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Here is a smattering of images from the weekend. I really enjoyed myself although I only kayaked once due to rather inclement weather; however, I did take a few long day trips into the nooks and crannies around the Bay. I found great little areas, off the beaten path. The wildlife was great and there were many opportunities to take great images!

All but the macro images taken with an Olympus 60mm were taken with the Panasonic 100-300mm. The long telephoto is an effort to focus at the long end, but I am getting more proficient.

OMG!

Amazing footage of the rare goblin shark here. Check out how its jaw extends like an Alien when attacking.

It is a thing now, these bloated whales.

The office was abuzz today with the CBC news story about the bloated whale washed up in NewFoundland. Not to be outdone, The Atlantic has a brief history of exploding whales, with video here.

I am quite excited about getting a Quadcopter and GoPro for kayaking and other things this summer. Philip Bloom does a great review and commentary here. This is part 1 of 3. The videos at the bottom of the page are quite nice.

Maps plus time lapse! Hell yeah!

A time lapse showing the various borders of the various states and other entities in the past 1000 year here.

Today is rather overcast. I fixed the Tokina so that the aperture was wide open. I have not been able to replicate the blue spot.

Here is a Jehovah Witness video designed to teach deaf children not to masterbate. It is dubbed with a 50 cent track.

It was really bright this afternoon so I decided to see if I could replicate the “blue spot” that has been reported using this Mitakon lens adaptor. On a very bright brick wall at f1.4 it was quite apparent but I didn’t realize it until I uploaded the images to review. It isn’t in other images at f4 and above. A little tricky to use but I enjoyed myself! The only issue is what to shoot at approx. 71mm. So here are a few images from earlier today including a crop to show the moon.

You can see the blue dot clearly at 11mm in the bottom two images taken with the Tokina, especially in the crop… It appears that, for the Tokina, when the lens is wide open there is no blue dot. In the 50mm, the opposite is true! When I stop down the aperture, the dot disappears!

I did, however, open the lens up manually (the adapter doesn’t have aperture control) but that works fine. I will re-test this in the sunlight and revisit this issue since I really want to use this lens and adapter for architecture while travelling.

First Borgen and now this: an ad campaign that rewards women for getting pregnant while on vacation! Yes. That’s right, after discovering that a large percentage of baby making occurs while on vacation, there is now added incentive for doing so. Let’s see in one year what the impact is on the birth rate!

My friends and I fly helicopters once in a while at the office. Flight Club would be insane with one of these.

Here is an awesome video using the quadcopter in Alaskan ice caves.