BBC - Radio 1 - Red Nose Day 2009

February 27, 2009

Chris Moyles and Fearne Cotton - The Red Nose Climb 2009

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Frost

February 26, 2009

Another shot from Millennium Wood in Edenbridge.

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Wires in a field

February 25, 2009

Saturated photo.

Wires in a field

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The Tonbridge Squirrel

February 25, 2009

The Tonbridge Squirrel

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Warm frost

February 22, 2009

A frosted branch in the sunrise.

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Blue bell fields forever

February 22, 2009

The blue bells (and buttercups) have sprouted everywhere here in Edenbridge! This is the field behind our local vet. There is a small wood on the other side of a stream and this is the edge of the woods. Behind me is a field of buttercups, to the left of me is a hill leading to the railway track and to the right of me is a field full of sheep. :-)

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Peony

February 22, 2009

A peony in the back garden. I’ve had a little play with the saturation.

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Drops on leaf

February 21, 2009

In a continuing effort to post something, anything here (instead of just leaving it to collect dust) I’m going to try and post a pic a day from my Flickr stream.  Nothing fancy, but please add your comments here and/or on Flickr.  I’d love to have any feedback on this and anything I post here, on Flickr as well as FriendFeed (which I’m trying to link to this blog as much as possible).  Today’s pic:

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Even dirtier and darker

February 20, 2009

My dog, Kaz, covered in mud one day. He stuck his whole head in a muddy pond while on a walk in the fields.

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What is the best photography tip you could give to anyone?

February 20, 2009

I asked the question on Twitter and these were the replies.  Thank you for all the kind people who replied, if you wish to add your tips please reply to the tweet here. Read more

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Dark and dirty

February 20, 2009

For some reason this shot came out really dark (no idea what I did) but I went with it and created this pic of Kaz after he stuck his head in a muddy pond.

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Squashy Frog Photography gets a generous mention on Discovery Through eLearning

September 7, 2008

A quick post to say that my Squashy Frog Photography site here has had a lovely mention on Tracy Hamilton’s Discovery Through eLearning blog. Please click on the screenshot below to see the article and browse her wonderful blog.

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Favourite general photography sites

August 10, 2008

Yet another list (oh do I like lists).  This one shows some of the general photography sites I really like.  No blogs of photographer-specific sites here.  These include online magazine, photo editing, tutorial, photo-sharing and reference sites: Read more

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Facebook Page for Squashy Frog Photography

August 10, 2008

I’ve generated another new page for Squashy Frog Photography, it’s a general Facebook Page.  You can view it by clicking on the image below:

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Facebook Blogs Network page for Squashy Frog Photography

August 10, 2008

I’ve made 2 new pages for Squashy Frog Photography on Facebook.  The first one is for Blogs Network and can be found by clicking on the image below:

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NetVibes page for Squashy Frog Photography

August 10, 2008

Continuing my additions to my social media pages, I’ve created a new NetVibes page for Squashy Frog Photography.  Please click on the image below to find it:

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My favourite photography blogs

August 3, 2008

Last of the lists this weekend and here’s a collection of my favourite blog-type photography sites.  This covers photographers, tutorial sites and lots more: Read more

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FriendFeed Room for Squashy Frog Photography

August 3, 2008

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Squashy Frog Photography gets social

August 3, 2008

I’m sure it’s not gone unnoticed that social media, news and bookmarking is a big ol’ thing nowadays.  And me being someone not wanting to miss out on anything new on the net I’ve naturally joined in with all the fun.  I’ve been slowly building profiles on tonnes of services across the web - some used more than others.  If this interests you then for a complete list of my social media profiles have a read of my page titled, “My Social Media Sites“.

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My favourite Flickr photographers

August 2, 2008

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WordPress upgraded to version 2.6, theme upgrade next

August 2, 2008

Hi guys, long time no speak.  Yep it’s been pretty dead for new articles here but if you follow the feed (which I highly recommend) then you’ve been kept busy pretty much most days.  Anyway, I upgraded to WordPress 2.6 a few weeks ago and again it went swimmingly as you can see.

