I’ve experimented with a few different gallery plugins for WordPress, so we could host our photos over here, rather than just keeping them all on Flickr. None of them quite did what I wanted, but I’ve just found NextGEN Gallery, and I’m quite impressed so far. It’s not the simplest to get set up, [...]
I stuck a few photos of our flat on Flickr when we first moved in, and I’ve just been notified that one of them is being used by a site campaigning against climate change on behalf of the German government. The second photo on that page is the storage heater in our spare room.
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OK, so it’s not usually me posting about Slimming World, but I was the photographer for this event in Plymouth. I’ll put together a bit more of a post about it later, but if you want to see the photos from the event, they’re on Flickr.
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I recently tried out Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom - an excellent RAW editor. There are a couple of problems with it, though. For one, it’s quite expensive. If you’re a pro, and you need the best, you probably won’t care too much about that - it’s worth the money. When you’re an amateur, though, you have [...]
I wrote a while ago about trying out Photoshelter to sell my photography. I’d have to admit that the results haven’t been good. I’ve had a few views, but no actual sales. Unfortunately for them, it sounds like my experience isn’t so unusual - they’re closing down the Collection (their stock [...]
A couple of great sets of photos of London and Tokyo at night, taken from the air. All perfectly SFW, as you’d expect, but much of the rest of the site is quite NSFW.
London Tokyo
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Following a link from an ad on The Show, I had a look around PhotoShelter on Friday, and decided to apply.
I submitted ten images, but didn’t actually regenerate them to match their requirements. After reading their standards later, they should have been saved with AdobeRGB, not sRGB, should have been output at a higher JPEG quality level, shouldn’t have been sharpened, and shouldn’t have had their colours played with as much as I did.
It’s actually the table where we had our breakfast/lunch today, at the Canal Tea Gardens. Although I did try converting one to black and white in the camera, this one was taken as colour, with my new Canon G9, then converted to monochrome later in Adobe Lightroom.
Sometimes, it’s surprising where the best photos come from - it isn’t always a journey to anywhere exotic. Here are a couple more shots of the same table:
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Yesterday evening, we attended An Evening with Andy Rouse at the Stroud Theatre in Street. No, not in a street - a town called Street. It’s a whimsical name for a town, but the South West is rich in natural whimsy.
For those who don’t already know, Andy Rouse is a wildlife photographer who has won many awards, and taken an amazing number of truly great photos. He’s also known for his humour and love of West Ham (for non-Brits - that’s a football club, not a type of meat).
We had a great time. Before the show even started Andy was running around meeting people and joking with them, and selling books and calendars. I jumped in early to pick up a copy of his latest book, Understanding RAW Photography, getting it signed, and taking the chance to hand him a Moo card.
I Should Blog More
I should blog more. That’s hardly an original start to a blog post, especially one on a long-neglected blog, but there you go.
I’m using Emacs for much of my day-to-day stuff at the moment, working in PlannerMode. I never use the ‘Schedule’ section (I use Google Calendar), so I’ve changed it to ‘Blog’ instead, with the idea of tapping a blog post into it during the day, then posting at the end of the day. If you’re reading this, it worked. Once.
So, what’s been happening recently? We’re still enjoying Devon. My calculator obsession seems to have faded somewhat, leaving me quite settled with the HP 12C financial calculator. There are far more powerful things around, but they’re sitting unused in a drawer. The 12C just does the basics really nicely.
I’m left with my current obsessions being pens, notebooks and Emacs.
Pens
I have bought a few new pens recently: