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March 01, 2010

Martin Gratzer

Photowalk Wien Take 3

In Wien steht demnächst wieder ein Photowalk auf dem Programm. Am Samstag, den 13. März 2010, laden Beate FirlingerAndreas Hafenscher und Robert Lender zum dritten kollektiven Fotospaziergang in der Bundeshautptstadt ein. Die Tour beim Photowalk Vienna Take 3 führt diesmal nicht ins freie Stadtgelände, sondern hinein in das Naturhistorische Museum Wien. Dort wollen wir das museale Innenleben aus ungewohnten Perspektiven vor die Linse bringen. Und nicht nur das: Als Highlight steigen wir auch hinauf auf das Dach des Hauses, wo sich hoffentlich tolle fotografische Ausblicke auf Parlament, Hofburg,… eröffnen. Das Motto lautet dabei: “Objekte in neuem Licht betrachtet”. Einen kleinen Vorgeschmack auf die schönen Aussichten von oben bieten ein paar Fotos von einem kurzen Prewalk.

Für die Dachbegehung sind noch ein paar Plätze frei. Aus organisatorischen Gründen ist eine Anmeldung erforderlich. Mehr Informationen sowie der Link zur Anmeldung findet sich im “Nur ein Blog“.

by Christian Mathelitsch at March 01, 2010 08:55 PM

February 07, 2010

Christian Assing

Von Wordpress zu statischen HTML Seiten

... oder "Wenn Designer jetzt PHP Code schreiben, dann muss ich meine Wordpress Installation abdrehen".

Ich war gestern auf den Barcamp Klagenfurt 2010 und nahm zufällig an einer Session zum Thema "Wordpress Themes" teil. Danach hab ich den festen Entschluss gefasst meine Wordpress Installation zu löschen und gegen statische HTML Seiten zu tauschen. Wie ich das gemacht habe möchte ich hier zeigen.

Problemstellung

Da ich nicht auf einer grünen Wiese ohne Inhalt für meinen Blog anfangen wollte, musste ich erst einmal meine bisherigen Seiten in einem vernünftigen Format aus dem Wordpress heraus bekommen. Leider ist das nicht so einfach, es gibt zwar viele Konverter die mir Inhalt ins Wordpress rein bringen, aber heraus bekommen es nur wenige. Ich habe mich dann schlussendlich für das Ruby Tool Jekyll entschieden. Diese Tool, welches selbst ein "static site generator" ist, möchte ich aber nur in der Migration Phase verwenden, danach bzw. jetzt setze ich Hyde für die Generierung meiner Seiten ein.

Wordpress Seiteninhalte auslesen mit Jekyll

Erstmal die nötigen Software installieren. In meinem Fall auf einem Debian Lenny Server.

Das es das Jekyll nicht als Debian Packet gibt, muss man es von hand installieren. Erst einmal Ruby und Compiler ...

apt-get install ruby ruby1.8-dev rubygems build-essential libmysqlclient15-dev

Jetzt Jekyll ...

gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
gem install mojombo-jekyll

Nun weitere Ruby Packete die das Jekyll braucht ...

gem install mysql
gem install sequel
gem install rake-compiler -v 0.5.0

Da im Lenny ein zu altes rubygems vorhanden ist, quick & dirty aus dem unstable installieren ...

wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libg/libgems-ruby/rubygems1.8_1.3.5-2_all.deb
dpkg -i rubygems1.8_1.3.5-2_all.deb

Nun das letzte Ruby Packet ...

gem install hoe

Jetzt kann man mit Jekyll den Wordpress Seiten Inhalt auslesen ...

export DB=my_wordpress_db
export USER=dbuser
export PASS=dbpass

ruby -r '/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/mojombo-jekyll-__VERS__/lib/jekyll/converters/wordpress' \
     -e 'Jekyll::WordPress.process("#{ENV["DB"]}", "#{ENV["USER"]}", "#{ENV["PASS"]}")'

Nun hat man im Verzeichnis "_posts" alle seine Wordpress Inhalte.

Da ich auf meinen Server keine Ruby installiert haben will und schon garnicht einen Compiler, fliegt alles wieder runter. Zu erste die Debian Packete ...

apt-get --purge remove cpp cpp-4.3 gcc gcc-4.3 libc6-dev libgmp3c2 libgomp1 \
libmpfr1ldbl libruby1.8 linux-libc-dev ruby ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev apt-file \
libapt-pkg-perl libconfig-file-perl liblist-moreutils-perl menu irb1.8 \
libreadline-ruby1.8 rdoc1.8 rubygems rubygems1.8 build-essential dpkg-dev \
g++ g++-4.3 libstdc++6-4.3-dev libtimedate-perl make libmysqlclient15-dev \
zlib1g-dev

Danach die installierten Rubygems ...

rm -rf /var/lib/gems

Von Dr. Jekyll zu Mr. Hyde

Nun ist der Weg geebnet und ich konnte auf Hyde umsteigen. Ich bin dabei einer Anleitung von Steve Losh gefolgt, der seine Seite ebenfalls mit Hyde betreibt. Da es mit Beispielen immer leichter geht, kann ich noch Steve Losh Git empfehlen, in dem man den kompletten Code seiner Seite sieht.

Hier ist noch ein Script was die umgewandelten Wordpress Postings in die Hyde Verzeichnis Strutur umwandelt. Ich glaub der Code ist selbst erklärend.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

outdir="www.ca-net.org/content/blog/"
indir="_posts"

mkdir -p $outdir

cd $indir
for f in *; do
  # get some metainfo from filename and file content
  year=`echo $f | cut -f1 -d'-'`
  month=`echo $f | cut -f2 -d'-'`
  day=`echo $f | cut -f3 -d'-'`

  # get post title
  title=`grep "title: " $f | cut -f2- -d":"`
  # strip \" from title
  title=${title//\\\"/}
  # strip " from title
  title=${title//\"/}

  # convert url encoded german umlaute
  title=${title//\\xC3\\xBC/ü}; title=${title//\\xC3\\x9C/Ü}; 
  title=${title//\\xC3\\xB6/ö}; title=${title//\\xC3\\x96/Ö}; 
  title=${title//\\xC3\\xA4/ä}; title=${title//\\xC3\\x84/Ä};

  # strip file extension
  fwe=`basename $f .markdown`

  # create output dir
  mkdir -p ../$outdir/$year/$month

  # build output file name
  outfile="../$outdir/$year/$month/`echo $fwe | cut -f4- -d'-' | tr -s '-' '_'`.html"

  # write hyde heady
  cat - << __EOF__ > $outfile
{ % extends "_post.html" %}

{ % hyde
    title: "$title"
    created: $year-$month-$day
    categories: ["private"]
%}

{ % block article %}
__EOF__

  # write content
  tail +7 $f >> $outfile

  # write hyde footer
  echo "{ % endblock %}" >> $outfile
  echo "$outfile created"
done

Achtung: Im Script sind die 2 Zeichen "{" und "%" mit einen Leerzeichen dazwischen, bitte im abgespeicherten Script bei euch ab ändern.

by Christian Assing at February 07, 2010 12:00 AM

January 13, 2010

Mark Hall

Snow in Cardiff

As you might have seen on the news it's been snowing quite regularly in the UK over the past few weeks. Not much, about 10 to 20 centimeters at a time, but it's enough to cause major troubles, as there is a general lack of winter-tyres on cars and snow-ploughs. It is definitely good fun.

Personally I enjoy it and when it snowed about 10 cm yesterday evening, I joyfully slid down to Sainsbury's which I have never seen quite as empty. There was one checkout in operation (for comparison normally at a not very busy time there will be about six checkouts open) and in total perhaps 40 people or so in this huge supermarket. It was good fun. When I got home one of my house-mates had made a snow-figure in the backyard which I took some photos of. The snow hasn't melted yet, which is nice, but is sure to slowly turn into a solid ice-cover over the next two or three days as it repeatedly thaws and re-freezes, which is not so nice. Still SNOW!

by Archchancellor at January 13, 2010 11:11 PM

December 16, 2009

Mark Hall

Your friendly guide

Just a brief amusing anecdote. Two weeks ago Laura and I went to bath for our usual routine of lunch and spa. It was very nice (as usual), but there was one amusing thing that kept happening to me.

People were constantly asking me for the way. "Excuse me, which direction to the place where the houses are built around" (asian tourists) "Excuse me, is this the right direction to the coach park" (two old ladies) and so on. By the time the fourth person asked I almost burst out laughing when they did.

I actually wish I was still in Bath, well at least in the steam baths, because the heating in the house has died and it is a bit coolish, although I am confident that the sleeping bag and two layers of blankets will keep me warm.

by Archchancellor at December 16, 2009 11:21 PM

December 06, 2009

Martin Gratzer

villach :captured photowalk 08 ist beendet!

Liebe photowalker!

Wir möchten uns herzlich bei euch bedanken, dass ihr am letzten villach :captured photowalk dieses Jahres teilgenommen habt!

Ich hoffe, dass wir uns beim nächsten photowalk wieder sehen werden, wann dieser stattfindet, werdet ihr wie immer persönlich von uns erfahren!

Bis dahin wünschen wir euch

FROHE WEIHNACHTEN UND EINEN GUTEN RUTSCH IN DAS JAHR 2010!

Liebe Grüße

euer youcaptured.me bzw. villach :captured Team!

PS: Bitte nicht vergessen in flickr bei euren Bildern den Tag “upcoming:event=4880395″ hinzuzufügen. Danke :)

villach :captured photowalk 08

by Christian Mathelitsch at December 06, 2009 11:55 AM

December 03, 2009

Mark Hall

I Aten't Dead

I would say that it's been a busy few weeks, but it's more to the tune of months now. This whole PhD thing is really serious work. Especially with the project coming to an end and the work involved in that and also the work involved in lecturing and preparing exams. It all sort of adds up, which is nevertheless not why I haven't written anything recently. The reason for that is slightly more complicated. Due to all the work, Laura and I haven't found the time to do anything that I could write about. Ok, so not a lot more complicated. I did say "slightly".

