( This article is of little interest to normal readers of my blog; I put it here for the benefit of folks searching for a solution. )

Time Machine backups fail if you replace a symbolic link to a directory with an actual directory. (In my case, the symbolic link was to a directory on another disk.)

The solution is to perform a Time Machine backup after deleting the symlink, then create the actual directory. Time Machine backups will then work.

Prior to finding this solution, I had tried visiting the mounted Time Machine backups in Terminal to delete the old symlinks, but the deletions always silently failed. Trying to remove the ACLs (“chmod -N”) also silently failed. It was very frustrating.

This post contains more “Wigglegrams” made from photos I took on the same outing to Kyoto's Shouzan Resort (しょうざん) as the Wigglegram I posted the other day.

Having been made the same time as the previous one, these are not a refinement on the concept, but simply other attempts, some better, some worse.

The first three presented below are simple two-frame wigglegrams, so there's no feeling of “movement”... just “3D”. They are much less compelling than the many-frame wigglegrams we'll see later.

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/80 sec, f/10, ISO 2500 — map & image data — nearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (2 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。
Engulfed in Color
Paul Barr with his camera at Shouzan (しょうざん)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/80 sec, f/10, ISO 4000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (2 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/80 sec, f/10, ISO 2000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (2 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。

The next two are much nicer....

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/100 sec, f/1.4, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (25 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。
Far Focus

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/80 sec, f/1.4, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (11 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。
Near Focus

The next two are built from the same set of photos, the second set being a crop of the first...

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/80 sec, f/1.4, ISO 180 — map & image data — nearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (9 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。
Photo Op (Full Frame)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/80 sec, f/1.4, ISO 180 — map & image data — nearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (9 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。
Photo Op (Crop)

Here's one last one that is weak photographically, but does have a certain interest...

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/80 sec, f/8, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram (16 frames) — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。
Towering

I think the key will be a steady hand and an interesting composition. We'll see how it goes the next time I get out with the camera.

Continued here...

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/80 sec, f/1.4, ISO 180 — map & image data — nearby photos
Animatable Wigglegram — sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。
Photo Op at the Shouzan Resort (しょうざん)
Kyoto Japan

So, this is the next evolution of my attempt at what Wikipedia calls “wiggle stereoscopy”, but I hereby dub “Wigglegram”.

(Update: I now have a wigglegram category on my blog to collect related posts.)

My first rough attempt was posted the other day as a two-frame animate GIF. This time I've brought the animation control to the user: just sweep your mouse from side to side over the image to animate, as slowly or quickly as you like. I did something like this years ago for my “Cherry Blossom Timelapse: Fleeting Floral Fireworks” post.

The scene is from the garden at the Shouzen Resort (しょうざん), which I visited yesterday.

I still have much work to do to make these nice. Photoshop's “Auto Adjust Layers” wasn't helpful because I can't keep the camera level and it doesn't handle rotation (or, I should say, it doesn't handle rotation without also subjecting the photos to scale adjustments, which are not appropriate here). But it's still a neat effect, and much less annoying when you can control the animation directluy.

I think it's a step in the right direction. What do you think?

Continued here...

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Marbled Light
at Shouzan (しょうざん), Kyoto Japan

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My Friday was almost an exact repeat of my Thursday: a slow morning, a nice lunch, an afternoon of photography with Paul Barr among Kyoto's lovely fall foliage, a few hours of family time, then drinks and snacks and some Lightroom photo processing at the surprisingly-tasty hole-in-the-wall A's Bar near Shijo Kawaramachi.

The only real difference was the location of the photography, this time at the gardens of the Shouzan Resort, which visited two years ago.

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 900 — map & image data — nearby photos
Dream
I have no idea why this image came out like this; I didn't plan it, but I like it.

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First looking at the day's photos with Paul at the bar, we jumped around and picked sort of randomly ones that seemed to be interesting, so this post has no real theme.

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 8000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Tiny World
where plants the size of a small pea become towering oaks

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I found the setting quite inspiring the first time I went (the colors were wonderful, the light was great, etc.), but it wasn't doing much for me yesterday. Maybe it's still too early, or maybe the light was just too harsh. In any case, I tried, but got lots of flat, boring images like the next three...

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 900 — map & image data — nearby photos
Too Busy

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Meh

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/22, ISO 10000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Nope

At one point we strayed over to a bonsai nursery just outside of the north gate...

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Old
Paul's photographing a 900-dollar 100-year-old bonsai tree
( the brown one next to it is 150 years old and runs $3,300 )

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/320 sec, f/5.6, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Asymmetric Wall
in the harsh sunlight

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Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 160 — map & image data — nearby photos
Wall From Afar

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 280 — map & image data — nearby photos
Going Vertical on “Marbled Light”

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Continued here...

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 900 — map & image data — nearby photos
Normal Everyday Paul
at the Shisendo Temple (詩仙堂), Kyoto Japan

Having become interested in upping my skill in taking portraits, I cornered Paul Barr to pose for some while we were at the Shisendo Temple (詩仙堂) yesterday (a wonderful place Damien Douxchamps introduced me to in a visit last week, a few photos from which made it to this post).

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1100 — map & image data — nearby photos
“Sure, Here's Your @#%$ Color Chart”
(unfortunately, I didn't notice his fingers intruding on some squares of the chart, so couldn't fully use it)

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Fireman Paul
after a long day fighting the burn on the north ridge

Intimate Crop
from “Fireman Paul”

I brought my laptop with these photos to A's Bar, a hole-in-the-wall restaurant/bar with really excellent food (try the udon and avocado/salmon salads), and processed them with Paul. The limitless artistic directions that Lightroom affords meant we went round and round with each photo, but in the end is seems we tended toward either “bright and cheerful” or “gritty and rugged”....

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Laid-Back Paul

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 125 — map & image data — nearby photos
Pensive Paul

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/80 sec, f/1.4, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
My Normal View of Paul
at the Enkouji Temple (圓光寺), Kyoto Japan

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1600 — map & image data — nearby photos
A Wild Paul
in its natural environment

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/100 sec, f/2.5, ISO 280 — map & image data — nearby photos
Poor Substitute
for an elegant lady in kimono

Personally, I would have preferred something like this. 🙂