Solagraphy is the art of photographically capturing the path of the sun across the sky. As the sun takes a day to cross the sky, the exposure time for a solargraph is at least a day. To really capture the path of the sun as the seasons change (the sun climbing higher as we …
Category Archives: experiments
Playing with ImageMagick
For some Slow Scan TV (SSTV) experiments I want to be able to overlay text on images from the command line or within a script. The Swiss-army-knife of image manipulation is ImageMagick, so I’m using that. Starting with a a photograph I took a few years ago, I resized it to 320×256 pixels – that’s …
Oak Leaf Wine. Part Two
Oak Leaf wine fermenting. It’ll sit and bubble and froth like this for about 4-6 weeks, before it is siphoned off into a clean demijohn to clear and mature.
Oak leaf wine. Part one.
I’m not quite sure where I can upon the idea of Oak Leaf wine, but after the success last year with Dandelion wine, it seemed a fun idea to brew with oak leaves. There are a few recipes floating around the ‘net and published in wine making books, I decided to use this “young oak leaf” …