That's not to say that I've only been in Cardiff, there was a brief trip to Florence for a meeting, then two days in Amsterdam for a meeting and finally another two days in Zurich, you've guessed it, for a meeting. When you're at these meetings, you don't really have time to do anything interesting, so nothing interesting to write about either. The high-point of the Zurich meeting was the nice bakeries around where the hotel was :-).

Laura and I have also found a new dance class up in Merthyr, which is a massive improvement on the one we used to go to. I won't go into details, it suffices to say that after the summer break I refused to return to the old dance school. The dance lessons we go to are in the Dowlays Catholic Club, in a slightly rougher part of Merthyr, but it's a sufficiently stable building and the dance floor is very nice. The other dancers are also very nice so all-in-all it is a very enjoyable place to go. And that's it for today. Work, work, work and a bit of dancing, such is life :-).

Sometimes I wonder how badly I repeat myself when I write stuff here, but then I'm much to important to go back and read what somebody as lowly as me has to say, so I guess I'll never find out.

by Archchancellor at December 03, 2009 11:41 PM

November 09, 2009

Martin Gratzer

villach :captured [Update]

Liebe photowalker!

Es ist wieder soweit, am 5. Dezember findet der letzte villach :captured photowalk für dieses Jahr statt.

Das Thema des photowalk08 lautet

it´s christmas time – villach im advent

Treffpunkt ist um 14 Uhr vorm Stadtkino, hier gehts zur Karte.

Da zu dieser Zeit auch der Christkindlmarkt in Villach bereits stattfindet, haben wir eine schöne weihnachtliche Kulisse und jede Menge Menschen, die mit ihren Einkaufssackerln hektisch über den Hauptplatz rennen weil sie ja keine Zeit haben :)

Regeln gibt es bei diesem photowalk keine, Anmeldung ist nicht nötig! Der upcoming-Tag wird nachgereicht!

Wie immer freuen wir uns auf eine zahlreichte Teilnahme!

euer villach :captured bzw. youcaptured.me Team

[Update: Bitte diesen Tag beim Hochladen auf flickr zu den Bildern hinzufügen: upcoming:event=4880395]

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Dear photowalkers!

It´s time for our last villach :captured photowalk this year on 5th of december!

The topic of the photowalk08 is

it´s christmas time – villach in advent

We meet us at 2 p.m. in front of the Stadtkino (our cinema on the Rathausplatz), click here to see the map.

At this time there is also our christmas market in Villach, where you can see many hectic people running with their shopping bags and have no time :)

There are no rules on this photowalk and you don´t have to apply that you come. The tag for upcoming will be updated soon.

We would be glad if lot of people would have time to come on this event!

your villach :captured or youcaptured.me team!

[Update: Please add the following tag to your pics in flickr: upcoming:event=4880395]

by Christian Mathelitsch at November 09, 2009 12:07 PM

October 13, 2009

October 07, 2009

Mark Hall

A long weekend

This last weekend started with Laura and me going to see Wozzek at the WMC. A very good production and sung in German, so slightly more understandable than the usual Italian screaming ;-). On Saturday we drove up to Penderyn distillery for a tour of the distillery there. A very nicely designed visitor centre and tour of a very new distillery (only started in 2000). It was interesting to hear what distinguishes their distillery from others and also how they had to change the still structure to stay within height limits imposed by the surrounding National Park.

Sunday after lunch I took the train to Gatwick (a very enjoyable experience) in order to fly to Florence for another meeting. Naturally the plane was late and so I only arrived at my hotel at about half past twelve. It really annoys me that flights are basically never on time. I mean if a flight arrives only ten minutes late then it is basically seen as being on time. But perhaps that’s just me and I’m just unlucky. Ah well, anyway, I got two days of warmth in Florence before heading back on Tuesday evening, completing a slightly extended weekend.

by Archchancellor at October 07, 2009 10:11 PM

Andrea and Thomas

Two week ago Andrea and Thomas came over to Wales for a few days to visit. The visit started off on a slightly wrong note, as their plane was badly delayed and when we finally reached Cardiff (I had picked them up from the airport) their hotel was shut, so I put them up in my room for the night. The next morning they set off for their hotel and then to have a look at Cardiff (I had to work).

I had rented a car and on Friday morning we took off from Cardiff to look at the Roman ruins in Caerleon. Pretty cool. The remains of a large amphitheatre and the foundations of a garrison building and you can just walk in and around. There was nobody else around, which made it even nicer. After that we drove to Bath, where we started first with a walk-around in the town centre and also into one of the parks before going for lunch. In the afternoon we went and looked at the Roman baths, which impress me every time I see them. We then had to rush back to Cardiff, because we were meeting up with Laura for dinner and then some bowling. It was great fun, but towards the end everybody was completely knackered.

After a nights rest the next days tour was up into the Brecon Beacons. The first stop was in Abergavenny for lunch (it’s a bit of a drive from Cardiff and none of us are early risers). From there we went on to Tretower and then Brecon, before driving back through the Beacons and then down to Cardiff. The weather was beautiful and it was a really relaxing outing.

Sunday was the day Andrea and Thomas were returning to Austria, but their flight was only in the late afternoon, so on the way to Bristol airport we looked at Tintern Abbey and Chepstow Castle. Tintern Abbey is really an impressive building, even though it is “only” a ruin. Nevertheless the size and thing-I-can’t-find-a-name-for are very apparent and well worth a visit. Chepstow Castle is also very nice. It’s built along the river and thus is oblong, which seems a very strange shape for a castle, but of course that makes it a lot more interesting. We also had a nice Sunday roast in a pub in Chepstow, which has quite a nice town centre. Unfortunately that was the end of the Wales adventure, because after navigating through Bristol centre it was time to say goodbye.

by Archchancellor at October 07, 2009 10:00 PM

September 30, 2009

Martin Gratzer

Photowalk in Venedig [abgesagt]

Wegen Schlechtwetter abgesagt!

Kanäle, Karneval, Oper, Geschichte, Kirchen, Cafès, Lagune, Palazzi, Gondolieri, Museen und vieles mehr. Kein Wunder, dass Jahr für Jahr Millionen von Touristen nach Venedig kommen.

Wenn man etwa Amerikanern, dass man “only 2 hours away of the historic Venice” entfernt lebt, schmelzen sie vor Neid dahin. Was machen wir? Wir sind viel zu selten bei unseren Nachbarn. Wann warst du zuletzt in Venedig? Dorthin führt dich der (über-über-)nächste Photowalk.

Wann: Sonntag, 8. November 2009
Wo: Venedig
Treffpunkt um 11:00, Ponte della Costituzione (Calatrava-Brücke beim Bahnhof) [Updated Treffpunkt für Busfahrer]
Tag: photowalk.at:08112009
Facebook-Event: Bitte hier um kurze Anmeldung (muss aber nicht sein).





Im November ist der touristische Trubel in Venedig größtenteils vorbei, Ausstellungen wie die Biennale laufen allerdings noch (bis 22. November).

Anreise: Gemeinsame Abfahrt mit Privatautos um 07:00 Uhr von Minimundus (Treffpunkt am Parkplatz vor dem Haupteingang). Wenn du eine Mitfahr-Gelegenheit anbieten kannst, melde dich bitte in den Kommentaren!

Update – Busverbindung: Es gibt eine günstige (19 € pro Strecke) Busverbindung der ÖBB von Klagenfurt nach Venedig/Santa Lucia. Abfahrt Klagenfurt: 06:05 Uhr, Abfahrt Venedig: 19:05 Uhr.

Mögliche Übernachtung: Wer sich keinen Stress antun will, kann auch in Venedig übernachten. Muss ja nicht direkt in der Stadt sein – am Festland nächtigt man zu dieser Zeit sehr günstig. Und Schlemmern in Italien ist immer ein Hit!

Useful links:

by Georg Holzer at September 30, 2009 04:27 PM

September 24, 2009

Martin Gratzer

villach :captured photowalk07 [Update 2 ganz unten]

Liebe photowalker!

Wir laden euch wieder recht herzlich zu unserem nächsten photowalk ein.

Das Thema dieses photowalks lautet

photowalk07 – Da Summa is umma – Villach im Herbst

Dieser findet am 17. Oktober um 14 Uhr statt, Treffpunkt wird in Warmbad sein, siehe nachstehenden Link:

Hier geht´s zur Karte

Endlich wieder ein photowalk in der Natur, da es vielen photowalkern beim letzten mal in der Gegend von Warmbad sehr gefallen hat, haben wir uns überlegt, auch dieses mal dort einen photowalk zu veranstalten. Wir treffen uns beim Parkplatz bei der Therme und gehen dann vom Maibachl aus die wunderschönen Spazierwege ab.

Regeln gibt es bei diesem photowalk keine, einfach die Natur genießen und fotografieren!

Wir hoffen, dass auch das Wetter mitspielt und freuen uns auf eine zahlreiche Teilnahme!

Liebe Grüße

euer villach :captured bzw. youcaptured.me Team!

Update: Bitte nach dem photowalk folgenden Tag bei den Bildern einfügen: upcoming:event=4547186

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Dear photowalkers!

We warmly invite you to our next photowalk.

The topic of this photowalk is:

photowalk07 – The summer is over – Villach in autumn.

It starts on October 17th 2009 at 2 p.m., and we meet us at Warmbad-Villach, to see the map follow the link:

click here to see the map

Finally we have a photowalk in the nature again, at one of the last walks, some members loved the region of Warmbad, so we thought to take the next photowalk there again. We meet us at the parking place in Warmbad at the therm and head up to the “Maibachl” and from there we go along the wonderful promenades.

There are no rules on this day, only to enjoy the nature and make photos!

We hope that the weather will be fine and a lot of people will have time to come!

best regards

your villach :captured or youcaptured.me Team!

Update: Please add the following tag to your pics after the photowalk: upcoming:event=4547186

Update 2:
Liebe photowalker!

Schön, dass ihr alle dabei wart! Es hat uns wie immer sehr gefreut!

