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ByGarf created2006-12-02 23:592025-02-06 17:15 updated2025-02-06 17:15 Digital pictures, Journal, Photography, Road Trip, Travelogue

While I am in Wales, I thought I’d drive an extra few km to see my uncle in Brechfa.

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My computer won’t run Windows 11
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Fora all over the worldwide web are buzzing that Windows 10 reached end of life, c/w cries of “…but, but, my computer won’t run Windows 11“. Whatever shall we do? These fora offer various solutions, almost all involving using more proprietary products of the same large foreign IT corporation that caused this problem in the…

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A cameraless photography story for St Valentine’s Day…
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I had a studio photoshoot booked for last weekend. Unfortunately, my model was poorly and it was too late to book another. Consequently, I was in the unusual situation of actually having a free day, whilst also being in an experimental frame of mind. So I thought it might be rather good fun to try…

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120 year old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens, in action, on Portsdown Hill
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Regular readers may know that my 2023 Christmas project was to make this 120 year old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens fit on my µ4/3 cameras and actually capture some pictures with it. Unfortunately, at the time, the weather was too wet to take the thing outdoors. Fortunately by early January the weather became…

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LED Lights
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Ever since I was a kid, I have always been fascinated by LEDs (light emitting diodes). Back in those days you could only get red ones. Or green if you were very rich. Today they come in lots of colours and they are brilliant fun to use with a digital camera.

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Batch processing in GIMP
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In my early days of using GNU/Linux full time, we had an application called Gwenview. It was, and still is an excellent thumbnail viewer. But back then it also used to have an excellent set of plugins called KIPI. Sadly the really useful ones such as resizing and changing format completely disappeared when KDE 5…

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WebOnCD
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The WebOnCD concept concerns putting standard HTML (hypertext mark-up language) pages on a local removable disc such as a CD ROM or DVD. Simple WebOnCD publications are very easy to create. They require little previous programming experience, and no special software. Any text editor such as Notepad for Windows, KDE KWrite or Kate for GNU/Linux…

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