#7 Blog about technology: Photography

The technological thing I have been ruminating about today is digital photos. I love taking pictures and have taken them for years as part of my work. I still think that it was easier in many ways when you could just take the pictures and hand them over to someone else to produce the end product. I find that it is a very steep learning curve to learn and then remember the steps involved in saving, editing, changing, deciding file size, changing megabites, sending, and now uploading to an online site. What I thought would take me a short time, has taken much longer and if it weren't raining it would be eating into my precious gardening time. Fortunately I have a 16yo son who is a wizard at anything to do with computers and photography, so I can just ask him. But he will probably leave home at some stage (although don't they stay at home for ever these days) and then I will be lost if I don't know how to do it myself. So I keep plugging away!
I have now spent too much time on this computer so am going to read a book.
For those interested in photography another really good site for photography and design is Red Bubble. It is based in Melbourne so is a good one to support.

From the end of Streeter's Jetty, Broome

Willie Creek, originally uploaded by Herbage8.

This is one of my photos (actually my daughter's) that I have uploaded to flickr (called myself Herbage8 if you want to look at the others). The photo was taken on our last holiday when we spent some time in Broome WA. I love the contrasting blues. Streeter's Jetty is on the edge of Broome township and is the jetty where all the pearling luggers tied up when they came in loaded with pearl shell.

#5 flickr Rosebud Pier

Rosebud Pier, originally uploaded by Yodels.

I've spent a lot of time on flickr uploading some of my photos. Probably too much time! but I really liked this photo of rosebud pier which I found by searching flickr and as I spend so much of my working time in Rosebud I thought this would be a good one to add to a post.

Happy

I really have puzzled for a while about what to put in this blog as I am not a natural diary writer, especially not for public consumption. But finally decided that I could talk about what is making me happy at present. I guess it is my garden and the flowers of spring, one example of which is above. And the other thing that is giving me pleasure and regularly makes me laugh are Peter Nicholson's animations. If you want to sign up he will send a regular email to let you know when he has created a new one.