doing different stuff with my photos

29Oct08

I have started doing different stuff with my photos. Like this one:

All very simple – what I have done is:

simplify the subject matter
get some good foreground texture
have a nice palette of colours
introduce some unobtrusive editing in the background – in this case a slight movement blur of the far rocks

See it larger here.
I like [...]

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Tags: cabbage tree bay, new south wales, scribefire

passing it to the Web

17Oct08

It had to happen (from the Sydney Morning Herald):
A husband and wife team from the Sunshine Coast are preparing for all out war with the likes of Dell and HP in the burgeoning market for low-cost PCs.
John Nicholls, 52, and his wife Jeanne, 47, have developed a line of computers – dubbed Hot-E – small [...]

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Tags: cloud computing, computers, Hot-E, low capital cost, low running cost, technology chamges, under $US100, using scribefire

short-term stay in Sydney

17Oct08

We live on the Central Coast of New South Wales – along with many
other retirees of course. The main reason we chose to live here was to
be close to Sydney and its attractions, most important of these being
our families – two of our daughters. One lives in Newtown and the
other (and granchildren) at [...]

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Tags: accommodation, great southern hotel, hotel, short-stay, using scribefire, value, wotif

trying Scribefire blog editor …

17Oct08

A new blog editor! Wow, isn’t this exciting – a new something or other every day on the old www.
I refer of course to Scribfire, which nests inside Firefox (and maybe other browsers). When you open it you can write a blog and upload it to your blog site.  So what is new there?  I [...]

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