather more expensive; about $1.50 to $2 a pop depending on expiry date.

A group of us went house boating on Lake Shasta last weekend.  We took a tonne of polaroids which Tessa was kind enough to scan.

The camera rocks.  It’s big and chunky, and takes a good 20s to charge up the flash, but the noise it makes when you take a photo, and the retro-quality of the prints are awesome.

Checkmate

18 May 2009

I’m really pleased with the way this photo turned out. It was taken for the Assignment 52 Flickr Group and I’d been planning it in my head for a few days.

I’m not a big chess player by any means, but I wanted an authentic scene for this shot, so I looked-up some famous matches on Google. I found The Game of the Century, where 13-year old Bobby Fischer beat a renowned chess master.  This photo replicates the last move in that match.

Tessa turned out to be a great hand model :)