I know pain. A few years back I walked a sixteen-kilometre hike, fourteen with a busted knee. Less than two kilometres into the walk I slid down an embankment to walk around massive boulders, see the ocean up-close and photograph a MASSIVE bee-swarm. I slid down what I thought was a solid soil cliff to... Continue Reading →
Shooting Macro Flowers in February
We have a dozen interesting lens to shoot with, but the one I enjoy most is my Canon 60mm Macro. My wife has the Canon 100mm Macro. Both are amazing lens and shoot different levels of intricacy. But it's always what the artist can find that makes the difference. Whilst some might say the 100mm... Continue Reading →
Captured, Contained and Competitive
I’ve entered the AustralianPhotographers January Competition . The topic is “CONTAINED/ENCLOSED”. Kaye says it is open to interpretation, yet I went through almost a dozen pages on my flickr gallery to choose one I felt most matched the topic. Here is the photograph I have chosen: Trailer Bike This was shot upon the SEALINK ferry... Continue Reading →
Celebrating my 40th Birthday: Zoo Adventures and Surprise Parties
Today was interesting. It started out reasonably boring with the standard wake-up and breakfast, but it quickly turned into a good day for me. But don't let me jump to far ahead, there's more to this story than just what happened today... The wife and I have annual membership with ZooSA, enabling us to visit... Continue Reading →
I Started A Meme!
I made the suggestion upon plurk for photographers to choose the best twelve photographs of 2008 (either one from each month or simply the favourite twelve) from their Flickr photo-gallery. Within an hour, I had chosen and published my favourite photographs of 2008. Over the last few days, three of my plurk/flickr friends also took... Continue Reading →
Favourite Photo’s of 2008
I had an idea whilst perusing my photography uploaded to Flickr throughout 2008: Upload 1 photograph from each month of 2008 from our own photo-gallery's upon Flickr. Here are my results: January Stichware: None. With a good tripod, a remote, a bit of pre-thought on where the camera would see me and nil flash -... Continue Reading →
One Day Before Christmas
A few days prior to Christmas 2008, my father-in-law's mother passed away. Reaching the grand old age of 93 is quite formidable, so I was happy to attend though not directly related. Although she had been flown to Adelaide for some check-ups, her health deteriorated considerably so her family decided to fly her back to... Continue Reading →
Achieve the Tilt-Shift Illusion with GIMP
One of the authors over at http://www.nilkanth.com/ has given us this great article outlining how they've developed an easy 12-step process for achieving the Tilt-Shift Illusion: Play with the photo’s color curves, brightness and contrast. Activate Quick Mask. Reset colors in toolbox with the ‘d’ key (so that FG = black and BG = white).... Continue Reading →
Pixel Manipulation
If you hadn't realised by now, I am quite a GIMPaholic! In mid 2007, I took an interest in editing photography. Someone suggested Photoshop™ and another friend suggested GIMP. Whilst photoshop looked enticing, I won't deny that the idea of an opensource freeware program was the selling-factor to convince me to go with GIMP™. Consequently,... Continue Reading →
The Entrepreneurial Life of Stephen Mitchell 