Aigarius Blog (Posts about photo)http://aigarius.com/categories/photo.atom2023-10-02T08:50:09ZAigars MahinovsNikolaDebconf 23 photos allhttp://aigarius.com/blog/2023/10/02/debconf23-photos/2023-10-02T08:00:00Z2023-10-02T08:00:00ZAigars Mahinovs<div><p>Two weeks have passed since <a href="https://debconf23.debconf.org/">Debconf 23</a> came to a close in Kochi, Kerala, India this year.</p>
<p>In keeping with the more relaxed nature of Debconf in India, the rest of my photos from the event were to
be published about two weeks from the end of the event. That will give me a bit more time to process them
correctly and also give all of you a chance to see these pictures with fresh eyes and stir up new
memories from the event.</p>
<p>In the end we are looking at 653 photos and one video. Several different group photos, including a return
of the pool group photo that was missing from the event since Mexico in 2006! This year was the first for
a new camera (Canon R7) and I am quite happy with the results, even if I still need to learn a lot about
this new beast. Also the gradual improvements of panorama stiching software (Hugin) ment that this year
I did not need to manually correct any face-melt events on any of the group photos. So that is cool!</p>
<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/share/debconf23/-/raw/main/photos/aigarius/IMG_3884_debian.jpg?inline=false" alt="DebConf 23 pool Group photo" width="1064" height="709"></p>
<p>You can find all my photos on:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/UW6zPQLNctsmkFHM9">Google Photos album</a></li>
<li><a href="https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/share/debconf23/-/tree/main/photos/aigarius">Debconf23 git-lfs share</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Also, don't forget to explore the rest of the Git LFS share content - there are very many great photos
by others this year as well!</p></div>Debconf 23 photoshttp://aigarius.com/blog/2023/09/17/debconf23-photos/2023-09-17T12:00:00Z2023-09-17T12:00:00ZAigars Mahinovs<div><p><a href="https://debconf23.debconf.org/">Debconf 23</a> is coming to a close in Kochi, Kerala, India this year.</p>
<p>And it has been my pleasure to again be here and take lots of pictures of the
event and of the surroundings. In total I took 1852 photos and walked just over 50 km between the
two venue buildings and all the rooms where action happened.</p>
<p>Today I will share with you the main group photo:</p>
<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/share/debconf23/-/raw/main/photos/aigarius/group/debconf23_group.jpg?inline=false" alt="DebConf 23 Group photo" width="1064" height="497"></p>
<p>You can also see it in:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/H3jegjtk7ckRYxvP9">on Google Photos</a></li>
<li><a href="https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/share/debconf23/-/blob/main/photos/aigarius/group/debconf23_group.jpg">on git-lfs</a></li>
</ul>
<p>In keeping with the more relaxed nature of Debconf in India, the rest of my photos from the event will
be published in about two weeks from now. That will give me a bit more time to process them correctly
and also give all of you a chance to see these pictures with fresh eyes and stir up new memories from
the event.</p></div>Debconf 22 photoshttp://aigarius.com/blog/2022/07/22/debconf22-photos/2022-07-22T13:54:13Z2022-07-22T13:54:13ZAigars Mahinovs<div><p>Finally after a long break, the in-person Debconf is a thing again, this time
<a href="https://debconf22.debconf.org/">Debconf 22</a> is happening in Prizren, Kosovo.</p>
<p>And it has been my pleasure to again be here and take lots of pictures of the
event and of the surroundings.</p>
<p>The photos can be found in <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/TWc6rz1NCDQQAUuPA">this Google Photo shared album</a> and also on
<a href="https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/share/debconf22/-/tree/main/photos/aigarius_photos">this git-lfs share</a>.</p>
<p>But the main photographic delight, as always is the DebConf 22 Group Photo.
