Breaking waves at Waimea Bay Beach Park, Oahu, Hawaii

Shot Details: NIKON D200, Nikon 500mm/f4 lens, 1/800 sec @ f4, ISO 250

I’m in a concrete box in Hawaii. I am using a sleeping bag rated for below freezing. There are tons of tiny ants around, and I’m afraid they will invade. I am exhausted. I am behind. But at least I’m here.

Using Aperture 2, I exported the wave shot I posted in the last entry, and it came out a large blemish / artifact in the sunball. After some more testing, I discovered that it was an effect of the Shadows adjustment. (read more »)

it sure is beautiful out here

The projected big NW swell hasn’t rollled in yet, but we’re hoping it will be here by morning…

black jacks and bigeye jacks at roca partida

Shot Details: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, Sigma 20mm/1.8 lens, Seacam underwater housing, 2 x Ikelite DS-125 strobes, f6.3 @ 1/100 sec, ISO 400

alex mustard swims around roca partida

This was the big rock we swam around a bunch of times while we waited for manta rays to arrive. It looks small here, but it feels pretty big when you are right next to the wall being pushed and pulled up and down by the surge. :)

Shot details: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, Canon 14mm/2.8 II lens, Seacam underwater housing, 2 x Ikelite DS-125 strobes, f7.1 @ 1/80 sec, ISO 320

I was using the wrong port extension, which explains why the image is so smeary around the edges.

Let’s imagine a world without Akismet, which has so far blocked over a million spam comments here in my online journal. If it took 1 second to delete each spam comment, I would have had to spend over 280 hours deleting spam.

a friendly manta ray at el boiler, san benedicto island

We just returned from an 8-day Wetpixel expedition to the Revillagigedos Islands, where we spent time in the water with manta rays, no fewer than 5 species of sharks, schools of tuna and jacks, and pods of bottlenose dolphins. Video slideshow and trip journal are coming shortly.

Shot details: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, Sigma 20mm/1.8 lens, Seacam underwater housing, 2 x Ikelite DS-125 strobes, f7.1 @ 1/200 sec, ISO 200

SuperDuper! 2.5 is finally out, and it’s compatible with Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard). The first thing I did when I arrived at home last night is to start backups of both my desktop and notebook to a NAS box over gigabit. Check out what SD is reporting as effective speed.

1.96MB/s is hardly “effective”

This is over a gigabit network. When I go direct file copies to the same NAS box, I get average write speeds of around 30MB/s.

I still believe that file operations over Mac networks are broken.