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List of my favourite photographers updated

August 2, 2008

As an update to a short list I did ages ago, I’ve compiled a much longer list of my favourite photographers online. I’ve picked the majority of them on the quality of their photography but a few have been picked mainly on their excellent web site design.

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Prints available

June 29, 2008

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Internal links now working

June 27, 2008

I noticed today that nearly all the internal links were being redirected to the home page, so I’ve gone through all the links of the pages and fixed them.  I’ve left the links on the posts but if anyone finds any others please let me know?

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Improve colours in your Firefox browser

June 22, 2008

Basically if you are using Firefox as your Internet browser you can quickly change a setting to improve the colours you see while visiting sites with images and photos.

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10 more prints avaialble

June 21, 2008

I’ve added 10 more prints, if you are interested in any of these, click on the photo and follow the instructions. Read more

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First set of prints available from DeviantART site

June 20, 2008

First set of prints available from my (in-progress) DeviantART site.  The gallery is here and the prints are here.  The first 4 prints are below.  As stated on the prints page, please let me know if you are after any other product or a version of the photograph without the border. Read more

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DeviantART Clean-up Part 1

June 20, 2008

Hi guys,

A quick message to say I’ve completed part 1 of 2 of a clean-up at my DeviantART site. Part 1 was to remove every photo, part 2 will be to upload my portfolio and set them up for prints.

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Link round-up for 24th May 2008

May 25, 2008

A View From The Top: Burj Dubai

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Flickr uploads to 23rd May 2008

May 24, 2008

As something different to the batch of recent link round-ups, here’s what I’ve been uploading to Flickr in the last few weeks (click on the images to see more): Read more

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Link round-up for 21st-22nd May 2008

May 23, 2008

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

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Link round-up for 17-18th May 2008

May 19, 2008

53 Killer Photoshop Illustrator Effects and Tutorials

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Link round-up for 14th May 2008

May 14, 2008

Liquid Fire Photography

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Link round-up for 12th May 2008

May 13, 2008

The gates of hell have been opened (PIC)

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Link round-up for 10th May 2008

May 11, 2008

21 Amazing Under Water Pictures (PICS)

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General update for 10th May 2008

May 10, 2008

As you can see I’ve been busy with other things. My job at the BBC is going well. I’ve been there for 3 weeks and I have at least 2 more weeks to go (though our project manager says it will go on for another 3/4 weeks.

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Link round up for 5th May 2008

May 6, 2008

Petition to: clarify the laws surrounding photography

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Link round up for 4th May 2008

May 5, 2008

Two Views of Earth Show How Far We Have Come

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Link round-up for 27th April 2008

April 28, 2008

8-Bit Street Art: Flowing Pixels (PIC)

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Links round-up for 19th April 2008

April 20, 2008

Great Photoblogging Site

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Link round-up for 20th April 2008

April 20, 2008

40 Excellent Web Based Tools to Help You Design from Anywher

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What I need to do after swap-over

April 20, 2008

This will be the last post before I actually go ahead with the swap-over and it basically gives an idea what I will do afterwards. I’m not going to go into detail now, so it might probably not make sense to most but will be a guide for later.

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I have a new job… with the BBC in London!

April 19, 2008

Yippee!  Yes I’ve eventually got myself a new job.  About time I guess!  I’m not actually sure exactly what the role entails but what I do know is I’ll be working for a Reed Professional Services project team.  The project is for the BBC and I will be working out of the BBC Television Centre in London.  I’m told I’ll be doing data entry with 3 others and overall the team will consist of 17 people.

