The crane

A bit noisy. Might need to fix it with Neatimage.

A moon shot

Because everyone is in love with the moon.

Print your Photos

I just had 7 of the best photos I've taken in 3 years printed yesterday. Normally I've been content in just looking at them on my monitor and posting them in online galleries but now, looking at these 5x7.5 prints, I felt something stirring in me. I suddenly felt proud of my photos. I wanted to show them to everyone, to show them what I see through my eyes, to let them know how beautiful the world still is. This is what the first photographers must have felt, the joy of seeing a moment captured on a piece of paper. Monitors just do not give pictures justice.

So print your photos and let the magic begin.

Just google it.

Meggy

Nikon D40 - sb-28x (bounced) - edited with gimp

Daddy's boy

From batch 2

Milo and one of the 2nd batch of Dara's kittens. Used a Speedlite sb-28x that Boggsi lent me. External flashes are way, way better than onboard flash!

Template issues

It seems that this blog (created in firefox) was not being processed properly in Internet Explorer. The temporary fix has been applied. Sorry about that.

My favorite colors

San Agustin Church

Experimenting with photomapping

I'm experimenting with photomapping using GIMP. It's easy to use yet produces eye popping photos. It's also easy to overdo the process, producing exaggerated photos.

Sample photo


Normal:

using gimp HDR:

using gimp HDR and and a little tweaking:

which is better?