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Alice in Wonderland Jr.

The Somerville Musical Theater production of Alice in Wonderland was this summer. This production is organized by the Somerville Arts Council.

Here are some of the better pictures I took. The full album with higher resolution images is also available.

I tried using my Sigma 105mm macro lens at f/4.0. The ISO was higher than I would like and there were far too many blurry photographs. Hopefully the clarity correction in Lightroom helped them.

Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019
Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019
Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019
Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019
Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019

I was in the back of the theater when some of the performers appeared prior to coming back on to stage via the aisles. This gave me an opportunity to get some silhouettes of the performers.

Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019
Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019
Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019
Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019
Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019
Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019
Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019
Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019
Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019
Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019

Not the last supper:

Alice in Wonderland Somerville Musical Theater Program 2019

MoS Butterflies

In early April, we went to the Museum of Science. There we visited the Butterfly Garden.

Here are the pictures I am most pleased with. Some were very patient, others weren’t. Focus on the patient ones and play with your f-stop and composition. A decent macro lens can really help, but oh how the depth of field can be thin if your f-stop is to small. A place like the Butterfly Garden, which has a decent amount of light, helps.

Butterfly @ Museum of Science
Butterfly @ Museum of Science
Butterfly @ Museum of Science
Butterfly @ Museum of Science
Butterfly @ Museum of Science

App Privacy Workshop (Updated)

I gave an application privacy workshop at Code for Boston on Tuesday. They recorded my talk on Facebook:

and on YouTube:

I posted the slide deck as a PDF. Feel free to offer suggestions in the comments.

Some of the topics I need to add to the presentation:

  • highlight privacy and security testing;
  • having development/test servers and how to sanitize the data in the development/test database;
  • more about SQL/XSS Injection attacks;
  • review the video for other topics to add.

2018’s Painted Microarmor

2018 was a marginally better year for painting miniatures. Many of them were ones I bought from av8rmongo. I completed:

  • 6 GHQ M1A2
  • 6 GHQ M2A2
  • 6 GHQ M60A3
  • 6 GHQ M106
  • 10 PFC C-in-C Leopard 2A5
  • 4 PFC C-in-C Lynx C&R
  • 1 M1A2 with Mine Plow
  • 1 M9 ACE
  • 4 M105 Deuce
  • 3 PFC C-in-C UH-60s
  • 3 Heroics and Ross UH-60s
  • 2 Heroics and Ross CH-47s
  • 9 Merkava 4
  • 6 Magach 7C

Vehicles in NATO tri-color camouflage were done with Floquil’s NATO Green as the base, overlayed with NATO Brown and NATO Black. Tracks and windows were then dry brushed with Floquil railway dark gray.  I painted the tracks in Floquil Mud and splashed the sides, front and back with the same.

The helicopters’ base was Floquil NATO Green. Windows and wheels were done with Floquil railway dark gray with exhausts in NATO Black.

The Israeli vehicles are done in an unknown Floquil color.

I got out my new macro lens and with a light box, photographed some of the miniatures. I photographed in aperture priority mode at f/16 so I could get most of each miniature in focus. I tried different exposure values to get them bright enough. With the camera settings I used and the light box, I didn’t feel the need to edit them.

GHQ M1A2
GHQ M1A2

GHQ M106
GHQ M106

PFC C-in-C Lynx C&R
PFC C-in-C Lynx

GHQ M9 ACE
GHQ M9 ACE

GHQ M1A2 with Mine Plow
GHQ M1A2 with Mine Plow

GHQ M105 Deuce
GHQ M105 Deuce

PFC C-in-C UH-60
PFC C-in-C UH-60

Heroics & Ross UH-60
Heroics & Ross UH-60

Heroics & Ross CH-47
Heroics & Ross CH-47

PFC C-in-C UH-60 close up showing the interior
PFC C-in-C UH-60

Various Israeli Microarmor
Israeli Microarmor

GHQ Merkava 4
GHQ Merkava 4

You can see a slide show of all microarmor photographs I have posted:

Microarmor