The Altoids version

I want to do more time-lapse photography without having to trigger the camera manually. I also didn’t want to spent over $100 for a professional model, so I built this one for about $20 (not including the empty Altoids tin). It’s a snug fit between the electronics, switches, 9V battery and wires, so the rubber bands keep it securely shut.

The switch on the bottom is on/off, other switch is for long or short periods between pictures. The potentiometer varies the time from 3 to 30 seconds (short setting) and 30 seconds to 4:30 minutes (long setting). At the other end is a 3.5mm phone jack that I plug the camera into.

Hopefully I’ll get out and use it tomorrow.

There’s a meme on Facebook where you post 25 random things about you, and then tag others to do the same. I was tagged today and this is what I posted.
25 Random Things About Me

Pura Vida!

Today I received my Blurb book that I put together from our Costa Rica trip. It looks great.

It’s 50 pages long with enough text and captions to explain the trip and images, but it’s mostly a photo book.

Even though I had most of the text already written (from the blog) and the pictures were all ready to go (from prepping them for my flickr set), it still took me a full day to layout the book.

You can check it out here at Blurb.

I just installed the FlickrTag plugin for Wordpress, which makes it much easier for me to include sets of images, and gives you a really nice lightbox to view them in. Go ahead, click on one…

Sweet, huh?

Flying into Los Angeles on an extremely clear day. The distant mountains are at least 50 miles away.

When I grew up in LA (the 60’s and 70’s) we had over 120 Stage 1 Smog Alerts per year – that meant that you shouldn’t play outside and you needed to curtail any unnecessary driving. At school, PE was cancelled. There would be 10 or so Stage 2 days each year where it was hazardous just to breath, so that was discouraged too. I remember days when you couldn’t see a block away, and maybe one day a year that looked like this.

Since 2003 there have been zero Stage 1 days.