BBC - Radio 1 - Red Nose Day 2009
February 27, 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.
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The Tonbridge Squirrel
February 25, 2009
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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
I’ve completed creating prints on my store page at deviantART. Read more
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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
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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
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Link round-up for 17-18th May 2008
May 19, 2008
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Link round-up for 14th May 2008
May 14, 2008
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Link round-up for 12th May 2008
May 13, 2008
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Link round-up for 10th May 2008
May 11, 2008
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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
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Link round up for 4th May 2008
May 5, 2008
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Link round-up for 27th April 2008
April 28, 2008
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Links round-up for 19th April 2008
April 20, 2008
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Link round-up for 20th April 2008
April 20, 2008
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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
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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
I’ve started to create a list of future implementations to the site and the Squashy Frog Photography ‘project’ as a whole. The list looks something like this: Read more
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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
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Up on the farm
March 5, 2008
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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
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A morning walk in Kent
February 25, 2008
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Boxham Tree HDR
February 15, 2008
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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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