Why the layout of this blog is shite.

This blog links to my website: http://www.mikeys.org.uk You can view it there, and it looks so much better.

Tuesday, 11 March 2008

Happy Birthday Jonny Boy!

Happy Birthday Jonny Boy! 41 today

Now you're officially, "Over The Hill"! Do you want to borrow my wig? Is the blue beard coming back this year?jonny-paint

Sunday, 9 March 2008

Twitter

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Forget Facebook. It's a pain in the arse with all those apps. If you just need to get a message across to your community of friends, use Twitter.
You can update your twitter messages (tweets) from your Twitter Home Page, your instant messenger or via text from your phone.
Your "tweets" will instantly be forwarded to your Twitter buddies. If they have registered their mobile number, they'll receive a text message.
Webmasters can also display twitters on their websites.

I've added twitter to my site. All I need now is some twitter buddies. :)

Links: - My Twitter Page - Twitter

Friday, 7 March 2008

little cat

One of my cats died today. "little cat" was the littlest cat ever. Even littler than me. She was 14 and I've had her since she was six weeks old. To say I'm very upset is an understatement.
I want to write loads of stuff but I cant think of anything to say, that would make me feel any better.
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Mike Cookson

Today I processed some photos for my mate Mike Cookson.
Cookie Gallery

Wednesday, 5 March 2008

once . . . again :)

I Found this on YouTube. . ..

It's nearly as good as the film.

Monday, 3 March 2008

once

Links:- ONCE Official Site - The Frames - The Swell Season

I bought the album a few months ago, and I've been waiting for the DVD to be released ever since. I bought it today. . . :)
This is the best film I've seen all year. And Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová have just won an Oscar™ for best song "Falling Slowly". Here they are performing it at The Oscars Ceremony.



Saturday, 1 March 2008

Cocklers

I took this at Crosby a couple of weeks back. This is the first image I have processed using the HDR method.

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I think it came out quite well. I purposely didn't bring out the detail in the foreground as it was very noisy. Although it is a HDR I processed it from one exposure.
First I opened The RAW in Lightroom and saved it as three separate files. Each at a different exposure. -2 stops, normal exposure and +2 stops.
then I imported all three files into Photomatix and fiddled about until i got this. Far easier than it sounds and all in my first attempt.

Here's a few useful links:

Adobe Lightroom
Photomatix
Pete Carr's HDR Tutorial