Back to Nature

I recently went on a camping trip to King's Canyon National Park. Didn't think about work, answer cell phones or watch TV. What a concept. I did manage to hike over 18 miles of beautiful trails and got a chance to relax. No bear sightings, but came across two rattlesnakes, and a inquisitive deer came over to check us out.

I love to take photos on my trips, and was pleasantly surprised that my rechargeable batteries lasted the entire trip. I shot hundreds of photos, and sadly (I'll blame Vista) - my card reader fried one of my compact flash cards, so I lost about a two hundred shots. Before it fried, I did manage to transfer about half of the photos. (If anyone knows of a way to repair a damaged cf do contact me)

I'm using Picasa 2 to manage and upload the photos. I love the simplicity and the simple tools. One cool feature is the ability to upload the photos to a web album, which also has a RSS media feed. A media feed means you can load my photos in a browser or rss reader and see thumbnails. Also there's really cool plugin called PicLens that detects the media feed and creates what they call an immersive experience. Think coverflow.

Worth checking out. First install the PicLens plugin and come back here and click the image above or go to the RSS media feed, and click on the PicLens button on your browser. It's possible to have images on the webpage launch PicLens, but blogger doesn't allow link tags.