Monday, June 25, 2012

San Francisco Bay Digital Images
San Francisco Courthouse Architectural Detail
"Lamp on Gilded Gates"


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Thursday, June 21, 2012

San Francisco Bay Digital Images
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Creative, strange and visually entertaining online advertisement from Absolute Vodka.


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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

REDWOOD CREEK FOREST - San Francisco Bay Area



 Redwood Creek Forest - 30 minute photography stream of redwood trees photographed in the San Francisco Bay Area redwood forests set to on-location professionally recorded creek sounds professionally mastered to sound real and relaxing. On location birds and other nature sounds. Atmospheric Art in High Definition. Set your screen to full size and relax. Images rotate every 15 seconds. Relaxing atmospheric art. Suggestion: If you are testing out a new retina display, click the setting icon on youtube and set it to the highest definition setting. 


Photographed and Recorded in Marin County and Northern California. San Francisco Bay Digital Images. All rights reserved. No attribution or derivatives. Contact SF Bay Images for licensing.


We produce Atmospheric Art for Display Screens in Hotels, Corporate Lobbies, Restaurants, Hotels and Private Homes. We have a long list of installations. Let us produce a custom display screen for your environment.

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Unbelievably Beautiful Mayan Girls. Quintana Roo, Mexico, 1984
Nikon. Film. 

Boy with the Pink Turban, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Mexico


Nikon, Film. 1984.....
San Franciscans in Quintana Roo



I used to go to Quintana Roo in the Yucatan Peninsula often. Often I ran into people from the San Francisco Bay area on the Beach, at Xel-ha, Playa Del Carmen, Kailum and other places. Many from Marin, but all walks of life. I once spent New Years Eve listening to Micky Hart playing in a thatched hut near Xel-ha with a really bad sound system, but it not making a bit difference to how cool it was.


PHOTO: Kailum, Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Mexico 1984
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Kailum, Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Mexico. 1984. 

DON'T LET IT BE FORGOT, THAT ONCE THERE WAS A SPOT, FOR ONE BRIEF SHINING MOMENT, THAT WAS KNOWN AS CAMELOT.

New 15 In MacBook Pro - I have now had the chance to compare one side by side with the old MacBook Pro. I would just like to follow up that while I think the price is ridiculous, and you do have to purchase a lot of accessories for work-a-rounds, it is incredible. 16 GB RAM MEMORY. You can do a lot of video editing with special effects. It is on my purchase list. Please bring me your project so we can make great commercial videos for your online presence. Having just completed my last 3 projects, I am looking for one or two good projects. SF Bay Images is modeled on the "Digital Agency" concept. We have access to excellent crew for any size project. We are professional, all business and creative. I Direct, or Operate the Cameras and Direct. 25 years of professional creative experience coupled with 15 years of staying abreast with current technology. San Francisco Bay Digital Images. We are all Digital. 415-331-3804

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Thursday, June 14, 2012


DROOLING
NEW 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display

I wish I had one to review. I don't, but I have spent the day figuring out what it would cost to get one adequate for my creative work. This post is just about the 15 inch because I would not consider anything smaller. 

Ok. For all you Video and Photography Creatives out there, this is the skinny on what you need with the new 15" MacBook Pro Retina Display to actually do professional work. (Retina Display means 2880 x 1800 pixels) 

BASICS
Intel HD Graphics 4000 NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory.

It comes with 2.6GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz or you can upgrade to 2.7GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz for $250.00.

It comes with 8GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM or you can upgrade to 16GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM for $200.00.

ETHERNET ADAPTER
There is not an ethernet port. If you plan on uploading anything you need an Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. $29.00Available on the Apple Website Store.

"The Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter lets you easily connect to a high-performance Gigabit Ethernet network. Small and compact, it connects to the Thunderbolt port on your Mac computer and provides an RJ-45 port that supports 10/100/1000BASE-T networks." http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD463ZM/A

INTERNAL DRIVE
The internal drive comes standard with flash storage. Flash storage has no moving parts and provides faster responsiveness and enhanced durability. It comes with 768GB Flash Storage, if you opt for the 512GB Flash Storage you can subtract $500.00.

READING EXISTING EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES
There is not a firewire nor an esata port on the new macbook pro.
LaCie eSATA Hub Thunderbolt Series
  provides a way to connect your esata drives via Thunderbolt. $199.00. I am sure there will be many new external hard drive solutions coming out this year for Thunderbolt.  Available on the Apple Website Store.
"The eSATA Hub Thunderbolt Series lets you connect eSATA drives to a Thunderbolt-compatible Mac. Connect up to two drives to the Hub, which connects to the Thunderbolt port on your new Mac. It's the perfect solution when you're using eSATA drives, but have upgraded to a Mac without ExpressCard/34 slots.
  • Connect eSATA drives to your new Mac
  • Get full speeds from eSATA drives
  • Daisy chain Thunderbolt devices
  • Revitalize your investment"


DVD DRIVE
There is not an internal DVD/CD drive so you would need an Apple USB SuperDrive  - $79.00 - it is very sleek, slim and cool. Available on the Apple Website Store.
CARD READERS
Currently there does not seem to be a good solution for a CF cardreader via Thunderbolt.
However if you use a Canon you can pull your video/images with the HDMI port
. You will need an HDMI mini to HDMI standard high-speed cable.  These are easily available by many brands. Since Thunderbolt specifications were only recently released, there will probably be many new Thunderbolt card reader solutions forthcoming.

EXTERNAL DISPLAY OR MONITOR
If you monitor had HDMI it looks like that is covered. There is also a Mini DisplayPort adapter for DVI for $29.00.

Of course you then add the one year AppleCare Protection for $349.00.

So if you add all the options in red above you are looking at $4156.00 without tax, without a mouse or other accessories. 

That is a hefty chunk of change and you have yet the new software.

If you tone it down to just the 2.6GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GH, 
8GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM, 3 Year AppleCare and no accessories you can get in at $3148.00 before tax. 

At the end of the day this is really expensive. It frustrates me that you have to get new accessories for everything. It seems silly to me to have an ultra thin computer at the expense of ports and a DVD drive. Without ports this involves a lot of extras and work-a-rounds. In theory, if you are all about the cloud then you don't need DVD's to load your software. You download. In that case you need a good connection. No ethernet port. A computer with no ethernet port. Now that is thinking different.