More under the cut.

No computers and filesystems, only so called lytdybr. I hide it under the cut since there are photos and a lot of text there.

Well, not particulary from my window. And some houses in that direction.

I suppose it is north direction, it will look beautiful early morning. Maybe I will force myself to wake up.
In a meantime something with the lightnings comes to Moscow, I hope it will not flush out until reaches my place.

Love night photos - nothing really exceptional, but much more interesting than the day one.

Two days ago

Lightning

It was rather small thunderstorm, so there were not too many lightnings I was able to capture.
It is always exceptionally clear and transparent after the storm, and I love to photo such moments.

Not something exceptionally exciting though, will wait for the next one.

In a meantime I finally got Zen of LISP programming and recursively digged into recursion. Working with syntax tree implementation for regexp state automata implementation.

Added photos from the bicycle season opening.

Around outskirts

An arc where Ekatherina the Great sat and thought about the future. Or didn't

Pink arc

Met interesting women there

A good day.

That was an interesting time, although I do not like small cities very much.

Played a little bit with raw images using Raw Therapee, it was quite new for me.
More in gallery.

Not something perfect (and definitely not very shape) or artistically great, but not bad as a lesson to find problems.

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Btw, its my first panoram, and that's the problems I see: although I used the same manual aperture and exposure time, I used different points to make the partial images, since it was made by the tripod with camera leaned out of the window for a meter or so.

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Not too shape, since even with 11mm focus, infinity is far away than what was shot. Also likely it was shaked a little, although F2.8 aperture allowed quite short exposure time (about 2-3 seconds iirc), it was still not perfect. Actually with longer exposure time all lights start to produce nice looking stars because of diaphragm form.

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Anyway, I will continue to experiment...

That's how this board looks like:

K8055 USB interface board. Click to enlarge a bit.

It was not hard to solder items and there is software for Linux which supports its 5 digital input channels and 8 digital output channels, two analogue inputs and two analogue outputs with 8 bit resolution. In my old TODO list I had a robot (read: human killing machine) design and implementation, so I will definitely start working with such IC schemes :) This board will be first used to try sniffing the data over the wire and to crack/clone w1 (iButton) tablet door lockers, if its digital timings permit. It is quite big and does not have own CPU and power, so can be used for testing only attached to laptop.

And a shot of my new ultrawide Tokina 11-16 F2.8 lens.

Tokina 11-16 F2.8 lens. Click to enlarge a bit.

They are just awesome lens, very sharp on every end and 2.8 hole just rocks at night.
Everything is good with only single exception: my D40 camera does not have appropriate servomotor to turn its automatic focus on, so I have to manually setup the focus, which is quite problematic at night. It is not a problem for architectural photos though, and even at night I usually use tripod and do not hurry, so can make several shots before focus is tuned.

I will post a night panoram (quite simple though, nothing exceptionally artistic :) I made out of the window of the place I visited as soon as it is ready.