Archive for December, 2008
continuing a musical theme
It might, from my previous post, seem that my interests in music lie with the pop and gypsy genres. This is so in part, but I thought it would be good to say a few words about some of my other idols.
Lara St John is one.
Lara St John is one of today’s most accomplished [...]
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Tags: bach, kroke, lara st john, nigel kennedy, paganini, violin, virtuoso music
discovering Annie Lennox
I have recently (re-)discovered Annie Lennox. She was there all the time of course, and I have known of her for years and years, but it was only yesterday that I stumbled across a video of her, with, wow, David Bowie and backed by, wow, Queen. Here’s a shot of her:
I have been a [...]
Filed under: gypsy music, music, pop music, romany music | 3 Comments
Tags: annie lennox, david bowie, fanfare ciacarlio, queen
fiddling around with Photoshop
Most of the time, I use Photoshop for editing images from my cameras.
The images are mostly in jpeg format, as I use several film cameras (not all at the same time!) as well as a 6MP digicam. Now that nearly all the developing and printing labs have closed down in this digital age, I [...]
Filed under: australia, beach, new south wales, photography, the beach, the sea | 1 Comment
Tags: editing images, photoshop, software, some of this is boring, ufraw
Nine Mile Beach, NSW, Australia
This shot is taken from the breakwater at the south end of Nine Mile Beach, between Swansea Heads and Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
You can just see the patrolled part of this end of the beach – where the tiny figures are. I’ve played a bit with this image – I added a [...]
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Tags: photo manipluation, tinting photographs
sand, rock, grasses
Not much to be said about this image – a combination of things we are very familiar with – sand, rock and grasses.
But, although it could be almost anywhere, this is at the very south extremity of Nine Mile Beach, between Swansea Heads and Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
I need to be so specific since [...]
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Tags: grasses, rock, sand
casuarinas/she-oaks
My pic-of-the-day is of a casuarina tree at the back of a beach.
From Burke’s Backyard:
The word ‘casuarina’ derives from the word ‘cassowary’ – she oaks are characterised by their fine, textured evergreen foliage, that looks like the feathers on the bird. She oak foliage means that it is often mistaken for a pine tree, and [...]
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Tags: australian trees, casuarina, photography, she oak, trees
picture of the day
Here’s my picture of the day. It’s the breakwater where the sea channels into the coastal Lake Macquarie, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. “Coastal lake” rather than lagoon, well, I think because of the size of the lake and I have a picture of a lagoon being a long sausage-shaped [...]
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Tags: blacksmiths beach, breakwater, lake macquarie, nine mile beach, photography, sea channel, swansea nsw
sky like a galaxy
Playing around just a little bit with some of my recent evening sky shots, I see a likeness between these complex cloud systems and the wonderful pictures of galaxies and other astronomical objects we see on such sites as .
All I have done here is warm and darken the image a little, so the clouds [...]
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Tags: Astronomay Picture of the Day, astronomy, clouds, galaxy photographs, photography, sky, sunset
look to the sky!
Here’s another of my shots of the eastern sky as we approach sundown. This was taken from our (very small) back garden, (we like the concept of a garden but not the associated work), looking east over the adjoining farm paddock (which is not photogenic). Sundown in these parts is at the [...]
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Tags: australia, clouds, looking east, photography, sky, sunset
sunset? look to the east!
Judging by the number of photographs of sunsets posted to online photo-sharing sites, these colourful and often dramatic displays are very popular amongst us snap-happy people. But sometimes the best display is to the east.
Turn your back on the sun! Check what is happening behind you. Sure, there may be a great [...]
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Tags: afternoon/evening, before sunset, clouds, east, looking east, photography, RAW, sky, sunset
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