I worked in Tokyo yesterday, and then spent the night in my favorite 'business hotel' there so I could meet my surgeon early today. He seemed as tickled with the results as I am, and proclaimed that I am ready to resume any and all exercise, including biking and weight training. He explained that I had a rare type of varicosity, caused by multiple 'holes' in my lower leg, which is the cause of 20% of these cases. The other 80% are caused by backflow in the one Greater Saphenous Vein, which can be easily ligated at the groin; a much simpler procedure than what he performed on me.
To celebrate the coming of spring as well as my last non-active weekend, I tried again with some High Dynamic Range photography. This time, I used my Lumix fully-automatic LZ2. I was able to take an automatic-mode picture, then reduce and increase the EV by +2 AND -2 for the second and third exposures. This isn't as good as using a camera with manual controls, but I wanted to see if it was even possible. It is, but a limiting facor was bright white things, and since I chose snowy Mt. Fuji and three local waterfalls, I got poor results.
This shot of my friend Chris's bike against my truck, in front of our Landlady's house fared better, though:
To make this, I needed only my digicam, a tripod (ours cost about $9), and Adobe Photoshop 9.0, which is part of the Creative Suites 2 (CS2) package of software. I have read that another free program, Photomatix, gets similar results, but I haven't tried that yet.
More soon!
2 comments:
So glad to hear that your recovery has been smooth and, most importantly, successful!!!!
No wonder he had to slice so many places on your shin ... !
And, kudos to you for understanding the language so well.
Mom
Good to hear you will be back on track soon. Remember there is nothing fast about recover or building a base - take it easy on the way back :) Hang back with Tracy for a while.
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