Kristie's weekly-ish pics

Michael Skowronski wrote:

Michael Skowronski wrote:ADVICE FOR YOUR PHOTOS THAT ARE HORIZONTAL WHEN THEY SHOULD BE VERTICAL...

OPPS...I was just looking at page 1... I can see that you have worked the issue out...please pardon the unnecessary advice.

If you go through them all you will find there is a new camera introduced. It senses the orientation of the camera so the picture is already right way with no fixing. (funny thing I got the same one from my wife at about the same time) This camera also tethers nicely to computers with the sw provided or Entangle (linux) which allows complete control of the camera from the computer which my son has used to try out "stop motion animation".... where the camera is steady but the "set" moves

With regard to rotating pictures. I have used different programs to do this... just changing the order of the numbers for height and width works for some programs but fails for many browsers. In the end I have been using GIMP which complains about pictures rotated as above and asks which way you want it. I also use gimp to downgrade the resolution so that it doesn't take so long to upload/download for people.

Note: GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. It was originally developed on Linux (the Gnu kinda gives that away) but there are versions for OSX and windows these days too. The Fork used in the movie industry for retouching frames is now called cinepaint available for BSD, Linux and OSx.... sorry the Hollywood guys don't use windows I guess.

Bubba an lu couldn't wait for mom to start on the fence the other day so they just got in an did it!

An my Lil sis is here for a few days! An like any good older sis would do...I put her to work

The first scraping for the new wofati site!!! Let the fun begin!

One more shot....

A little update on the wofati site ....

So 2 is already in the works? Awesome!

Could anyone estimate the total amount of man hours it took to complete wofati 1? I'm assuming 2 would take less time now that you're all more experienced.

I would have to say from the first log fell to when the umbrella is on that over 3,500 hours were/will be spent building 0.7. Many lessons were learned and I hope that 0.8 will take under 1,500 hours. And 0.8 is going to be 2x as big. I can imagine we can get it to about 1,000 in time. Log falling,skidding and pealing are a good 50% of this time.

A couple of the guys at the wofati workshop....peeling some logs

A couple more update photos...they have most the holes dug for the posts in the wofati ....just need a little widening on them....an another group working on logs