And here it is!!!</p>
<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/share/debconf22/-/raw/main/photos/aigarius_photos/debconf23_group_photo_small.jpg?inline=false" alt="DebConf 22 Group photo small" width="1064" height="898"></p>
<p>You can also see it in:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/pvi2T9KmcxzD2PGQ9">on Google Photos</a></li>
<li><a href="https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/share/debconf22/-/blob/main/photos/aigarius_photos/debconf23_group_photo.jpg">on git-lfs</a></li>
</ul></div>Debconf 19 photoshttp://aigarius.com/blog/2019/07/23/debconf-19-photos/2019-07-23T17:07:42Z2019-07-23T17:07:42ZAigars Mahinovs<p>The main feed for my photos from Debconf 19 in Curitiba, Brazil is currently in my <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/ga1RmpCuTQVEem5e6">GPhoto</a> album. I will later also sync it to Debconf git share.</p>
<p>The first batch is up, but now the hardest part comes - the group photo will be happening a bit later today :)</p>
<p>Update: the group photo is ready! The smaller version is in the GPhoto album, but full version is linked from <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/19/Photos">DebConf/19/Photos</a></p>
<p>Update 2: The day trip phtos are up and also the photos are in <a href="https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/share/debconf19/tree/master/photos/aigarius/">Debconf Git LFS share</a>.</p>Debconf18 group photohttp://aigarius.com/blog/2018/08/03/debconf18-group-photo/2018-08-03T05:08:07Z2018-08-03T05:08:07ZAigars Mahinovs<p>Enjoy the <a href="https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf18/GroupPhoto">Debconf18 group photo</a> and also the rest of my <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/rq7BKH4312VVuuMm7">photos from Debconf18</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="" height="793" src="https://wiki.debconf.org/upload/4/43/Debconf18_group_photo_small.jpg" width="1920"></p>Debconf 17 photo retrospectivehttp://aigarius.com/blog/2017/08/21/debconf-17-photo-retrospective/2017-08-21T19:08:24Z2017-08-21T19:08:24ZAigars Mahinovs<p>Debconf17 has come and gone by too fast, so we all could use a moment looing back at all the fun and serious happenings of the main event in the Debian social calendar. You can find my full photo gallery on <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/eg5ETvgtQXZQ8Jv49">Google</a>, <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsm23nRv5">Flickr</a> and <a href="https://annex.debconf.org//debconf-share/debconf17/photos/aigarius/">Debconf Share</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/3iZVozJhnf3JumrA9"><img alt="Debconf 17 photo animation" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QZS-lpB05pWYEW3aTp1MZRMf3y8hyj3iv4ZbfZhfHmbnxXhiH8xtLnrot2CGE__JgEox21rQHdyFAcFxOmaZCGM2auAPhUBSw16zEjV1oeSL_LgQ7k5rI6chVnxsR9FV44Ud49rEgNQ=w1024-h683-no" width="100%"></a></p>
<p>Make sure to check out the <a href="https://annex.debconf.org//debconf-share/debconf17/photos/aigarius/debcond17%20group%20photo.jpg">Debconf17 group photo</a> and as an extra special treat for you - enjoy the <strong><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/GLy5X7jPkR3Eubo8A">"living" Debconf17 group photo</a></strong>!</p>
<p> </p>Summary of the Debconf15 road trip (part 2)http://aigarius.com/blog/2015/12/11/summary-of-the-debconf15-road-trip-part-2/2015-12-11T20:12:22Z2015-12-11T20:12:22ZAigars Mahinovs<p>At the end of the <a href="http://aigarius.com/blog/2015/12/10/summary-of-the-debconf15-road-trip/">previous part</a> of this tale of travel and cars I was being dunk around the heavy waves of the azure variety against the hard stones of the Med coast near Nice, France. The next stop was a wild card before going to Venice and so a small hotel was chosen high above a mountain lake in northern Italy. This meant that the whole day was to be spent crossing the top of Italy from Med to Alps. Italy has very nice paid motorway system that makes crossing large distances easy, but not really cheap. One larger drive cost just over 40€ alone. But there are benefits - the speed is nice (not autobahn-nice, but still) and there is also the amazing thing called <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipOv4cXfGIn34AhNMuaVv9D1WSoUrG21kwbcwxyQ?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">AutoGrill</a> this looked like just a regular road-side fast food joint, but that was until we looked closer. There was a wide selection of nice salads, there was a <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipOQXxWTmbWgyCfKo3qg7Kukct4WO9NUkNbsFek0?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">freshly grilled meat</a> pepared per order lots of wine by glass and a huge selection of Italian wines and pasta to buy. It was amazing. Maybe because our expectations were rather low, but it was truly good food. We saw many AutoGrills after that, even outside of Italy, but the ones outside of Italy were not as great.</p>
