Day 8

8 / 365 – With all this rain we’ve had over Christmas my front lawn is now full of these Onion Weed flowers….at least that’s what I think they’re called.
I’m hoping we get a couple of dry days shortly because I really need to mow the lawn.
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Day 7

7 / 365 – Ferrero Rocher and a James Estate Sauvignon Blanc, it’s a hard life.
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Day 6

6 / 365 – It’s been a rainy couple of days in Newcastle, which is kind of sucky considering I’m on holidays, however I still managed to get out and shoot a few photos.
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Day 5

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Day 5

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Day 4

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Day 4

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Day 3

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Day 3

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Day 2

2 / 365 – Day 2 of my 365 project, and I think photos similar to this will be fairly common in my 365, Travis is way too cute and too easy to take photos of.
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Day 1

1 / 365 – Day 1 of my 365 project, and of my holidays….so where am I? I’m at work doing stocktake.
Fun Fun!
We installed a new Point Of Sales (POS) system at work late this year and seeing as we were starting from scratch we had to spend a lot of time creating …

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Project 365, the beginning

Tomorrow I’m starting a 365 Project. For those who aren’t familiar with the concept, basically I’m shooting at least a photo a day for 365 days. At this stage I’m not picking a particular theme for the whole 365, however I may have ‘theme weeks’ throughout …

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Some more baby photos

Snapped a couple of quick photos just as Travis was waking up this morning, he’s pretty cute…even if I do say so myself.


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Some more baby photos

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WordPress 2.9 and Thesis 1.6

I just updated the WordPress engine here on my blog and so far it looks like it’s completely compatible with the Thesis Theme v1.6. Time to upgrade all my blogs now!
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WordPress 2.9 and Thesis 1.6

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Photo Retouching

I
‘ve been playing around with some photo retouching tutorials trying to learn a bit more stuff, improve my technique, etc.
Here’s a couple of before and after photos from an old shoot with a model from Model Mayhem, April. Basically I’ve done some skin …

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Cockatoo, or two

Shot these photos in the backyard this evening while these birds proceeded to dismantle the tree.

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Cockatoo, or two

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iinet’s typos are awesome!

Ok, I’ve fallen in love with BoB. BoB is the new Belkin VOIP phone come wifi dsl router that iinet is currently promoting.
Anyway, I sent off a contact form on iinet’s website asking about it and seeing if it was possible to churn from our current Optus dsl over to …

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Moving hosts is like moving house, painful and frustrating at best!

For a while now I haven’t been happy with my hosting at Media Temple. I have a Dedicated Virtual (DV) account with them, as well as a Grid Service (GS) account, and host this blog, I’m With The Band, and the Newcastle Coffee Mornings website on it.
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Philadelphia Cream Cheese & Chives on an English Muffin

This is my favourite breakfast at the moment, and it’s somewhat healthy too.
Toast a muffin, top it with a load of Extra Light Philadelphia Cream Cheese spread, top liberally with Chives (cut fresh from the herb garden), and then eat. Wash it down with a big glass …

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Amazon Kindle Firmware 2.3 out now!

Just a few minutes ago my Amazon Kindle went into update mode, and what do you know…….I got the new firmware update with Adobe PDF support! Now the Kindle is even more useful than before because I can put all my photography, web design, and blogging related ebooks …

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Apple Black Friday Deals, what can we expect?

A
s ‘Black Friday’ rapidly approaches there is more and more speculation as to what we can expect from Apple’s Black Friday Sales. Some of the savings are reported to be as much as 25% off of all Mac Hardware, ie. MacBooks, MacBook Pro’s, Mac Minis, etc. while …

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Kindle firmware update

J
ust read this on TechCrunch “Additionally, the Kindle will now support Adobe’s PDF format natively”
So basically it’s drag and drop for ebooks in pdf format. I have so many web design and photography ebooks, so this is huge news for me!
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Apple Magic Mouse

I
just bought a new Apple Magic Mouse. I think this is possibly the best mouse I’ve ever used. It feels fantastic in the hand, the multi-touch and gesture controls are fantastic (specially if you familiar with gestures on an Apple laptop), and being bluetooth …

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