Hier eine Liste von allen, die dabei waren:

*Nature*
Aerius22
Da Enge
Darquerus
dog orange
em-si
io747
Johnny
Lumitax
Mani photos
Outburner
photonenfangroboter
Roland Ster
smawuascht
Thesilein
voidStern
wigerl

Ich hoffe, dass wir uns auch beim nächsten photowalk wieder sehen werden :)

euer villach :captured bzw. youcaptured.me Team!

by Christian Mathelitsch at September 24, 2009 07:31 PM

September 20, 2009

Mark Hall

Roma

I’ve spent this last week in Rome attending a conference on spatial cognition. I’d been invited to partake in one of the symposia, so naturally I went and it turned out to be good fun and interesting (or the other way around, whatever you prefer). Nothing like a bit of sun and warmth to round off the summer.

I’d booked a hotel what I thought would be about a ten minute walk from the university of La Sapienza, where the conference was to take place. So after taking the bus from the airport to Termini, I walked to my hotel, found it to be very nice and after asking for some suggestions got myself some food (mhmmmmm Italian food). This was Sunday, so Monday morning I set off to find the conference locality. Of course I hadn’t looked up in much detail where the conference was, but it can’t be that hard to find. Well I found the university very easily, but there were no signs for any conference and after wandering around aimlessly for about half an hour I decided to have another look at the invitation e-mail and found that it gave a more detailed address, including a street-name that I thought I’d seen on the way.

I walked back to find this street, and I did find it and also the conference location which was in the Psychology building, which in turn is separate from the main university. Of course it turns out to be just around the corner from my hotel, so I felt a bit of an idiot when I went in to register. I’d gotten there at 9 when registration was supposed to start, but the students who were supposed to do it hadn’t turned up yet. After a further 15 minute wait they did and I registered only to find out that the conference itself didn’t start until 11.20.

At 11.20 I went up into the Aula Magna for the opening and the first keynote. Entering the room there are what appears to be mainly undergraduates, but I can see a few other people with badges, so I take a seat. Nothing happens. At about ten to twelve the keynote speaker appears, but still no organising committee. The keynote speaker starts to set up her presentation herself. At roughly a quarter past twelve the conference chair finally shows up and the conference gets under way. L’Italia :-). While there were a few similar events like that, such as none of the organisers being able to tell me where the first social event was to take place (I didn’t go in the end), or the second social event not taking place, this did somehow add to the charm of the conference and as I said the content itself was very good.

The area of Rome it all happened in (San Lorenzo) is very nice, and not touristy at all so good food can be had for very reasonable prices. The only problem was that due to just sitting in the conference all day I didn’t feel very hungry, which was frustrating when there is so much good food available.

One more amusing thing happened and that one of the sessions I went to focused on music and space and the differences in style were simply hilarious. First of all the official conference language was English and in all other sessions people stuck with that for better or for worse. Not so the first speaker in this session, who happily started off in Italian, making it a lot harder to understand although still interesting. He had a rough summary of what he said in English on the presentation, but since his English wasn’t very good, he was never fully sure if he had said all that was on the slides and also he regularly forgot to forward them :-), so suddenly three slides full of text would be shown in rapid succession. Finally while talks were supposed to last 20 minutes, this guy talked and talked and talked and talked, finally clocking in at 50 minutes. He was also the session chair, so there wasn’t anybody to stop him. It was very amusing. The next speaker also took 30 minutes and I left before the final speaker started, since out of the 1 hour 40 minutes session there were only ten minutes left, and I didn’t want to miss the coffee break.

All in all a very successful, interesting and fun conference and I’m glad I went.

by Archchancellor at September 20, 2009 09:21 PM

September 07, 2009

Mark Hall

Summer time

I had to actually have a look at the last entry to determine where we were in terms of recent history. Having done that I have determined that what remains to be reported here is the summer time.

Laura and I went to Austria for three weeks and that was basically it. We didn’t do much except relax, enjoy the sun and heat, and visit some friends. I also tried to do as much work as possible on my thesis, but was only semi-successful. We did organise a dinner party, which was great fun, but also a lot of work to clean up afterwards.

On the last weekend we travelled up to Linz to visit Jake and Andrea. It’s a beautiful drive, especially if you try to keep of the motorway as much as possible. On Saturday Jake showed us around Linz and I have to say the inner city is really nice. Everybody always goes on about what an ugly city it is, and of course the industrial parts aren’t the nicest (they should try visiting Mordor), but it’s got some very pretty parts, especially along the river. On Sunday we went on a Bruckner tour, first to his birth-place in Ansfelden and then to the Stift St Florian where he was a choir boy (and is buried now). The cool thing about the museum in Ansfelden was that while they had the usual collection of quotes praising him, these were quite evenly balanced with quotes rubbishing his work (Brahms seemed to be especially harsh). In the evening we went to see the Höhenrausch, which is an exhibition / installation on the roof of a multi-storey car-park and pretty cool. After going for some terrible faux-Mexican food afterwards we retired to Jake’s appartment before driving home the next morning. This adventure basically concluded our holiday and on the following Friday we flew back to the UK.

We didn’t go back to Wales immediately, but stayed the weekend in Oxford, where my cousin was getting married. Laura and I arrived Friday afternoon and after meeting my parents we went into Oxford for a stroll around (including going into Brasenose) and some grub. Saturday morning we went punting briefly on the Cherwell, before heading off to the wedding. The wedding took place in a manor house about half an hour’s drive outside of Oxford and was very enjoyable. The weather was perfect sunshine (not something that is frequent here) and the food, company and entertainment that was put on was great. The only downside being that it all ended quite early, although that did make it easier to get up the next morning to go back to Wales.

Which brings the summer’s entertainment to an end. Laura and I went walking last Saturday on a tour that took us to some beautiful waterfalls (no photos as I was too lazy to carry my camera), but otherwise it’s been back to the grindstone. Ah well, one day I will have finished, hopefully.

by Archchancellor at September 07, 2009 07:45 PM

Christian Assing

Fallschirmspringen

Wir waren am Wochenende Fallschirmspringen und haben es alle unbeschadet überlebt ;) Ich kann es nur jedem empfehlen!!! Hier ein paar Eindrücke:

Fallschirmspringen

Das Video kommt später.

by Christian Assing at September 07, 2009 12:00 AM

September 06, 2009

Martin Gratzer

Photowalk – Klagenfurt – Portrait

Was: Photowalk Klagenfurt: Portrait
Am: 26. September 2009 um 18:00
Wo: Wörthersee Ostufer IM STRANDBAD
Tag:photowalk.at:26092009
ACHTUNG: Wir starten schon um 18:00 Uhr nicht wie vorher angekündigt 18:30 damit wir noch genügend Sonne und Zeit haben.

portrait
photo by cgollner

Mit Natalia haben wir beim Photowalk Night Photography darüber gesprochen, dass ein Photowalk Portrait ein interessantes Thema sein könnte.

Als Location haben wir das Ostufer zur Golden Hour gewählt. Zum einen sollten wir bei Schönwetter das perfekte Licht haben, zum anderen können wir “Techies” den perfekten Hintergrund nutzen und mit Blitzen gegen die Sonne arbeiten.

Werde den Event auch auf Model-kartei.de ausschreiben und vielleicht meldet sich das eine oder andere “profi” Model fürs Shooting. Wer jemanden kennt, der ein tolles Portrait von sich haben möchte “mitschleifen”. Wer für so was einen TFP Vertrag braucht bitte selbst anfertigen und mitbringen. IMHO sollte ein unkomplizierter Handschlag reichen.

Plan B – Wir machen es im Workshop Style und fotografieren uns gegenseitig. Zettelchen mit Namen drauf ziehen und pärchenweise für ca 20 Minuten irgendwohin fotofieren gehen – und zwar nur Gesicht – dann wieder Zettelchen ziehen. Ist aber wirklich Plan B und ich persönlich hoffe, dass es nicht dazu kommt ;)

After Photowalk Party dann wahlweise im Sunset (Drink) oder im Ragazzi (= Lido). Natalia würde wenn gewünscht für uns einen Tisch reservieren. Bitte in den Kommentaren angeben was ihr lieber macht.

Kleines Update: Wir shooten direkt im Strandbad – beste Location – und ab 18 Uhr ist kostenloser Eintritt.

Kurzfristige Planänderungen bei Schlechtwetter via Twitter und Facebook Group.

by gutsyheron at September 06, 2009 03:34 PM

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by ckaiser at September 03, 2009 11:37 AM

August 23, 2009

Christian Assing

Kärtnen Läuft Halbmarathon

Ich hab es hinter mich gebracht, 21km laufen von Velden am Wörthersee nach Klagenfurt ins Strandbad. Es war eine riesen Stimmung bei diesem immer gut besuchten Laufevent. Meine offizielle Zeit war 1h55m.

Ein stolzer Finisher

by Christian Assing at August 23, 2009 12:00 AM

August 19, 2009

Martin Gratzer

How to Tame a FaceBook Friends News Overflow

Last week I got my 500th friend on Facebook. Now I really have a lot of information within my news feed I don’t really care most of the time. On opening my FaceBook start page my primary time killer is to filter the useful information of my closer friends. For this purpose FaceBook offers a feature called friend lists. You can organize different people in different lists to group them for several purposes, or where you know them from. Lists are useful, you can invite all people in a list to an event or just see their updates on the news stream. I use these groups for a while and they save me a lot of time organizing photowalks or scanning updates of my close friends. Today I figured out how to get a specific friend list shown on my FaceBook startpage, therefore the first news stream I see is now a list of about 50 closer friends – exactly the 10% of information I wouldn’t like to miss! These next few steps will explain how to set up such an environment within your FaceBook.

First, create a Friend List by clicking on Friends in the top menu and then “Create New List”:
Facebook | create friend list

Then name the list in the left upper corner of the screen and select the friends you want to be in this list:
Facebook | Add Friends

Go to the FaceBook Homepage and click on the little “more” link on the left side:
Facebook | Home

Finally drag the new list to the top by grabbing the icon on the right side of the lists name:
Facebook | Home-1

Every time you open the FaceBook home page from now on, the news feed of the top most friend list will be shown to you. I hope this configuration will save you a bit of time scanning your friends activities on FaceBook.

by Martin Gratzer at August 19, 2009 09:24 AM

August 14, 2009

Martin Gratzer

villach :captured photowalk 06

Liebe photowalker!

