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• Sarah’s Birthday Celebration
• Palo Duro Canyon Hike
• Hanging out with Kadin @ the park
• Sarah & the kiddos
• Janessa’s Graduation Party

Sarah and I made a quick trip over the weekend. The photos from our visit to Arizona’s Apache Trail are available in the photo section of the site.

The trip was rather a quick since it is a short scenic route. However, the day was gorgeous and it was great to just put the car’s top down and get out for a couple of hours.

The Apache Trail covers the towns of Goldfield and Tortilla Flat. Other than the great views, the highlight of the trip was getting our picture taken old-time-style. I’ll scan the photo in the next few days.

I you would like to know more about Goldfield and Tortilla Flat here is some more information. Definetely worth a drive up there and with some luck, maybe a quick splash into Apache Lake.

The first points of interest are Goldfield, supposedly a ghost town but now rather commercialised, and then the Lost Dutchman State Park – this has information about the varied stories and legends associated with the Mountains, and in particular about the Lost Dutchman Mine which was supposedly a tremendously rich gold mine worked by a lone prospector but its location was lost upon his death.

Tortilla Flat (population 6!) has various ancient mining and agricultural relics, and an interesting curio shop decorated with mementos from the many visitors who have passed through over the years.

EXIF is a standard format for embedding information about an image into JPEG files. It was popularized by digital cameras, almost all of which store information about each photograph in the files.

EXIF includes Date, Camera Type, and exposure information including aperature, exposure time, and focal length. Eventually all digital cameras will probably have GPS receivers and store location data as well.

Some sites that I frequent don’t have this information available which I find disappointing since I think that is a way to learn more about the subject and the environment under the photo was taken. Now, all of the above would seem to be a little ironic specially since I don’t make this information available for my own photos.

Tonight, I went on a search for some information on how I can give more details about my photos. After some reading a couple of recomendations and writing a couple lines of code, I thought I had it wraped up. Nothing. A couple more sessions of reading and tweaking my code, I was ready to bet the farm I was done. Nothing!

At some point I decided to check one of my images for EXIF data by using a third party product. The image was missing all of the details that were supposed to be embeded onto it. I then realized that the Photoshop workflow that I use to create the photos ready for the site, strips all of the information from the image file. This is done in order to reduce the size of the output file and optomize the photo for the web.

Given the fact that I really don’t think too much of my photos I will continue to supress this information from my images. I imagine once I have higher quality images on my photo section, I will make sure I keep the EXIF data if nothing else for archival purpose.