A remarkable new camera from Lytro uses Light Fields (the gory details of how it all works are here) to capture images. The result is, you can focus the image after it has been taken. Try it on the image below.
Although the initial cameras are very much consumer products, they are only the beginning of what could be a radical change in digital photography.
This fellow perched on a branch in our back yard this evening.
We haven’t seen many mice around lately.
My dog paid a visit to St. Hilda’s this evening to see if it would meet his spiritual needs.
He tells me he is spiritual, not religious, wants to know if the church will bless something he has going on with the male Chihuahua who lives next door, and would like to know if he could bring him next week as they journey together along their path of deepening spirituality.
I suggested he sniff out a Diocese of Niagara parish.
While we were in Greece there was a one day strike which disrupted very little – for us, at least – and we saw some of the demonstrations in Athens; no violence, though. The locals we spoke to were sympathetic to the demonstrators but had no use for the rioters who, they were convinced, were imported professional agitators.
More Athens photos here.
The Acropolis
Mars Hill where St. Paul preached:
Street vendor:
These six Greek Orthodox monasteries, built between the 14th and 16th centuries, are located at Metéora and most are perched on high cliffs accessible by staircases cut into the rock and through a basket or net that is lowered by a rope from the top. Supplies are still hoisted up this way and, at one time, the monks were too.
The narthex of each, where unbaptized worshippers had to wait, is decorated with scenes of gruesome torture that early Christians had to endure: dismemberment, disembowelling, flaying and similar disincentives to holding fast to Christianity. The idea was to impress on new or prospective converts the sacrifices made by their forebears. Not what we would think of today as a warmly welcoming seeker friendly experience – but it worked, apparently.
To my intense annoyance, my DSLR body chose the second day of our excursion to self-destruct, so these photos are taken with a very limited point and shoot camera. Such was my frustration that my wife persuaded me to buy a replacement body when we returned to Athens.
The moon this evening was 356,577 kilometres away – the closest to earth it has been for 18 years.
It was a lovely clear night and this is what it looked like from my back garden in Oakville.
A few photos I took this afternoon in our local woods in the late afternoon sunlight.