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Updated About Me page

April 19, 2008

I’ve almost completely re-written the About Me page. Copy of it can be found below but will normally be located here:

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Link round-up for 18th April 2008

April 19, 2008

More articles I’ve dugg:

Submitted:

Aphlog :: A Photography Log

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ArtLimited Interview

April 19, 2008

No, I’ve not been interviewed by anyone but there is an interview section on the art site, Art Limited, that you can fill in yourself. It asks some interesting questions and I thought I’d post the questions and my answers here for you: Read more

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First link round-up for 17th Apirl 2008

April 17, 2008

In an effort to keep this site fresh and updated I added my diggs to the RSS feed via FeedBurner. What I was able to do in FeedBurner was set-up my diggs to be automatically posted as a daily digest in the feed only. This was great and I loved the way the digest was laid out. But there were 2 problems: Read more

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Lots of new pages

April 6, 2008

I’ve added some new pages to the site. Basically they are copies of previous posts that could be useful as static pages. It makes them more visible and easier to find too. The full list is below:

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My social media pages

April 6, 2008

In preparation to amend my About page I have been sorting out all these links. I’ve tried and registered on a ton of sites over the years, so please find a complete a list I can of all the social media, social networking and social news sites I’m registered on. The list was taken from a ‘badge’ produced from Profilactic, a ‘lifestream/social aggregator site where I’ve added all my sites.

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Into the light

April 5, 2008

Into the light

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Updated portfolio pages

March 31, 2008

Nothing major but with the help from the guys from the Revolution theme support site I’ve been able to tidy up the image thread found at the bottom half of the portfolio pages.  It will now display threads from the related category (for example, nature photo threads on the nature portfolio page).  The thread will be a preview and will basically show only the photo.  Links to the full entry, where you;ll find background information and alternative images, are provided.  The full list of portfolio pages are:

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What I’m gonna do with my old blog

March 30, 2008

I was lingering on what I should do with the old blog.  It’s not content-heavy but but there are a lot of entries there and seems a waste to just dump them.  So….

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

March 30, 2008

Just to say that I have successfully upgraded the site to version 2.5 of WordPress (my webblog application). I was suprised how easy and smoothly it went. I used a automatic upgrade plugin which walked me through the process of backing up, downloading and installing. It couldn’t be much easier and couldn’t have gone any smoother.

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My kit list

March 21, 2008

I wrote a kit list when I first started my blog but I’ve not re-posted it here like most of my other old entries. This is a current list of my kit with links and all. :-)

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Future short and long term plans

March 20, 2008

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Round-up of what has been done on the web site

March 20, 2008

So what’s been done already? Well it’s probably worth looking around to give yourself an idea first but here’s a run-down: Read more

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Update on the web site - to do before launch

March 20, 2008

Apologises there are a lot of entries like this and they are basically me thinking out loud (though I hope it helps people understand what I’m doing and aid them if they are planning/doing the same thing - if not then you have my permission to tell me to shut up ;-)).

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Donations

March 20, 2008

I don’t like to ask for help with money and feel a little ashamed to do so but in my situation I can’t even afford the £35 to buy the Sounslides application at the moment - the Flash animation on the home page that currently has a demo marker on it. But if you wish to help me out with this and generally with my pursuit to photography professionalism then any and all donations big or small are very much welcome. You see the buttons dotted around the site and here’s another.

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Update on the web site - the swap-over

March 20, 2008

A note to say that the switch from the old site to the new site should happen pretty soon. The new site won’t be completely ready but I’ve added some content to it, as you can see, and that is the important thing. Fixes and tweaks will be ad-hoc after launch. So the plan is:

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Moody morning

March 18, 2008

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Sony 32in Wega television for sale on eBay UK

March 18, 2008

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New photography mosaic

March 16, 2008

 

 

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My Flickr groups

March 13, 2008

I’m a huge fan of Flickr and is where I post all of my photos (good and bad!). Since joining the site I’ve created a several groups and I thought I’d list them all just in case anyone is interested. The main ones are:

