31 July 2008
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Is it it poetic that the photograph I have decided on as my favourite picture from June 2008 and posted on the last day of July is the same image I posted back on the first day of the month? … Continue reading
30 July 2008
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Sometimes I work on a photo only to come back with fresh ideas a while later. This morning I have done two remixes of the key shot I used for yesterday’s post. The first is a simple crop to a … Continue reading
29 July 2008
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Sometimes simple ideas can make a big difference. Yesterday I saw a short video (sorry – I did not keep the link) about a project in Africa to pump water by using a merry-go-round. As the children play, their village … Continue reading
28 July 2008
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Shortly before I bought my electric upright bass, I restrung my six string Sei bass with lighter gauge strings tuned a minor third higher than normal. Most six string basses are tuned B – E – A – D – … Continue reading
27 July 2008
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I stayed up late last night watching The Return of the King. Very epic although I have to admit that I found some of the scenes less gripping that I remembered. All in all though, still a very powerful film, … Continue reading
26 July 2008
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I think this is probably the first contribution to my fiftytwo set that has been taken using the auto mode of my camera. Most of them have been taken with my collection of cheap old lenses that won’t even work … Continue reading
25 July 2008
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I have finally finished publishing my photos from June with three shots of a stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) from out back garden. It was dead at the time, so I could pose it without hurting the beetle, but had been … Continue reading
24 July 2008
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I came across an interesting website yesterday called write rhymes. You type text into a box and then, after selecting a word, it will suggest various rhymes. It didn’t seem to function on the Linux machine I tried it on … Continue reading
23 July 2008
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Just a short post today to try out the code from TwitterCounter and see how many people follow my tweets.
22 July 2008
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I was recently talking with my brother, Magnus, about the Simandl positions I mentioned earlier this month when I was blogging about my efforts to learn double bass. I had picked out a pattern for remembering the position names (the … Continue reading