Posts for August 2004 (10 entries)

Seagulls

29th August 2004, early afternoon | Comments (34)

A photo of two seagulls on a roof.

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Rubber ducks

29th August 2004, early afternoon | Comments (24)

A photo of some rubber ducks at the San Mateo County Fair.

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San Mateo County Fair

28th August 2004, lunch time | Comments (21)

Last weekend The Girlfriend and I decided to get out the city and do something different. We scanned sfgate.com and saw that the San Mateo County Fair was on, and since San Mateo is an easy drive away, thought we’d check it out.

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Back in America

27th August 2004, lunch time | Comments (24)

Well, well, I have some catching up to do here, don’t I? No-one seems to know where I am, or what I’m doing, so here’s a quick recap before I go on to post some more technical stuff…

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Facts from Oliver Letwin

10th August 2004, early evening | Comments (64)

Here are some interesting facts that our local MP (and Shadow Chancellor), Oliver Letwin, pointed out in The Daily Telegraph…

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Bowling over 200

6th August 2004, early evening | Comments (27)

I meant to mention this a while back, but on the fourth of July The Girlfriend and I went bowling, in Daly City. I’d only been 10-pin bowling about six times in my life, so I was rather pleased to come up with a score like this in Game 1…

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Swallows and Frogs

5th August 2004, evening time | Comments (23)

I let the dog out for a poo this afternoon, and thought I’d try to photograph the Swallows that were swooping and diving around the garden while I was there.

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The Shadow/Highlight tool in Photoshop CS

4th August 2004, mid-afternoon | Comments (33)

In Photoshop CS (and CS only) go to: Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight and have a play with the menu that appears. Using this tool you can pull quite a lot of detail from the dark and light extremes of your photos (not that it always results in a better image, of course) without disrupting the overall balance of the picture…

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28 years ago today

3rd August 2004, lunch time | Comments (65)

Ahem… it’s my birthday.

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A walk in the sun

2nd August 2004, late at night | Comments (16)

We’ve had such beautiful weather here recently that I thought I’d take the dog for a walk across the fields. My much-neglected camera accompanied us, so you could see Poppy, and the English countryside, in action…

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