Es ist wieder soweit, die Gruppe villach :captured startet ihren sechsten photowalk!

Das Thema dieses photowalks lautet “farblos – villach :black and white”. Treffpunkt ist diesmal die Nikolaikirche in Villach:

Hier geht´s zur Karte!

Das Ziel ist einfach, wir treffen uns um 15 Uhr, danach werden wir wieder notieren, wer alles gekommen ist, dann kann´s losgehen. Jeder kann alleine oder in Gruppen losziehen und die Stadt auf eigenem Fuße erkunden. Wir machen vor dem Losgehen noch eine Uhrzeit aus, wann wir uns wieder treffen. Anschließend finden wir uns wieder bei der Nikolaikirche ein und gehen noch auf ein Abschlussgetränk. Wo wir dann was trinken gehen können wir uns noch dort ausreden, gleich um die Ecke wäre sonst der Brauhof, dessen Hinterhof sehr gemütlich ist.

Wir haben uns deshalb überlegt, einen black and white photowalk zu machen, da man sich über den Bildaufbau im Vornehinein schon Gedanken machen muss, was teilweise zu sehr interessanten Ergebnissen der Bilder führt. Was ihr fotografiert, bleibt euch überlassen, ob es nun Architektur, Personen oder sonstiges ist. Für diejenigen, die auch gerne mit Colorkey experimentieren, haben wir uns überlegt, dass wir auch diese Art der B&W-Fotografie in dieses Thema miteinfließen lassen, es bleibt jedem überlassen, ob reines B&W oder Colorkey.

Eine Anmeldung zum photowalk ist nicht nötig, dennoch würden wir uns auf eine zahlreiche Teilnahme freuen!

euer villach :captured bzw. youcaptured.me – Team!

by Christian Mathelitsch at August 14, 2009 12:27 PM

August 13, 2009

Martin Gratzer

Photowalk Vienna Take 2

Was: Photowalk Vienna: GetIn Workshop
Am: 03. Oktober 2008 um 14:00
Wo: Museumsquartier
Links: FaceBook Event

Was: Photowalk Vienna: Take 2
Am: 03. Oktober 2008 um 16:00
Wo: Museumsquartier
Links: FaceBook Event
Tags:: photowalk.at:03102009, und je nach Thema lt. Handout

Vienna Cliche

Es war vor über einem Jahr als der erste Photowalk in der Bundeshauptstadt über die Bühne gegangen ist. Die damaligen Resultate können in der Flickr Gruppe zum damaligen Photowalk oder über den Flickr Tag photowalkat:21062008 bewundert werden.

Am 3. Oktober 2009 ist es wieder so weit, Beate Firlinger, Robert Lender und Andreas Hafenscher (Photowalk Eisenstadt) haben sich zusammen mit Photowalk.at bereit erklärt den diesjährigen Photowalk in Wien zu planen und auszutragen. Diesmal gibt es zwei kleine Besonderheiten.

GetIn Workshop

Erstmalig werden wir zwei Studnen vor dem Photowalk einen kleinen “Workshop” anbieten. Dabei geht es primär um die Möglichkeit bei einem gemütlichen Zusammensein Fragen zum Thema Photographie stellen zu können. Viele PhotowalkerInnen haben schon sehr viel Erfahrung und können weniger versierten TeilnehmerInnen vorab Tips und Tricks mitgeben. Egal ob es um die richtige Auswahl von Bildausschnitten, Belichtungseinstellungen oder die Objektivwahl geht, in der Gruppe sollten die Fragen so gut wie möglich beantwortet werden können. Der ein oder andere Profi findet sich auch immer gerne unter den PhotowalkerInnen.

Themenliste

Es wird eine Liste mit fünf offnen aber auch anspruchsvollen Themen geben die jede PhotowalkerIn als Aufgaben mit auf den Weg bekommt. Die Liste wird um 16:00 am Start verteilt. Die TeilnehmerIn kann sich dann mit Hilfe der Liste orientieren und wir werden sehr viele verschiedene Interpretationen des gleichen Themas zu sehen bekommen nach dem Photowalk.

Teilnahme

Wie immer ist die Teilnahme frei und wenn es vorab Fragen gibt können die gerne in den Kommentaren gestellt werden. Unsere Seite Was ist ein Photowalk erklärt auch noch mal die grundliegenden Merkmale eines Photowalk.

Es wird gebeten dass sich alle Interessenten auf FaceBook (Workshop und Photowalk) oder hier im Blog anmelden. Wir müssen abschätzen können wie viele Leute kommen um entsprechende Reservierungen vorzunehmen.

Wir freuen uns auf jede TeilnehmerIn und wünschen bis gut Licht!

by Martin Gratzer at August 13, 2009 05:56 PM

August 11, 2009

Martin Gratzer

Photowalk: Night Photography (UPDATE)

Wann? Samstag, 22. August 2009 um 19:30 20:30
Wo? Klagenfurt, Treffpunkt Heiligengeistschütt (siehe Map unten)
Thema: Light-painting & HDR
Links: upcoming, FaceBook-Page
Tags: upcoming:event=4225909, photowalk.at:22082009

Das Thema ist “Night Photography“. In diesem Thema stecken einige spannende Details mit Potenzial. Hervorzuheben ist, dass es mehrere Techniken in der Fotografie gibt die zur Anwendung kommen können. Zum einen “High Dynamic Range (HDR)” oder auch “Dynamic Range Increase (DRI)” (DRI Gruppe bei Flickr, HDR Gruppe bei Flickr) und zum Anderen Malen mit Licht (Video1, Video2, Making of von Video 2, “Lichtmaler” auf Flickr mit tollen Aufnahmen, “Lightpainting” Gruppe auf Flickr).

Nicht vergessen: Stativ und Taschenlampen (wenn möglich mit bunten Aufsätzen).

Hier noch ein paar Links, die Martin beim letzten Mal (vor fast genau zwei Jahren) zusammen getragen hat.

by Georg Holzer at August 11, 2009 07:32 AM

August 08, 2009

August 06, 2009

Martin Gratzer

Das war der World Wide Photowalk in Klagenfurt

Der World Wide Photowalk in Klagenfurt war ein voller Erfolg. Mit so vielen Teilnehmern aus verschiedenen Ecken von Österreich, und der Welt, haben wir gar nicht gerechnet. Es waren über 30 Teilnehmer die sich der Aufgabe stellten für den World Wide Phootwalk mit Freude Motive zu schießen und zum Projekt beizutragen.
Group of World Wide Photowalker in Klagenfurt
Auf dem Gruppenfoto sind alle Teilnehmer zu sehen (wenn ihr auf das Foto klickt findet ihr auf Flickr auch die dazugehörigen Accounts als Notiz auf allen Gesichtern).

Da es beim World Wide Photowalk auch was zu Gewinnen gibt musste ein Siegerbild gekürt werden, und die Entscheidung war nicht einfach. Es wurde aus einer engeren Auwahl von drei Bildern (Bild 1, Bild 2 und Bild 3) die Aufnahme von Michael mit dem Titel “sittin – waiting – wishing” als Siegerbild gekürt.

sittin - waiting - wishing

Ein Dank gilt allen Teilnehmern die diesen Photowalk zu dem Event gemacht haben der er war. Ein genialer Samstag Nachmittag mit vielen Bekannten und neuen Gesichtern und dem Ziel der Fotojagt. Wir freuen uns schon auf den nächsten Photowalk der bereits in Planung ist. Im Ende August bzw. Anfang September findet wieder ein Photowalk in Klagenfurt statt und mit 3. Oktober gibt es schon einen neuen Termin fürs photowalken in der Bundeshauptstadt.

Unmittelbar auf dem laufenden über Photowalk und seine Freunde bleibt ihr mit der neuen Photowalk.at Fanpage im FaceBook! Schaut rein und werdet Fan von Photowalk um über Neuigkeiten unmittelbar informiert zu sein. Ihr könnt dort auch eure Photowalking-Freunde wieder finden und für weitere Photowalks verabreden.

by Martin Gratzer at August 06, 2009 08:36 PM

July 29, 2009

Mark Hall

North Wales

Last week Melitta battled British public transport and made it to Cardiff. Actually not much battling was involved, but it sounds more dramatic. Moving past this issue, she was here for a week and after spending a few days in Cardiff, we went up to north Wales. Laura drove down to Cardiff to pick us up and off we went.

Going up the weather got progressively nicer (it was pouring in Cardiff) and by the time we reached Criccieth (where we had our B&B) it was a nice evening. After putting our stuff in the rooms (Laura and I had a beautiful sea-view, which was only slightly spoiled by the terrible pink colour scheme in the room – not to mention the barbie-doll pillow) we went out for some food and found this delicious restaurant. Mhmmmmmmm.

The next day we set out towards Snowdon, because I wanted to go on the mountain railway. Unfortunately when we got there we found out that there was a 5 hour wait for the next train with spare seats. So we decided to take the smaller (and cheaper) steam-train along the lake there, which was very nice and had a very definite Thomas the Tank-engine feel. After that we split up as Melitta wanted to walk up Snowdon. Laura had unfortunately strained her stomach muscles, otherwise we would have joined Melitta. While she was away walking, we had a nice rest next to the lake and then went rowing, during which the safety boat came out to tell us “please don’t row so far down the lake”. No sense of adventure in these people.

On Sunday there was a really heavy storm in the morning, so we stayed in the B&B playing Trivial Pursuit, which was great fun. It cleared up around lunch and we took the opportunity to go to Portmeirion. Portmeirion is an imitation Italian-style village built by a slightly eccentric welsh architect. It feels somehow strange, but is also very nice. The style is there, but the place is a bit to well-kept to be proper Italian ;-). After spending some time there we went out to the Llynn peninsula, were we went for a walk along the beach (and to the pub, where the welsh nationalists complained about the f’in English. In welsh, so not really understandable ;-). We finished the day at the B&B playing Trivial Pursuit again, due to which I can tell you that the answer is either “Cantona” or “Tony Blair”. Strange but true.

