Images of street side cafes are always interesting to me.
Two laptops …
This fellow was composing music.
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Mifflin Street Block Party 2010
Here are some pictures of the classic Mifflin Street Block Party for year 2010.
This is take 1. In a day or two I will be adding some discussion to accompany the pictures. But for now you can look at and enjoy the pictures.
State Capitol in April
The State Capitol is pretty any time of the year. Here it is early spring and the leaves and buds are not out yet. This is a good time to photograph the Capitol since it is not obscured by trees and leaves.
Walk down State Street in early April
This series of photos was shot around April 1, 2010 and covers the area up and down State Street.
It was an unusually warm day and the temperature was around 80 degrees. Below people are seen in their t-shirts and yet the trees are barren.
Walk down State Street in late March
Towards the end of March in 2010 I went for a stroll down State Street and captured a few images and a few moments. I am a regular “street photographer” (and musician too), and there is a nearly endless variety and interestingness on this street. This is an interesting place to photograph because it is always different every time you walk down the street.
Ice cream on State
Tree in the autumn light
I was lucky to catch this tree when it was in the height of its autumn color. The sun was shining on it “just right”, and the whole thing was really beautiful.
This was taken in the autumn of 2009.
Diffraction limited resolution for digital cameras
This blog can serve as a “front end” to the rest of my web site. I can write a short introductory paragraph that introduces another web page on my site.
I just remembered a paper that is currently not linked and I mention it here. I am always reworking my site, and this link got left out. It will get put back in eventually.
A few years ago I did some studies of the diffraction limit of lenses. This paper is here. A catchy name for this paper would be something like New Year’s Resolution. This is a matter of plugging some numbers into some formulas (well maybe a bit more), but the results are somewhat interesting. This analysis is approximate and a more exact analysis would use MTF analysis, which is not done here.
I am a big fan of resolution and I still don’t have enough and can’t get enough of it. This analysis does say that eventually we will come up upon the limit. But there are so many other fancy features in the new cameras that resolution is only part of the issue. As a general rule, the larger the detector size the higher the theoretical resolution, and this depends on the f# number, as discussed.
Some street cafe images
A never ending interesting photographic topic is the nearly endless variety of lifestyle displayed in the luscious little street side cafes on State Street.
Rolls and butter are making me hungry.
Autumn leaves
Autumn colors are just incredibly beautiful.
