Break in the storm clouds

Victoria, and particularly Melbourne, is renowned for damatic weather changes, and last weekend just further proved the legend. Such rapid changes in the weather do produc dramatic skies, and if you don't mind getting wet occasionally such times can be perfect to get some moody photos.

Another Wallpaper in a breeze

A stiff off-shore breeze and some good surf gave me the perfect ingrediants to make yet another screen wallpaper. I used corel photo brush filters to enhace the muti-exposure composite (see post below) for the background, my olympus camedia software to add the background for icons and corel paint to assemble everything.

Multi-exposure Collage

I have been following the flight of gulls on the beach, as a mini-photo assignment this week and was mucking around with this series.

When I discovered it made a mneat ultiple-exposure collage created with Picasa

Yet another panorama

Yet another panorama looking towards Wilson's Prom

Visitors to the beach

One good tern, deserves ...

The Setting Sun

A Superb Blue Wren comes to inspect

Creating a Screen Wallpaper

This image returns to a theme I have explored before, lone foot prints on the sand, with some good results. The silver light nicelt fitted the norah jones song which begins "sSummer days are gone too soon."

Wallpaper Summer 1,
originally uploaded by imageo.

My Olympus camedia software (it came with my camera) has a neat ability to overlay part of the image with a pattern to act as a good background for you icons.

Wallpaper Summer 2,
originally uploaded by imageo.

I then added some of the sea gull sereies using Corel Photo-Paint and slitghtly feathering the edges. If you like the resukts you can click on the image to the left and this will take you to my flickr account. Click on the small All sizes Icon (a magnifying glass). You can then either download the large size, by clicking on the lick of right click and select the set as background option

Overcoming the Delay

Photographing birds in flight can be easier than you imagine with a digital camera

It usually does not long before the new owner of a digital camera realises ther ia a serious problem with their camera. The delay between the time you press the shutter button and the actual time when the photo is taken. It is frequently seconds, even on good cameras. The explaination is it takes time to focus, time to read the lighting and even time to charge up the CCD light senor. Yes those reasons are trues but you can easily overcome these by using multi-shot mode. Here the camera just sets up the light reading and focus on the first shoot and then if you keep you finger on the button, the caera will keep taking shoots at regular intervals (this interval may even be definable on your camera). Multi-mode is usually found somewhere on most digital camera menus either as the code MLT or as an icon showin series of overlaping rectangles.

Photographing these sea gulls was relative ease, After setting my camera to multi-shot mode I watched as the gulls flew towards me, focused and pressed and held the button as they passed over head. My camera takes one frame approximately every second which gives me a great series.

The Importance of Disguise

Sometimes you need to hide, sometimes you don't




for photofriday topic :Disguise

coucher du soleil

  

Tropical Abstraction

 

My reason for taking this particular photo was to create a composition of the hard geometry of the building behind with the soft and colourful light in the tree in the forground. 

Last light

 

The end of the day comes very quickly at the end of the day and magnificent lightly affect just last minutes, even seconds 

Success :: Summer Sunset

Marking the end of a successful day, a golden glow over Venus Bay

for photofriday topic :Success

Mt.Isa Skyline

Rural Patchwork

Photo Friday :: Panorama

The assembled Panorama (looking towards wilson's prom)

The following 10 images where spliced together to create this panoramic image. As with most wide landscape fornats you really need to see it larger to appreciate it fully, you can click on the image to see a larger version). I have an olympus camera, and you must also have an olympus memeory card, which helps autom,atically assemble a panoramtic sequence. when you take the sequence in panormanic mode; the camera viewfinder stows some help refence points for offsetting each image. Then the camedia software has a special auto panoramic feature thet matches up the photos. The maximum number of panes in the panorama for my camrea is 10.









for photofriday topic :Panorama

My Favourite Photos of 2005

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Originally uploaded by imageo.

There are a lot of "most viewed" photo challenges & posts of flickr (and infact friday photo also)... my most viewd on flickr is the footprints on the beach shot back in may.

Here are a few of my favorites

Someone is watching!

Its good to know, at least a few people are reading this blog, infact on average looking at a few other pages as well. Since all the hassles with blog spammers and the extra requirements to type in a verification word, seems to have dried up feedback.

The interesting part, well interesting to me, is the spread of viewers; this map shows the last 100 unique hits.



Thanks to all who have bothered to stop in and particularly those who have revisited

Email has reached my bar

Why do I look so happy?

A long term ambition of mine has been to be able to email from my bar. Well after reading a lot of uncomprehensible manuals, well more colour in style booklets, they might even be manga comics for all i can figure out. Digesting a lot of jargon and some crucial wikipedia searches to find out when to WAP and when to WEP. I finally have a wireless network runing, its an 802.11b Wi Fi network. Seems to work nice and fast, perfect for posting photos to blogger.

(So sorry if this sounds trivial to more network savy but it is a big deal for me)