On Monday we drove back down to Cardiff and that was the end of that holiday. It’s nice up in the north, but personally my preference is for the west of Wales.

by Archchancellor at July 29, 2009 12:46 PM

July 27, 2009

Christian Assing

Bungy

Ich habe es getan und mich, nur an einem Gummiseil befestigt, von der 96m hohen Jauntal Brücke gestürzt. 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... JUMP :)

Bungy

by Christian Assing at July 27, 2009 12:00 AM

July 16, 2009

Mark Hall

Various happenings

A lot of time has passed since I last posted something here. In order not to bore you too much, I will not go into too much detail.

The first item is when Laura and I took the Graduate Centre bus tour to the National Botanical Garden. It’s really a very well designed botanical garden, on a huge site. All went well until on the way back coming off the motorway the gear-linkage on the bus went and were were stuck on the outside lane on the slipway. It took about an hour for a replacement coach to turn up. On the flip-side I can add “evacuated a bus via the side emergency exit door” to the list of things I’ve done :-). Actually I just remembered, that the Botanical Garden had lost our group booking, so it took a bit until we got that sorted out and they finally let us in.

A few days later we went to Cheddar Gorge and Wells. Cheddar Gorge from an organisational point of view was the opposite of the Botanical Garden. The coach arrived, there was somebody there to greet us, who radioed the ticket office that I was coming down to pick up the ticket, then we got a guided tour, basically well organised. Also the cave is pretty cool and the whole site has a very quaint Victorian flair to it. Well worth it. Driving on to Wells, the smallest city in England (St Davids in Wales is smaller) (it is a city because it has a Cathedral), we walked around it and had some tea. That’s basically it.

Next up on the travel schedule was a trip to Klagenfurt for my mother’s birthday. I spent all evening serving drinks, food and doing various tasks. It was good fun :-). From there I went to Salzburg for a conference and am now finally back in Cardiff. Which brings me to the end of this entry.

by Archchancellor at July 16, 2009 08:22 PM

July 11, 2009

Martin Gratzer

World Wide Photowalk in Klagenfurt

Am: 18. Juli 2009 um 16:00
Wo: Lendhafen Klagenfurt
Thema: World Wide Photowalk
Links: FaceBook
Tags: photowalk.at:18072009

Der nächste Photowalk in Klagenfurt findet im Rahmen des World Wide Photowalk am 18. Juli 2009 statt. Der World Wide Photowalk wird von Scott Kelby organisiert und findet, wie der Name schon sagt, rund um den Globus am gleichen Tag statt. Die Bewerbung für den World Wide Photowalk im Vorjahr kam wohl zu spät, dafür sind wir heuer dabei.

Hier ein paar Daten zum Vorjahr:

  1. 8.324 teilnehmende Fotografen
  2. 47 teilnehmende Länder
  3. insgesamt 236 Städte weltweit
  4. über 1,017,125 geschossene Fotos an diesem Tag

Es gitb auch was zu gewinnen. Der Leader (in dem Fall ich) sucht von jedem Photowalk das Beste Foto aus und mit Erlaubnis des Photografen wird es eingeschickt. Der Gewinner erhält nach erscheinen auf jeden Fall eine Kopie von Scott Kelby’s neuem Buch und hat die Möglichkeit auf einen der Preise aus der Preisliste.

Wer Teilnehmen will soll sich bitte unter http://worldwidephotowalk.com/attendee-registration-form/?bid=622 registrieren! Die offizielle Teilnehmerzahl ist diesmal auf 50 Leute beschränkt (:D)

Die Route führt ab ca 16:00 quer durch die Stadt bis wir uns um ca 18:00 wieder im Augustin treffen um den Tag gemütlich ausklingen zu lassen.

Wir freuen uns auf jeden Teilnehmer und werden Klagenfurt beim World Wide Photowalk würdig vertreten.

by Martin Gratzer at July 11, 2009 08:03 AM

July 07, 2009

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July 06, 2009

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July 05, 2009

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June 30, 2009

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by pgruber at June 30, 2009 02:35 PM

June 11, 2009

Mark Hall

New Steps! New Steps! New Steps!

“There are NO NEW STEPS” Sorry, we watched Strictly Ballroom again recently and I got carried away a bit. What is new though is the design on this site, which is courtesy of the great Markus. So a big shout-out to him. Like all great engineering projects this one has been in the works some time now (two and a half years to be precise), but finally the time has come for releasing it into the wild. So here it is, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

There’s also been a bit of re-working of the actual code that runs this site, so please excuse any problems you run into and do drop me a line if when you find them. Additionally there’s been a hosting move, which hopefully should reduce the lag when browsing this site. We’ll see how it goes.

by Archchancellor at June 11, 2009 07:16 PM

June 10, 2009

Mark Hall

The art of keeping busy while not doing too much

I’ve been working hard on my travel-fu, with my training including a trip to Dublin (been there before, but practice, practice), one to Bamberg (nice) and a short stop in Cambridge (fun). The first two were work-related, but the last one was pure relaxation. Just the way it’s supposed to be.

Not much I can say about going to Dublin. I flew there, I spent two days on the DCU campus with one brief excursion to the pub for food. I did have nice accommodation on campus though, in something that they call their VIP rooms, which are basically small flats where two bedrooms share a living room and kitchen. Very nice and the bed also very comfortable, much better than the bed in the student accommodation I had last time. I flew back on a Tuesday evening in order to be ready for the next day.

The reason being that the next day Jon (work-colleague) and I left for a three day trip to Bamberg. We went there on a mission to take photos. It was warm and sunny. All expenses paid. I admit this sounds like a nice gig, but it really was work. I swear. Honest. Right, so after leaving Cardiff at 6 in the morning, we got to Bamberg at about 5 in the afternoon, where we were met by a project colleague in whose flat we were staying. He then took us out for some food and we had a nice evening with some of his colleagues. The next morning Jon tried to get the application that we had gotten from one of our project partners to work on his G1 (the Google mobile phone). The application should take a photo, get the GPS location and also store pitch, roll and direction of the image. All this information would make it possible to re-create the scene in a 3D model, to do some fancy stuff with automagically generating image captions. But it crashed. Always after taking a photo and it would only save the photo about 25% of the time. So we were stuck with doing it manually.

The plan had been that he would use his phone and I would use my camera together with a physical compass and a home-made contraption for measuring the pitch, but due to the problem with the application we both had to write down the measurements manually. So we set off and spent the next 6 hours walking around Bamberg taking photos, GPS and direction measurements, writing it all down and moving on to the next location. It was tiring work. The one thing that made it bearable was the excellent lunch and dinner we had. :-) Which reminds me. When we were sitting in the restaurant for lunch we suddenly heard this commotion. People shouting and bike-bells ringing, as around the corner comes this contraption called the “Bier Bike”. It defies explanation, so just look at the video or browse their site. Due to the late start we weren’t able to complete our photographic tour on Thursday, so we got up early on Friday to complete our data collection, before we hopped back on the train and plane to get back home.

After that excursion there followed a quiet two weeks of working in Cardiff, before Laura and I set off for a weekend in Cambridge, where we were invited to the birthday party of one of Laura’s colleagues from Oxford. The weather was abysmal as we travelled there on Saturday, but in the early afternoon it started to improve and by the time we got to the punts it was quite nice. We were a group of thirteen so we got three punts and set off. It’s very nice, the river Cam takes you through or at least past some of the colleges and at some points is wide enough that you can link the punts together to pass around the champagne and strawberries for the birthday celebration. At the same time there is quite a lot of traffic with the various students punting around and the tourist tour-punts rushing along the river, their punters screaming at the passengers to “keep your hands inside the boat!” At times it can be a bit of a mess and after one pile-up we were forced to travel backwards for about 200 yards, which was a challenge for our punter. After it calmed down a bit, I got a chance to punt as well and I must say it was good fun.

The next day we walked around Cambridge a bit, and the girlfriend of the birthday boy took us to Queen’s College where my father had been an undergraduate. At first they wouldn’t let us in, saying it was exam time and the students needed peace and quiet, but after it being mentioned that my father had gone to Queen’s the reply was “Oh he did? Ah well, in that case go ahead. Exams are basically over anyway.” So we had a look around and it was nice to see it from the inside. After a brief lunch Laura and I headed back for Cardiff and that brought that adventure to a close as well.

Somewhere in the middle of this we also went to the Opera. Puccini’s La Boheme. Very well sung and acted, but that’s all for the moment.

by Archchancellor at June 10, 2009 08:21 PM

June 03, 2009

Martin Gratzer

Photowalk: Sportfotos Soccer

Am: 6. Juni 2009 um 09:30
?Wo: Fussballplatz KAC !! (Karte)
Thema: Sport/Fussballspiel ?
Tags: photowalk.at:06062009

Soccer

Das tolle an der Idee Photowalk ist nicht nur, dass wir gemeinsam von einem Gasthaus zum nächsten ziehen und dazwischen Fotos machen sondern auch, dass wir von einander lernen und uns gegenseitig für Neues motivieren.

Chase Jarvis hat diese Woche geschrieben: “When was the last time you shot something for the first time? Get out there and shoot something new.”

In diesem Sinne gibt es am Samstag einen Photowalk Sportfotos. Ein Liga Match zwei U14 Mannschaften.
Das besondere dabei ist, dass wir dank tine so nah dabei sein können wie es sonst selbst mit Presse Akkredierung nicht möglich ist.

Was bedeutet, dass man nicht unbedingt eine 200er Linse benötigt um gute Bilder machen zu können. Es wird viele Möglichkeiten für interessante Editorial like Bilder geben, Headshots, Mannschaftsbilder uvm……

Das Spiel beginnt um 10 Uhr, deshalb wäre vielleicht ganz interessant wenn man schon um 9.30 dort sein könnte um auch die Vorbereitungen auf so ein Spiel ein zu fangen.

