Safari

I didn't go straight to work this morning. The weather was superb and I went to Hollufgaard, an old mansion in the southeast of Odense. I had a notion of photographing trees - which I did, but this mornings shot all of itself got a diffrent theme: a blackbird having breakfast - I think it's in a hawthorn. It took a couple of shots (continuous mode) before he/she showed me the profile...

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Financial Crisis

Read an interesting story this morning from a Danish site Comon. The gist of the matter was the current international financial crisis might have been exacerbated by the computer systems and their underlying trading software responsible for much of the trading on the international stock exchanges.
Underpinning the article were references to a BBC article about the matematicians' role in market mayhem. These "quants" (quantitaive analyst) as they are often referred to, are behind the it-logic of many computerized trading systems. Automated trading in conjunction with highly sophisticated financial instruments such as derivatives are to a large extent responsible for the depth and breadth of the current crisis, according to Comon.
Intriguing thought - though I personally find the subprime-crisis in the US a key component in the breakdown. Giving loans to people, who are ill-suited to honour their obligations is a recipe for disaster once the housing-market starts to slide...

Hello again.

A veeery long time since I've been here - time to start again, I think. It's been such a long time there was a reply for one of my posts from Nov/07 I'd missed checking up on. Sorry Richard/Ricardo...
As of now I'm back into digital photography - I've bought a new camera (Nikon D90) and am busy putting it through it's paces. I haven't learned it fully yet, but the process of doing it is fun & I learn a lot along the way. I've realized I have to master the digital processing if I want to take full advantages of the camera and have the desired level of control over the final output. So - onto Photoshop Elements and Lightroom. So of now I have to negotiate three steep learning curves: the camera's, PE and LR. Phew...
Well- the innards of all this is probably for other photofreaks out there, so I'll spare the general public my rants. Check out my links-box for pointers to my photo hide-outs on the net if you MUST know what's going on photowise. I'll pop a photo here every now and then.
Above's one of the latest of him...