February 7th, 2010
deviantART as got to be one of the nicest social networks ever. It remembered my deviantART registration anniversary. Today marks one year since I first signed up, and looking back, it has been the most rewarding social network I’ve ever been on.
Twitter hasn’t really given me much in terms of input. I just give out, and out, and out. And I am greeted with a general silence.
Various forums have never been very good either. Then again, I’ve never really immersed myself in any of them. I usually only join out of necessity.
and facebook, what can I say about facebook. Facebook, is still a joke. From the games to the groups to the millions of people screaming for a dislike button. (It will never happen)
deviantART has been the only network which I’ve really gotten into, and it has been worth it. It has given some great feedback which has helped me grow as a designer and a photographer. More than that, just seeing mountains of other peoples photos and designs have been great for inspiration and goals.
To illustrate this, just take a look at the first photo I ever submitted. Sunlight through the Trees Overexposed, overly natural colours and overly generic.
and then one of my latest. Yellow Awe
It isn’t hard to see that I’ve gotten better. I’ve still got a long way to go, but at least I’m on the right track. Which is good.
So anyway,
Thank you to everyone who supported me by commenting on my artworks. It has been awesome!
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February 6th, 2010

The recent rain in Sydney has been fun to photograph. Took this shot while balancing an umbrella in one hand, and my camera in another.
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January 31st, 2010
Previously, embed design was a static site. Whenever I wanted to update a new artwork, I would have to go through a tiresome process of editing the HTML manually. Each month, I would have to create a new index.htm and shift the old pages back, editing the navigation as I went along. The more months went by, the more pages I would have to annoyingly edit each month. It was an exponential process which, given time, would compile to an infinitely insurmountable task.
I knew, that like all other versions of embed-design.com, I would eventually grow tired of these constant static changed, and leave my site desolate in a dark corner of the vast interwebs.
Enter, Wordpress.
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January 30th, 2010

An old military bunker on the south head of Sydney harbor. The product of some night photography with friends. This time was more successful despite the intermittent rain.
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January 30th, 2010

While at the Australia Day celebrations, I went into the botanical gardens. They had a section with a heap of bamboo which people had written things on.
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January 30th, 2010

This was taken at the same time as Yellow Awe (below) Im quite happy with how the water droplets came out.
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January 30th, 2010

While on holidays in Shoal Haven Heads, I saw and managed to photograph this amazing sunset.
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January 30th, 2010

One thing I forgot to mention, is that I got a brand new tripod! I did want to get a manfrotto, but sadly, it was just gonna be too expensive for what I wanted. So I decided to go with an Optex tripod. It looks pretty good quality and has a pistol grip head. Furthermore, take out the middle leg/thing and it stretches out to a monopod! Anyway, we were fishing just after sundown and I decided to pull out my tripod and try out some water long exposures.
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January 30th, 2010

I was at my Uncles apartment with my cousin Sam in Manly a few weeks ago. Noticed there was actually going to be a sunset over the water because of the position we were in. So the cameras came out pretty quick and we were off. (I think this was the second time in my life that I’ve ever seen a sunset over the water.)
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January 30th, 2010

Went to the shops with some friends for lunch today. We found this really random space with these two seats. It’s a pity the quality isn’t very good. I tried my best to minimise blur.
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