Die entstandenen Bilder sollten nach dem Photowalk mit dem Tag (Stichwort) “photowalk.at:06062009? (ohne “) versehen werden, damit wir die Bilder später auch finden :-) . Idealerweise werden die Bilder auf Flickr hochgeladen und dort unserer Gruppe hinzugefügt. Fragen dazu können gerne beim Photowalk gestellt werden.

Bei Fragen: gutsyheron (at) gmail.com oder 0660-3192994

by gutsyheron at June 03, 2009 11:14 AM

June 01, 2009

Martin Gratzer

villach :captured photowalk05

hallo liebe photowalking freunde,
endlich sommerzeit und somit auch photowalkingzeit.
eines sei gleich mal vorab gesagt – diesmal haben wir und was ganz ganz spezielles einfallen lassen.

normalerweise läuft ein photowalk ja nach folgendem schema ab:
es gibt vorab ein fixes thema
alle treffen sich an besagtem ort zu besagter zeit
walken alleine oder gemeinsam vor sich hin
und posten die ergebnisse im flickr….

aber diesmal ist alles anders:

es gibt einen fixen themenpool
jeder teilnehmer zieht ein thema aus dem pool
der gesamte photowalk besteht aus vier runden
nach jeder runde werden die in der ersten runde gezogenen themen unter den teilnehmern getauscht – somit wird jedes thema von vier photowalkern interpretiert
pro runde stehen 30min zur verfügung (nach jeder runde treffpunkt vorm stadtkino)
jedem photowalker steht es selbstverständlich frei ob er zu einem thema 50 fotos oder nur ein einziges macht – jedoch darf schlussendlich nur EIN foto (natürlich das beste) pro thema in der flickr gruppe villach: captured gepostet werden.
somit entstehen zu jedem thema genau vier fotos
ausgewertet wird das ganze auf unserem neuen photowalking blog www.youcaptured.me
besonders wichtig bei diesem photowalk ist das richtige taggen der bilder (mehr infos dazu dann vorort)

nach dem photowalk wird es auf www.youcaptured.me eine auswertung der themen geben wo die verschiedenen interpretationen der themen zu sehen sind.

wir sind gespannt ob euch diese idee gefällt und wir freuen uns auf euer zahlreiches kommen
anmelden könnt ihr euch wie immer in der villach : captured gruppe, auf upcoming, auf www.photowalk.at, und NEU natürlich auch auf www.youcaptured.me

auf eine zahlreiche teilnahme freut sich das

villach :captured bzw. youcaptured.me team!

by Christian Mathelitsch at June 01, 2009 08:52 PM

May 29, 2009

Mark Hall

The Marking Game

A few gems from a days worth of marking of first-year project reports:

  • The Java programming language was sued to develop it.
  • this is where I identify what the program needs to do, what I would like it to do and also what I would like to do if there is time to do it.
  • Heading “assumptions”: consideration that the project can be viewed such that you have been asked or subcontracted by a business or organisation (perhaps ‘Invicta Plastics Ltd’) to undertake this project as part of a scheme they might have to launch a modern version of the game (for example)
  • the program should be written with minimal lines of code, as the less code there is, the faster the program should run and therefore potentially more environmentally friendly
  • Heading “Weaknesses”: evidently the game does not work properly, therefore this can be considered a weakness
  • which arts will cause me the most problems
  • The most obvious issue that springs to mind here is that I spent a lot of time trying to look good, e.g. Moving titles and effects…

by Archchancellor at May 29, 2009 10:12 AM

May 12, 2009

Martin Gratzer

Photowalk: Mittelalter erleben

Am: 16. Mai 2009 um 14:00
Wo: Burg Taggenbrunn bei St. Veit an der Glan (Karte)
Thema: Mittelalter erleben
LinksupcomingFaceBook
Tags: upcoming:event=2658521, photowalk.at:16052009

Nachdem die Photowalking Saison eröffnet ist darf wieder geschossen werden, diesmal beim Tag der offenen Tür der Mittelaltergruppe Soldknechte Companie Carantania auf der Burg Taggenbrunn bei St. Veit an der Glan (Karte).

Hier die Infos der Soldknechte zum Event.

Tag der offenen Tür der Mittelaltergruppe Soldknechte Companie Carantania am 16. Und 17. Mai 2009 auf Burg Taggenbrunn (St. Veit).

Unter dem Motto „Mittelalter erleben!“ laden die Soldknechte auch heuer wieder zum Tag der offenen Tür auf Burg Taggenbrunn. Geboten wird ein dichtes Programm und die Besucher sind dazu eingeladen, ihr Können im Bogenschießen, Axtwerfen oder mit dem Schwerte unter Beweis zu stellen. Wer schon immer in eine Rüstung schlüpfen wollte, findet an diesem Wochenende seine Gelegenheit. Egal ob groß oder klein, für Unterhaltung aller sei gesorgt. An beiden Tagen gibt es Schaukämpfe, Drillübungen, historische Kleidung und Rüstungen zu bewundern. Viel Wert wird auf mittelalterliches Handwerk gelegt. So zeigt ein „Pheilsniczer“ wie anno dazumals mühevoll Pfeile hergestellt wurden. Für einen vollen Magen sorgt beste Verpflegung aus der Burgküche!

Der Eintritt ist frei – es wird um freiwillige Spenden gebeten. Samstags sind die Burgtore von 11-20 Uhr, Sonntags von 11-17 Uhr geöffnet.

Die Burg Taggenbrunn liegt östlich von St. Veit an der Glan , Anreise über die S37 – Klagenfurter Schnellstraße – Zufahrt über Goggerwenig

http://www.soldknechte.at

Packt eure Linsen ein und freut euch auf mittelalterliches Flair. Der Treffpunkt ist um 14:00 vor der Burg.

Wie immer, werden die Teilnehmer gebeten sich hier oder auf Facebook zu melden zum abzuschätzen der Größe. Die entstandenen Bilder sollten nach dem Photowalk mit den Tags (Stichwörter) “upcoming:event=2658521″ und “photowalk.at:16052009″ (ohne “) versehen werden, damit wir die Bilder später auch finden :-) . Idealerweise werden die Bilder auf Flickr hochgeladen und dort unserer Gruppe hinzugefügt. Fragen dazu können gerne beim Photowalk gestellt werden.

Foto von Brennuskrux

by Martin Gratzer at May 12, 2009 10:35 AM

May 07, 2009

Mark Hall

The Return of the Holiday Man

I’ve been on holiday. I can recommend that. It’s a nice thing to do. You feel strangely relaxed afterwards. I don’t really know why, but that’s the way it is.

The first trip was to the south of France, the Côte d’Azure to be more precise, the Hapimag in La Madrague to be extremely precise. Although I won’t say which apartment number we had (I can’t remember), but it did have a very nice view of the sea through the trees. This was the yearly crazy-people-outing, this time augmented by Laura and with Christoph and Corinne replacing Thomas whose work-requirements did not allow for him to attend. Laura and I flew to Nice, where we picked up Johannes for a nice drive down along the coast until we arrived in La Madrague in the evening.

The next day was very relaxed, we went for a bit of a walk to the market and then to the beach, as we waited for Roberto, Corinne and Christoph to arrive. On Monday we developed this theme a bit further, with the only exercise being that we went to the beach. Roberto’s getting old, so he’s not in as much of a rush anymore ;-).

On Tuesday it was time for a more active day, as on Christoph’s recommendation we visited the Ile de Porquerolle. There we went for a nice walk, and also visited the main beach there (which hadn’t been cleaned for the summer yet, so wasn’t quite as impressive as hoped). Laura and I also went for some nice food while the other four hacked their way through the undergrowth as they explored the island. This exploration lead to a memorable statement by Roberto later in the evening. On the way back we had stopped in Bandol for some food and when Johannes and Roberto shared a spoon for the desert and the waiter asked them whether they were married, Roberto fluidly replied “On a passé la guerre ensemble”, which shut the waiter up.

Wednesday our trip took us to Aix-en-Provence, which is a very beautiful town. Really nice. While the others explored the inner city a bit more, Laura and I walked to Cezanne’s studio, which is basically exactly the way he left it when he died. One big room with lots of still life. Strange, but somehow cool. In the meantime the thermal spa had turned out to be too expensive for Johannes and Roberto, so we all hopped back in our cars to drive to Mt St Victoire, which Cezanne had painted so often. It does dominate the landscape.

On Thursday we had booked places on the boat trip along the Calanques from La Ciotat to Marseille (although not all the way to Marseille, but all the Calanques). Sailing along these huge cliffs and tiny bays was cool and the water in some of the Calanques simply beautiful. After returning to the Hapimag Laura, Roberto and I went for a walk along the coast near the Hapimag, which was also very nice, even if in some parts very steep and one had to be careful, but the views were impressive. After returning, we headed out towards the cliffs between La Ciotat and Cassis which we wanted to have a look at from the top as well. Here everybody had a good time poking fun at Mark, when his vertigo had a good go at him. I guess I’ve basically got to say that 300 metre cliffs are past my limit. Still the cliffs did look stunning in the evening light.

Friday Laura and I took the car for a long drive on our own, as we drove up to Biôt, because Laura wanted to see the Leger Museum there. The museum was interesting, and we then went for lunch in a little créperie. Excellent food and the two women who ran it were very friendly, even though they had a good time slagging of the English in general when talking to the older French couple in the corner. Perhaps they then cottoned on to the fact that we might speak a bit more French than they thought, because Laura got her cidre topped up for free and then a shot of rum appeared as well. Thus the place definitely comes with a recommendation from us. On the way back we drove through Antibes and we can understand why Bertie likes it. That was it and on Saturday we returned to Wales.

But the holiday wasn’t over yet. My parents had come to Wales, adding another week to my time off. The first few days we spent at Laura’s parents’ place, and going on day trips from there, before we set off for a three day stay in the west of Wales. Even though the weather was not perfect there, the area is simply beautiful and definitely worth going.

