Earlier tonight I had the good chance to catch the last half hour of this televised program on ABC1 - "Addicted to Plastic". It advertised a few interesting locations around the world that are helping to reduce the landfill of plastic upon this planet. Rather than preaching to you about how important this subject is... Continue Reading →
Who Purchased this Calendar?
I just wish Redbubble buyers would leave messages when they buy something … because I have no idea who bought this calendar: Was it you? Someone around here bought it from my Redbubble gallery a few nights back, but there is no lead as whom could be the purchaser. I've asked all the likely candidates,... Continue Reading →
Wittunga
A few months back I visited an amazing public garden in the Adelaide hills - Wittunga Botanic Gardens. This park is filled with South African plants that are suited to the South australian climate, so they flower most of the year. Thankfully the rain had abated and the cloud clover was good for overall-light, so... Continue Reading →
Borked Lens
If your camera should fall from your tripod, make sure it has a Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 II attached. Earlier tonight I was going to photograph pens and papers for the Drawing Day 2009. I had planned to draw something, but after throwing all the pens onto a brown paper bag, I saw an opportunity... Continue Reading →
Help Stop Indonesian Logging
By now you would have heard that the Indonesian Pulp&Paper mills have resumed logging the rainforest in which endangered orangutan's have their habitat. I encourage you to sign this online petition so that we can present to them how many people of the world are totally opposed to this activity. Please. Let's all show how... Continue Reading →
Photo-MeetUp, 31st May, Adelaide CBD
In case you haven't heard, I've organised a 'MeetUp' for Adelaide Photographers. I got this started about a fortnight ago and have been pleasantly surprised by the amazing response saying "YES!". This is more than your average group of people. At this stage we have about 30 people turning up, ranging from Amateurs to full-professionals,... Continue Reading →
Find and Photograph an Australian Echidnea
Photographing Australian wildlife is fraught with many interesting problems. Most of our wildlife lives in the bush, an environment that is either burnt to the ground or overgrown to the point of strangulation. Australia also has land covered in tree-stumps from over-zealous farmers who try to live on lands where water accumulates only where plants... Continue Reading →
Wrecked
It is amazing what you can find when you go for a walk in the Adelaide hills. I've only ever seen this car from a distance (from the train), and never realised I could ever get close enough to photograph the wreck. Postscript: I have used the ORTON-plugin with GIMP to give depth to the... Continue Reading →
How to Shoot the Moon
A friend on flickr recently used these settings to capture an amazing photograph of the moon: Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200) Aperture: f/5.6 Focal Length: 300 mm ISO Speed: 400 Exposure Bias: +1/3 EV Flash: Off Exposure Mode: Auto White Balance: Manual Proof that these settings will work. Photography by Bugalugsrox. Camera: Canon EOS 400D Digital.
The IE6 Mouse Pad
My IE6 Mouse Pad. Design also appears on T-shirt and Mug. I have caught the Zazzle-bug. Yeah, I have my own store-front. I';m slowly moving all my shirts from my Redbubble gallery (that are not related to photography) over to Zazzle. This was going to be just another shirt to put onto my Redbubble gallery,... Continue Reading →
Twitter Search Functions and Engines
Do you tweet? Are you following people or a follower on twitter? Then you'd spend a lot of effort looking for interesting people, data and interesting details about everything related to twitter. Right? Now it is even easier! There are so many search functions for Twitter users, and here are just a few to whet... Continue Reading →
New Idea, Fresh Direction
Around 2am this morning I had a moment of brilliance. It's taken 3 hours of work to ensure the idea works properly in both IE8 and Mozilla Firefox. And now it does! It's not easily noticeable, unless you've lifted the hood on the HTML and CSS on my personal web site previously ... but the... Continue Reading →
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