February 9th, 2010
After owning a decent SLR camera for about 6 months now, I’ve been observing the kind of mental stages I’ve gone through since getting it. It’s very interesting seeing how I’ve gone from complete excitement and confidence to a bit of a slump where I start to think that maybe forking out $900 for a 1000D wasn’t such a good idea.
It really all started a year ago, on a family holiday in New Zealand. With such awesome land and waterscapes passing us by every single day, it was hard not to try and capture some of it on camera. Of course back then, all I had was a Kodak point and shoot, or as I called it, the point and pray. So with that clutched in… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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January 30th, 2010
This was taken at the same time as Yellow Awe (below) I’m quite happy with how the water droplets came out. Continue reading
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January 30th, 2010
While on holidays in Shoal Haven Heads, I saw and managed to photograph this amazing sunset Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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.) Continue reading
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