Sunrise over Jefferson

Sunrise over Jefferson

Sunrise over Jefferson
National Mall, Washington, District of Columbia

Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G
9 exposures (+1 to -8ev) @ ƒ5.6, ISO200, 70mm

[Erik][erik moeller] finally wore me down. I decided to start [contributing my images][upload wizard] to Wikimedia Commons because, you know, I like work here on features and stuff. (**[Download or link the above image on Wikimedia Commons here][sunrise on commons]**.)

The license is mostly compatible with the way I currently release images as an amateur phtoographer. But since I prefer people contact me for derivatives or commercial work, I down sampled to 1024px JPEGs as a head nod to the more liberal Creative Commons license that Wikimedia uses.

[erik moeller]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Möller “Erik Möller—Wikipedia”
[sunrise on commons]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunrise_over_Jefferson.jpg “Sunrise over Jefferson—Wikipedia Commons”
[upload wizard]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard “Upload Wizard—Wikimedia Commons”
[PediaPress]: http://pediapress.com/ “PediaPress: Create Your Custom Wikipedia-Book”
As I start taking photos again, I’ll release more images to commons… I promise! 🙂 (Oh yeah, they’ll be 2048px images in the future, so that [PediaPress][PediaPress] can use them.)

Continue reading about this image after the jump

The new MagSafe

In nearly every review of the new MacBook Air or MacBook Pro Retina, a big list on the minus column has been the new [MagSafe][] 2 connector.

Mostly because this necessitates the purchase of a $10 part for all ones other’s adapters that is (admittedly) easy to lose.

But overall, I feel this deserves a big plus. Since I’ve had my MacBook Air, I have not once put my USB cable into my MagSafe outlet. This was an almost daily occurrence, so much so that I noticed I unconsciously nurtured a habit of using the right USB port first.

Now if they can only bring back the low profile connector and license MagSafe to third parties. Well that, and create a FindMyMagSafe2Adapter app. Because I seemed to have lost one of mine already.

[MagSafe]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe “MagSafe—Wikipedia”