<p>Going back into Alps was a great idea. The views along the road were good, but the view out of our <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hotel+Poggio+d'Oro+Albergo+Ristorante/@45.7665051,10.0267839,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4783df5da97d584f:0x3f8e6303c01d627f?hl=en">hotel</a> window was <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipOoFPSbf_wnVRxHJX--ae-nwzumE7UjlSl4W1SM?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">just majestic</a>. Both during the day and <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipNzF57kTa-OD6MIIX_jXuAJbwqURDUjubsw9lFp?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">at night</a> as well.The hotel rooms even have balconies where you can sit in the evening with a blanket, a glass of local wine and a book. And in the morning .. imagine going out into a sunny and warm morning with a full plate of fresh breakfast food in one hand and cup of coffee in another, crossing the surprisingly active mountain street and sitting down in the <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipMc-75RPyIIIjXeKStLJEDReZLfm5xRkltCiJ0u?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">shade of the tent</a> pitched on an outcrop from the cliff of the mountain with the fantastic view of the amazing lake and the mountains that contain it. As you eat your morning meal an occasional Fiat is barreling by the narrow twisting road at approximately 100 kmh and others slow down to 80 kmh before taking a blind downward 60 degree turn into a diving side street that is even narrower. And you realise then and there that life is amazing and every moment matters.</p>
<p>That is the perfect mindset to have when going to Venice. Which we did. After a short drive we arrived at a very cheap "hotel" near Venice (Camping Village Jolly). It was actually a permanent camping ground. There was a swimming pool, restaurant and an administration building that is surrounded by several hundreds of permanently parked trailers. You could rent parking space for your own trailer or a tent place or you could rent a "room" which is basically one of those trailers. Each of them has 2-3 cot type beds, bathroom with a tiny shower and an air conditioning unit. It was perfectly serviceable and much cheaper than all the normal hotels in the area. It was a half an hour of walking to the train station to get to actual Venice, but that was not too bad either. The camp "bus to Venice" was not a great choice as it arrives to a segregated section of Venice where you need to use some other (expensive) transport to get to the actual city. It was a better idea to use a local regular bus route 6 to get straight to the bus station.</p>
<p>Venice is a very cool city. At first you enter it and are surrounded by thousands and thousands of tourists all running the same routes to the same places. But it only takes a few minutes to loose the crowd and dive into smaller side streets and wander away to nearly empty streets where only the locals walk around. Even with millions of tourists every year, still Venice has a lot of spaces where tourists do not go and where locals dominate the scene. There are streets with multiple restaurants where you hear no English and all the locals eat their meals and drink their wine. Some streets end in a <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipPUiQJ0uNuC6igLBExeEHaPIVuPsx5VF8vBJOTm?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">dead end into a canal</a> where you can step down and check out the fishes. And the <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipMsVm3l4tU6yCqgW9DDChc1J-7WE1qJObEHsHXH?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">locals</a> do love their fishes. Every street looks <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipP4m7FYpxnF2ic_lfEpuhIiAPk37uiMLq-O_8de?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">amazing</a> in Venice. And the large scale architecture in between the tight old building is <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipNp05DJBO5ILq5RDb6uq9aW5FaDEkRecsfA8rh4?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">astonishing</a> in the way it stands out. And every house could be a ancient <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipMXPzK6xLjeUsEzkxdxaDB2VqiFmgZdOtv_Bsso?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">castle</a> of a wealthy family. The touristy places look very <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipNiEgITSkOqi1InvXhoAzUWWPqoPFmiZsDi1HVv?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">impressive</a>, but other places look <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipNVImbm_L6zilggcBou9TvvsXvt1-pgCBPSJTn0?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">even better</a> with a bit of a look. And there are no hawkers of the shiny flying things in the less touristy places. You can even chill in one of many tiny parks where locals come together to chill, play with their dogs and drink more wine. Venice was also the place where we had the most amazing meal of the trip. There was a restoraunt that was so popular that it had tables outside, but not just outside, they had tables right by the <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipM_8QVzBeWsBd9mv3U6GoRqFN3VmVJm3YtWfGhN?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">edge of the canal</a>. You could literally not move one of the chairs back with the risk of falling into the water. A docking boat actually reached for an anchor point that was between the chair legs. But the <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipP1W-E-VDA4_fGeu9su_o6m1gHlLm64tFleBd5j?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">food</a> was amazing with some great house wine as well. We spent two full days in Venice. It was just scratching the surface not even entering any buildings really, but the place still left a very strong impression of an ancient and content power on me. A fun stat that I remember from a "No Reservacions" episode about Venice was that, despite being a huge tourist attraction, people living in Venice make just as much money from logistics and fishing as from tourism. It is not a one trick town and it shows in places where tourists don't go.</p>
