Ah you guessed it. I am currently reading Scott Kelby’s Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 book. This is one amazing book and if you are anywhere halfway keen on good photography and or workflow like I am the technical inputs with save you precious time and headaches galore. Besides, after using Lightroom 1.x for over a [...]
Realxing at Berry island. Photo credit: DS Another beautiful Weekend… the good news more than anything else is that it has indeed started to feel like Spring. Finally! Unfortunately though, I have been down with a bit of hay fever and allergies. I took some medication off the counter to get rid of the hay [...]
While this is the famous Lacemakers town in Belgium and often called the Venice of the North — Brugge is where we were very much planning to visit while in Paris earlier this year. But alas if only there was enough time… Apart from being all that Brugge, or In Brugges is also a recent [...]
I have been wanting to do Sydney skylines from around the top of Mosman wharf for a while but up until yesterday it was only a wish. Having tried a few the result are far from perfect or even close to what I want the outcome to look like but here is a start at [...]
We went down to the big smoke this morning. Since we didn’t have any particular plans for the morning, we strolled around and walked into the Queen Victoria Building and had lunch (more on that at D’s soon). It’s not often I take my camera along with me these days but if you do have [...]
Edited: The name of the thai place is Sumalee Thai in Bank Hotel Newtown. Thanks D. As you would have figured Be like Others *was* depressing. Luckily D took me to a lovely Thai on King Street. Having a senior moment… the name escapes me. (will update tomorrow) I hadn’t been to this one before. [...]
We were lucky to be in Vanuatu last month which collided with their last day of their political campaigning when parties take to the street to ask people to vote for them. Its mostly peaceful and fun and also a great experience. We were right in the thick of it having come out of the [...]
Quite a gut wrenching situation… I would call it a story except that it is not. Its reality in everyday Iran and something that is very discomforting at best. Be Like Others is a short film/documentary that explores the life behind closed curtains of the mostly youngish gay men in Iran and the lengths they [...]
Over the weekend we watched Gavin and Stacey and loved it This is one sweet, funny, realistic romantic commedy that blooms between Gavin – the nice lad from Essex and seemingly simple and down to earth girl Stacey from Barry. Gavin and Stacey spoke to each other for a long time before they got to [...]
I still remember the day I bought my first prime lens. It was the awesome Canon 50mm f1.4 L series at the time. The crispness of the result is delivers is breath-taking. It wasn’t until I had a prime lens in my hand that I realised why people buy prime lenses over standard zoom ones [...]
Isn’t this image very powerful? Not only that it conveys a mood, a sense of richness with the texture and the colours match so very perfectly that even if one tired to make it better it couldn’t have been. Now having said all that its also worth mentioning that this is not my photo. This [...]
View of Hampden Rd at Battery Point, Hobart, Mt Wellington covered in fog in the background We had covered a fair bit of ground the previous day and having tasted the lusciousness of Jackman and McRoss’ pies we shamelessly headed back the next day. Our intentions surely were to try other delis along Battery point [...]
There is so much to write but there is always so little time. As we get older why do we keep getting this busy? Or probably tend to find more things to do. Twenty-four hours just don’t seem enough in a day. We have come back from a short but fascination trip away from Vanuatu, [...]
UPDATE: Google chrome is now available for download. The Speed and functionality on the beta software is noteworthy. Still working out the beta browser before I write more. It looks promising. Canon EOS 50D 2 items hot off the press — well actually one of these is no longer hot as I let this sit [...]
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