it's 6AM

Planet Lizzy
Originally uploaded by salendron

...christmas morning...

listening to marilyn manson... ....in fact it is after 10PM.

I have made planet. A very cool panorama - I think.

- STOP -

What?
Whom you thought to know?
If I was what you think I am, wouldn't that be boring?
I am no genius, no great inventor, I am not stupid, not born to follow all these rules.

I think.... I am born to think far beyond all these rules that I should believe in. Or am I not? Tell me....

I think there is no great meaning of life... Life will kill me, one day. Not today.

"They said that Hell's not hot"
My purpose? No idea.
My wishes? A lot. A normal life with all it's good and bad sides. To know why I stand up in the morning.

My targets? Do something that will be remembered.

I am just a lost soul, searching for my way back home... I am as normal as all of you. Nothing special. Isn't that what makes all of us unique, to know that nothing ever changes.

Let's make history. I wish to have one big idea. One big mindblowing idea. Like Linus Torvalds, James Gosling, Douglas Adams, and all the other nobodies that had a idea that was so great that nobody ever could remove them from my memory.

Welcome to my journey. I have so many ideas and I think that's the problem.

Weekend - the bright side

Panorama: View from Lanzkron
Originally uploaded by salendron

It was a really nice weekend. I was driving around with my girlfriend searching for some good spots to take some pictures.

Fresach - Villach - Lanzkron - Finkenstein

I noticed that the best shots are the shots you don't expected. (A frog sitting on a wooden hand rail)

Did a lot of pictures. ( See the best ones on flickr.com/photos/salendron )

Panoramas, macros, black-and-white, ......

I love spending the weekends with my girlfiriend. She is the only one that understands me and all my quirks.

Funny, beautiful, cool, nice weekend.

Monday - The dark side

Mural (black-and-white shot)
Originally uploaded by salendron

Monday is allways a strange day. Feeling tired. Feeling like it isn't right that I am awake.

Rain and storm outside. Thoughts about how unfair this world is. Hate.

I wish it is allready 2009. Don't ask.

Cold, dark......

Monday morning.

180°

Panorama Bahnhof Klagenfurt
Originally uploaded by salendron

This is my second panorama. I think it looks a lot better than the other one. Ok it has stitching errors (very little ones), but I really like it.

Today I am going to take a lot of pictutres - I hope.
I am going to Villach to take some more panoramas and to take photos of anything else that's cool, interessting or simply looks like it is something I have to take a photo of.

I think I finally found a way to express myself. Photographie has really become my hobby #1.

I don't know if my pictures are good, beautiful or significant. I don't know how other people think about my creations (I really want to know), but I found something that I really like.

I am really looking forward to go for a photo tour today. If someone want's to join me and take some cool photos with me on such a photo tour - It is really fun, trust me - just contact me.
Four - or more - eyes see more than two.

Cinema Summer

I think I will have to go to cinema more often in the next month.

FIRST REASON:

My first picture of the moon

My first picture of the moon
Originally uploaded by salendron

I wasn't easy, but I did it. The new Tele-Lens is just amazing. The other pictures of today can be found on Flickr.

come on closer

Today I bought a 55mm-200mm Tele for my EOS 4ooD. It's so cool. The other lens I've got goes from 18mm-55mm. Perfect for a lot of situations, but if you want to take a picture of something that is very far away you need something bigger. Like this!

At the moment it is raining outside. Damn. I'd like to test it!!!!!

My First Panorama

My First Panorama
Originally uploaded by salendron

Yes I did it.

After a lot of trouble doing a picture like this I really made it. A panorama consisting of 5 pictures. Ok it isn't really spectacular, but it looks nice I think!

the way of light

Drive by and trees 2
Originally uploaded by salendron

Today I will drive around a bit. Searching for something cool to take pictures of it. I'd like to have a name for this - a name for driving arround doing photos of everything cool or interessting.

suggestions? - post a comment

Today my target is to make a cool panorama.
I don't really know where to go to find a cool location for a panorama, but I am sure that 'the light will guide me'.

uh... I forgot.... I have promised a friend to drive him home today after work. - No problem I'll take him with me. I think...

At night I also want to drive arround a bit. Taking photos at nihgt is much more difficult, but also much more fun.

It is very interessting to do something without planing anything. It is so much more fun.

Ubuntu Studio and Beryl 3D Effects

Pictures say more than 1000 words. Woobey windows, windows are burning down in 3D, 3D cube Desktop switcher and much much more...

Have a look....

Me and my studio PART 1

Yes I did it. I installed Ubuntu Studio 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Only alternative installer.
Big DVD iso image.
Worked fine - except of some xserver issuses, but "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" helps a lot - did it 2 times.
Beryl also works - also just a little problem - "force aiglx" option did it for me.

These two things were done using two really good howtos.

