The world as frankps sees it!
Photos
I have taken quite a few pictures through the years. Most of them end up on my Flickr account, and some in tourist guides and magazines around the world.
Flickr with face recognition
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Flickr today launched something that I first thought that was a great new function: Face/People recognition. The service is called People in Photos. There is just one sad thing with it, the new feature can only be used to highlight members of the Flickrverse that you’ve photographed, find photos of members you know, and manage which photos you’re in.
What a disappointment! This is social media gone bad …
Nikon D3s – A new King is born
0Enjoy the videos. Photos and information about the camera can be found at Nikon USA.
DestroyFlickr, an interesting Adobe Air application
0I love Flickr and many of the great applications around this photo solution. Today I tried a new one, DestroyFlickr. A horrible name, but not a bad application!
The application runs on Adobe Air (I have earlier written about Times Reader 2.0), and is a great example on the fact that Cloud Computing doesn’t have to be done from within a browser. DestroyFlickr explores alternative methods for viewing and sharing Flickr content. The application lets you plug into your Flickr account and view photos on a virtual canvas, and it is mighty fast. And here is why: It only has to pull the thumbnails once (they will be stored on your harddisk after that), unlike Flickr’s own site. By using workspaces and canvases, DestroyFlickr is then also able to retain a constant history of where you have navigated, offering the ability to revisit an area without the need to reload the entire page. And something you might like even more, is that DestroyFlickr lets you download the highest resolution version of a photo without having to see it first—just drag it’s thumbnail to the download menu and the download begins.
This small downloadable AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) application is actually one of the semifinalist in this year’s Adobe Design Achievement Awards, so I was not alone in liking this application. I hope you enjoy the application as well!
Had a walk around Østensjøvannet
02 years ago
I had a quite so relaxing day today, walking around Østensjøvannet and taking photos of the “wildlife”. It was the first time I tried to do pictures of birds in the free. I ended up deleting quite a few photos, but some photos turned out really good. The set of photos can be seen on my Flickr account.
Trekking in Jotunheimen
02 years ago
For the first time I am spent the entire summer in Norway. It has never happened before. It wasn’t bad at all, in fact it was great! I became member of the Norwegian Trekking Association and bought myself a guided mountain hike through Jotunheimen, The Highlights of Jotunheimen.
The tour was, in the advertisment, described as “a must for experienced hikers” who want to explore the national park of Jotunheimen. Experienced ment that the hikes were 7-9 hours or about 30 km (19 miles). Oh my, oh my, and I, who had, never done a mountain trip before. Of course, I’ve done some mountain tops, but never had a four, long days with a backpack in the mountains. Ok, I am not all green, or perhaps that is actually just what I am: A former member of the Red Cross and one who did quite some walking in the Army.
Jotunheimen is the most magnificent massif in Norway, and consequently also the most popular hiking area. Here you find sharp ridges, high plateau, glaciers, lakes and vallyes with rivers and waterfalls. If the brochure also would have mentioned fjords, then I would have said: Norway in a nutshell! All of Norways summits over 2.300 meters are found in this national park (Galdhøpiggen – 2.469m, Glittertind – 2.452m and Store Skagastølstind – 2.405m), and I was to do the two higest of them. The tour also included glacier walking, something I last did on Svalbard 5 years ago.
It was to be great to finally get out of Oslo for some days. Working through the whole summer was ok, but I longed for some days off.