Tag Archive: photography

Opening Day, Fall 2008

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-08-26T12:27:01Z in General, with these tags: biology, calculus, classes, dsc, fall 2008, photography, physics, speech, 0 Comments. 808 words.

Yesterday, 2008 August 25, was the first day back to class for thousands of Daytona State College students. I was amazed by how busy the campus was, but it was likely because I only saw it between class periods when all the students and faculty were shuffling about.

Welcome back, Daytona State College students!

A sign in the courtyard out front of the theater (building 220), welcoming the students.

New parking lot

The college’s new and improved parking lot. All this land used to be just grass, unused, and the parking situation was horrendous. Over the summer workmen …

This is a bad photo

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-08-04T15:22:41Z in General, with these tags: daytonastate.edu, photography, 0 Comments. 168 words.

DSC ugly title photo

Am I the only one who thinks this photo on the Daytona State College home page is ugly? She’s a pretty lady with a nice smile, but she’s squinting. Not even that makes the photo bad, though. The terrible JPEG artifacts around her eyes make it ugly. Why would they do this? There’s no reason for visible artifacts. Did they compress this 8 times in a row or something? At 27KB, the file size isn’t even small for the image’s size and algorithmic complexity. There’s no reason for it to look like this.

If …