8 May 2025
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A month or two back, I spotted that the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) had finally reached its 3.0 release. I can’t remember exactly what version number it was on when I first started using the program for digital images … Continue reading
8 July 2021
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The skip we had at church presented an intriguing photo opportunity. You can probably tell that the photo has had a bit of post-processing done on it. What might be less obvious is that I tweaked the cracked yellow colours … Continue reading
2 June 2021
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The many photos I took in my early days of having a DSLR have been a real boon over the last year and half, providing me an ample stock library that I have been able to draw on for my … Continue reading
20 January 2021
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Today I have been working on turning water into wine. Okay, strictly speaking, water into the illusion of wine. This is actually a mixture of water and red wine vinegar. At each step, I used a syringe to remove a … Continue reading
26 May 2020
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I was doing some more video editing today and needed a photo of the front of my Bible cover for the final scene. I decided to go for a close-up and ended up with this: I think it looks quite … Continue reading
13 August 2019
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It has been a long time since I last took a self-portrait (although I did draw one recently – after an even longer gap). However, a friend was interested in possibly borrowing my easel so, after measuring it up, I … Continue reading
2 February 2019
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Yesterday was a bit of a snow day. I’m glad to see that most of it has cleared up by today and it should continue warming up over the next week. Therefore, I’m glad I got a decent shot with … Continue reading
18 March 2018
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I have now uploaded the watercolours from Friday’s Observation to Abstraction art class to my Flickr site: expect a series of pictures over the next few days. The particular challenge for this set was that all the images were quite … Continue reading
18 February 2018
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That is the first painting of the afternoon from Friday’s Observation to Abstraction session. If you saw yesterday’s sketches, you’ll see that I was working from the same position in the room. Now we had a palette of watercolours to … Continue reading
10 December 2017
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I’m sure that when I checked the forecast last night, we were going to be getting sleet during the night and most of the morning and light snow only in the afternoon. However, that’s definitely snow blanketing the ground outside: … Continue reading