Some Music I made with Garageband and my MPC

This is a result of freestyle Friday, as all know I am working on my first Photography ebook and sometimes I just need a break from it. The launch will be someday this week and will be about everyday snapshots I take.  I am planning on 10 Volumes of snapshots from this city and hope that I can realize through the income of the books my next goal. Paying a bit for life and saving towards a mobile home aka RV to travel for a few years my great country Canada and take pictures for new upcoming books.
Of course there will be news about this on the blog here and lots of videos in a vlog style.
Now Enjoy the Music:

Have a great day and Keep your head up.

Beat and Book Sneak PEEK!!

No fresh postings for a long time and I felt really guilty, the other project my ebook, was using lots of my spare time up. Taking Pictures editing the book, programs that crashed and so on.
Now with Scribus, the deal is pretty much sealed. Just a few more days of fine tuning some little things here and there and everything should be soon available. Please have a look at a few pages that I took screenshots from. Over 58 pages full of pictures that I took in about 3 months on my daily trips through the city. From full coloured to BW everything is packed in this tasteful little book.
Stay tuned for more info in the next coming days and now have fun listening to my new tune I am working on and enjoy the preview of the book.
Thank you for your time and have a great one,
JayDee

I know I know...so little posting but here is the reason

Hi there again,
yes I know not much going on right now you are thinking, but I am working actually on my goal.
Yes you heard right, a goal towards a journey that I should have taken long ago but always found a reason to avoid it.
I traveled always a lot in the country and took lots of pictures all the time and was really thinking about how to get one day a book out with my "art".
And that is what I am doing right now, I am in pretty much final stage of editing it in my open source DTP program called Scribus. Without this magnificent peace of Software this dream would have never come true to me.
I am really proud that I can soon present the full book as ebook version for now, wish that I can raise enough to maybe get some hard copies done. Hard copies would be great when I hit the road with an RV this or next year to travel through Canada taking pictures of places in my style.
With me will be an very excellent Songwriter and Singer that I will follow with m camera to her Stages on her tour through Canada.
Right now I can only say what "simply red" once sang...money is too tight to mention, I know my quality of work and am sure that this book will be greatly appreciated.
I see photography like music, you have to recreate your art instead of following the Hurd all the time and wonder why you never get anywhere. I have my own style, a bit of traditional mixed with fresh flavours. I don't want every picture polished till nothing that satisfied me that moment is gone.

Give me a few more days and follow me till release day.
Thank you,
JayDee

Yawcam Surveillance update

Remember my post yesterday? How to set up and use motion detection?
This morning around 3:49am (mountain daytime MDT), I had 2-3 visitors on the porch again, due to my settings of the camera, Yawcam was not able to make a face shot of any of them. But I noticed that it seems mostly around 3-4 that visitors arrive. Guessing that a night staying up and catching them will do the trick. Tired of people hanging out and searching for stuff to take.
Changed the settings back to area instead of whole picture, hope that this makes a difference in being able to catch them.
Here a few shots:

 Hard to get any faces!

 2 People to see

looks like 3 all together!?
The Camera is now set up a bit different and hoping to catch better faces next time. This time it seems other then having your privacy bit damaged nothing else is missing.

Need a cheap surveillance system? Then read this

The last 2 weeks were really full of excitement here at my place, we had invaders on our porch that did not care about a gate or anything else. They slept on our porch, took some stuff away and left a big mess.

It always feels bad if someone messes with your privacy, invades your private space or even takes your most beloved coffee mug away. 

It just feels plain horrible to see that you can't do much, or can you!?
As german blood runs through my veins, that little bit of engineering gene combined with the cheapness ( Love to call it frugal as it sounds a bit nicer) let me come up with a solution everyone can use at home. Thought I might throw that in here for those who would like to setup a (almost) free surveillance system. All you need is a windows pc, web camera or if you have IP camera and the free software from Yawcam. 

Really love the very easy interface, even non techies can set this up in under 15 minutes. What I really like about it is it's simplicity. But the best is at no cost to download or install, it really is complete free! Many sites offer free download surveillance software that is (now read carefully) free to download, that means in a lot of cases as you install you find out it is really just a trial and you have to purchase the software to get it running or use all the functions. But Yawcam (Yet Another Webcam software) is really completely free, runs on windows and really gets the job done. 

The interface is really easy to use and what I really like about it, is how you can setup the camera. Easy as pie, the camera can watch a specific place you can mark on the screen or just set the camera up for watching all of the screen. A feature that is mostly just found on expensive software. Now enough talk here is the link, there is much more to read and a lot of screenshots.

Head over and I wish you a great day,

JayDee

Working on something big

Hello my followers and friends,
right now is a busy time as the job is taking full advantage of me. Besides that I am working on a private project that finally over the years is coming true.

The job I do right now to keep a roof over my head is lawn care and as fall is marching into Calgary, a lot of work is coming up. Aeration of the lawn, fertilizing, clean ups and much more.
Life is quite a journey and not everything you do is really what you like to do, that is why I am putting now all my rest energy in the night to work on my project that I love.
Photography is something that always surrounded me on some scale as I grew up, from the first pocket snapshot camera, SLR cameras to now a D-SLR. Finally all the tools needed are available for everyone to go get the dream out and turn it into a goal, at least for my case and I am soo excited.

Again hit by hail here in Calgary

Calgary seems to get hit this year by many hail storms, but this time we got away with just a little one. My city gets chinooks and these can turn a beautiful day into storm and the other way around. We are known for getting summer weather in the middle of winter, these chinooks are sometimes a blessing and in some cases a curse.

I was sick the last days and really had no time blogging anything from importance and so I left it cool down for a bit.

As we got hit, I was just getting my camera (canon t3) setup for some video shots on a tripod. Yes we are lucky and got some footage, this time I cut it into a 2 minute short film, less wobbly. Love the camera and the ability to really shoot great video in HD and take stunning picture in RAW and jpeg. 

Here is my short Hail storm clip:                         

Thank you for watching and hope you stay safe and secure at all times.

JayDee