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What photos do you have of your 2008 vacation in Minneapolis, MN?
Last updated: Sep 27, 2008
I have 68 photos (11 more from 3 panoramas (otherwise totalling 79)) in all that are posted, though I took 292 overall, nearly quadruple. Why aren't all of them included? Some are blurred quite badly, especially those from the aquarium in the Mall of America. Some I don't know what they are. Others are tests to show the others how to use the camera. Many are quite dull and not very interesting. Still others I simply don't want posted, somewhat due to privacy reasons. Why bother looking at stills? High quality and much more accurate color. There seems to be a strange bug when it comes to recording videos - there's this magenta-colored tone that frequently gets included, of which is not present in stills (you can easily see this as I have stills of areas the videos have and you can easily see the difference - the stills obviously look more realistic, ignoring lossy compression artifacts). The fact that stills don't have it when the videos do hint to a bug with the camera, a class 5 bug since it results in a lot of distortion and it's very common. Compare the YouTube videos with the stills and you'll see this - the difference is obvious.
Photos are separated by the day they were taken then by the category. With the exception of heavy cropping, all photos are 1024 pixels wide. The height, for most, is 768, though occasional cropping may reduce or raise this (to up to 1024). I use JPG quality 80 for all of the photos which results in about a 1 to 19.2 compression ratio or about a 120 KB file size on average. There are generally up to 10 photos on a page (the exception is when a single category gets more than 10 within it or from panoramas). Some days don't have photos as nothing really special occurred that made it worth taking photos for.
My September 2008 trip to Minneapolis, Minnesota
Introduction
Travel logs - Minute-by-minute details of the trip there and back.
Photos introduction
September 13: Rest stops (7 photos)
September 14: Other (1 photo)
September 15 page 1: Mall of America Shopping (11 photos)
September 15 page 2: Other (1 photo), Mall of America aquarium (2 photos), Mall of America theme park (3 photos)
September 17 page 1: Wisconsin scenic views (10 photos)
September 17 page 2: Ice cream (1 photo), White Bear Lake (4 photos), Manitou Island (1 photo)
September 17 page 3: Mississippi River (8 photos, 1 panorama of 3 photos)
September 19 page 1: Rest stops (5, 2 panoramas of 3 then 5 photos), Clouds (2 photos)
September 19 page 2: Duluth scenic views (8 photos), Lake Superior (4 photos)
Videos - Videos available on YouTube involving select parts of the trip
Return to Sep 2008 blog
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