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Jeff crawls through the inside of said tree. - 101 0170
Bryan and Jeff, framed by a fallen tree whose insides had rotted out. - 101 0169
I do my level best to hug a tree. - 101 0168
More reasonably sized trees. - 101 0167
Bryan decides to walk quietly. Like Indian brave. - 101 0166
There were a surprising number of stands where 6 or 7 giant trees grew right next to each other. Here, Bryan and Jeff stand between several. - 101 0165
More: looking up a trees. Whee! - 101 0163
Many of the biggest trees (like this one) had been gutted by fire at some point in their history. So while they were still healthy and thriving (takes more than a fire to kill a 2,000-year-old tree), you could could crawl inside them and stand it the middle of the trunk. - 101 0162
I tried putting my nalgene in front for scale, but it didn't look quite right. So trust me, this was a big tree. - 101 0160
You know what never gets old (for me)? Taking pictures looking up at trees. Expect a lot here. - IMG 3061
Jeff next to more tasty Macness - IMG 3060
Mmm... G5. This is as close as I'll get to one for a long while. - IMG 3059
So many Macs... say what you will about market share, graphics folk are stuck like glue to Apple. - IMG 3058
Jet Ski surfboard? This 300cc gasoline motor has been squashed into a board for riding. Why at SIGGRAPH? Your guess is as good as mine. - IMG 3056
The motion capture slave. There were several companies showing off their systems for capturing computer animation data from live-action. Each one of these booths had very tired looking dancers demonstrating the systems' efficacy. - IMG 3055
But they were upstaged by ATI, who has just integrated their fancy new Radeons into the pro-graphics card line "FireGL" - IMG 3054
Nvidia was hawking there quadro cards. - IMG 3053
Behold! Companies, schwag seekers, job hunters, head hunters, and bored grad students gather at the exhibition, an orgy of big, colorful animated things; mostly cars and planes and breasts (know your audience). - IMG 3052
A herd of graphics geeks. This picture was taken on Monday, before the exhibition opened, when there were only academic papers and courses going on. So the more "colorful" part of the crowd was not out in force yet. - P7230005
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Now, some actual cactus pictures. Boring, but compulsory. - P7230002
yet another shot of the side of bryan's head, which seem to show up in a lot of the album. here, though, the background contains saguaro cacti. - P7230001
Here we are at Saguaro NP. In the distance you can see stick-like things that are the actual big-ass cactus from which the park gets its name. - IMG 3043
My civic becomes a surrogate tent. - IMG 3042
The theme for the day: falling at the lip throw. Here in the upper right you can clearly see my goal. It's tricky to hit it just at deadpoint and control it. Next time I will come better prepared, and Mushroom roof will fall. - IMG 3041
Here, I attempt the throw from a lower hand. The flake is just out of frame at the top right.