“No matter what you do, your passion will always prevail”
I have always loved the HDR photos that seem to be getting more and more popular, and have always wanted to have a go at it. So after a few false starts, and a new lens for my Canon 7D, here are a couple of attempts of HDR images from Wentworth Falls in Australia's Blue Mountains.
And of the...
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A few months back, I travelled to Thailand for business. And I think like most people, I normally don't pay too much attention to the conversion rates when exchanging money, other than it feels like I am being taken to the cleaners. But this instance was interesting, as it was a fully paid trip, I did convert soe currency just in...
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I took the Toxic Lux Pipes to get them Ceramic Coated (which helps keep the pipes cooler) and I needed to re-wrap them with Heat Wrap. In a previous post I talked about the cracked pipe, probably from the heat wrap, but that was fixed. Basically the pipe had to be re-welded, then coated in Black Ceramic, and I then picked them up and...
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I have been thinking about getting a fixie (fixed gear push bike) for a while now, and then the other day it dawned upon me!! I have an old bike from when I was 19 years old that I could convert. Now when I say old, it doesn't mean its crap. In fact for its time, it was kick arse!!! Bike frame is Columbus SLX built by Jim Bundy. Jim Bundy built great bikes in the 80's & 90's, he is a real character and now...
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After much frustration, I finally got my Virgin Mobile Huawai E160e modem to work on my MacBook Pro!!! And although it shouldn't be that difficult, there is one quirk that I needed to do to make it work. UPDATE: I have now used this solution on 2 different Macbook Pros; a 15" 3.06 Core 2 Duo and now my new 15" 2.6GHz i7. Firstly, you don't need the Virgin Connect application that comes with the modem, in...
Read Moretheimpossiblecool.tumblr.com Some of the most awesome portrait photos!
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Boys have been begging me to take them fishing for some time now. We have gone a few times with no success, and they were pretty determined to catch something. So, yesterday was the day, weather was warm, and we were ready to fish. First stop, bait shop and $8 worth of blood worms. The theory being that if we catch nothing, at least they can poke the worms around a bit After going through almost nearly all the worms and not even...
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About 10 years ago, a good friend of mine introduced me to cigar smoking. I have never been a cigarette smoker, but I always enjoyed the smell of cigars. There was an aroma to them that is quite pure, exotic and distant. To smoke a cigar usually meant great company, great conversation and a great location. For a time, I could tell you about some of the events that occurred around certain cigars (That has obviously changed with too many...
Read MoreI recently had to move my mobile account around (long story), so I decided I want to try Virgin Mobile out. I had 4 mobile phones (family and friends) that I needed to move, and I wanted to get a wireless broadband account. It all started reasonably harmless, and I ran into a few issues that although they were a pain, I did expect them. Just by the nature of the fact that I have now succumbed to just accepting that all Telcos are pathetic...
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