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Jeff MacKinnon
I, Jeff MacKinnon, have many interests and wear many hats. I'm a generalist at a lot of things and an expert at a few. I focus a lot of my time on power systems, reducing carbon emissions, electrifying everything, cooking, taking pictures and keeping the internet open and free.
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I have an older Canon Powershot SX260HS (my archive link) that I think is the pinnacle of handy point-and- shoot cameras. It has GPS, enough pixels, a decent zoom range and can fit in a jacket pocket with ease. However, my camera has...
A couple of weeks ago we went for a wander in the woods, and I was skimming through the pictures today and noticed something that I didn't see before, a slug under the moss. I didn't notice it when I was taking the picture, I just...
I was going to test focus-bracketing, but then I remembered that there was a lot of extra pot-processing. So instead I just made the fstop number bigger (aperture smaller). Tomorrow I will probably add my flash for a flash for a full...
I have started thinking that square is getting old, only because its hard to print them, so I'm thinking about giving 5:4 a try. 8x10 is a nice size for printing photos, although I have a 4x6 printer, and that is the default ratio of the...
Its full on Autumn here in Halifax. You could start to feel the change in the air early last week, but yesterday it was like the change was complete. In a few weeks the leaves will start to change colour, and hopefully we get a lot of...
We took a very short trip to Cape Breton to celebrate my grandmother's 90th birthday, on the day. It was a small outdoor barbeque and cake since I definitely don't want to be the one to give her covid and die. My parents took her to my...
We stayed close to home again this weekend, but still got out for a quick adventure. Saturday we went to the Halifax Commons Pool, the best piece of public infrastructure added in a long time, and spent a little more than an hour in the...
The weather this weekend was not amazing, the Debby leftovers left the day wet and gusty so we stuck close to home. Nothing interesting, a couple loads of laundry and tidying up to get ready to get back to work tomorrow. As I have been...
There are a few flower beds around the Halifax Commons that have flower beds, not many, but the ones that are there are pretty.
I stayed very close to home, in fact was mostly sitting bound, all weekend. But luckily we have a lot of pretty flowers, and a couple butter fly visitors to the yard. There are some of the photos that I took, and there may be more soon.
This is the first time that I grabbed a photo of a monarch that I liked.
I always have to re-search how to do this, so this time I think I will just write a quick note for the steps so if I have to do it again from scratch I will know what I have to do. Create a folder for the templates. I put …
This weekend I went out on the water with a friend searching for puffins, seals and other interesting things. It was the longest that I have been on a boat for over a decade or more. The roundtrip time was expected to be about 4h, but...
When I saw this, I knew that I had to re-fresh the wasp trap with some fresh mix.
We went out in a friends boat this past weekend with no real goal. He wanted to go for a ride, and so did my big guy. So we made a plan that morning. The water seemed relatively calm and I wanted to see puffins. I have never seen one …