unexpected

The weather forecast told me that the weather will be rainy this weekend. So I didn't expected to be able to go geocaching.
Neither I expected to have a short, but very successful photoshooting in klagenfurt.

Everything started this Monday when I got a SMS from a friend telling me that she would like to make some portraits of her with me. (I was very surprised!!)

The weather forecast was bad for an open air shooting, but we met on Friday afternoon and the weather was just perfect. Also the results were great.

After the photoshooting we drove to my girlfriend's parent's and the weather got worse. Rain.
Today the weather was perfect again, so we took the GPS for a geocache in Mooswald.
The cache was well hidden, but after some time we found it!

And still the weather is fine!
Maybe I will go geocaching again tomorrow. I will never trust the weather forecast anymore!

the time to be geeky has come! (again...)

Ok. I know it is wired, but haven't we all been dreaming of fighting R/C Ninja and Pirate?
Well I do! Also glasses made of ice are a pretty cool thing.

But one of my biggest dreams is a alarm clock that is build to be shot!

I think I have to order some new things from http://www.thinkgeek.com/

Here is my wishlist:

• R/C Pirate vs Ninja
• Laser Target Alarm Clock
• Cool Shooters Ice Shot Glasses
• generic humanoid carbon unit

..and the best thing is that these things cost less than 45 euros!!!

I think I will order it tomorrow so that I can fight Pirate VS Ninja as soon as possible.

my own HDR Tonemapping?! why not...

Ok that's the result. Ok, it is not the most impressive HDR ever, BUT it is the first one that was created and tonemapped using my very first HDR/Tonemapping algorithm.

It was created using 3 photos of my livingroom table. The algorithm is nothing special - at the moment - but I will keep improving it. Maybe it get's better - some day.


Here you can see the source code (python):

import Image
import ImageEnhance
import math

print "Salendrons HDR Tonemapper"
out = raw_input("Save as: ")

im1 = Image.open("1.jpg")
im2 = Image.open("2.jpg")
im3 = Image.open("3.jpg")
imOut = out

w = im1.size[0]
h = im1.size[1]

print w
print h

x = 0
while x < w:
    y = 0
    while y < h:
        p1 = im1.getpixel((x,y))
        p2 = im2.getpixel((x,y))
        p3 = im3.getpixel((x,y))

        try:
            npr = int((math.log10(p1[0] + p2[0] + p3[0] + 1.0) / (math.log10(255 + 255 + 255 + 1.0))) * 255)
        except:
            npr = p1[0]
            print "ERR " + str(x)

        try:
            npg = int((math.log10(p1[1] + p2[1] + p3[1] + 1.0) / (math.log10(255 + 255 + 255 + 1.0))) * 255)
        except:
            npg = p1[1]
            print "ERR " + str(x)

        try:
            npb = int((math.log10(p1[2] + p2[2] + p3[2] + 1.0) / (math.log10(255 + 255 + 255 + 1.0))) * 255)
        except:
            npb = p1[2]
            print "ERR " + str(x)

        im1.paste((npr,npg,npb),(x,y,x+1,y+1))
      
        y = y + 1
    x = x + 1
    if x % 10 == 0:
        print x

enh1 = ImageEnhance.Color(im1)
im1 = enh1.enhance(2)

enh2 = ImageEnhance.Contrast(im1)
im1 = enh2.enhance(2)

enh3 = ImageEnhance.Brightness(im1)
im1 = enh3.enhance(0.9)

im1.save(imOut)

print "end"

Home of the Lindwurm

Today me and my girlfriend found the geocache GCKW65.
It was a pretty nice walk through the europapark to solve all the riddles and get the final coordinates.
I left one of my "I'm blogging this Sticker" in the cache and now it becomes true. I'm blogging this.

...*gg*

I am proud!

Today I got "the-environmentalist" magazine.

They used one of my pictures in it. I am so proud!

I will get a picture frame for it.....

All of my pictures are under the Creative Commons Lisence so if you want to use one of my photos, just let me know.


Here is the original one from my photostream.

I love it when my work makes its way arround the world!

starting to realize

Not it is saturday evening and I am no apprentience anymore.

It doesn't feel real now. I think it will take some time to realize that it is real.

will see.

....but now I have to celebrate a little more.....

the end

I am some kind of speechless....

The exam is over. Two days of fear.

I do not know how it happened, but I got a perfect success. (in german: ausgezeichneter erfolg) and my sweet girlfriend got a good success (in german: guter erfolg)


I am so happy right now. I really can't describe it. Everything that happened in these 3,5 years really makes sense now.

I am just happy and proud.

thanks to all of you! - you know who I mean.

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one last time!

The countdown slowly gets to an end.
Just a few hours left.

I wish everybody that the final exam goes well.

Will see in just a few hours....


...won't be able to sleep tonight....

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ciritical phase...

questions, so many questions!!!

ok, but that's not really the problem. I am much more afraid of the first part of the exam. ER-moddeling, SQL Queries, Algorithm (Nasi-Schneidermann) and programming. Ok the last thing is easy, BUT the others are not.

Today I will do some ER-Models and I am going to code a bit.

I was shopping yesterday. Everything I need to survive the first day of the exam. 8 hours exam without a break. (8 hours without smoking... that's hard)
So I bought a lot of Red Bull, sweets, römerquelle guarana (a lot) and on tuesday I will buy some more fresh snacks in the morning before the exam.

8 hours.... ....uff... ...that's a lot. BUT less than 3 days is so little time.... strange....

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