Archive for December, 2008:
Merry Christmas!
It’s that time of year again; waaay too much preparation for 24hrs of madness! :-D. I sincerely hope you enjoy yourselves wherever you are and whatever you do. Have a good time, kick back and relax and I’ll be back here in the new year. Cheers!
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Warning: Mild web geekery included in this post!
I’ve just upgraded the ‘engine’ behind this site to Wordpress 2.7, it was a smooth and relatively simple process. The benefits are largely for me, the site is more secure and easier to manage but there’s one thing that 2.7 brings that you may be interested in.
The gallery plugin I use is called NextGen Gallery by a very clever man called Alex Rabe. With the release of Wordpress 2.7 he’s released NextGen Gallery version 1 and with version 1 comes support for PicLens!…
Piclens? What? If you’ve not discovered it already I’d say have a look, it allows you to browse photos from supported sites like Flickr, Facebook and Picasa web galleries (and mine too!) in a seamless 3D wall that you can scroll with your mouse, no more clicking ‘next, next…’. Seriously, download it for your browser and check it out; for large photo collections it’s amazing!
Cheers
Fire!
This afternoon we went to the Medieval Christmas fayre at Norwich Cathedral, in the cloisters. A really low-stress and properly festive way to spend the afternoon, we enjoyed it as much as the kids! The highlight for everyone (except Max) was the fire breathing, fire poi spinning gang, doing their thing for everyone’s enjoyment. I, of course, was dragging a massive camera bag around and managed to grab a few frames from the proceedings!
Cheers!
Autumnal fun
I’m finally catching up with myself after a really busy spell and I’ve got a load of pics to go through here. These particular photos are from a shoot a few weeks back, when autumn was in full flow and the weather was on our side! The mid-morning light was a little flat when we started out so I used a bare flash with a 1/4 CTO (an orange gel that colours the light) to give a little ‘pop’ to the images. The girls were typical three year olds so the whole shoot was a movable circus, very lightweight and fluid! They had a super time playing in their garden with the leaves and didn’t pay me a lot of attention - I think we got some great images as a result.
I plan to do more of this type of shoot next year when the weather improves, if it’s something you’d be interested in, do let me know.
Sparing a thought…
I think we’re all news hardened to some extent, the media very rarely reports positive stories, preferring to spin the latest doom and gloom in new and inventive ways; the “credit crunch”, as a prime example.
Todays minor headline about the death of a conjoined twin at Great Ormond Street hospital struck a chord with me. For those of us unfortunate enough to need their incredible services they hold a special place in our thoughts, when a child is lost I can only wonder how the staff must feel. They deserve all the plaudits, thanks and recognition they receive, and more besides.
We spent time at GOSH in 2005, thankfully our story has a happy ending. However, I will never forget those terrible, dark days. I feel for the parents, and for those that did their level best for the twins but were denied.
It’s not true what they say, we ARE other people and things do happen…
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