Learning with the Fang

UPDATE:
Simon Hackett’s electric car (see example 3 below) finally on the road for the first (and limited) time. Have fun Simon, I’m sure when people see your car and tell the story that minds will be changed wrto electric vehicles (EV). UPDATE 2, Nov 2009 – Simon has just published the results of his trip [...]

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Today I ended my many year relationship with Apple ‘mobile me’ (or .mac or me.com). Which is a pity because I really wanted it to work. The point of this post is not to bitch, moan or complain but to help me grieve and possibly suggest some small changes Apple could make to improve their [...]

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Once again, the digital photography school has inspired me. My first experiment involved creative use of flash, this one the technique of camera pan.

Start with a slow moving vehicle.

Get in close to the action.

Then on to the racetrack (OK, behind the mesh fence)Note the nice straight lines formed by panning smoothly along the square-mesh fence.

Not [...]

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I just voted YES in the messenger press poll asking if housing development should be allowed on Glenthorne farm. I hope you will to. WHY? – because I think funding of the University of Adelaide’s ambitious woodland recovery initiative should take priority.
Select “yes” on the Guardian Messenger’s online poll (just under the main headline section) [...]

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I usually HATE using flash on photos – always seems to ruin any sense of mood or feeling in my pictures. But then I read an excellent tutorial over on the digital photography school about ‘Darkening with Light’.  Inspired by the images that seem to have no background whatsoever, and interested in the notion of [...]

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