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I’ve been all the way through my old photo collection and picked out some stuff to adjust the colours, sharpen, line up, resize and upload. I’ve been pretty self-critical this time round, so some stuff that existed on the site isn’t present. It might be later, I don’t know.

It was pretty interesting to see the stuff I experimented with from the moment I started shooting to the stuff I did this summer. It’s only been a year and a half since I got my own camera, but it seems like longer. I currently have 2651 photos consuming 4.72GB on my hard drive, though some of them are duplicates, and some of them are just a blur or a black screen. I’m proud to say I’ve only ever deleted three photos, and that was because my memory card was full and I desperately wanted that last shot (no, it’s not on the site, it turned out rubbish). Why does this make me happy? Because it means I can remember things. We can’t yet take a photo of everything we see during our lifetime, but when I have my camera in my hand I stop for a lot of things. Often when I don’t have it I wish I did. I might see a funny situation (four hens sitting on a fence) or just something beautiful (the sun breaking through icicles hanging off a tree branch). Just now I can remember these situations as if they were a photo, but I cannot share them with you and I know I will forget them one day. So I keep those photos that I do have, even if they are only a blur.

You’ve probably found the link to the photo gallery already. It’s available on the right, or you can click here to go straight there. There’s also some funky preview things, but they might break on occasion as I tinker with them. Yes the layout on the gallery is still fairly basic (read: broken) but I needed some photos anyway to change the theming, so I thought I may as well upload them all at once so you could take a gander.

There are some new ones up there. Some of it is very old, but most of it is from the past summer (when I should have been building a website).

As a final, but serious note, I haven’t worked out a copyright system that works for me just yet, so at the moment all rights are reserved, spelled with a capital ©.

Also, principles of programming assignment next week, so this place will be dead Enjoy the pics!

This wonderful distraction was created terribly early in the morning on Sunday 10th December, 2006. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.