We watched Easy Virtue at the St George Open Air Cinema last night. Certainly privileged to go a second time this year. You couldn’t ask for a better backdrop than to have the Opera House and the Sydney Harbour bridge in the one frame with the shimmering vermillion skyline to the left that slowly settles in to the dusk.
Easy Virtue is a social comedy that plays on the snobberies of the English aristocracy and disbelief of all things American. Its based on Noël Peirce Cowards comedy and directed by Stephen Elliot — who also directed “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert“. The main characters were played by: Jessica Biel, Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Barnes.
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Flickr has a somewhat secret algorithm that look at the uniqueness of photos. Its called Interestingness! Flickr describes it as follows:
Besides being a five syllable word suitable for tongue twisters, it is also an amazing new Flickr Feature.
There are lots of elements that make something ‘interesting’ (or not) on Flickr. Where the clickthroughs are coming from; who comments on it and when; who marks it as a favorite; its tags and many more things which are constantly changing. Interestingness changes over time, as more and more fantastic content and stories are added to Flickr.
My interesting photos on Flickr are below. Enjoy.
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Tag your photos
We have talked about uploading photos & posting them to groups and searching photos. But Searching wouldn’t be half as effective if tagging photos were not done appropriately. Look at the photo below and tell me what comes to mind? The things that jump out at me are:
Green, Path, Tree so it would be good to add these tags while posting but it also helps to tag name of place, suburb, state, country and definitely map(geo-tagging) to help findability of your photos.
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Do you like taking photos? Do you have a Yahoo account? If the answer to the above are ‘yes‘ chances are you also have a Flickr account and post photos there. Yahoo lets you sign on to Flickr using your yahoo ID. My main weakness to Flickr is that there are lots of enthusiast photographers posting photos and discussions to better their skills and knowledge. Looking at other peoples photos often gives me a perspective into the photographers world of image composition, layout and execution of the process. Its very addictive and informative and caught unaware you can spend hours even before you know it. And this quest surely corroborates to heighten the photographic eye.
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HDR or High Dynamic Range photos are slowly coming of age. A quick look at Flickr will land you with thousands of stunning HDR images.
But not all look realistic or even worth a second look. The reason is basically two folds. Some people like the goofy edgy overdone HDRs and are happy to continue doing so while other (myself included) like a dynamic range that simulate the feel for real life scenario with a touch of the photographers magic.
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Hope you had a good start to 2009 and still keeping up with your New Years resolutions. We certainly have, one of ours being: Sydney Bites Restaurant review site.
Why Sydneybites?
Well, we love going out for good food as much as cooking at home and trying out new recipes. We usually lug a camera along and we enjoy blogging. So what better if we can merge them all and have something thats fun, creative and would help people find good food reviews(with photos) and give Sydney another added edge over other good food cities in the world? 
Very ambitious but you get the picture… so here we are: http://sydneybites.com
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Its just past midnight we’ve ushered into 2009. HAPPY NEW YEAR all. Fireworks light up the night skies over the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge and Darling Harbour celebrating its 21st birthday! 2009 going to be one great year. It was a fun evening catching up with Aje, Richie & Parkie on New Years eve and lovely to see Alison and Tracey who are visiting down-under. After lots of nibbles, lovely 80’s music, enough BBQ to kill a village and Bella to boot (I was the designated driver so no alcohol for me) we walked down to the wharf with passion-pop in hand.
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