<p>After Venice started the return part of the trip. The plan here was simple - go a *long* distance every day with minimal stops for food and sleep. It was a bit tiresome, but it was not too hard on me. When you have cruise control and some music loaded into your phone the hours and the kilometers just <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipMcSJtdU8bPX99kIxiqh6LYPtC4lk-pMcsG1FaP?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">melt</a> away on the great highways of Italy, Austria, Slovakia and Poland. The days melded together in my mind, so I had to use Google Location History to reconstruct them. Crossing the <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipNp3UxFyUL3ldA5vZY-EmRhvkc1PQuCjRghit3E?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">Alps</a> via highways is fast and easy, but not really much fun. Both Austria and Slovakia required me to buy and stick into the window a vignette sticker to be able to drive on their roads. The stickers cost less than what I paid for the roads on the vignette-less Italy, so that was actually a welcome change at this point. In one day of driving I went from Venice to Vienna. Surprisingly the Vienna was the place where we had the best sushi of the trip. They had amazing melt-on-your-tongue tuna and the rise was best I've had outside of Japan. Vienna also was the place where we saw this nice, if <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipNGl6kquXbOmM82821e7lbW1CF30cjvZUaBl1sn?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">expensive piece of art</a>. It also had an exhibition at the time about the fate of the Eastern Europe in the Soviet hands with the texts and photos from Poland, Baltics and Ukraine. The information was accurate and the emotional impact was quite nice to see.</p>
<p>The next day the trip home continued with another long stretch from Vienna to Lodz in Poland. This leg was not a long as it could be because someone in the car had not been to IKEA before and I simply had to enlighten the poor individual about the health and mental benefits of swedish meatballs while also picking up a few trinkets for home. It was amazing as always. IKEA is a house of fun and fantasy. Well maybe that was just the trip fatigue talking from hours of sitting that a walk through a colorful showroom with all kinds of funky almost-useful stuff was a refreshing change. Polish highways were a pleasant surprise after all the horror stories that people have been telling about them. But the Poland changed with the EU - there is a huge number of new motorways constructed with a bunch of bridges in all the possible colors crossing them. The designs of the bridges does not change much, but the color does. It's the little things that you notice after 6 hours on the road. Lodz met us with some post-soviet road layout and even more post-soviet style of hotel that looked like the typical upscale communist party regional hotel, but cleaned up with some marble columns and refreshed power sockets. It felt like this was a soviet hotel a long time ago, but the hotel had clearly moved on. Nothing said this more than the episode in the morning in the lobby of the hotel - a woman was explaining to the young girl in reception that she left a cooling block from a car refrigerator in the hotel freezer and that she wanted it back now. The girl did not understand her. She understood basic russian, but the word for refrigerator - she just did not know it. I had to translate russian to english, so that the woman could get what she needed in a hotel of a rather large city in Poland. The english of the service personnel was perfect. That is something that we are going to as well.</p>
<p>Final day was a bit of a hell. I did 11 hours of pure driving from Lodz straight to Riga. We only stopped for a lunch at a random roadside polish tavern "Under the Black Boar" for a quick, but solid meal and then for another meal in Panevezys where we tried to find the only 7+ rated restaurant in the city that Foursquare knew about, but it was closed and there was a new place there called Pizza di Napoli. We were just from Italy here eating pizza in Lithuania. And it was a very solid and <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipMTy81pKIaBDEnGDk7r-5DVqbCIzJ5_Usqqs7Bx?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">fresh pizza</a>. Latvia met us with an amazing contrast of deep fog and shining full moon. There was no way to photograph that, but it looked amazing and it felt like home.</p>
<p>In the end the <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPdAAew1Xlya2Ha-4hKxdyCHFkUSlp6OcJkw1ERarmlOiKxNFdxLdXqB4g9AgO7Ow/photo/AF1QipN_spO39UTcdVEF_A4RdRj8YI5qRrqzowjZeK-m?key=SHJROWp1c2xvSGFxUF92OGwxX0RHUDlnbzFVWS1n">full trip</a> took 4803 km driven in 61 hours and 35 minutes giving the average speed of 78 km/h and the average fuel consumption of 5.5l per 100 km. The numbers of the car computer matched almost perfectly with the numbers that my fuel tracking application showed for the trip. I filled the tank before the trip and after the above picture was taken. In total I used 264 liters of diesel fuel for the whole trip. Some of that fuel was bought for around 1€ per liter, but some of it cost as much as 1.7€ in one of the full service refueling stations in Italy. The hotels were around 60€ per night. Food expenses were on the high side with around 50-60€ per person per day. The pay roads and vignettes cost nearly 100€ in total and there was around 30€ spent on parking fees. The initial ferry trip cost 170€ (almost cheaper than fuel+hotel+food for the drive).</p>
