World Wide Photowalk, Honolulu HI – July 18th

World Wide Photowalk - July 18, 2009

Come join us for a photo walk around Downtown Honolulu on July 18th.

We will meet at 4:00 p.m. at the Iolani Palace front lawn. This has been one of the most popular locations for the Hawaii Flickr Meetup. After a short introduction we will take a stroll through downtown honolulu and Chinatown. We will end our photowalk at a yet to be determined restaurant in Downtown or Chinatown. For this reason I recommend that you park somewhere in Downtown/Chinatown and walk to Iolani Palace.

Here is a Google Map of the municipal parking lots in Chinatown. Their rates are probably the cheapest you will find in the downtown areas.

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Hawaii Geek Meet 2009

Last Sunday was the 2nd Annual Hawaii Geek Meet at Ala Moana Park. I met a lot of old online friends and found some new ones. Forgot to wear my Twitter shirt. Ate lots of food – BTW did anyone get a good pic of that hand cart full of pizza? And lastly I took lots of photos as you’ll soon see.

I busted out my hacked Canon A630 and stuck it on a tripod under a tree. Then I ran a time lapse script that took a shot every ten seconds for the whole event. All told, I took around 2000 photos that day. After I stitched the pics into a video, I couldn’t quite find the right geeky music that fits our little group. Then I remembered Twitter Me Gently by Matthew Ebel and everything sort of clicked together after that.

Round Top Sunset Time Lapse

Round Top Sunset Time Lapse

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My friend Joe Philipson arranged for a Flickr meetup at Puu Ualakaa Park around sunset yesterday to hang out and practice time lapse photography. I’ve got a Canon A630 which I hacked with the CHDK firmware. I’ve tried stitching together time lapse photos before, but they never quite worked for me. I think I’m starting to ge the hang of it now.

Music for the video is “Restless for the Sun” by Jimmie Bratcher.