Category Archives: Technology

The Bishop Peak Portrait Project ecosystem

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Brian Lawler

Over the past eight months I have been documenting my year-long “portrait” project of Bishop Peak, the 1,559 foot mountain in San Luis Obispo. That project, which began in December, 2015, is well on its way, and will soon be … Continue reading →

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Visiting Palomar’s 200-inch telescope

Posted on August 13, 2016 by Brian Lawler

After visiting Mt. Wilson’s two observatories in September, 2014, I began a reading marathon to learn as much as I could about the big telescopes that were used to usher-in the era of astrophysics. It was at the 100-inch Hooker … Continue reading →

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Why shoot one photo when nine will be better?

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Brian Lawler

I started shooting panoramic photos way back in the 1970s. I used a rented film camera called a Hulcherama. That was quite an impressive camera. It shot on 220 film, which rolled through the camera as the camera turned. It had … Continue reading →

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My timely obsession with real-time clocks

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Brian Lawler

As a part of my Bishop Peak Portrait Project, I have built a couple of “printed” circuit boards. I made these on my CNC router, which I used to cut away the copper on a blank circuit board, leaving behind … Continue reading →

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This is turning out better than I had imagined!

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Brian Lawler

If you have been reading this blog for the last month you know that I am currently obsessed with a mountain in San Luis Obispo named Bishop Peak. I am so obsessed that I am taking 71,808 photos of it … Continue reading →

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Time-lapse project, part III: a new circuit board

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Brian Lawler

My time-lapse camera has been running now for 25 days. It snaps a photo of Bishop Peak (elev. 1559 ft.) every five minutes. I have over 2,300 photos so far. This is a sample of the photos being taken by … Continue reading →

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An adventure in the Distiller Time Machine

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Brian Lawler

Way back in 2003 I wrote an essay for inclusion in an article in Pre magazine about using Adobe Acrobat Distiller with hot folders to get PDFs with specific settings just by dropping a source file into a watched folder … Continue reading →

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365 days taking photos of a mountain

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Brian Lawler

On Thursday morning this week I set up my time-lapse camera on the roof of the Kennedy Library at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. It’s facing almost due-west toward a mountain named Bishop Peak, which stands over the city of … Continue reading →

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Time-lapse weather-proof box construction

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Brian Lawler

This is part two of a blog about making a weather-proof time-lapse camera box, and the camera equipment to go inside it. You can read part one here. With may plan to do a year-long time-lapse project, I began in … Continue reading →

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Time-lapse with a Raspberry twist

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Brian Lawler

What’s been going on since December? I’ve been spending a lot of time making a cabinet for my camper (another thing I designed in Illustrator and built on my CNC Router). That has taken a tremendous amount of time, and … Continue reading →

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