The View From Here - Vancouver Island and Victoria BC Canada Photos, Photography and Mobile Photography tips, tricks, and tools
Friday, September 30, 2011
Victoria B.C, Canada Photo Walk With The Nokia X7
Enjoy scenery from the B.C capital captured July, 2011 while enjoying the company of a Nokia X7 smartphone
Thursday, September 29, 2011
MisaBC Vancouver riot panel
I had the pleasure to attend a small panel discussion at the recently held MISBC event in Sidney, B.C - MISABC is an event for the MISA organization and their membersip of Local Government professionals. The final day of the conference was a day set aside to look at GIS and Geo technologies. Part of the day was devoted to a panel discussion looking at the Vancouver riot that followed during the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals which took place in Vancouver, B.C.
The 90 minute session was ripe with discussion and several panelists with varying background in technology, new media, social networking, journalism and the likes were invited to participate and drive the discussion (sorry but I didn't take note of their names).
There was a number of interesting points raised although and there was some opposing views evident in the crowd. Additionally, there really was no winner or looser to the panel and there was no clear direction to come out of the 90 minute talks. Some of the points that I picked up (my opinion) include the following:
- there is a clear difference between a riot and a protest, although to many these lines are a bit fuzzy
- social media indeed may have played a role in growing the crowd and participation rate in the riots, however, it also played a role in alerting the world to the severity of the event
- there are many potentially harmful situations that can arise from social media sharing, particularly if a person is shown out of context
- once information is shared via social media streams you cannot take it back
- there exists the potential for people's civil liberties to be stepped on in this kind of situation
- could geo technologies have been used to a greater extent as the event unfolded? Indeed... perhaps for showing exact locations of crimes as they took place, perhaps to share potential safe passage out of the dangerous areas, and many other ways
- government and official websites and social streams may be sharing personal information without the proper policies in place
- social media cannot be blamed in any way for what transpired in Vancouver in June 2011
- attempts to control social media are crazy - attention should be paid to how to use it in the future to avoid or diffuse such situations
- there's definitely a culture gap between the middle age (and older) and youth as to how they view social media, how they use it, and what they think is appropriate to use it for.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Mobile Photog Tip - Share your Instagrams with Copygram
Instagram is an awesome mobile photog enhancement and sharing service for iPhone users, however, the service has always fallen a bit short when it comes to the archival and sharing of your instagram set. Copygr.am is a cool solution that gets the user a custom url and provides fast, simple access to your entire Instagram collection and also provides the ability to download and share them. See my Copygr.am at http://copygr.am/gletham/
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Map of Victoria, B.C. Downtown/James Bay 1915
It may not be a photo, however, a map is likely the next best thing! Ever wonder what the Victoria inner harbor looked like in the early 1900's? Check out this 1915 circa portion of a map showing Downtown Victoria, B.C. The map is one of over a thousand historical maps available for viewing and download from NRCAN and the map archives.
See more details in this blog post Atlas of Canada Archives, Over 1,000 Historical Maps
or jump directly to the Map Archives at http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/archives
See more details in this blog post Atlas of Canada Archives, Over 1,000 Historical Maps
or jump directly to the Map Archives at http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/archives
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Photog Tip - Photoshop for Photography- Free Video Tutorial
Here's a handy, free resource for budding photogs... Up and Running with Photoshop for Photography is a streamlined introduction to Adobe's flagship image-editing application, specifically geared to photographers and enthusiasts. Photoshop guru Deke McClelland shows how to enhance photos and transform them into stunning images, in the shortest time possible.
Up and Running with Photoshop for Photography- Free Video Tutorial
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Mobile Photog Tip - GPS Tag your Flickr Photos
Here's a tip for Flickr users who want to share their GPS information with their photos... note, in order to do this you'll need to be capturing photos using a GPS-enabled or GPS-aware camera (see you're smartphone hardware settings to ensure that GPS or location sharing is turned "ON". You'll notice that photos on Flickr can optionally be Geo-Tagged, this will enable you to view the photos on a map or access all your streams Geo Tagged photos from the GeoRSS feed (Flickr provides this to all users - see the very bottom of your Flickr page for a link to it). You can actually view all your stream's GeoTagged photos on Google maps by copy/pasting the GeoRSS feed url into Google maps or Google Earth!
To auto Geo Tag your Flickr phot uploads you'll need to enable this functionality in your Flickr account settings. When logged into Flickr, see your Account Settings / Privacy & Permissions, and set the "Import EXIF location data" to YES - by default it is set to NO. Once you do so you should be able to see your Geo Tagged photo uploads on the map that is provided. See my Flickr Stream HERE
To auto Geo Tag your Flickr phot uploads you'll need to enable this functionality in your Flickr account settings. When logged into Flickr, see your Account Settings / Privacy & Permissions, and set the "Import EXIF location data" to YES - by default it is set to NO. Once you do so you should be able to see your Geo Tagged photo uploads on the map that is provided. See my Flickr Stream HERE
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Pacific NW Sailing - The Photo That I almost didn't take
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Mt Baker From The Saanich Peninsula
Monday, September 5, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Cadboro Bay trees...
A little tough to tell here, however, this tree is downright amazing when you see it up close! Nestled in tight against the shore on the beach, you walk under the canopy and it feels like you've entered the Amazon rainforest! The tree trunk is massive, thin at the bottom then splitting into several parts as you go up. There's vines dangling from it and a crazy umbrella like blanket of foliage covers the entire canopy of the tree... it really is wild! You can find it by walking along Gyro Park Beach in Cadboro Bay, simply walk towards the Yacht club and you'll find it near the end where all the sailboat dingies are tied up - best to walk there at low tide
Friday, September 2, 2011
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