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Proud

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

A while back, we spent a fun evening working as models for the lovely photographer/artist Jennifer Mason.  She came to our house with her partner and had us pose in a tableau-like manner for a variety of pretend situations.  One of these resulted in the shot below – the everyday story of a proud Dad snapping the favoured daughter with her medals while the bored/jealous sisters look on.

Proud © Jennifer Mason

This morning, we received a message from Jennifer:

Good news, I entered ‘Proud’ in the Waiheke Art Award.  Last night it opened.  And I won the Zini Douglas Merit Award, The Elizabeth Grierson Merit Award and I sold the work within 1/2 an hour of the show opening.

It is peculiar to think that a picture of us has been purchased by someone and may very well end up hanging in their house for other to look at.

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RSS feed as interpreted by Wordle

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

This blog’s RSS feed as interpreted by Wordle

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IronFish & Manna

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

On my last birthday, my wife gave me a beautiful IronFish Cross Pendant.  A month or so back, after a summer and autumn of harsh New Zealand sun, sea and showers, the leather thong snapped.

While I was in the Henderson Manna Store the other day (buying a reciprocal birthday present for my wife!), I happened to see the same pendant and mentioned to my daughter that it reminded me that I needed to get a new leather thong for mine.  The guy behind the counter overheard and asked if the pendant had been bought at the store.  When I said that it had, he immediately pulled the thong from a pendant on display and passed it to me, refusing all and any payment.

Thanks, Manna Henderson – great folk, great store!

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Finding God in the Shack

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Finding God in the Shack

Spotted whilst browsing in the local branch of Manna.

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funkypancake is on the move

Friday, August 14th, 2009

In late breaking news from the old country, dear friend and photoblogger extraordinaire Dave has announced his imminent relocation to New Zealand with his lovely family.

Following a scouting trip back last Easter, when the FP family stayed in our house while we were away, they have decided to move to Aotearoa.  Having trod the same path four years ago, we have been pleased to pass on what knowledge and experience we gleaned to David and Jane during their deliberations.

We look forward to seeing them in October!

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Spot on, Google Ads!

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
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Spot on, Google Ads!

Reading my friend funkypancake’s RSS feed  this morning, I was amused by how Google Ads eerily picked up on the word ‘cult’.

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South Island snaps

Friday, May 29th, 2009

I have finally found an hour or so to go through all my photos of our autumn family holiday to Te Wai Pounamu, New Zealand’s South Island.  While there were some real shockers amongst the hundreds of images, I have found 38 pictures that really sum up the two weeks we spent touring the island.  Enjoy and leave a comment either here or on Flickr.

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Planets in my house

Sunday, May 24th, 2009


After making a pair of tin can telephones and fooling around with them for a while, my youngest daughter were looking for other ways to spend time having fun together.

One of the photographs we took through the hole in one of the cans looked a little like a planet in space and Mum suggest we look for other ‘planets’ around the house.  I took the perforated tin lid, fixed it to the lens of my IXUS 850IS with a small ring of Blu-Tak and we set off round the house, finding textures to snap so we had lots of images of ‘planets’.

The four above are just a few of the many we experimented with.  You can see a few more of the better ones, including a ‘super nova’ and a ‘moon’ over a planet and gaseous flare over at bignoseduglyguyeye or Flickr.

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iPhoto Slideshow DVD

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Our youngest has been keen to make a movie of the photos I took on our recent South Island holiday so she can show them to her class and today the spindle of DVDs I got mail order finally turned up.

Having recently used her teacher’s laptop for a ‘show and tell’ about my job, I knew that simply burning the slideshow to CD or DVD wouldn’t guarantee that she’d be able to show it on the Windows laptop.  Likewise, having created a great slideshow in iPhoto 7, using the Ken Burns effect, the ‘droplet’ transition effect and a great worship track from iTunes, my daughter wasn’t keen on having to start recreating it all over again in iDVD.

A quick Google for ‘iphoto slideshow burn DVD’ lead me to the top ranked article Create a DVD of an iPhoto Slideshow at Basics4Mac, which has a great, easy to follow guide that helped us convert the slideshow to a QuickTime movie (.mov) file and burn it to a DVD-R inside ten minutes.

The results looked a little grainy on my 24″ iMac but great on our our medium-sized TV screen.

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Shake Your Tree Today

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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My desktop reflecting my OS X desktop displaying the blog post that prompted this blog post.  This impromptu posting was itself prompted by a tweet by my friend with a messy desk, Ian McKenzie which was itself prompted by idea no.18 in a post by Chase Jarvis.  That’s more than enough prompting for one day.

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