PhotoshopScaresMe
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My bikini pic on 268 websites!
Back in 2007 I snapped the above picture on a beach in San Francisco. The model was taking part in a professional shoot, there were photographers, lighting people, makeup artists, hair specialists, all sorts of trades randomly milling about, when this cyclist barreled through the scene. His neck was craned so far behind him, I…
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Glamour N Grime – Published Photo
As Robbie Williams said when EMI purchased his music, “I’m rich beyond my wildest dreams!” That’s right, the Austrian Tourist Board just PAID me, so they can use a shot I took a while ago, as an advert to encourage people to visit, and to hike in their country. Of course, the slight difference between…
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Tutorial: HDR Scary Tree
Let’s try something new. Here’s a nice picture of a scary tree guarding a sleeping princess. Wanna know how I took the shot from this bland image to the dark image above? Watch the tutorial and enjoy!
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Reaching for you
I recently went for a stroll in a very damp, tumbling down forest. The whole thing looked like something from a movie. I think there were even those strange slithering creatures just out of sight. The recent storms clearly were encouraging everything to grow at a startling rate. That and die, and rot, and transmute…
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Stars and Fireworks – 3x Published Picture!
I love this picture. I took it a while back on the beach in Santa Cruz, while surrounded by high kids asking “hey man, that’s cool. What ya doin? Wanna smoke with us?”. It’s actually two spins that meshed together nicely – one towards the camera, the other perpendicular. It’s somewhat unusual in that I…
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Fully Armed – Showing the tools
This is the second shot made with the same tool as Taking Aim. There’s some differences, firstly I rewired (plug n play) the inner light so that it was blue. Then I added an child’s umbrella to cover my face and add an extra dimension. This is the straight-out-of-camera shot. Click for the large view.…
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The Coming Storm
Deanna and I hiked Mission Peak again. Thanks to the clocks springing forward we made it all the way to the top and some of the way down before it became necessary to use flash-lights. For once, we also got to see the sunset. The bad news was that the storm was coming in fast.…
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Tumeric Balloon Pop – Published Picture!
Once in a while, hopefully like everyone else (I’m not freak, honest Ma!), I ego surf. And today I discovered that my photo of a water balloon going pop is featured in Business Insider. I’m both very happy and very sad. Happy that they rate my picture. Sad the buggers don’t pay (or generate link-backs).…
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Perfect Moon Landing
Some people are smarter than me. I know it. I’m ok with it. The way I see the world, we all have our role. Steven from Star Circle Academy and Phil McGrew are two such people. They worked out that if you stood in just the right spot, at just the right time, on just…
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[updated] Apple TV Users: Don’t upgrade to iTunes 10.6
Apple really are a bunch of bastards. When the Apple TV was first launched, along with FrontRow, it was a great place to view movies and TV shows you’d ripped from DVD. Then Apple started selling movies and shows and they changed the interface for stuff you owned to be just that little bit less…
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Suicide is Painless
I found myself in a hotel room, sightly drunk of course, with nothing to do. Handily, I’d lugged a flash and some EL wire along for the ride, and to bastardize the Hitchhiker‘s quote “you’re never alone with EL wire”. My weird mind led me to the conclusion that I should spend the evening trying…
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Smoking and Drinking – Published Picture!
My pictures are being used in odd places. I took the above picture a while ago. There’s quite the story associated with it, which you can read over on my Flickr if you’re so inclined. Anyway, I facetiously called the picture “smoke and drinking is cool kids”. Mostly I did it to piss off my sister…
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