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Vue 9 Sea Monster
Friday, December 3rd, 2010Last night I started messing around with a picture I was messing around with in Vue 7. I was never 100% happy with the lighting of the original. The monster was too visible – I wanted it to be lurking and menacing. Now Vue 9 has the wonderful new relighting feature so I made a […]
Fiddling with Pictures
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010I’ve been fiddling with my pictures pages because it gets quite a lot of visits when there is snow and in the run up to Christmas. I’ve found a jQuery lightbox that doesn’t seem to be cursed with lots of problems with bad paths. I’ve also written a little display plug-in to add a thumbnail […]
British Museum Great Court Roof
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010On my visit to London on the way to Dragonmeet I went into the British Museum to have a look at the Great Court Roof. The roof was designed by Foster and Partners its an iconic piece of recent architecture. This picture is of part of it around an hour before sunset catching the low, […]
Pelgrane talk at Dragonmeet 2010
Monday, November 29th, 2010The following notes come from the seminar at Dragonmeet (27th November 2010) by Kenneth Hite, Robin D Laws, Simon Rogers and Gareth Hanrahan. I didn’t record the talk so these are just notes that I took that give the gist of what was being said. They’re also only the notes about investigative gaming. I’m providing […]
Dragonmeet 2010 Convention Report
Sunday, November 28th, 2010So I finally made it to Dragonmeet, its taken me a few years but this time I did it. My planning fu was weak so I’d not decided to go till quite late on so I was staying four miles from Kensington and eight from the centre of London. This did mean I got to […]
Icicles on my Dustbin
Sunday, November 28th, 2010Photograph: Icicles on my wheelie bin in Liverpool this evening!
The Cartoon Museum: Ink and the Bottle and The Wellcome Trust: High Society
Saturday, November 27th, 2010On my way to Dragon meet 2010 in London I decided to visit a couple of exhibitions on the way by chance both had a similar theme – Ink and the Bottle at the The Cartoon Museum and High Society at The Wellcome Collection. The Cartoon Museum: Ink and the Bottle Not the largest museum […]
MPI Resolution Docked in Liverpool
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010I’d gone down to the waterfront to take some photograph today and discovered the MPI Resolution was docked on the Mersey at the cruise liner terminal. If a ship could ever be described as an impressive piece of kit this one has to be in the running to get that description. The six towers are […]
Quiet because Too Many New Toys
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010If it seems like I’ve gone quite quiet here its because I’m playing with new toys. First of all I’ve been getting to grips with Vue 9 Infinite with its excellent new features. Re-lighting is a wonderful enhancement and is a massive time saver for me. Texture resizing is also a massive time saver for […]
Chavasse Park Ride
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010Over the last few days a giant column has risen from Chavasse Park in Liverpool One. Tonight the ride that goes up it swung into action for the first time. We can just hear the screams from our office. It seemed like a good subject for having a go at some night photography. This is […]