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Updated Info page

March 12, 2008

I have just updated the Info page, full copy is below. Also I’ll be working on a frequently asked questions (FAQ) page which will be added in the near-future. If you want any questions answered please let me know and I’ll try and include them in the FAQ. New Info details: Read more

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No new WordPress… yet

March 12, 2008

I’ve just read that there will not be a version 2.5 of WordPress released today.  It’s now expected in a week or so’s time.  All this means that any shutdown and potential follow-up problems with my site while I update it to the new version are postponed until there.  For anyone interested the latest news on WordPress please read the excerpt below and follow the link: Read more

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Kaz at sunrise

March 6, 2008

2248201795 a568cbfee6 Kaz at sunrise

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Up on the farm

March 5, 2008

2289813040 a584b0e12b Up on the farm

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7 Alternatives to Flickr

March 3, 2008

If you’re not a Flickr fanboy like me and want an alternative, have a look at this article on Photography Bay. Personally I’ve used most of the alternatives and for me Flickr cannot be beaten if that is what you want. But have a look at the article, first they talk about Flickr then follow the link at the bottom to read the rest of the article detailing the 7 alternatives you might want to consider: Read more

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Painting of a tennis championship

March 3, 2008

2250435218 642bb671f9 Painting of a tennis championship

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A morning walk in Kent

February 25, 2008

A morning walk in Kent

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Boxham Tree HDR

February 15, 2008

Boxham tree HDR

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New Links page

January 30, 2008

I have added links to the links page (handy, I know ;-)). A copy of the new info is below. This is a page I’m sure will be updated a lot and perhaps might be breaking up in some way:

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New About page

January 30, 2008

Along with many additions to the brand new site, I’ve added a new About page.  A copy is printed below and expect this to be tweaked several times before it settles down. :-)  New about details:

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Personal site moved

January 30, 2008

A quick note to say I’ve moved my personal site - E-lusion - to the following URL:

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My photo to appear in local newspaper

January 30, 2008

I entered three of my recent photos into a photography competition in our local news paper, The Kent & Sussex Courier. The competition is run in association with the Tonbridge Camera Club and a lady from the paper e-mailed me on Monday to say they want to print one of my photos in this week’s paper (out on Thursday 31st January 2008). I’m over the moon and can’t wait to see my photo in the paper tomorrow.

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No Import

January 30, 2008

Hi again,

From a lack of response from WordPress support I take it that I cannot import all my old blog entries from my Serendipity blog to the new WordPress blog. So this will mean that we start afresh. A pain as I would have liked all the old photos here but good as I really would like to re-write most of the articles I wrote before.

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Welcome

January 30, 2008

Hello!

This is a quick post to say hello and welcome to my site. Out with the old Serendipity and PixelPost sites and in with the new all-in-one WordPress/Revolution site. If you’ve somehow found this site now you’ll see that it’s very much in the construction process. I uploaded the new site early January 2008 to the UK domain during the implementation process. Once all the basics are set-up and I’m happy to go the old photography site and blog will be taken down and replaced with what you see here. So if you bear with me I will be working on the site over the coming days, weeks and months.

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Day out at the London Eye

January 8, 2008

Again, very old news but they are worthy of an entry. It was my brother’s 28th birthday (December 2006) and I decided to take him and my Mum and Dad out for the day. We had a meal lined up and a boat trip down the Thames. We also have tickets for the London Eye. Have a look at some of the pics I took of the Eye itself: Read more

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My experience of the UK flooding in 2007

January 8, 2008

I thought I’d post my experience of the major floods that hit the UK last Summer. This was written on 20th July 2007:

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Day out at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007

January 4, 2008

Last one from the ‘old news box’…

My brother and I went down to Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007 near Chicester for the middle day (Saturday 23rd June 2007). We were up early as we thought we’d either get lost like we normally do or we’d get stuck in major traffic. But the journey down was a doddle (apart from a little tour of a roundabout or two) and it’s was dead quiet. The flyer said to look out for signs to the event but we couldn’t see them though we did work it out in the end and rolled into the field/car park close to the top and thus the entrance. So a good start.

