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A work in progress

Howdy loyal readers! You may have noticed a lot of RSS spam from me recently. I’m currently working on a total redesign of my site while it’s live (shameful, I know!). Anyway, as I sort out the final design I’m adding lots of test posts of various types. To stop getting these dummy posts delivered [...]

Lunch!

Today for lunch I had leftovers from a BBQ that I cooked last night. Slow-cooked marinated and smoked chicken, potato, salad, coleslaw, and a balsamic drizzle – served in a wrap. Tasty tasty!

Brodburger

I went to Brodburger the other day for lunch. If you’re a local and you haven’t heard of it by now id be surprised; it’s become something of a craze in Canberra recently. An unassuming looking takeaway-shop-in-a-caravan, parked just near the end of Kings Avenue Bridge by the lake. What makes things interesting is the [...]

Comic styles and poster prints…

Every once in a while when I get a little bored I like to experiment in Photoshop a bit. A few weeks ago I decided to try to to come up with a method of converting photos to a comic book style. I’d seen effects that were close to what I wanted but none of them was exactly what I had in mind. With a bit of experimenting I’ve come up with an action that I’m really happy with…

A Dramatic Saturday

The Morning… Saturday morning Mum and Dad headed off early to Wakefield Park for a motorbike track day. I slept in a bit, but decided to head up myself to grab a few photos and test out the video capture of my camera. I loaded up the car and set off. This was Dad’s first [...]

Furry Friend

Our friendly neighbourhood possum was back the other night… He (she?) stops by from time to time to eat fruit from our bird-feeder. The bird-feeder hangs from that red rope coming off the branch. The possum climbs down and grabs the fruit, then climbs back up into the tree to eat it. Unfortunately I had [...]

Car rig, step 3 of 1?

Hello friends! Today I used my newly built car rig for the first time. What’s a car rig you ask? It’s basically a jig that allows me to rigidly attach my camera to a car, so that I can take motion shots. To capture motion, there are essentially two options – either drive really fast [...]

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