Installing Ubuntu Studio:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Ubuntu-Studio-54514.shtml


Then I activated nVidia graphic acceleration like this:
from ubuntuusers.de

7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
Man kann die Treiber bei Ubuntu über "System -> Administration->Verwaltung eingeschränkter Treiber" installieren. Diese Funktion ist derzeit in Kubuntu noch nicht implementiert. Hier wird der entsprechende Treiber bereits angezeigt und es wird gewarnt, dass die Verwendung von binären Treibern nicht risikofrei ist. Nach dem Bestätigen dieser Warnung wird der Treiber automatisch installiert und konfiguriert. Nach diesem Schritt muss der Computer neu gestartet werden.


Installing Beryl with nVidia:
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Ubuntu_Feisty_with_nVidia


All the other usefull stuff (codecs, tools, fonts, etc) I used Automatix:
http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installation


Today I won't be at home in the evening so I won't be able to wirte a userfirendly easy tutorial. I will write it tomorrow. The next step is to learn about Blender 3D and cinelarra (also needs to be installed). I am also looking for a little and easy to use document managment system. I hope I find a good one.

to be continued...

adventuresome

Today I'll give it a try. Since Ubuntu Studio was released I wanted to install it. I wanted to see, fell, experience it, but I haven't had the heart to do so. Now I think the time has come.

My Goal:

• Install a fully working Ubuntu Studio 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Tasks:

• Download it
• Install it
• Install Automatix for missing codecs and stuff
• Write a Guide about installing and configuration
  
• Getting my mobile phone working as a MODEM again
• Getting my Mouse (Logitech MX Revolution) working
• Installing Cinelerra
• Learning Blender 3D and Cinelerra

optional:

• Getting Beryl

The time has come.

Night Lines

Reflective
Originally uploaded by salendron

Yestarday evening - after a very uncomfortable dentist's appointment - my neighbour and I drove through the city to make some more pictures of light stripes and other cool things. So we drove to the university and took some pictures there. Then we took some pictures of cars driving by on the street - really cool stuff.
I really like spending my evenings like that. Just doing what I like, having fun and don't wondering about any problems.

I hope you like the pictures -> flickr.com/photos/salendron

For those that won't be there

30 seconds 1
Originally uploaded by salendron

Tomorrow LAN PARTY.

For those that won't be there I will Blog directly from where the Party is. I don't know if this Post will apear here or in my mobile blog (Link on the right). This depends on how stable the connection of my wireless UMTS MODEM mobile phone will be.

/*Comment for interessted people

I found a way to use a bluetooth dongle and my mobilephone as UMTS modem and the cool thing is that it works great and it works with Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.
To put it easy: I connect my mobilephone wireless (via bluetooth) to my Laptop and my mobile phone does the work of a wireless modem with a maximum bandwidth of 384kb/s.
I think that's cool.

*/

If the connections is bad (terribly slow or simply not working), I will blog via my mobile phone using GPRS connection. This means shorter Posts low quality pictures an d that all post apear in my mobile blog.
I hope the UMTS will work - in fact I think it will - because in this case I can use high quality images and post more text and the post apear here in my normal blog.

We'll see.

MOBILE BLOGGING WITH SHOZU

AND IT WORX. THIS TEXT AND IMAGE WERE DIRECTLY TRANSFERED FROM MY W850I MOBILE PHONE. BECAUSE OF THIS I CREATED A NEW BLOG CALLED "ON MY WAY TO NOWHERE". This will be my mobile blog. You can access it by using this URL: http://on-the-way-to-nowhere.blogspot.com/ or using the link on the right called 'my mobile blog'

Just four weeks left

HDR Hotel
Originally uploaded by salendron

I was going to the vocational school during the last 5 weeks. Really boring, but now it is over and there are just 4 weeks left in winter. Yesterday my girlfriend, my neighbour (one of my best friends in fact) and I did some pictures in Klagenfurt at night. Really funny. There are so much little - and big things to see. We tried a lot of different things. (HDR, high exposure time, low exposure time, wired perspektives).
For example taking a tripod placing it next to a street and using an exposure time of 30 seconds to capture these cool stripes of light when cars a driving by. When we were driving home my neighbour sat on the passenger seat an took some pictures of the street with a very high exposure time while I was driving.
But this was allready the second photo-session of this day. Some hours before my girlfriend and I were at the "Europa Park". A lot of ducks and flowers.
Today I will take the train to my girlfriend's home. Maybe I will take some more photos there. - I think I am in the right mood.
I am so happy that I can go to work tomorrow and don't have to go to school again. I am really in a good mood.

PS: all photos of this wekend can be found at http://flickr.com/photos/salendron

Chaos

HDR Garage 2

salendron has added a photo to the pool:

Qtpfsgui tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 0.1
Beta: 0.8
Color Saturation: 1
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PreGamma: 1

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At the moment everything is really strange. School is strange, I feel strange, this new HDr looks strange.

Strange, isn't?