Category: Photography

BarCampLondon7 was awesome

Oct 26
Posted on October 26, 2009 13:44 in Events, Photography

So we did it. We ran another BarCampLondon. It was awesome and it would have been impossible without all the organisers, volunteers, IBM people, catering, and most of all the attendees.

It’s sad it’s over already but at least we still have the photos.

More Histograms!

Mar 10
Posted on March 10, 2009 10:00 in Photography, Projects, Technology

I had to update my histogram service a little bit because apparently it wasn’t handling files  with spaces in it properly. I have to thank Jeroen Kluft for notifying me about this. Go and have a look at his site to see how he has been incorporating my histogram service into his own photo album. I think it’s pretty awesome!

histogram use example

Project 365 & 52 Themes – Week 5

Feb 13
Posted on February 13, 2009 19:25 in Photography, Projects

It’s time for a roundup of week 5 of my photo challenges.

This week the theme was “Abstracts” and I again decided to pick one of my 7 daily submissions as the entry for the theme. Here they are in order.

Day 29 – Lost in Traffic

Day 29 - Lost in traffic

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Project 365 & 52 Themes – Week 4

Feb 11
Posted on February 11, 2009 12:55 in Photography, Projects

It’s time for a roundup of week 4 of my photo challenges. It’s a bit late because I was mainly busy trying to find a new place to live.

This week the theme was “Natural World” and I again decided to pick one of my 7 daily submissions as the entry for the theme. Here they are in order.

Day 22 – The sum of all parts

Day 22 - The sum of all parts

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Project 365 & 52 Themes – Week 3

Jan 27
Posted on January 27, 2009 7:00 in Photography, Projects

It’s time for a roundup of week 3 of my photo challenges.

This week the theme was “The Rule of Thirds” and I again decided to pick one of my 7 daily submissions as the entry for the theme. Here they are in order.

Day 15 – Track Workers

Day 15 - Track Workers

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Project 365 & 52 Themes – Week 2

Jan 16
Posted on January 16, 2009 23:25 in Photography

It’s time for a roundup of week 2 of my photo challenges. 

This week the theme was ”Creative Colors” and I again decided to pick one of my 7 daily submissions as the entry for the theme. Here they are in order.

Day 8 – Early Nights

Day 8 - Early Nights

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Project 365 & 52 Themes – Week 1

Jan 7
Posted on January 7, 2009 23:43 in Photography

So it’s time for a roundup of week 1 of my photo challenges. I decided to participate in two challanges this year, one being the Project365 where I will take and upload one photo a day for 365 days, the other the 52 Themes challenge where I will be taking a photo in a different theme every week.

This week the theme was “New Beginnings” and I decided to pick one of my 7 daily submissions as the entry for the theme. Here they are in order.

Day 1 – Happy New Year 

Also my submission to the 52 Themes challenge.

Day 1 -  Happy New Year
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My Geeky New Year’s Resolutions

Jan 5
Posted on January 5, 2009 22:13 in Movies, Offline, Photography, Projects

I know I could write down some traditional new year’s resolutions like last year, but everyone knows (and nobody cares) that I need to eat more healthy, sport more, etc, etc.

So here are some of my more geeky new years resolutions for this year.

  • Project365: Take a photo a day, for a year. Sounds easy, but obviously ego gets in the way and I want to produce nice photos every day. I’m now on day 5 (1 to 4 are here) and still haven’t produced a nice photo yet today so I better hurry up. My photos will all show up on my Flickr stream and in a weekly brief here on my blog. Have a look at the Flickr group for more people’s submissions.
  • 52 Themes: Quite similar to Project365, this project has set the target to motivate photographers to submit one photo in a certain theme every week, for 52 weeks in a row. I willprobably be picking one of my 7 daily photos as my weekly pick every time but I might have an eight photo instead. I will probably post this photo to my blog too but also have a look at the group for other people’s submissions. This week’s topic is “new beginnings”.
  • 52 Movies from the IMDB Top 250: We noticed we had seen very little of the IMDB Top 250 movies (both around 30%). As movie lovers we couldn’t have this obviously so we have now handpicked 52 from the Top 250 movies and we will watch these in the next 52 weeks. More about this (including a list) in a future blog post.
  • Try Linux: I have never really gotten into Linux. The main reason for this is probably the fact that I’ve always ran Linux in a dual boot installation next to the OS that I was really using. This year I promise to somehow get a machine that I can run Linux on and use it as my workstation. I might get a netbook or some other small laptop, or maybe I will install Linux on my MacBook and just wipe OS X. Whatever I will do, I pledge I will give Linux a fair change.