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My new favorite thing...

No, it's not babies, although this one is the cutest! It's creating collages. Thanks to some free time at work (which has become more rare lately), I have been able to put some of my favorite photos together in what I like to call montages. Hope you like...

Simplify

Sometimes I see a scene and automatically go for the most complex, technically demanding way of capturing it. When things work out it's great but often they don't and the moment is gone, leaving me with nothing but the sour taste of wasted opportunity This is why I'm thankful that for once, when...

Vela Design Group releases VelaClock Deluxe 2.2.1 and VelaClock 2.2.1

Vela Design Group announces VelaClock Deluxe 2.2.1 and VelaClock 2.2.1, Dashboard widgets for Mac OS X. VelaClock is a world clock widget with a highly configurable user interface. Users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, or twilight, duration of daylight, moonrise, moonset, phase of...

Big step

This morning I took another big step towards my career change. During the morning I received notification from UCOL that I had been formally enrolled and was sent the invoice for my first year of the Diploma in Photographic Imaging. So I took the plunge and handed my resignation letter in, informing...

Weekends are too short

It was a fun weekend, all told. A blast over to the North Yorkshire forests to watch the 2009 Roger Albert Clark rally, where historic cars once again galloped free along the muddy gravel trails that crisscross the maze of pines. Chasing the cars from stage to stage made my own car look like it'd...

Winter at the Park

Crazy! Really Crazy! The temperature change has got us bundling up in thermals, but the red and orange leaves are actually quite beautiful. and the lake is actually pretty quiet. I'm really quite amazed with my camera phone too. It took really good pictures, so I took random photographs of...

459. no sugar, just spice

That and everything nice! :-) An assignment on subjects with complimenting colors. I opted for red and green bell peppers.

Im at the End.

Have you ever had one of those moments in life where you think that something would never end? Like in Junior High, Kids cant wait to get to be a high schooler and that day never comes soon enough. But then the Senior soon-to-be graduate looks back and says it was too fast. Im at that point right...

Mixed Images and Links

Theories of the Mind - Art Gallery - School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University - [Flashplayer Gallery] Beautiful Macro Photography by Bonali Giuseppe- Found at Moolf - [Images] Stunning HDR Photography - Blurring the line between illusion and reality - [Images] An Experiment in...

Serious California Sparklers

I attended the Foodbuzz Festival (a food blogging event) last weekend, which included a session on California Sparklers where this was taken. What you see in the photo is just a fraction of the booze we consumed that afternoon. We're not even counting the ones from the night before and after, and...

Reset....

I keep resetting the white balance..... But everything's still white....

Friday flower

The Feeling of a Surprise

One more week for you to enter the Cracker Jacks surprise contest! The drawing will be held on next Thursday, right around midnight... As I've been getting your surprises together, one has been on it's way to me. It arrived this week. Do you remember what it feels like to have a lovely something...

Nature Photography

This last camping trip to Donner Lake proved to be quite spectacular. I like the outdoors! After I gave my camera to Christina, I've decided to work with an older digital camera that isn't as great as my other one. However, I was surprised that the photographs came out pretty well. This dandelion...

Ohanaware releases HDRtist 1.1 for Mac OS X with Auto Image Alignment

Ohanaware today announces HDRtist 1.1, a free update to their HDR Photography software for Mac OS X. HDRtist creates HDR photos and tone maps them in a single step. Its workflow has been designed to be effortless in operation, and to provide visually pleasing results. Version 1.1 not only includes...

457. by the bay

Thank you, Lord! --- Night photography has always been one of my challenges. So obviously, it is surprising that I was able to get this shot without any help from Photoshop.

Don't forget to remember

It may be more or less on the doorstep but I find there aren't many reasons to venture into Oldham, even in daylight. The former cotton spinning capital of the world has been spinning itself into serious decline at the foot of the Pennines since the industry moved on, making it a grim and...

sleepy eyes won't let me title this one...

Playing around

Since the photography equipment arrived, I have not had much opportunity to take serious photos because of work commitments, but I have been learning as much as I can about it all and have played around a little to familiarise myself with it all. I am very impressed with both the camera and the...