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Day out at Le Tour de France London Prologue 2007

January 3, 2008

I was up in London for the Saturday (7th July 2007) Prologue of Le Tour de France in London. I thought it was fantastic! Up very early I made my way to Marble Arch. At this point it was pretty empty and quiet, but as I walked around I found some people already placing seats along the course. There was still lots of spaces, though so I decided to walk it, from Hyde Park to the finish, boy that was a long walk. On my way I went through a very busy area where people were shouting and screaming to encourage you to buy their wares. Pretty much everyone was at the finish and I could hardly see the track. So I chose to turn back to find a better location. Read more

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Day out at the Red Bull Air Race 2007 London

January 3, 2008

More old photos and more old news but an entry nevertheless:

My brother and I enjoyed the Red Bull Air Race on Sunday 29th July 2007. We were up at the crack of dawn, missed the first train out of Edenbridge so drove to Redhill to get up to London. Tube was fine and we found it to be fairly quiet when we first got there (35k turned up in the end, they say). We had bought standing tickets on the South of the river where we could see the end of the ‘track’ and a big screen showing the whole thing.

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Day out at Wimbledon tennis championship 2007

January 3, 2008

A couple more ‘event reports’ from last year…

My brother and I went on the first Friday of the Wimbledon tennis championships (6th July 2007). We’ve never been before but it was great and we’re hoping to go next year (centre court here we come ;-)).

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Movie recommendation: Sunshine

September 2, 2007

I’ve kept this one separate and I think it needs highlighting on its own. The movie is called Sunshine and is one of the best movies I’ve seen in years. It is from the director of Trainspotting, The Beach, Shallow Grave and 28 Days Later and the producer of 28 Weeks Later. Think along the lines of 2001/2010 with a bit of Solaris and Event Horizon mixed in.

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Movie recommendations: September update

September 2, 2007

I’ve not posted any article for a while so here’s a few movie recommendations for the time being:

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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Which? print processing

June 2, 2007

Which? have tested and reviewed all the major print processing services online and in-store. The results of the online services are:- Read more

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Which? digital SLR tests

June 2, 2007

The consumer assoication’s Which? magazine have tested the current crop of affordable digital SLR cameras. I trust their tests and opinions highly so the reults are:- Read more

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Music recommendation: 8mm - Songs to Love & Die By

May 26, 2007

I hate seeing good bands not doing well. I’ve been listening to 8mm for ages now, I recently noticed their album was out so went to search on Kelkoo UK only to find Amazon UK were the only company stocking it in this country. So here’ my little bit to promote 8mm. They are a 3-piece trip-hop band, similar to Lamb, (one of my favourite bands) from the USA. So if that’s to your liking then have a look at their MySpace page here:
http://www.myspace.com/8mm

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Interesting link: The First Post

May 20, 2007

I’m starting to really like this site. It’s called The First Post. It’s basically an online news site. Very well written (though the sports articles appear to be from offline papers, well they did on Sunday) and nice big photos (which makes a change to the stupidly small thumbnail size pics you normally get). You can subscribe to several regular e-mail subscriptions and RSS feeds, which seem to come at you at about 9:45AM (in the UK anyway ;-)). I particular like the Arts section and their roundup of all the news for the week that is posted every Sunday.

