From the monthly archives:
On the eve of Thanksgiving I leave you with this photo of how we should all travel over this holiday weekend. Don’t they all look relaxed? Travel as you wish. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Check out this blog post on the New York Times site where they’ve taken three different sized images — 13 megapixels, 8 megapixels, and 5 megapixels — and blown them up to 16×24 then asked John Q. Public to tell the difference.
Folks couldn’t tell.
As the commenters rightly point out, there are other factors which aren’t divulged in the experiment, but regardless of those other factors, it reiterates something I’ve long believed and stated: megapixels aren’t the most important thing.
Oh… and you railfans might notice a familiar name down on comment #51 on the site…
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One can’t put away their camera just because the weather isn’t sunny… here’s one from the archives; this was shot at Cruzatte on Pengra Pass a few years back:
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This morning was a busy one at Vancouver. The Vancouver Terminal DS (RWN, aka nomosantafe) efficiently moved 10 trains and two light power moves through Vancouver Center in 2 hours. I have to admit this was one of the smoothest busy periods I’ve ever witnessed there because for a change no tempers flared and all the trains arrived without crews dieing! RWN had ‘em on the move timing several of the meets at the Columbia Draw almost perfectly. Amtrak train 500 was on time and 501 was about 10 minutes late due to delays up north. Of course the Columbia Draw had to have 3 openings of its own which tagged 501 for about a 3 minute delay.
The conductor on Amtrak train 501 stays out of the rain while he watches the Columbia Draw close.
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Time for the brutally honest feedback. In the next couple of months I’ll be doing some redesign work around Dogcaught.com and I’m looking for opinions. I have a general idea of a few changes I’m going to make, but if there’s something you love or hate around here, please respond with a comment. I’m curious what folks like about the current design and what’s on the page, and I’m also curious what folks think might be missing or should be changed.
note: I’m already aware that the current site design doesn’t work well at lower screen resolutions due to the width of the photos.
Tell me what you think. I can’t make any guarantees as to what will or won’t change but I’m open to ideas. Please share! If you’d rather not post a comment here publicly you can e-mail me privately and give me your thoughts as well, although I’d encourage folks to leave a comment so others can possibly expand on or respond to ideas.
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