Merry Christmas 1998
Geese always played an important role at Christmas.
By Sarah Keen.
By Sarah Keen.
The lovely Alexa Allure wearing a cheongsam dress and listening to the world on a 1981 vintage Sony ICF 2001 multiband receiver. Back in the day, Sony used to be one of the market leaders in shortwave radios. Its big selling feature was the continuous AM band that covered all the standard LF, MF and…
Our Floureon PTZ (pan tilt and zoom) external IP camera has shipped a bit of water. It lives on the south west corner of the building and gets battered by the strong south westerly prevailing winds we have here. Problem is the cost of the repair often exceeds the second hand market value of the…
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format for images has served us well for nearly three decades. But is is essentially a 1990’s format. Today we have better ways of compressing images. The most popular currently is Google’s WEBP (Web Picture) Format. Many modern websites use WebP as its default format for uploaded images that it…
Today we took another trip to Tai O on Lantau – the strange village on stilts.
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…
These are a few infrared snaps using studio lighting. I also took a couple more snaps of my old Wray Stereographic 3D camera. With many thanks to my friend and model Estella Rose who posed for the infrared images in the above gallery.