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First movie recommendations

May 13, 2007

As I’m a big movie fan I thought I would add a few posts every so often on my recommended movies to watch. So have a looksee for some of these if you can: Read more

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Music recommendation: Maps - We Can Create

May 13, 2007

I cannot remember how I found this artist, but I’m really happy I did. Their new album is brilliant and is well worth a listen. They are said to sound like Ulrich Schnauss and Band of Horses and are classed are a indie-electronic band. For a preview of their sound check their MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/mapsmusic

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First music recommendations

May 13, 2007

Another new category, this blogging is becoming addictive. ;-)

I thought I’d post some CDs I’ve bought recently. I just love music and in the last year or two I’ve started digging a bit further to unearth some lesser-known artists and bands (which you usual find are better than the drivel that you head in the charts), so you may or may not have heard of these. I rarely buy an album as most are just pants, when I buy a CD it’s becuase I love 90% or more of the tracks on it, liking 6 out of 10 just isn’t enough for me. So recent purchases are (in no particular order): - Read more

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Fun link: Viral Video Chart

May 13, 2007

When you work in a desk job like me you appreciate some funny clips to keep you going during the day, have a look at this chart (mainly YouTube videos):

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Interesting link: Unusual articles on Wikipedia

May 12, 2007

Short and sweet this one. One of my favourite sites on the web is Wikipedia - this its perhaps a little inaccurate here and there but it’s still simply the best encyclopedia you can find on the Internet. One interesting page is this page of unusual articles: Read more

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Useful link: MySupermarket

May 11, 2007

In the first (of many I would say) of my quick useful links articles, comes MySupermarket:

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Mind-altering media

May 11, 2007

Another good article from New Scientist was ‘Mind-altering media’.  This is something that touches me personally as I’ve worked in the computer games industry. Myself, I find it very hard to believe that players and viewers of violent videogames and movies make for violent people. I think if you’re violent it will come up regardless of experiencing modern media. What I don’t like to see is violent games sold to underage children, someone somewhere needs to take responsibility for misselling these games. You can’t let a 12 year old play an 18 certificate game! A child will imitate, far more than an adult, what they experience, if they interact with a violent game then they are more likely to copycat the experience in real-life.

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How to make better decisions

May 11, 2007

Another interesting article from New Scientist, ‘How to make better decisions’. It’s a top ten list and I’ve written some highlights from article below:

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List of my favourite photographers

March 18, 2007

I’ll be updating this article regularly. When I find photographers and artists that interest me, inspire me or are just plain good IMHO, then the poor souls will get a link added here:

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My sites list

March 18, 2007

A list of my sites and where I keep my photos online:

All my sites are listed on the page below, most are just holding pages: http://www.koltregaskes.com/
Please visit my photography site here: http://www.squashyfrog.com/
I have a few photos on GFXArtist: http://koltregaskes.gfxartist.com/
And my deviantART page where you can buy prints, etc. for my work here: http://koltregaskes.deviantart.com/

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Photography links

March 18, 2007

I’ve started to correlate a bunch of useful and interesting photography-related sites on the web, they range from tutorial to photo-sharing sites:

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Photography-related magazine and newspapers

March 18, 2007

A few links to newspapers and magazines I read:

Newspapers

The Independent
- I’ve never really settled on a newspaper until perhaps recently. I’ve started regularly buying the Independent, don’t say a word. ;-) In the last few months it has had ‘free’ week-long specials including ‘Improve Your Photography’ and there is the odd ‘Independent Photographer’ supplement in the Web User magazine (of which I’ve only got Part 1 and 3 L). The Independent takes photography very seriously and I expect to see lots of articles and supplements in the future.

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Photography books

March 18, 2007

Here’s a list of photography and Photoshop books I’ve collected over the last few months, as you can see I’ve got a lot of reading. :-) Hopefully these will be good reference material and give me ideas (links go to Amazon UK pages and I will add notes to each book later):

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My computer set-up

March 18, 2007

Yep I have one, well 2 and another which is sort of dead.

