zacharyc

This happened to me last week. Yet another lesson learned. I was working on debugging some code at work. Someone was complaining about some functionality in an element we draw on screen. In order to better diagnose the problem, I wanted to create an example and see if I couldn’t get the problem to reproduce. Not a bad first step. The problem was that as I wrote out the code I made a typo on the code I was writing. I wrote something like the following snippet: ...

After a short little weekend break, Photo of the day is back. This photo I shot yesterday in Napa. I finally started to experiment with my new defuser. Since the sun was out in force yesterday, I used this light as a fill and ended up with some interesting results. This just happens to be my favorite composition from the day. [](/assets/img/2008/09/wiretree.jpg?ssl=1)Wine Fence at Napa with fill flash

This picture was taken a couple of years ago at a fraternity event. Photographing fire has always been difficult. On one side you have something very bright, and at night, you are surrounded by the darkness. If you flash it, it can wash out. This is what I got. [](/assets/img/2008/08/fire.jpg?ssl=1)Fire pit at a fraternity event

Steve Jobs’ obituary was mistakenly released by Bloomberg News today. Bloomberg is a company that strives not to take a position on the market, but in this case, they actually caused the stock to take a sharp dip. They have since retracted the article and stated that they have no non-public information on the health of Steve Jobs.

I’m not really sure if I like this photo, but I would love some feedback. I think it is slightly out of focus. I remember the feeling I had when I was taking this photo and that was a great feeling. I was on my own, in the middle of the rockies, breathing cool fresh air. The feeling is probably not enough to call this a great photo, but here it is regardless 😉 ...