Archive for February, 2008

the $1 camera

27Feb08

Here’s a picture – which I like a lot by the way – that I made with a camera that cost me $1 (plus $14 postage to get it here). Through eBay of course. Looks like I struck lucky – it’s a good camera and seems to be working well. I [...]


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the photographer

25Feb08

This is a bit of an unusual image for me. It came about from when one of my daughters gave me a couple of Photoshop technique magazines, the ones that have tutorials you can follow.
Big breakthrough for me – I had read some of the PS manual, might be OK if you know why [...]


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death of a sunflower

21Feb08

Inspiration at last! I have always been keen on photography, developing my black and white films way back in the 1950s as a teenager, printing the negatives with a neat little light box, in the cupboard under the stairs. Then progressing over all these years, heaven knows how many different cameras – always [...]


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a quick trip into the country

10Feb08

We have had a lot of rain recently, have hardly seen the sun for a coupla weeks or so. I have been itching to get out and get some photographs – I need them for my public! ha ha – so when the clouds broke up and the sun came out after another wet [...]


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drawing – Tom Waits

10Feb08

Here’s a drawing I did of Tom Waits using my computer, based on a photograph. It was created in Inkscape, the leading svg drawing program, converted to jpg for display in this blog.
I like Tom and his work very much. I did this just for fun. It was quite straightforward to do [...]


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