<p>This was an amazing and basically life changing experience. This trip was the principal reason why I bought a car. It did not disappoint. Neither the trip, nor the car.</p>
<p>(to be continued with the experience of buying and owning a lightly used Mercedes C class)</p>Debconf 15 group photohttp://aigarius.com/blog/2015/08/18/debconf-15-group-photo/2015-08-18T22:08:59Z2015-08-18T22:08:59ZAigars Mahinovs<p>The long awaited group photo from Debconf15 is now available: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/aigarius/20501550589/in/album-72157657303422182/">here</a> and <a href="http://annex.debconf.org/debconf-share/debconf15/photos/debconf15_group.jpg">here</a>.</p>
<p>Due to its spectacular glory, the Google Photos could not handle the massive 52 Mb, and 19283*8740=168.5Mpix of awesomness, so <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPxzmJzvYAYu74lvoN0Up31Y0gzw_bvJJs_JTZVMkfJFZnLGz-KTJhHhWQS4VnmrA/photo/AF1QipN5WAqINcfRQY05gXhyyalLeoCoGbymnOcFplpR?key=R0ZkUGhGZjZrYVBmeUx2a3hxZE5JZ2VyZ3Z6QkNB">there</a> is only a half-size version.</p>
<p>Also I plan to have a lightning talk on Thursday on how exactly such things are made :)</p>Going to Debconf14http://aigarius.com/blog/2014/06/13/going-to-debconf14/2014-06-13T17:06:35Z2014-06-13T17:06:35ZAigars Mahinovs<p>It's that time of the year, again, when I lan to go to Debconf, reserve vacation, get visa waiver, book tickets. Let's hope nothing blocks me from attending this time. It has been too long.</p>
<p>Now I just need to finish up <a href="https://github.com/aigarius/photoriver">photoriver</a> before Debconf :) In fact it is quite close to being ready - I just need to finish up the GPS tagging feature, figure out why FLickr stopped working recently and optionally work on burst detection and/or FlashAir IP address autodetection in the network.</p>Wireless photo workflowhttp://aigarius.com/blog/2014/04/03/wireless-photo-workflow/2014-04-03T10:04:14Z2014-04-03T10:04:14ZAigars Mahinovs<p>For a while now I've been looking for ways to improve my photo workflow - to simplify and speed up the process. Now I've gotten a new toy to help that along - a Panasonic FlashAir SD card with WiFi connectivity. I was pretty sure that build-in workflows of some more automated solutions would not be a perfect fit for me, so I got this card which has a more manual workflow and a reasonable API, so I could write my own.</p>
<p>Now I am trying to work out my requirements, the user stories if you will.</p>
<p>I see two distinct workflows: live event and travel pictures.</p>
<p>In <strong>both</strong> cases I want the images to retain the file names, Exif information and timing of the original photos and also have embedded GPS information from the phone synced to the time the photo was taken. And if I take a burst of very similar photos, I want the uploading process to only select and upload the "best" one (trivial heiristic being the file size) with an ability for me to later choose another one to replace it. There would need to be some way of syncing phone and camera time, especially considering that phones usually switch to local time zone when traveling and cameras do not, maybe the original time the photo was taken would need to be changed to local time zone, so that there are no photos that are taken during the day, but have a timestamp of 23:45 GMT.</p>
<p>When I am in <em>Live Event</em> mode I would like the photos that I take to immediately start uploading to an event album that I create (or choose) at the start of the shoot with a preset privacy mode. This assumes that either I am willing to upload via 3G of my phone or that I have access to a stable WiFi network on-site. It might be good if I could upload a scaled down version of the pictures during the event and then later replace the image files with full-size images when the even is over and I am at home in my high-speed network. I probably don't need the full size files on my phone.</p>
<p>When I am in <em>Travel</em> mode, I want to delay photo uploading until I am back at the hotel with its high speed Wifi, but also have an option to share some snapshots immediately over 3G or random cafe Wifi. I am likely to take more photos that there is memory in my phone, so I would like to clear original files from the phone while keeping them in the SD card and in the cloud, but still keeping enough metadata to allow re-uploading an image or choosing another image in a burst.</p>
<p>Now I need to flesh out the technical requirements from the above and write an Android app to implement that. Or maybe start by writing this in Python as a cross-platform command-line/desktop app and only later porting it to Android when all the rought parts are ironed out. This will have an extra benefit of people being able to run the same workflow on a laptop instead of a phone or tablet.</p>
<p>Let's assume that this is written in a pretty flexible way, allowing to plug in backends for different WiFi SD cards, cloud services, plug-in points for things like instant display of the latest photo on the laptop screen in full-screen mode and other custom actions, what else would people love to see in something like this? What other workflow am I completely overlooking?</p>