That more or less covers everything. I’ve just gotten back from a concert by the Prague Symphony Orchestra, with some very, very, very enjoyable Smetana (Vlatva ) and Dvořák (No. 9_) and also some Beethoven (_Piano Concerto No. 1). Additionally this concert had two encores, first the pianist played some Chopin and then at the end the orchestra played a dance, but unfortunately I didn’t catch which one. I hadn’t been to a concert for some time now and this one was simply magnificent.

Before I forget, I’ve also got photos up from France and Wales.

by Archchancellor at May 07, 2009 10:28 PM

April 30, 2009

April 28, 2009

Martin Gratzer

Flower Power

Flower Power
A spontaneous shot taken from the balcony short before sunset. In front of the mountains in the background is our famous lake Wörthersee.

by Martin Gratzer at April 28, 2009 07:27 PM

April 27, 2009

Martin Gratzer

Small Presents from Rovinj

Holidays are great! I didn’t went on holidays for several years until last weekend :-) . We (Helmut, Sonja, Lena, Valentin, Julian, Andreas, Tanja, Willi, Claudia, Evi and I) went to visit the small town Rovinj (HR) for holidays. We just went there for climbing, climbing the world for four days, and we had so much fun doing it downin the south. You can find a lot of climbing spots around Rovinj and we visited three of them within four days. On our arrival day and the third day we visited a climbing area diectly at the sea. At this spot we found beautiful and quite easy, many 5a – 5c, routes, perfect as a starter. The reward for finishing a route was a wonderful outlook over the sea and a fantastic sundown later in the evening. Perfect limestone lead you up about 20m on save hooks and quite good stands. Ambitious climbers will find less harder routes in this sector, mainly 5a up to 6c.
Sundown in Rovinj

On our second and last day we started at the Limski Kanal, in the north of Rovinj. We visited different sectors on each of these days. I can’t remember the name of the first sector, but the second one was called Horoscope. The routes at the Limski Kanal are higher, even two pitch routes are possible there. The rock was nice limestone. Again you can find more easier routes down at the Limski Kanal but also harder lines above the 7th difficulty degree can be (tried) to get climbed there. We overall did mostly 5C and 6a/b routes, just some 6c. We even tried a 7a, but with less success :-) . The panoramic shot below is the outlook at 30m above the Limski Kanal. You can see Claudia climbing a route on the left side and the full beauty of the Limski Kanal in the background. It was not so easy getting my gear up this route. I was afraid of smashing my Canon camera against the rock while climbing up all the time.

Climbing at the Limski Kanal

Beside climbing we had a lot of fun playing around with taking pictures, trying doing some slack-lining, visiting Rovinj and just having a good time.

Handstand _MG_3106

Overall it was a pleasure being there for climbing with old and new friends. I can recommend this area to everybody who is into rock climbing and who likes to be at the sea. We had wonderful wether all the time and temperatures where around 20°C – perfect for climbing.

Helping Hand Touchdown Fisherman

This map shows all the climbed spots together, zoom out and find all different spots.

Klettern Rovinj auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen

Related Links

by Martin Gratzer at April 27, 2009 03:37 PM

April 06, 2009

Martin Gratzer

villach :captured photowalk04 [Update]

Liebe Fotofreunde!

Der villach :captured photowalk04 ist beendet. Ich bedanke mich bei allen, die dabei waren und hoffe, dass wir uns beim nächsten photowalk wieder sehen. Die Fotos könnt ihr euch hier ansehen!

Viel Spaß euer Christian

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Hallo liebe photowalking-Begeisterte!

Es ist wieder soweit – der nächste photowalk steht vor der Tür, und diesmal haben wir uns mal was ganz anderes ausgedacht.

Hiermit möchten wir euch herzlich zum photowalk04 einladen

Die Grundidee stammt von Outburner – ein herzliches Dankeschön an dieser Stelle…

Bei diesem photowalk stehen nicht bestimmte Motive bzw. ein “fixes Thema” im Vordergrund, jeder kann sich die Motive individuell aussuchen.

DOCH einen Haken hat die ganze Sache natürlich,  es wird nur mit einer Brennweite fotografiert, die sich jeder Teilnehmer vorab aussucht. Das heißt: Ob ihr mit einer Festbrennweite oder einem Zoomobjektiv fotografiert ist im wesentlichen egal, solange das Objektiv nicht gewechselt wird bzw. das Zoomobjektiv immer auf die selbe Brennweite eingestellt ist. Das ist die Herausforderung an diesem photowalk – das heißt gehen statt zoomen!

Wir hoffen auf eine zahlreiche Teilnahme trotz des etwas ungewöhnlichen Themas.

Anmelden könnt ihr euch hier auf photowalk.at, in unserer flickr-Gruppe oder auf upcoming.

Auf euer Kommen freut sich

das villach :captured-Team!

P.S.: Vielen Dank an mani photos, dass er uns für das banner eines seiner fotos zur verfügung gestellt hat.

by Christian Mathelitsch at April 06, 2009 07:46 PM

April 02, 2009

ZID Wartungen & Stoerungen

GrouwiseWartung Haubgebäude

Wartung/Störung GrouwiseWartung Haubgebäude
Datum/Uhrzeit DO 02.4.2009  20:00  - 23:00  Uhr
betroffene Services: GroupWise  - kurze Störungen möglcih
betroffene Standorte: Hauptgebäude
  Es können immer wieder kurze Störungen der Groupwiseservices auftreten.

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by ckaiser at April 02, 2009 12:02 PM

March 28, 2009

Christian Assing

iPhone unter Linux

Ich habe mir jetzt ein iPhone zugelegt und damit meinen iPod Touch ersetzt. Nur am Rande, wenn jemand überlegt sich eins dieser beiden Geräte zu zulegen, ich kann dazu nur sagen: "Mach es!!" :)

Ok aber jetzt zum eigentlichen Artikel und dem Grund warum ich diesen Artikel schreiben musste.

Anmerkung: Das iPhone und der iPod Touch verwenden die gleiche Software und somit sind folgende Informationen für beide Geräte gleich.

iPhone und iTunes

Bevor man das iPhone benutzten kann (telefonieren usw.) muss es via der iTunes Software aktiviert werden. Da ich ja Linux benutzte stand ich nun vor einem großen Problem, die iTunes Software gibt es leider NUR für MacOS und Windows! :( Also was nun? Mac kaufen ... zu teuer! Eigene Windows Partition aufm Laptop ... aber wie kann dieses Windows auf meine Musik von der Linux Platte zu greifen? Das einzige und kostengünstige: VMware!

iTunes in einem VMware Windows XP

Die VMware Installation ist sehr einfach (ja auch unter Linux), herunterladen, Installer aufrufen, weiter, weiter, fertig! Dann schnell ein Windows XP in der VMware installiert und über die VMware meinen Music Ordner dem Windows gegeben. Das iTunes heruntergeladen und installiert.

Das ist alles noch nicht die hohe Kunst, aber leider reicht das nicht um ein iPhone zu aktivieren bzw. zu syncen :(

Konfiguration von HAL

Wenn man in dem jetzigen Setup das iPhone am Computer anschliesst, sehen das Linux und das Windows das iPhone. Dadurch funktioniert das iTunes im Windows nicht richtig, es können manche USB Kommandos nicht ausgeführt werden. Die Lösung bring dein Linux dazu das iPhone zu ignorieren, aber wie? Die Antwort lautet: Sag dem HAL, das das iPhone ihn nix angeht :)

  • Finde die USB ID des iPhones heraus

    root@...# lsusb
    [snip]
    Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05ac:1292 Apple, Inc.
    
  • die USB ID (hier 05ac:1292) ist in der Hex Darstellung, das HAL braucht sie in der Dezimal Darstellung 1452:4754

  • in /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe/10-iphone.fdi folgendes eintragen

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
    
    <deviceinfo version="0.2">
      <device> 
        <match key="usb.vendor_id" int="1452">
          <match key="usb.product_id" int="4754">
            <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
          </match>
        </match>
      </device>
    </deviceinfo>
    
  • HAL restarten und das Linux ignoriert das iPhone und das iTunes sollte ohne Probleme funktionieren :)

by Christian Assing at March 28, 2009 12:00 AM

March 19, 2009

Mark Hall

Odds and ends (vol. 2)

It’s now almost a month ago that we went to Graz, but I just remembered something. If you would like to have a free copy of Wittgenstein – Zur Einführung, then you must go to the lost property office in Vienna Airport and ask for it there. It was forgotten by me on flight BA0706 from London on the 20th of February. On the way back I did try to retrieve it, but after first running into a wall (not quite literally, although the arrows pointing to the lost property office did indicate that you had to pass through a solid wall), then being grumbled at by the Austrian lost property office, directed to the BA lost property, there told that it is at the Vienna airport lost property office, which had already closed, I gave up. So if you want it, it’s there for you to collect (hopefully, unless the stewardess took it for herself).

Also photos for this year’s trip to Slimbridge are now available.

by Archchancellor at March 19, 2009 08:26 PM

March 11, 2009

ZID Wartungen & Stoerungen

Wartungsfenster Do, 12.3.09 18:00 - 24:00

Wartung/Störung Network-Troubleshooting
Datum/Uhrzeit DO 12.3.2009  20:00  - 24:00  Uhr
betroffene Services: Alle
betroffene Standorte: Alle (Lokale Services am IFF-Wien ( I:  H: ) sind nicht betroffen)
  Es können immer wieder kurze Störungen der Netzwerkverbindungen und -services auftreten. Bitte die PCs am Abend herunterfahren.

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by pgruber at March 11, 2009 01:52 PM

March 05, 2009

Mark Hall

The Rushing of Time

Well it’s been quite a while since I last posted something here. It’s been a busy month. Work, concerts, opera, holiday, travel, I’ve done it all, so here some highlights.

On the cultural front, I attended a total of three operas and two concerts (it might have been three concerts, I’m losing track). The operas were Le Nozze di Figaro, Salome and The Elixir of Love. The first and the last were excellent. Especially The Elixir of Love was really enjoyable. Really, really silly plots with good music and singing. What more could one want. Unfortunately Salome couldn’t keep up. While the music was really enjoyable, the opera itself was lacking. The wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk was not fully implemented (as was explained to me by a knowledgeable person), and quite a few of the references of one part to another part of the opera were also missing. Additionally it had the erotic qualities of dust (cough, cough), which for an opera where the erotic aspect is central is a definite problem. Luckily it only lasted one and a half hours.

