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Went for a dive on Saturday on Quicksilver’s Silversonic to Agincourt Reef, Great Barrier Reef. The underwater visibility was around 14m and there was a bit of sediment in the water, but managed to get a couple of images and video shot with my Canon Powershot G10.
PRESS -RELEASE, 21 Jan 2010 :- Frans Lanting, hailed as one of the world’s greatest nature photographers, will visit Sydney in March to run his first-ever Australian photographic seminars.
Sydney is one of only two destinations the Netherlands-born, US-based photographer will visit while he is in the country – the other being the Central Coast. Lanting will also exhibit a range of his visually arresting images at the Ken Duncan Galleries at Sydney and Erina Heights while he is here. The free exhibition will run from 10am-5pm daily from March 12-15 at the Erina Heights Gallery (414 The Entrance Road, Erina Heights), and from 10am-6pm daily from March 18-22 at the Sydney Gallery (73 George Street, The Rocks).
Lanting, whose Australian visit is being hosted by landscape photographer Ken Duncan, has documented wildlife and the natural world from the Amazon to Antarctica for three decades to promote understanding about the Earth and its natural history. His work is prolific and appears in books, magazines and exhibitions around the world and is frequently commissioned by National Geographic, where he served as Photographer-in-Residence.
Confined to the office today while waiting for the next cyclone to hit, I decided to update some images on one of my commercial websites. Browsing various microstock sites, I was struck by the variation of image quality and lack of creative content.
I decided to update some of the images on one of my commercial websites, as they no longer represented the message I was trying to convey, and set about trawling the microstock web for replacements.
I started by searching around some of the free microstock sites such as Stock.Xchng, Stock Vault, and Dreamstime Free Stock.
There were a couple of good images in the free stock collections, but in most cases the variety of images is small and the quality is pretty poor.
It’s Friday with a long holiday weekend coming up and a cyclone heading our way, so motivation to do any work is low. I hate sitting around doing nothing so it’s a day to do little things and try to achieve something.
Well its Friday….. and motivation to do any work is low. When I worked in an office in the past, no one did any work on a Friday. They say never buy a car built on a Monday or a Friday, as there is a higher risk of something being wrong with it.
Tuesday next week is the national Australia Day holiday, so three quarters of the country is taking a sick day on Monday to make it a 4 day long weekend, despite pleas from the Prime Minister who claims it will damage the economy.
I normally go for a dive when I get in this type of mood. However, ex-cyclone Neville is heading this way and sturring things up. Dive visibility has gone from 16m to 6 m overnight, the wind is picking up to 35 knots, and the clouds are dumping the occasional amounts of heavy rain.
The internet is a very different experience on a slow connection, as I was reminded when I ran over my wireless data allowance recently and was limited to 64 kbps. The art of optimizing page download speed seems to have been lost, but there is hope on the horizon.
The usage indicator on my BigPond wireless broadband account has been broken since November 2009. There is some kind of server problem accessing the information for my account. I have a request in with BigPond technical support to fix it, but in the meantime I am not able to tell how much data I have used.
Last month I ran over my 10GB allowance due to having to reinstall Abode Creative Suites and eLearning Suite twice. They did not load correctly the first time, and each reinstall came with an 850MB update download…..Ouch!!!….. It must be time for CS5 release.
Went for a dive on Wednesday on Quicksilver’s Silversonic to Agincourt Reef, Great Barrier Reef. The underwater visibility was around 10-12m and there was a bit of sediment in the water, but managed to get a couple of images and some video shot with my Canon Powershot G10.
Giant clam – tridacna gigas – Agincourt Reef, Great Barrier Reef
(Also available at: Shutterstock, CanStockPhoto, BigStockPhoto, 123RF, Dreamstime, iStockPhoto)
I was listening to some podcasts and contemplating the previous year and the year ahead.
Came across this video on Scott Kelbys blog by Atlanta music photographer Zack Arias, and even though it was posted in February 2009, it is quite profound in what it has to say heading into 2010.
The Australian government has announced it will press on with its controversial plan to implement mandatory ISP-level internet filtering, after declaring the pilot trial a success.
Obviously there’s a lot of outrage at the government’s decision to plough ahead with its plans.
Some limits, like child pornography are obvious, but moving to a mandatory ISP filtering regime which includes politically controversial sites like pro-euthanasia sites, the Government will be stifling debate about these topics by restricting access to the sides of the argument they disagree with.
Back in May when the ACMA blacklist leaked to Wikileaks, it was made clear that only 32% of blocked sites were related to child porn. The other 68% included legitimate sites, YouTube videos and political sites.
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