Hardware

I recently bought a Rock Extreme CTX Pro laptop. A laptop has been on my luxury-to-buy list for years and I decided to buy one when a much lower than expected VAT bill came my way one month. It’s amazing but eats up battery power like nobody’s business. It’s to get me away from my monster desktop machine upstairs as it’s basically a desktop replacement machine. I have a 64 bit AMD 3200+ 2GHz machine. Quick tip here, don’t buy anything 64 bit, not until 2008 anyway, bloody hard to get drivers (as its too expensive for developers to develop on) and some software will just point-blank refuse to work on it. My machine has a lush 1.5Gb of RAM and a snazzy nVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT gfx card in it. It’s dog slow at the moment. I’m about to upgrade to a 2GHz 3800+ AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core CPU and up the RAM to a total of 2.5Gb.

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Software list

March 18, 2007

This’ll be the software article then, OK, no points for guessing that I’ll chat away about software here. A list of software appears below:

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Photography training info

March 4, 2007

Here is a bit of info on some training I hope to take at some point. As I work and don’t have the luxury to take time off I’ve opted for the home study option. After a long period of searching the net and obtaining info from all sorts Open College of Arts came out on top.

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Acetaldehyde

February 21, 2007

It’s a very, very bad thing.

I’m a regular reader of New Scientist, it’s possibly my favourite magazine - it’s fantastic!  Last week’s was no exception.  One article was particularly interesting and shocked me a little bit.  I discovered that this thing called acetaldehyde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetaldehyde) is very nasty. Acetaldehyde basically is produced by your liver as it breaks down ethanol and causes, among other things, the infamous “hangover”. But there is so much more to it. If you drink, smoke or have bad dental hygiene read on…

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My pet hates are…

February 11, 2007

Following on from my previous entry, Parship also wanted my pet hates, so…

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I wish I could…

February 11, 2007

I’m an Independent reader and today they had this Parship dating questionnaire (see http://independent.parship.co.uk/ for more details). So for a bit of fun I registered and went through the very long questionnaire (no I don’t think I’ll get any response). The interesting part was the ‘About me’ section where it asked you a few interesting questions, one of them was “I wish I could…”. So here are my answers (open to updates and changes ;-)):

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One thing I hate about MS Windows

February 11, 2007

It gets on my nerves more and more as time goes by. I like to multi-task, get more things done in a shorter space of time, but when you set off one window or program to do something then open up something else, if that first thing does something like refreshes or displays a message then it brings that to the front. So I’m happily typing or working away in my new window then the first window pops up in front of it. So annoying!! If I’ve selected that window to work in the background then it should stay there until I selected otherwise.

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Why?

January 31, 2007

OK, why this change of direction all of a sudden, well, like everyone, I would like to be in a place where I’m as happy as I can be. Working in an office is good and I get a kick out of producing a report, helping out on projects and of course it pays the bills. But as a long term goal I’m after something more creative, something a bit different…

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How to become a professional photographer… hopefully

January 30, 2007

Well I’ve had this blog set-up for months now so I better go ahead and use it, eh? The idea behind it (currently) is to not only use the site as a portfolio (in the future anyway) but also to document my progress from happy snapper to professional photographer or is that just a better happy snapper. :-) Hopefully this’ll help me, as well as anyone else foolish enough to read this, while gaining some expertise in photography and photo-manipulation.
I’ve eager pursue a more creative area.  I have two avenues, should I concentrate in getting back into pencil drawing or perhaps into my new interest, photography? I’ve not drawn anything in anger since college and nothing of importance since school (ooh 14 years ago now) but I’m a far better artist than I am a photographer right now so you think I would go down the drawing route, right? Wrong. Photography has surprisingly grabbed a hold on me recently. I’ve never taken an interest in the art, never looked at a photo and thought ‘hey, that’s a really well taken picture’. It’s all changed and now love looking at photography and taking pictures myself. It’s something I feel I can progress with and perhaps take into a future career. Drawing can wait a little bit longer, I know I can draw I just need to be taught the proper technique. What I could do later is combine both photography and drawing by taking photos then reproducing them on a piece of paper. One way or the other, I certainly hope to get some enjoyment out of finding my artistic roots again.

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