The concerts showed a similar pattern (I now remember that it was certainly three concerts), with two excellent concerts and one not so good. I’ve forgotten what was played at the two big concerts, but they were nice. One was conducted by a young Venezuelan conductor and he was definitely fun to watch. All energetic jumping and waving about and really getting into the music. The third concert was a small affair, works by Robert Schumann for piano accompanied by a reading of excerpts from letters and diaries from his trip to Italy. While the reading was very nice, the piano pieces were unconnected to his trip to Italy and the playing was also not very impressive. I could see and feel Laura wincing at regular intervals :-).

Work has also been pretty heavy this last month. The project had its yearly review, and as one of the partners hadn’t completed their work (or had not got it to work correctly), I had to spend an extra bit of time making sure we had something to show. Also I’ve been working on a longer paper, which took up a good bit of my evenings. Luckily that is now all over and I’ve got a bit more time in the evenings.

To get away from this Laura and I flew to Graz to see the children’s opera Elisabeth was directing this year. I’d seen the one she did last year, and at Christmas we had promised to come and see this years. It was really enjoyable and very good. Definitely worth the trip and Laura and I also had a nice time looking around Graz. On the way over we stayed one night at Melitta’s (thank you), which was also very nice (even if we ended up slightly more tired than planned ;-).

Finally work took me on a trip to Zürich and Florence. Flew over on Sunday evening, Zürich on Monday, night train to Florence, Tuesday and Wednesday morning in Florence, train to Pisa and back home from there. My ecological footprint is in a terrible state. Also I’ve now been to more airports with my colleague Phil than with anybody else, which is also not something I had ever planned on achieving. Slowly, slowly these travel things are starting to loose their shine.

And with that I bid you good night. Some brief bookkeeping and then it’s off to bed.

by Archchancellor at March 05, 2009 11:04 PM

February 25, 2009

Christian Assing

Fotos

My new car

Ich habe eine paar neue Fotos in meine Web Gallery gestellt, viel Spaß beim anschaun :)

by Christian Assing at February 25, 2009 12:00 AM

February 23, 2009

ZID Wartungen & Stoerungen

Wartungsfenster Do, 26.2.09 18:00 - 21:00

Wartung/Störung Moodle Upgrade, Serverumzug
Datum/Uhrzeit DO 26.2.2009  18:00  - 21:00  Uhr
betroffene Services: moodle.uni-klu.ac.at
betroffene Standorte: Alle.

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by tiwaldne at February 23, 2009 10:12 AM

February 22, 2009

Martin Gratzer

Sports Photography at the Bouldering Cup

Heel Hook
Today was the second bouldering cup in our town. I’m into bouldering for some month now and enjoy exercising it several times a week. I didn’t take part because I started bouldering just 5 month ago, but next year I’m starting, promised :-). I took about 6Gb of RAW photographs and kept back 270 results (which will be published on Facebook tomorrow for the attendees). As I’m quite into black and white sports photography (see my Iron Man 2008 set on Flickr), I decided to post process some of these bouldering shots this way. Check out my Flickr stream.

I’ve searched Flickr for a community group around black and white sports photography. What did I find? Nothing! This seems to be a sign for me starting a group on it ;-) . Black and White Sports Photography Flickr group.

As you can imagine, light was terrible in this boulder center. The lightning system was bad and the windows small and only brighting up one side of the hall. I was forced to use a wide open aperture (1.8 – 2.8) and relatively high ISO (500 – 1000). My fast (prime) lenses (17-50mm 2.8, 50mm 1.8, 85mm 1.8 and 200mm 2.8) cut a quite fine figure. The overall performance was very satisfying and in the beginning I used my Canon 580 EX Speedlite to gain more light. Finally I only used available light anymore, the effects where nice and gorgeous. But overall the image quality suffered a bit, ok, not really bad. A few month ago I thought about getting me an ultra wide lens like 10-20mm or 12-24mm for climbing photography. Today I tested a 10-20mm Sigma (from geek7) lens for this purpose, but I recognized my 17-50mm 2.8 lens is just fine and wide enough for bouldering – could still be to close for outdoor climbing with a wonderful landscape background. At the moment I don’t really have a need for such an UWW piece, still happy with my primes. Especially the 85mm 1.8 and 200mm 2.8 did a wonderful job, they are so fast and accurate, love them. I used my Canon EOS 40D in manual mode with spot metering, an aperture around 1.8 and 3.2 with ISO between 400 and 800 as well as the minimal possible shutter speed depending on the mounted lens.

I’m looking forward for more climbing photography outdoor this season. After the snow has gone we explore the natures climbing possibilities around us!

by Martin Gratzer at February 22, 2009 09:19 PM

February 17, 2009

ZID Wartungen & Stoerungen

Wartungsfenster Do, 19.2.09 18:00 - 21:00

Wartung/Störung Umbau SAN
Datum/Uhrzeit DO 19.2.2009  18:00  - 21:00  Uhr
betroffene Services: H: I: L: R: Laufwerke, Canon-Druckservices
betroffene Standorte: Alle. (H: + I: in Wien sind nicht betroffen)
  Bitte die PCs am Abend herunterfahren.

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by pgruber at February 17, 2009 09:54 AM

February 12, 2009

Martin Gratzer

villach :captured photowalk03 [Update]

Der villach :captured photowalk 03 ist beendet! Es war eine tolle Stimmung unter den Fotografen und es war wirklich sehr spaßig! Ein paar Fotos habe ich auf flickr schon entdeckt und muss sagen, tolle Arbeit euch allen!

Vielen Dank dass ihr so zahlreich erschienen seid und ich hoffe, dass auch beim nächsten photowalk in Villach wieder eine so große und lustige Runde zusammenkommt!

>Hier gehts zu den Bildern!

Liebe Grüße

euer villach :captured Team!

 

PS: Bitte tagged eure Bilder auf flickr mit “upcoming:event=1823267″. Danke!

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Hallo liebe Fotofreunde!

Unsere flickr-Gruppe villach :captured lebt noch!

Wir veranstalten einen neuen photowalk in Villach. Das Thema lautet:

Als Location haben wird uns für die Gegend zwischen Zillerbad und der Gail entschieden. Dort finden wir vielfältige Möglichkeiten (Felder, Wald, Bach, usw…)

Lange hats gedauert, aber bald hat das warten ein Ende – in zweierlei Hinsicht

* der Winter neigt sich bald dem ende zu und
* der dritte photowalk von “villach :captured” findet statt.

Es gibt drei Möglichkeiten, sich anzumelden:

- in unserer flickr-Gruppe

- hier auf photowalk.at, oder

- in upcoming (einfach auf das obige Logo klicken).

 

Damit ihr wisst, wo ihr hin müsst, könnt ihr  hier auf Google-Maps nachsehen, wo der Treffpunkt ist.

Kurze Wegbeschreibung:

Von Villach kommend:

- Nach der Kreuzung beim Bauhaus rechts hinunter, gerade aus bis ihr am Parkplatz mit den vielen Bäumen seid.

Von Fürnitz kommend:

- Ca. 300m vor der Kreuzung beim Bauhaus rechts hinunter, links unter der Brücke durch, gleich wieder links und gerade aus bis ihr am Parkplatz mit den vielen Bäumen seid.

 

Wir freuen uns auf eine zahlreiche Teilnahme!

Immer gut Licht wünscht euch euer

villach :captured – Team!

by Christian Mathelitsch at February 12, 2009 08:19 PM

Martin Gratzer

BarCamp Klagenfurt ‘09 the after match

We all met at the University of Klagenfurt last weekend to “geek out” together and hold the BarCamp Klagenfurt ‘09 (#bcklu). I enjoyed meeting “old” Web 2.0 friends again and find new interesting people around tech, social media, web 2.0 and more. I can proudly say this was the best BarCamp I ever vistied (without self-praising). The organization went smooth, everyone knew what to do and many remarked it wasn’t the first BarCamp we are organizing together.
I was in charge of taking pictures of the attendees and I think, my job was well done. This BarCamp was the first possibility to test my Canon EF 85mm 1.8 USM and Canon EF 200mm 2.8 L USM II. Recently I switched from the Canon EF 70-200mm 4 L USM to these two prime lenses without regretting the decision. These two lenses have a lovely bokeh and perfect sharpness at wide open aperture.
I put the pictures on several Facebook Galleries.

Gusty Heron took a wonderful video with his Nikon D90 and the Nikkor 50mm 1.8. Just amaizing how great this blurring effect is and how professional the video looks. Thank you for taking all the effort shooting and cutting the video.


Barcamp Klagenfurt 2009 from Gutsy Heron on Vimeo.

I’m looking forward to BarCamp Klagenfurt ‘10, hope to meet all these wonderful people again.

by Martin Gratzer at February 12, 2009 06:53 PM

February 09, 2009

ZID Wartungen & Stoerungen

Wartungsfenster Do, 12.2.09 18:00 - 21:00

Wartung/Störung Redesign Subnetze
Datum/Uhrzeit DO 12.2.2009  18:00  - 21:00  Uhr
betroffene Services: Netzwerk
betroffene Standorte:

Anglistik, Germanistik, MK, Psychologie, tw. zentrale Verwaltung

  Die PCs  werden die Verbindung verlieren und erst nach einem Neustart wieder herstellen können. Idealerweise die PCs am Abend ausschalten. Und am Freitag in der Früh dann neu starten.

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by pgruber at February 09, 2009 11:46 AM

February 03, 2009

Mark Hall

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

It’s been snowing here! As you may have read in the news. I like it. There’s about two thirds less cars on the road. It’s brilliant. Also there’s snow!

That’s about it, except that I finally got round to uploading some images from the Christmas tour to Klagenfurt and Laura and my trip to Stratford-upon-Avon.

by Archchancellor at February 03, 2009 09:39 PM