What follows are not tips about how to take photographs. These are just my tips about submitting photographs into Gurushot challenges.

YouTube uses about one percent of the world's power.

Addicted to Heels. It would seem that the owner/editor of one of the sites on my Links page has stopped posting. The last post to the site was in May this year (2020).

Popanyinning Annual Bonfire, 2020.

Data collection, analysis, and visualisation site DOMO recently compiled and released version 8 of their “Data Never Sleeps” analysis and visualisation of Internet data.

The problem with smartphone cameras: Sensor Size

By and large, when you take into account the tiny imaging sensor that they use, the results from any smartphone (cell phone, mobile phone) camera made in the last five years or so—with a few exceptions—are amazing.

I think it must be at least three years since I watched the Twin Peaks series. Surely it must be time to watch it again?

HP announces their latest Spectre X360 model and it sounds like a great laptop computer for people like me who do a lot of work using photo editing tools.

Fifth and final post about my slide scanning project.

Base on my calculations—assuming I complete this project—it is likely that I will end up scanning somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 slides. The final number of slides scanned will depend on how strict I am about how many slides I scan from each packet.

The fourth part of my project to scan my slides.

After doing numerous test scans I decided to disable all of the remaining scanner settings.

Third post in my project to scan my 35mm slides.

In scanning my slides, the next setting I needed to think about was the bit depth for the colour.

The second post in relation to my slide scanning project.

The Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner allows for an optical resolution up to 6,400 dpi and a colour bit-depth of 24 or 48. A quick test scan at the 6,400 resolution with a bit depth of 48 produces a non-compressed TIFF file of around 260MB.

Part 1.

After years of thinking about it and looking at the various methods of doing it, I have finally actually started to work on scanning my hundreds of boxes of 35mm slides that I took before I ‘went digital’.

Earlsferry House is a carefully restored heritage-listed home built in 1902 that sits on an acre of land on the banks of the Swan River.

Old truck at the Riverbank Cafe/Winery.

As from the 1st of February (2020) I am trying out retirement.

A 2560x1440 wallpaper of a stunning “lady in red”.